“The Public Health Infrastructure Grants were temporarily paused so HHS could implement a new review process, one that will ensure funds are used for their intended purposes and in alignment with agency priorities,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in an email to CNN. Public Health Infrastructure Grant funds were meant to be a once-in-a-generation investment in staffing and training public health departments, said Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, a nonprofit that studies and supports the US public health workforce. “Anyone who’s paid by this grant – the new epidemiologist to help do better surveillance for disease, the outreach worker to help people get the health care they need – those people would all be gone.”
Author: Jamie Gumbrecht, Brenda Goodman, Deidre McPhillips
Published at: 2026-01-24 21:31:04
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