| Foundation grants $450,000 to help improve public health service quality |
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| May 21, 2008 | |
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Public health departments across North Carolina stand to benefit from a new $449,590 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at improving the quality of public health programs.
The grant will go towards supporting the implementation of projects to address specific health outcomes, such as decreasing the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases and reducing the burden of illness due to tobacco or alcohol use. It also will fund efforts to advance accreditation of public health departments under a voluntary accreditation program due to begin in 2011. To date, 34 North Carolina counties and the state itself have passed strict accreditation performance standards. # # # For more information, visit www.sph.unc.edu/nciph/accred. School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
Dr.
Edward L. Baker, research professor in the Department of Health Policy and
Administration at the University
of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Public Health and director of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health at the School, will serve as
principal investigator of the project. 