TITLE I: Improving Public Health
Sec. 111. Improving
awareness of disease
prevention.
- Authorizes a national campaign to increase awareness and knowledge of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines for the prevention and control of diseases, to combat misinformation, and to disseminate scientific and evidence-based vaccine-related information.
- Directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand and enhance, and, as appropriate, establish and improve, programs and activities to collect, monitor, and analyze vaccination coverage data (the percentage of people who have had certain vaccines).
- Requires the National Vaccine Advisory Committee to update, as appropriate, the report entitled, “Assessing the State of Vaccine Confidence in the United States: Recommendations from the National Vaccine Advisory Committee.”
- Authorizes grants for the purpose of planning, implementation, and evaluation of activities to address vaccine-preventable diseases, and for research on improving awareness of scientific and evidence-based vaccine-related information.
Sec. 112. Guide on evidence based strategies for public
health department obesity
prevention programs.
- Authorizes HHS to develop and disseminate guides on evidence-based obesity prevention and control strategies for State, territorial, and local health departments and Indian tribes and tribal organizations.
Sec. 113. Expanding capacity
for health outcomes.
- Authorizes the provision of technical assistance and grants to evaluate, develop, and expand the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models to increase access to specialized health care services in medically underserved areas and for medically underserved populations.
Sec. 114. Public health data
system modernization.
- Requires HHS to expand, enhance, and improve public health data systems used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Requires HHS to award grants to State, local, Tribal, or territorial public health departments for the modernization of public health data systems in order to assist public health departments in assessing current data infrastructure capabilities and gaps; to improve secure public health data collection, transmission, exchange, maintenance, and analysis; to enhance the interoperability of public health data systems; to support and train related personnel; to support earlier disease and health condition detection; and to develop and disseminate related information and improved electronic case reporting.
- Requires the Secretary of HHS to develop and submit to Congress a coordinated strategy and accompanying implementation plan that identifies and demonstrates measures utilized to carry out such activities
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