JSU receives $10M from U.S. Health and Human Services’ ONC division to create public health informatics curricula
By Jackson State University, Jackson State University’s College of Health Sciences, “A CEPH-accredited School of Public Health,” has been awarded a $10 million cooperative grant from the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology. The ONC created a Public Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program that will allow JSU to train public health professionals in collecting scientific data for improving clinical and medical decisions. The collaborative grant also will allow JSU to partner with Alcorn State University’s Cora S. Balmat School of Nursing in Lorman, Mississippi, and develop curricula to train Alcorn students in