The awards include:

Up to $75 million to fund nine screening, brief intervention, referral and treatment programs over the next five years. This intends to provide more comprehensive substance abuse screening, secondary prevention, early intervention and referrals to treatment for people at higher risk for substance abuse throughout the nation.
More than $42 million to support improvements to the Immunization Information Systems (registries) and other immunization information technologies; development of systems to improve billing for immunization services; planning and implementation of adult immunization programs; enhancement of vaccination capacity located in schools; and evaluations of the impact on disease of recent vaccine recommendations for children and adolescents.
$9.2 million to eight national non profit professional public health organizations to assist state, tribal, local and territorial health departments in adopting effective practices that strengthen their core public health systems and service delivery.
Nearly $5 million to help states and territories enhance and expand the national network of tobacco cessation quitlines.
$2.6 million to emerging infections programs around the country to continue improvement in disease monitoring, professional development and training, information technology development and laboratory capacity.
$1.5 million to evaluate and prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia to reduce cases of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections and protect Americans from health care-associated infectious diseases.
$1 million to further enhance the nations' public health laboratories by hiring and preparing scientists for careers in public health laboratories, providing training for scientists, and supporting public health initiatives related to infectious disease research.

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HHS awards $137M for public-health grants

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