Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHSBG)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant allows the 50 states, the District of Columbia, 2 American Indian tribes, 5 US territories, and 3 freely associated states to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and community-driven methods.

The Block Grant is the primary source of non-categorical funding that provides grantees the latitude to fund any of the 350 national health objectives available in the nation’s Healthy People 2030 health improvement plan. States invest their PHHS Block Grant dollars in a variety of public health areas. PHHS Block Grant dollars are used to support existing programs, implement new programs, and respond to unexpected emergencies.

The Oklahoma State Health Department (OSDH) has been the prime recipient of Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant funding since 1986. OSDH is designated as the principal state agency for the allocation and administration of the PHHS Block Grant within the state of Oklahoma. OSDH and CHDs are eligible to apply for funding. Outside organizations can partner with OSDH and contract to receive PHHS Block Grant funds. The Fiscal Year 2022 Allocation for Oklahoma is $1,445,519.

• PHHSBG Fiscal Year 2022 Allocation Table

• Chair – Danielle Durkee, Deputy Chief of Financial Services, OSDH  

• Melissa Blanton, JD, Assistant Attorney General; Chief, Victim Services Unit, Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General 

• Dr. David Gahn, MD, MPH, FACOG, Medical Director, Cherokee Nation Public Health 

• Cara Gluck, MPH, Chief Public Health Strategist - Community Health Administration, OCCHD

• Michael Peercy, MPH, MT(ASCP)H, Epidemiologist and IRB Administrator, Chickasaw Nation Department of Health 

• Dr. Tracy Wendling, DrPH, Director of Injury Prevention Service, OSDH 

• Floritta Pope, MSM, Director of Offices of Minority Health and Health Equity, OSDH 

• Raffaella Espinoza, MPH, Analytics and Dissemination Administrative Program Manager in the Center for Health Statistics, OSDH 

• Theodore Noel, CEO/President of Guiding Right, Inc 

• Halley Reeves, MPH, MCP, Lecturer, Hudson College of Public Health, OUHSC 

• Fiscal Year 2022 PHHSBG Work Plan - Final Draft

The PHHS Block Grant is governed by an Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee was established per federal eligibility requirements to receive funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) PHHSBG. The Advisory Committee provides valuable input and recommendations, and advises on public health priorities. Through a competitive process the Committee and the OSDH selected the following projects to be funded through Fiscal Year 2022:

• CDC Prevention Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHSBG)
  • Public Law 102-531
• Healthy People 2030 National Health Objectives

Mailing Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHSBG)
123 Robert S. Kerr. Ave., Suite 1702
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-6406

Physical Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHSBG)
123 Robert S. Kerr Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK

Email: PreventBlockGrant.OSDHGMO@health.ok.gov