Assistance program
Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (The PHIT Workforce Development Program)
$75.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Immed Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 93.355
- What it does
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has created the Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program. This program aims to increase the number of public health professionals trained in informatics and technology, with an emphasis on improving public health reporting through modern standards and computing. ONC anticipates awarding $75 million to train individuals to help modernize the nation’s public health data infrastructure, with a focus on recruiting participants from minority serving institutions (MSIs). MSIs will receive funding priority for this opportunity. Through an interdisciplinary approach to data science and managing public health information, the program will build capacity of MSIs to educate and diversify the public health workforce of the future.
- Who benefits
- Through the PHIT Workforce Development Program, selected recipients will create new programs or expand existing programs to altogether train a total of at least 4,000 individuals in public health informatics and technology to advance the nation’s public health workforce.
- Who applies
- This funding opportunity is open to accredited colleges and universities with terminal degrees in the United States. Only consortium-based approaches will be considered for this program, and applications must include letters of intent from proposed consortia members. In order to diversify the public health informatics and technology workforce and to increase the number of underrepresented minority professionals, the lead applicant in the consortium should be an MSI with an existing computer science, information science, biomedical technology, public health, health informatics, or similar program. Non-MSI institutions with a strong track record of graduating underrepresented minority students may also apply, but must include at least one MSI as a consortium member. Funding priority will be given to consortia that have an MSI lead
- Authorized by
- American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Title II, Subtitle F—Public Health Workforce, Sec.2501. Funding for public health workforce (a)
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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