CDC has awarded the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Philadelphia Department of Health $35,985,971 to address COVID-19-related health disparities.
The funding, part of a $2.25 billion nationwide investment, seeks to advance health equity by expanding state, local, U.S. territorial and freely associated state health department capacity and services. This is CDC’s largest investment to date to improve health equity in the United States.
The intended outcomes of these grants are to reduce COVID-19-related health disparities, improve and increase testing and contact tracing among populations that are at higher risk and are underserved, including racial and ethnic minority groups and people living in rural communities, and improve state, local, US territorial, and freely associated state health department capacity and services to prevent and control COVID-19 infection.
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