Dear Chairman Blunt and Ranking Member Murray:
As you consider appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
(CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the undersigned organizations request that
you appropriate $5 million to fund the National Concussion Surveillance System, authorized by the
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Pub. Law 115-377). This provision
also keeps with the recommendations of the Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth; the
Institute of Medicine (IOM); National Research Council’s report, which call for CDC to establish and
oversee a national surveillance system to accurately determine the incidence of sports-related
concussions, including those in youth ages 5 to 21. This recommendation came about as the Committee
concluded that there is currently insufficient data to accurately estimate the incidence of sports-related
concussions in youth and in subpopulations of youth.
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