Source: The Washington Informer
Growing into its second year of classes, the bevy of courses is financed through an $8.7 million grant by way of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, a federal entity within the Health and Human Services Department. The grant funding’s primary purpose through the federal government’s American Rescue Plan, is to implement a workforce diversification and transformation effort in public health informatics and technology training across “minority-serving institutions’, including various Historically Black Colleges and Universities.