Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19
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For programmatic or technical
questions:
Paul Rodriguez
240.453.8208
Paul.Rodriguez@hhs.gov
For grants management or budget
questions:
Roscoe Brunson, Jr.
240.453.8822
Roscoe.Brunson@hhs.gov
This program will provide grants for demonstration projects of evidence-based health literacy strategies that are culturally appropriate to enhance COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and/or other mitigation measures in racial and ethnic minority populations and other socially vulnerable populations, including rural communities.
The program goals align with:
- Increase the proportion of adults whose healthcare provider checked their understanding
- Reduce the proportion of adults who report poor patient and provider communication
- Increase the proportion of adults whose healthcare providers involved them in decisions as much as they wanted
- Increase the proportion of people with vaccination records in an information system
Priority is placed on health disparities. Factors that will be considered when reviewing applications include:
- Applicants serving localities with the highest social vulnerability
- Applicants with identified Minority Serving Institution partners
- Equitable geographic distribution
Applicant eligibility is limited to local municipalities, such as city, township, county, and parish governments.
Applicants applying to serve rural areas should use the rural health grants eligibility analyzer.
Rural communities: Approximately 43 awards, up to $3,000,000 each
Urban communities: approximately 30 awards, up to $4,000,000 each
The project period is up to 2 years.
Links to the full grant announcement and the online application process are available through grants.gov.
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Organizations (2)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, view details
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, view details
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