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Board of Health for Madison and Dane County Resolution #2023-05 Resolution in support of the application for the NIH Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program: Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Intervention Initiative for Public Health Madison & Dane County
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the ComPASS program (Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society) is working to advance the science of health disparities and health equity research. The goal of the ComPASS program is to develop, share, and evaluate community-led health equity structural interventions that leverage partnerships across multiple sectors to reduce health disparities. The ComPASS program is offering the funding opportunity “Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Intervention Initiative (OT2)” starting in 2023. The funding opportunity is seeking proposals that address the fundamental causes of health disparities through structural interventions that attempt to alter the social, physical, economic, or political environments that influence health behaviors and outcomes. The funding opportunity spans 10 years (9/2023 to 9/2033), with a total award ceiling of 12 million dollars.
With research support from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, we are requesting $750,000 years 1-2, $1,500,000 years 3-8, and $750,000 years 9-10 to expand, evaluate, and disseminate our Community-Based Public Health Nursing (CBPHN) model. Since 2017, PHMDC has implemented a promising practice of neighborhood-level advocacy and support provided by CBPHNs working with communities to identify and co-design structural interventions to address health disparities and promote health equity. PHMDC has partnered with Joining Forces for Families (JFF) to embed three CBPHNs in strategic neighborhoods in Dane County. Working in neighborhoods that are identified based on health disparity data, these PHNs partner with JFF-supported, community-ba...
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