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Dept/ Agency: Health and Community Wellness
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Contract with State Entity
Purpose: To provide an evaluation and quality improvement plan for Advancing Health Literacy to enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19.
Entity Name: Rutgers University - Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA)
Entity Address: 1294 University Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07102
Contract Amount: Not to exceed $100,000.00
Funding Source: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health (OMH)
Contract Period: July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor (X) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS ( ) Fair & Open
( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ ( ) Private Sale (X) Grant
(X) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark (the "City") seeks to continue to provide an evaluation plan and quality improvement plan for Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19; and
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Health and Human Services solicited proposals for projects to demonstrate the effectiveness of local government implementation of evidence-based health literacy strategies that are culturally appropriate to enhance COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and/or other mitigation measures (e.g., public health prevention practices and vaccination) in racial and ethnic minority populations and other socially vulnerable populations; and
WHEREAS, on April 20, 2021, the City, under the Department of Health and Community Wellness, partnered with Rutgers University-Newark, School of Public Affairs, Partners in Health, and other stakeholders, collaborated and submitted an application to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health/Office of Minority Health, requesting funding to...
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