Fierce Healthcare September 27, 2021
The Biden administration awarded $73 million in cooperative agreements to 10 higher education and minority-serving institutions to train the future public health informatics and technology workforce.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) health IT arm, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), announced the public health informatics and technology workforce development program earlier this year. The program aims to strengthen U.S. public health IT efforts, improve COVID-19 data collection and increase the membership of underrepresented communities within the public health IT workforce.
The program was funded through the American Rescue Plan.
The 10 awardees were historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions and other...