Special Meeting Agenda Meeting Minutes Presentation
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant allows the 50 states, the District of Columbia, 2 American Indian tribes, 5 US territories, and 3 freely associated states to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and community-driven methods.
The Block Grant is the primary source of non-categorical funding that provides grantees the latitude to fund any of the 350 national health objectives available in the nation’s Healthy People 2030 health improvement plan. States invest their PHHS Block Grant dollars in a variety of public health areas. PHHS Block Grant dollars are used to support existing programs, implement new programs, and respond to unexpected emergencies.
The Oklahoma State Health Department (OSDH) has been a recipient of Prevent Block funding since 1986. OSDH is designated as the principal state agency for the allocation and administration of the PHHSBG within the state of Oklahoma. The Fiscal Year 2022 Allocation for Oklahoma is $1,445,519.
Chair – Danielle Durkee, Deputy Chief of Financial Services, OSDH
Melissa Blanton, JD, Assistant Attorney General; Chief, Victim Services Unit, Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General
Dr. David Gahn, MD, MPH, FACOG, Medical Director, Cherokee Nation Public Health
Cara Gluck, MPH, Chief Public Health Strategist - Community Health Administration, OCCHD
Michael Peercy, MPH, MT(ASCP)H, Epidemiologist and IRB Administrator, Chickasaw Nation Department of Health
Dr. Tracy Wendling, DrPH, Director of Injury Prevention Service, OSDH
Floritta Pope, MSM, Director of Offices of Minority Health and Health Equity, OSDH
Raffaella Espinoza, MPH, Analytics and Dissemination Administrative Program Manager in the Center for Health Statistics, OSDH
Theodore Noel, CEO/President of Guiding Right, Inc
Halley Reeves, MPH, MCP, Lecturer, Hudson College of Public Health, OUHSC
The PHHS Block Grant is governed by an Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee was established per federal eligibility requirements to receive funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) PHHSBG. The Advisory Committee provides valuable input and recommendations, and advises on public health priorities. Through a competitive process the Committee and the OSDH selected the following projects to be funded through Fiscal Year 2022:
Mailing Address: Oklahoma State Department of Health Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHSBG) 123 Robert S. Kerr. Ave., Suite 1702 Oklahoma City, OK 73102-6406
Physical Address: Oklahoma State Department of Health Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHSBG) 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave. Oklahoma City, OK
Email: PreventBlockGrant.OSDHGMO@health.ok.gov
