Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Category C: Public Health System Decision-Makers Addressing and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease - The American Heart Association (AHA) will leverage its organizational strengths, national reach, capacity-building track record and cardiovascular health expertise through our proposed initiative entitled, Building the Capacity of Public Health System Decision-Makers to Address the Key Measures Associated with Life’s Essential 8™ for Improving and Maintaining Cardiovascular Health, with a focus on Hypertension and Obesity. This initiative will build the capacity of public health system decision-makers directly, or through organizations who seek to influence public health system decision-makers, how to establish and maintain results-driven partnerships, to increase their capacity and skills to interpret, adopt, and implement evidence-based policies (including organizational policies, statutes, and regulations) and systems changes associated with Life’s Essential 8™ key measures for improving and maintaining cardiovascular health (with a focus on hypertension management and control and obesity prevention) to address inequities. With a population of focus composed of public health system decision-makers addressing and preventing cardiovascular disease with an emphasis on Life’s Essential 8™, our proposed activities and outputs align with two of the CDC’s strategic objectives: #4. Partnership Development and Engagement; and #5. Policy and Programs. Through this initiative, AHA will design and execute appropriate strategies that significantly increase the capacity, skills and knowledge of public health system decision-makers, and organizations who regularly seek to influence decision-makers at the national, state or local levels. We will employ capacity building approaches including the delivery of training and technical assistance on best practices; and disseminate evidence-based and tools, materials, and resources to support the adoption of policy and system changes that address the key measures associated with Life’s Essential 8™ for improving and maintaining cardiovascular health, with a focus on hypertension management and control and obesity prevention. Our capacity building assistance activities will seek to achieve the following short and intermediate outcomes as identified in the CDC’s logic model: short-term outcomes include: 1) increased awareness of best practices/promising practices and tools by population of focus of CBA services and products; and 2) increased use of capacity building assistance services and products by the population of focus. The intermediate outcome we expect is an enhanced skill and ability to support decision-making toward processes, policies, programs, and practices within the strategic areas.
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).