WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded two competitive grants totaling $1,114,393 to the Iowa Department of Public Health and the University of Iowa.
The money will be distributed as shown below.
· The Iowa Department of Public Health will receive $880,894 from the Office of Grants Management for pandemic influenza health care preparedness improvements.
· The University of Iowa will receive $233,499 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for an evaluation of policies and procedures to prevent worker-on-worker violence.