HHS Awards $11.6 Million to Address Disparities in Healthy People 2030 Leading Health Indicators
On September 3, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced $11.6 million in grant awards to 20 organizations for its Community Level Innovations for Improving Health Outcomes Initiative. The awards will support a four-year initiative to identify community level innovations that increase the use of preventive health services with a goal of reducing health disparities – differences in health status among people in certain racial, ethnic, and Tribal communities. Health disparities are often related to social determinants of health (SDOH).
The Initiative is focused on making progress toward Leading Health Indicator (LHI) targets. The 23 LHIs impact major causes of death and disease in the United States, and LHIs are a subset of high priority Healthy People 2030 (HP2030) objectives selected to drive action toward improving health and well-being.
“Factors such as poverty, limited access to health care, and lack of education or health literacy are examples of SDOH that individually and collectively have negative impacts on health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority and Tribal populations,” said Rear Admiral Felicia Collins, M.D., HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health and OMH Director. “By implementing community interventions that address multiple SDOH, awardees will advance our knowledge of how to increase preventive health service utilization and improve health outcomes related to LHIs.”
The project period for each grant is September 1, 2024, thru August 31, 2028.
The awardees are:
Award Recipients
City
State
Selected LHI(s)
Amount
Arizona Community Health Workers Association, Inc. (AzCHOW)
