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~~`:~ 6 <br />FY2010 Prevention and Public Health Fund Allocations <br />The Prevention and Public Health Fund created by the Affordable Care Act provides for <br />an expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs. <br />In FY2010, there will be $500 million in funding available, with gradual funding <br />increases each year to reach $2 billion in FY2015 and totaling to $15 billion over 10 <br />years. In mid-June 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the <br />allocation of the $SOOM in the Prevention and Public Health Fund available for FY2010 <br />(grant applications for these initiatives are beginning to be posted on w«rW.arants.gov): <br />$250M for workforce development in primary care sector (For more information, <br />go to: http://www.hhs.~ov/newslpressl2010nres/06/20100616a.html) <br />•$168M for training more than 500 new primary care physicians by 2015 <br />• $32M for supporting the development of more than 600 new physician assistants <br />• $30M for encouraging over 600 nursing students to attend school full-time <br />• $15M for the operation of l Onurse-managed health clinics which provide <br />comprehensive primary health care services to populations living in medically <br />underserved communities <br />• $5 million for states to plan and implement innovative strategies to expand their <br />primary care workforce by 10 to 25 percent over ten years <br />$250M for prevention and public health <br />(For more information, go to: <br />h ttp://www.healthreform.~ov!newsroom/acaprevention.html) <br />• $126M for Community and Clinical Prevention: To support federal, state and <br />community prevention initiatives; the integration of primary care services into publicly <br />funded community-based behavioral health settings; obesity prevention and fitness; and <br />tobacco cessation <br />• $70M for Public Health Infrastructure: To support state, local, and tribal public health <br />infrastructure and build state and local capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to <br />infectious disease outbreaks <br />• $31M for Research and Tracking: For data collection and analysis; to strengthen CDC's <br />Community Guide by supporting the Task Force on Community Preventive Services; and <br />to improve transparency and public involvement in the Clinical Preventive Services Task <br />Force <br />• $23M for Public Health Training: To expand CDC's public health workforce programs <br />and public health training centers <br />