What will Alabama get from the $2.3 trillion 2021 federal budget?
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Congress passed a 2021 federal budget Thursday including billions for programs in Alabama including NASA space exploration and Army defense work in Huntsville, Anniston and Montgomery; millions for roads, ports and railroads; and millions more for research in Birmingham, Auburn and other university centers across the state.
The FY21 Omnibus Appropriations Package was passed by the Senate and House Thursday and sent to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
“This is great news,” said Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, who is chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. “I am pleased we swiftly advanced this package through Congress and on to the president’s desk. The American people expect us to do our job, and funding the government, including the military, is our fundamental responsibility. This package not only includes FY21 appropriations bills, but it also provides COV
NIH to support radical approaches to nationwide COVID-19 testing and surveillance
RADx-rad program will fund non-traditional and repurposed technologies to combat the current pandemic and address future viral disease outbreaks.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded over $107 million to support new, non-traditional approaches and reimagined uses of existing tools to address gaps in COVID-19 testing and surveillance. The program also will develop platforms that can be deployed in future outbreaks of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. A part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, the awards from the RADx Radical (RADx-rad) program will support 49 research projects and grant supplements at 43 institutions across the United States. It will focus on non-traditional viral screening approaches, such as biological or physiological markers, new analytical platforms with novel chemistries or engineering, rapid detection strategies, point-of-care devices,
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ThyBlackMan.com) Now that COVID 19 has gotten the Nation’s attention, the questions about racial disparities have also started. The news media started highlighting the percentage of
African Americans that have caught and died from the virus and started speculating why the African American rate is higher than other racial groups. The public health community has been aware of health disparities since 1985.
The real question now is, what will we learn from the pandemic about the diagnosis, treatment, and mitigation, of the virus and other factors related to Black health. Then what will be the solution for the future? The answers should provide health care to Black Americans and that African Americans are employed in all facets of delivering that care.
Limited rural health care means greater health risks
December 16, 2020
Donglan Stacy Zhang (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
An overall increase in primary care clinicians has not closed the gap between rural and urban health care disparities. That’s according to research from a University of Georgia scientist.
“We know that rural patients die early from heart disease and stroke. In general, they have a higher mortality,” said Donglan “Stacy” Zhang, assistant professor of health policy and management in the College of Public Health. “We wanted to explore the upstream factors that drive that difference.”
Ph.D. student Gang Li, left, talks with professor Donglan “Stacy” Zhang in a conference room inside Wright Hall on the Health Sciences Campus. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
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