AGENCY TESTIMONY
Importance of consistent and sustainable funding for public health
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Dr. Morse emphasizes the critical need for consistent and sustainable funding sources in public health. She highlights the challenges posed by cyclical funding patterns and the importance of investing in preventive health measures.
- Stresses the need for consistent and sustainable funding to protect New Yorkers' health
- Describes the 'boom-bust' cycle of public health funding, with surges during emergencies and declines in between
- Highlights the lack of investment in public health prevention compared to sick care
- Emphasizes that public health works best as preventive health
Dr. Michelle Morse
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To be able to meaningfully promote and protect the health of New Yorkers, as my agency is charged to do, we need consistent and sustainable funding sources.
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In public health, we often see a boom bust cycle of funding where money swells during emergencies and dries up in the intervening years.
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We do not invest in public health prevention.
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We often invest in our sick care system.
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As I mentioned at the start of my testimony, the New York City Health Department was founded in a moment of crisis two hundred and twenty years ago.