Health & Medicine Foundation grants $450,000 to help improve public health service quality
| Foundation grants $450,000 to help improve public health service quality |
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| Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | |
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Public health departments across North Carolina stand to benefit from a new $449,590 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at improving the quality of public health programs. The grant will be administered by the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, the service arm of UNC’s School of Public Health. North Carolina is one of 16 states chosen to receive grants as part of a national program which seeks to improve the performance of local and state public health departments and the health of their communities. The grant will go towards supporting the implementation of projects to address specific health outcomes, such as decreasing the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases and reducing the burden of illness due to tobacco or alcohol use. It will also fund efforts to advance accreditation of public health departments under a voluntary accreditation program due to begin in 2011. To date, 34 North Carolina counties and the state itself have passed strict accreditation performance standards. For more information, visit www.sph.unc.edu/nciph/accred. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation news release: http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/newsreleasesdetail.jsp?productid=30196&typeid=160 School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, (919) 966-7467, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it News Services contact: Patric Lane, (919) 962-8596, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |