The Center for Rural Health Practice at the University of Pittsburgh at
Bradford received two grants to investigate how federal and state funds for
selected chronic disease prevention and health promotion activities are
applied at the local level.

The center received grants totaling 62 thousand dollars from the Walsh
Center for Rural Health Research and the National Association of County and
City Health Officials with funding originating from the Office of Rural
Health Policy within the Department of Health and Human Services.

The funding will be used for the project titled “Financing Rural Public
Health Activities in Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.”

The project is part of a collaborative effort with the Walsh Center for
Rural Health Research in Bethesda, Maryland, and the National Association of
County and City Health Officials in Washington, D.C