HHS Awards Bioterrorism Training
and Curriculum Grants
September 19, 2003 - HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson
Sept. 12 announced $26.6 million in new grants to strengthen
bioterrorism training and education for the nation's health
professions workforce. The grants are the first in HHS' Bioterrorism
Training and Curriculum Development Program.
The program includes two components: continuing education
for health professionals, funded at $22,344,500, and curriculum
development in health professions schools, funded at $4,221,541.
It is designed to provide bioterrorism-related continuing
education and training opportunities for practicing health
care providers and support new emergency preparedness curricula
in health professions schools. The program will provide for
training of at least 38,000 health professionals to better
respond to an emergency.
The Bioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program,
which was created with the passage of the Public Health Security
and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, is
administered by HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA).
The following institutions received continuing education
grants:
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - $1,494,401
- University of California - $1,496,794
- Denver Health & Hospital Authority - $987,323
- Yale New Haven Health System - $1,282,801
- MCHC - Chicago Hospital Council - $1,046,160
- University of Kansas Medical Center - $1,218,549
- University of Louisville Research Foundation - $1,363,969
- Saint Vincent Foundation - $917,596
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J. - NJMS
- $1,570,090
- University of New Mexico - $1,140,565
- Columbia University - $399,597
- University of North Dakota - $820,761
- Oklahoma Area Health Education Center - $785,733
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - $968,102
- Medical University of South Carolina - $1,235,721
- University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center - $1,363,747
- University of Texas Health Sciences Center - $1,838,693
- Virginia Commonwealth University - $1,535,597
- West Virginia University - $878,301
These institutions received curriculum development grants:
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - $216,375
- University of California - $313,430
- University of Hawaii - $377,125
- University of Illinois - $392,027
- University of Montana - $201,454
- University of Nebraska Medical Center - $363,777
- Columbia University - $348,360
- Ohio State University Research Foundation - $429,474
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center - $384,866
- University of Texas Health Sciences Center - $459,222
- Shenandoah University - $309,579
- University of Washington - $425,853
Erica Froyd, Director, Public Health and Research Legislative Affairs
AAMC Office of Governmental Relations
efroyd@aamc.org
(202) 828-0525
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