Overview of CDC-OT18-1803: Tribal Public Health Capacity Building and Quality

Improvement Umbrella Cooperative Agreement

In 2018, CDC’s Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (CSTLTS) announced a five-year

funding opportunity for eligible federally recognized tribal nations and/or tribally designated organizations

to strengthen and improve the public health infrastructure and performance of tribal public health

systems. This program exemplifies CSTLTS’s commitment to advance US public health agency and system

performance, capacity, agility, and resilience.

Purpose

This program’s purpose is to provide resources for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribal nations

and regional AI/AN tribally designated organizations to optimize the quality and performance of the tribal

public health system, including infrastructure, workforce, data and information systems, programs and

services, resources and communication, and partnerships. Work in these areas will increase the capacity of

Indian Country to identify, respond to, and mitigate public health threats and decrease burden of disease

among AI/ANs.

Outcomes

This program intends to achieve the following outcomes:

• Increased implementation of tools and processes that build operational capacity and

effectiveness

• Improved collection, maintenance, interpretation, and dissemination of tribal health data

• Increased use of core and discipline-specific public health competencies among public health

workers

• Development of culturally relevant public health resources and communication tools

• Translation of evidence-based and evidence-informed practices into culturally appropriate public health

programs, policies, and services

• Established multi-sectorial partnerships (e.g., schools, health care, public safety, commerce) to address

capacity building and quality improvement

• Increased use of nationally established standards, such as those for public health department

accreditation

• Increased number of qualified public health workers

• Implementation of culturally practice-based evidence programs and services

• Increased coordination of multisector partnerships to generate collective public health impact

Program Strategy

AI/AN tribal nations and tribally designated organizations will work toward improving the performance of

tribal public health systems. Recipients will be asked to provide assistance in one or more of the following

areas: 1) improving tribal public health system infrastructure and operational capacity, 2) building the

competencies of the tribal public health workforce, 3) improving tribal public health data and information

systems, 4) strengthening tribal public health programs and services, 5) improving the provision of tribal public

health resources and communication, and 6) developing and maintaining tribal public health partnerships.
Funding Period

• Period of Performance: 5 years (August 31, 2018–August 30, 2023)

Recipients

Name Category HHS Region State

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium C 10 Alaska

Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc. B 6 New Mexico

Bad River Band of Chippewa Indians B 5 Wisconsin

Benewah Medical Center dba Marimn Health C 10 Idaho

Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation C 10 Alaska

California Rural Indian Health Board C 9 California

Cherokee Nation B 6 Oklahoma

Chickasaw Nation B 6 Oklahoma

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma B 6 Oklahoma

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians A 4 North Carolina

Forest County Potawatomi Community B 5 Wisconsin

Gila River Indian Community C 9 Arizona

Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc. B 5 Wisconsin

Ho-Chunk Nation B 5 Wisconsin

Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel

Reservation C 10 Washington

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe C 10 Washington

Lummi Nation C 10 Washington

Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board C 10 Oregon

Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council C 8 Montana

Southern Plains Tribal Health Board B 6 Oklahoma

The Navajo Nation B, C 6, 8, 9 Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah

United South and Eastern Tribes A 1,2,3,4 Tennessee

Wabanaki Health and Wellness A 1 Maine

White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians B 5 Minnesota

White Mountain Apache Tribe C 9 Arizona

For more information about this initiative, contact CSTLTSTribalCoAg@cdc.gov.