The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today the recipients of supplemental funding under the National Center for STLT Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce Opportunity – Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health (Notice of Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-PW-24-0080 and CDC-RFA-PW-24-00800101SUPP24).
The Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law (CPHLR) received funding for three projects under this mechanism. The funding will support researchers from CPHLR to provide technical assistance related to health equity and the social determinants of health to public health departments. It will also support topically specific legal epidemiology projects focused on statutory and regulatory policy related to HIV and efforts to increase evidence-based decision-making about policies that support the health of children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The latter project builds upon previous work tracking laws governing access to ADHD medication prescriptions.
Throughout these supplemental projects, CPHLR researchers will closely collaborate with the CDC and with key partners including ChangeLab Solutions, the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and other expert consultants.
“This expanded award further cements Temple’s role in bringing legal epidemiology to state, local, and tribal health departments, weaving legal epidemiology and the evidence it produces into decision-making to improve the public’s health,” said Scott Burris, JD, director of the Center for Public Health Law Research and professor in the Beasley School of Law and College of Public Health.
This funding complements the parent award announced in August 2024 that supports CPHLR and the College of Public Health as they work to improve the overall capacity and performance of the public health system by serving legal epidemiologists who can promote and support the effective use of laws and policies to reduce health disparities in the populations they serve.
The National Partners Cooperative Agreement (CoAg) is the largest umbrella funding mechanism at CDC and represents a significant agency investment to build capacity across the U.S. public health system. The National Partners CoAg has been a valued, flexible mechanism for 16 years.
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