Public health agencies will receive a total of $698.2 million in the current fiscal year to help them strengthen their ability to respond to terrorism or natural disasters.

Original title: “HHS/CDC Provides Additional Funding for All-Hazards State and Local Public Health Preparedness and Response”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $2.7 million to establish two new Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers (PERRCs).

Original title: “CDC awards $2.7 million for two new Preparedness Research Centers”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $16.9 million contract to American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) of Manassas, Va. to implement the CDC Influenza Reagent Resource (CDC-IRR), a secure, Web-based system that will improve access to influenza viruses, test kits and other reagents for approved laboratories.

Original title: “CDC Awards $10.9 Million for Preparedness Research Centers at Seven Schools of Public Health”

CDC press release on September 30, 2008, announcing a $10 millon award grant given to the New York Health and Hospital Corporation for the first year of a three-year competitive grant to provide medical examinations, diagnostic testing, referral and treatment for residents, students, and others in the community that were directly affected by the dust and debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on Sept. 11, 2001.

Original title: “CDC Awards $10 million to New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to provide Health Services to Residents, Other Community Members Affected by 9/11 Attack”

$30 Million Being Made Available for Health and Medical Services Programs

Original title: “New CDC Grant Program Extends Health Resources to Residents and other Community Members Affected by 9/11 Attack”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded $35 million in funding to state and local health departments to increase HIV testing opportunities among populations disproportionately affected by HIV, primarily African Americans.

Original title: “CDC Awards $35 Million to Support HIV Testing and Increase Early Diagnosis of HIV among African Americans”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today announced $11.4 million in new contracts to four companies working to develop new diagnostic tests that doctors and field epidemiologists could eventually use to quickly and accurately test patients for avian influenza H5N1 and other emerging influenza viruses...

Original title: “CDC Awards $11.4 Million to Develop New Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Avian Influenza”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today announced $5.2 million in new cooperative agreements designed to evaluate the effectiveness of community-level measures that could be used during an influenza pandemic to reduce the spread of infection...

Original title: “CDC Awards $5.2 Million to Evaluate Community Strategies to Reduce Impact of Pandemic Influenza”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is initiating a multi-state collaborative study to help identify factors that may put children at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other developmental disabilities. Approximately 2,700 children, ages 2 to 5, and their parents will be part of this study...

Original title: “CDC Launches Multi-state Study on Autism; $5.9 Million Awarded to Five Sites.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced an award of $10 million for new research to five academic centers as part of its Prevention Epicenter grant program, which supports efforts to develop and test innovative approaches to reducing infections in healthcare settings.

Original title: “CDC Invests $10 million for Research to Reduce Infections in Healthcare Settings”