By Susan Fenton, Kimberly Baker, & Wanda Govan-Jenkins – Three years into the PHIT Workforce Development Program ―an effort funded and led by ASTP to boost the public health information technology workforce in the US―the University of Texas Health Houston has exceeded expectations and completed award milestones ahead of schedule.
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Hear from ONC’s Sherilyn Pruitt on building a future public health IT workforce. Sherilyn Pruitt is a senior advisor within ONC’s office of technology and is also the co-lead for the Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology awarded $73 million in cooperative agreements as part of its Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program).
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is announcing the establishment of an $80 million Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program to strengthen U.S. public health informatics and data science.