Boosting Public Health Preparedness: Reauthorizing CDC and Local Response Funding.
This law reauthorizes and increases funding for critical public health security and emergency response programs through 2028. It allocates more resources to state and local health departments to better prepare for future pandemics and biological threats. Crucially, it mandates a review of how federal health data was collected and shared during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure faster, more effective responses in the future.
Key points
Annual funding for State and local public health security programs is increased to $735 million through 2028.
Key programs for tracking mosquito-borne diseases, controlling dangerous biological agents, and maintaining specialized response teams (EIS) are extended until 2028.
A mandatory review will assess federal public health data sharing during emergencies to fix communication and reporting challenges.
Status:
Expired
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