Public Health Strategy and Partnership Division
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Community Health Board Year 1 Activities, Challenges, and Successes
CDC Federal Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG)
This grant provides funding to Minnesota community health boards to recruit, retain, and train a skilled and diverse public health workforce, address longstanding public health infrastructure needs, and increase the size of the public health workforce. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) awarded $16.4 million to 50 community health boards in 2023, to use over a five-year period.
Public health infrastructure consists of the people, tools, systems, and organizations that help protect and improve community health. It’s the foundation that lets public health agencies do things like track diseases, respond to outbreaks, share health information, and help prevent illness. When public health infrastructure is strong, communities can detect health problems earlier, respond faster, and cooperate to prevent more illness and injury.
Learn more about this grant: CDC Federal Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG).
How have community health boards used grant funds?
In the first year of this grant, Minnesota community health boards used funding primarily to strengthen their workforce through hiring, recruitment, retention, training, staff development, and organizational systems. Community health boards reported early successes and challenges related to recruitment, retention, workload, and implementing new infrastructure activities.
The figure below shows the number of community health boards that have used grant funds in the ways described below. Some community health boards used funds in multiple categories.
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