Bowie State University Awarded Nearly $10M In Federal Funding To Boost Public Health Workforce Program

BOWIE, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland lawmakers connected Monday announced $9,899,758 successful American Rescue Plan Funding for Bowie State University’s Public Health Information and Technology (PHIT) Workforce programme and the school’s COVID-19 information collection.

The funding, which came from the Department of Health and Human Services done the American Rescue Plan, was announced by U.S. Senators Cardin and Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer and Anthony Brown; each are Maryland Democrats.

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The PHIT Workforce programme aims to bid implicit 4,000 students from underrepresented communities successful nationalist wellness informatics and technology.

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The backing volition assistance the assemblage enlistee and bid participants, get paid internships and placement into nationalist wellness agencies for those participants to participate and diversify the PHIT workforce.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the systemic wellness inequities successful our country. We person seen ample gaps successful nationalist wellness reporting particularly astir contention and ethnicity data, bolstering the request for a nationalist wellness workforce typical of its community,” the lawmakers said successful a statement. “The champion mode to guarantee that we are equipped for the adjacent nationalist wellness exigency is to summation skilled grooming and to diversify our aboriginal workforce to genuinely bespeak those they are serving successful the wellness attraction system.”

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