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Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)March 1st, 2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how fragile our nation’s public health infrastructure can be and how vulnerable we are to global threats. While the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement1 has enabled great strides in our nation’s all-hazards preparedness, the pandemic has renewed the urgency in expanded investment in domestic health security. Yet, appropriations for PHEP have declined by 26 percent since FY2003, or 48 percent when accounting for inflation. Public health is often battling multiple emergencies and outbreaks at the same time. In addition to responding to the pandemic, the public health emergencies of the past year— outbreaks of measles and hepatitis A,2 extreme heat and power outages, hurricanes, devastating wildfires, and terror attacks—all reinforced the need for every community to be protected from public health threats. The PHEP cooperative agreement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the main federa
