The Department of Public Health Illinois was awarded a $1,140,000 Cooperative Agreement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Cooperative Agreements to Support State-Based Safe Motherhood and Infant Health Initiative Programs (CFDA 93.946). This five-year award, effective September 30, 2024, will support the department's efforts to establish and enhance maternal mortality review committees, conduct comprehensive reviews of maternal deaths, collect and analyze maternal...
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) was awarded a $17 million Cooperative Agreement under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model (CFDA 93.869) program. This 10-year federal grant, with an award date of January 1, 2025, will support HFS in implementing comprehensive maternal health care delivery and payment system reforms in two regions of Northern Illinois. Key products and services to be delivered include:...
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and University of Illinois at Chicago Division of Specialized Care for Children (UIC-DSCC) were awarded a $14,777,760 Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (CFDA 93.994) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This two-year Project Grant, effective October 1, 2024, supports a comprehensive range of maternal and child health initiatives across Illinois. The funding enables IDPH to enhance equitable and accessible healthcare...
This $2,728,417 federal Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) will support the expansion of pediatric mental health care access services in Illinois. The award, effective from July 31, 2024 to September 29, 2026, will enable the Illinois Department of Public Health, the primary awardee, to enhance its capacity to deliver mental health services for children and adolescents...
This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $7,796,670, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence. The center's goal is to advance maternal health research by examining how structural inequity contributes to maternal health disparities and developing innovative strategies to prevent maternal...
The Department of Public Health Illinois was awarded a $840,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283). This 5-year award, effective August 1, 2024, supports the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), which conducts telephone interviews of randomly selected adults to collect data on health-related behaviors and conditions. As a state government entity, the Department of...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $419,357 Project Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (CFDA 93.865) program. The funding will support a 2-year research project to develop interpretable machine learning models that integrate electronic medical records and neighborhood-level social determinants of health to predict perinatal depression risk among minority women of color. The goal is...
The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (CFDA 16.754). The 24-month grant, commencing on October 1, 2024, will enable IDHS to enhance the state's Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) by: 1) redesigning the PMP registration process to increase utilization; 2) creating new data sets, user profiles, and surveys to assess PMP...
The Department of Public Health Illinois received a $50,277,117 Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the "Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation's Health" program (CFDA 93.421). This five-year award will enable the Illinois Department of Public Health to build and sustain statewide public health and healthcare readiness across three core public health...
This $850,000 Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) project grant, awarded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, supports the implementation of an integrated preventive oral healthcare (POHC) model in Wisconsin. The primary goal is to increase access to early preventive oral healthcare for high-risk maternal and child health populations, including children ages 1-21 and pregnant women, with a focus on reducing disparities. The key components of the project...