Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Category A: STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS - Noncommunicable diseases (NCD), also known as chronic diseases, are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. These conditions accrue more than $4.1 trillion in annual healthcare costs and have disparate impacts on racially and economically oppressed people. Limitations in the timeliness and granularity of available surveillance data hinder efforts to understand and address these health disparities at a population level. Integrating multiple partnerships and data systems into cohesive, modern public health systems requires technical capacity, data governance structures, and support for collaboration that are often unavailable in understaffed and underfunded health departments. However, with these supports, state health departments (SHD) can be collaborative incubators for developing creative approaches to data modernization that could inform and accelerate national efforts to improve public health performance and outcomes. The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) works to improve the health of the public by strengthening state-based leadership and expertise for chronic disease prevention and control in states and at the national level. This project will use NACDD’s 36 years of experience to increase state capacity to implement and use modern data systems approaches to NCD surveillance. NACDD proposes to engage SHDs as a population of focus in capacity-building assistance (CBA) activities designed to foster and disseminate creative approaches to data modernization and NCD surveillance. NACDD will offer three levels of CBA that address SHDs’ expressed needs for technical and structural support for data modernization: 1. Action Incubators: Small group, action-oriented, experiential opportunities to develop innovative solutions and engage in peer-to-peer support and shared learning 2. Cohort Courses: Small-to-medium-sized group opportunities to learn data modernization technical skills, discover promising new practices, and network with peers 3. Workshops and Webinars: Large group learning opportunities open to all NACDD members where promising data modernization practices can be disseminated to inform national and state data modernization work This work will collectively improve SHD's organizational capacity to modernize NCD surveillance through increased access to CBA that supports innovation, peer-to-peer support, and shared learning. In addition, because access to timely, local, and representative NCD surveillance data is a barrier to understanding and addressing health disparities, increased NCD capacity will benefit the long-term goal of improving health equity. NACDD’s multifaceted, action-oriented approach provides resources and technical support to bridge current capacity to the future of NCD surveillance. NACDD’s proposed strategies, activities, and evaluation efforts will strengthen SHD NCD surveillance capabilities and infrastructure by incubating creative approaches and facilitating knowledge capture and sharing. These efforts will inform national data modernization and enhance state capacity to address health disparities through evidence-based policies and programs.
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).