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CONTEXT: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) that included a historic investment in the public health workforce. PROGRAM: Charged with implementing this investment, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG). PHIG builds on CDC's experience working with state, local, and territorial public health departments and represents a new approach to strengthening the public health workforce. IMPLEMENTATION: Specifically, PHIG incorporates features that allow these public health departments to prioritize and tailor the funding to meet their communities' needs: 1) focus on workforce as core infrastructure, 2) streamlined programmatic and administrative requirements, 3) more equitable funding approach, and 4) enhanced support from national partners and CDC. DISCUSSION: The goal is to optimize the unprecedented opportunity afforded by ARPA and lead to a stronger public health workforce and infrastructure across the United States.
RESUMO
The effectiveness of advocacy has been well documented and its use established as a common practice in furthering sound public health policy and practices. Efforts are underway to explain how advocacy has supported, shaped and influenced public policy concerning -- and the growth and development of -- comprehensive cancer control initiatives. The objective of this paper is to assess the history, current role and future of advocacy as a means of articulating the value of, and furthering, comprehensive cancer control practices. Comprehensive cancer control is approaching a critical moment in its development, and a unified approach is necessary to achieve common goals. A call to action for supporting and contributing to the success of a comprehensive approach to cancer control is more important today than it was 11 years ago. Advocacy is an essential strategy in that call to action.