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No money yet for public health buildings

Angie Drobnic Holan
By Angie Drobnic Holan December 10, 2009

We looked in the Obama administration's budget documents and in stimulus funds for money going to public health laboratories. We couldn't find any additional money for either state-based laboratories or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's public laboratories.

We asked the Association for Public Health Laboratories, a professional association for state-based laboratories. A spokeswoman said the group didn't know of any extra funds for buildings.

"The federal government did not provide funding for public health laboratories through the stimulus bill," said spokeswoman Jody DeVoll. "Public health laboratories received a minuscule portion of federal funding for response to the H1N1 pandemic. We are hopeful that funding for health information technology will make it to the public health laboratories to enable electronic laboratory messaging."

Since we haven't found action on this item, we're rating it Stalled.

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Interview with Jody DeVoll, the Association for Public Health Laboratories