Member Benefits and Opportunities

The Population Health Training in Place Program (PH-TIPP) is accepting applications for the 2020 class through February 28, 2020. PH-TIPP is a professional development opportunity for current employees in public, private, and academic organizations. Participants learn to design, launch, and assess population health improvement programs; develop or analyze health policy; and conduct formal program evaluations.
PH-TIPP participants are in leadership and management roles in public, private, and academic organizations. They are physicians, veterinarians, or nurses with a master of public health (MPH) or doctoral-level scientists (PhD or equivalent) with coursework equivalent to a MPH. Candidates may not be in another training program while participating in PH-TIPP.

Benefits of PH-TIPP:

• Participants receive formal mentoring and training from experts both internal and external to CDC while staying in their current jobs.
• Supervisors can support the professional development goals of their employees at little cost to the organization.
• Organizations can more effectively apply population health practices to protect and improve the health of their communities.

Participants must complete population health projects that address the following two Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship project areas: Policy Analysis and Development and Program Evaluation. Participants may focus on a single topic and examine both project areas within that topic, or they may focus on a different topic for each project area. The projects must be part of the participant’s current routine tasks.

Physicians who complete all training requirements will receive a certificate of completion that will help them apply for the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)external icon exam via the Complementary Pathwayexternal icon.

The program anticipates that it will have space for at least 5 CDC staff and 5 external staff but may consider expanding the class size if demand and funding allow. For more information about eligibility requirements and application information, visit the PH-TIPP website: https://www.cdc.gov/pophealthtraining/ph-tipp/index.html.

Point of Contact: Tony Neri 404.498.6181

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is pleased to offer a funding opportunity to support collaboration among public health, public safety, and other sectors implementing evidence-based opioid overdose prevention strategies in their community through the Public Health and Safety Teams (PHAST) framework. With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NACCHO will award up to 7 multi-sector collaboratives.

This funding opportunity is open to pre-established multi-sector collaboratives targeting their efforts to counties, cities, or communities. Collaboration between local public health department and public safety is required. Each eligible collaborative may request up to $30,000 to support project activities.

Application requirements and full details of the project are available in the RFA.

Applications are due by 11:59 ET on February 5, 2020.

Questions about the RFA and application process can be directed to NACCHO’s Overdose Prevention Team, at opioidepidemic@naccho.org.

NACCHO is now accepting applications for the Vector Control Collaborative technical assistance program. Participants in this program will be matched with a mentor who will visit them to provide on-site technical assistance in mosquito and/or tick surveillance and control. Selected programs will also be awarded funds to visit and shadow their mentor's site. An informational webinar will be held on Dec. 18, 2019, and applications are due Jan. 31, 2020.

Learn more: http://essentialelements.naccho.org/archives/16003

In partnership with the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, NACCHO will provide local health departments with up to $25,000 each to implement and evaluate a program strategy that will improve congenital syphilis in their area. The objective is to help galvanize local efforts to address rising rates of congenital syphilis. Funded jurisdictions will be expected to plan, implement, and evaluate the innovation or improvement over approximately 12 months and should be prepared to:

• Develop implementation and evaluation plans (with support from NACCHO and CDC)
• Implement the improvement or innovation
• Collaborate closely with NACCHO and CDC to carry out evaluation of the innovation or improvement (LHD evaluation expertise is not necessary to participate)
• Participate in the dissemination of the findings so other LHDs can learn from their experiences

The request for applications is available here. An informational webinar for applicants will be held on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 1 PM ET.

The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation is a Delaware not-for-profit corporation and a 501(c)(3) entity, separate from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, organized for charitable purposes including to promote public awareness and education of healthcare issues and support nonprofit organizations consistent with its charitable purpose. The Foundation’s signature program, Connections for Cardiovascular Health^SM (CCH), provides grants and capacity building to US-based nonprofits working in innovative ways to help improve heart health at the community level.

The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation will hold an open call for applications for the CCH Next Generation program from February 3 to February 21, 2020 at 5 p.m. ET. CCH Next Generation will provide grant funding between $125,000 and $150,000 to organizations the Foundation has never funded before who are working to improve heart health in their communities. The grant cycle will have a preference for funding organizations in the top 20 states by CVD mortality (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017 data), and the complete criteria are available on the website.

Register here to join the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation’s Board Chairman and President on January 16, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. ET, for an informational webinar to help interested applicants prepare for the open call for applications. To apply, visit the CCH webpage beginning February 3, 2020 to access the link to the online application.