Thursday, November 30, 2023
11/30/2023
Harris County Public Health (HCPH) intends to develop the Harris Cares: Embrace HOPE (Healing, Opportunity, Prosperity, and Equity) initiative to initiate and mobilize the transition of public health response from emergency recovery to the mitigation of COVID-19 and long term impacts of health due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative utilizes four CDC strategies to improving health equity in disproportionately impacted communities. Strategy 1 focuses on maintaining and growing contact tracing and case investigations in disproportionately impacted communities and ensuring a representative and equity-trained workforce. Strategy 2 focuses on securing foundational data collection and automation for disease surveillance as well as expanding on disparity analyses to inform both operational COVID-19 response decisions and long term health impacts related to the social determinants of health. Strategy 3 focuses on expanding public health infrastructure for health equity planning internally and jointly with community stakeholders. Strategy 4 focuses on mobilizing partners through a three pronged approach. Strategy 4 leverages partnerships with a historically black college/university for outreach and community engagement, leverages the well established Health Equity collective for development of a community information exchange and alignment of strategies on social determinants of health with 130+ community organizations, and lastly provides funding for population-based approaches to collective impact with local community organizations with a history of serving disproportionately impacted communities.These strategies are based on HCPH's Harris Cares 2020 report, ongoing and existing analyses of COVID-19 disparities in Harris County, HCPH's Equitable Testing Strategy (2020) and Vaccine Equity strategy (2021), and reports provided by partners on the perceived impacts of COVID-19 on the health of Harris County.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
