Building Capacity of Professional Planners to Address Public Health Goals

Post Date

March 10th 2015

Application Due Date

May 15th 2015

Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.

Funding Opportunity Number

CDC-RFA-EH15-1505

CFDA Number(s)

93.070

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

SEJ (sole eligibility justification) submitted for American Planning Association (APA) - www.planning.org - an independent, not-for-profit educational organization

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $750000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $150000

Grant Description

CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative is part of the National Center for Environmental Health's Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services. The Initiative works to improve public health by: • Linking public health surveillance with community design decisions; • Improving community design decisions through tools such as Health Impact Assessment; • Educating decision makers on the health impact of community design; • Building partnerships with community design decision makers and their influencers. In order to increase the capacity of professional planners and planning departments to address today’s public health issues this cooperative agreement will develop strategies and initiatives designed to provide evidence based guidance that planning professionals can use to create health promoting communities. It is expected that tools, techniques, and information needed for health considerations to be an explicit component in comprehensive plans, development regulations, planning process, capital budgets, transportation, and land use planning will be identified and created. Communications plans for agreed upon initiatives are recommended.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Agency Contact:

  Dee Merriam
  hgq8@cdc.gov
  

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• Agency Email Address:

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