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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Public health funding challenges and the boom-bust cycle
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Commissioner Morse addresses the challenges of public health funding, particularly the boom-bust cycle where funding increases during emergencies but decreases in their aftermath. She emphasizes the ongoing need for sustained funding to address various public health risks.
- Describes the end of the COVID funding boom and the potential loss of critical funding
- Highlights ongoing public health risks, including chronic diseases, avian flu, and vaccine-preventable diseases
- Expresses concern about losing funding that equips the department to prevent and respond to outbreaks
Michelle Morse
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That of course is the reason we're all here today.
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Every piece of our work at the health department requires sustained funding to be successful.
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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 aftermath.
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We're no longer in the COVID funding boom.
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Our pandemic response was bolstered with temporary federal funding, but much of the life saving work funded by pandemic era grants that will soon expire remains critical for the health of New Yorkers.
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Public health risks continue.
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COVID nineteen is no longer our most urgent concern, but chronic disease, avian flu or h five n one, and vaccine preventable diseases are threats today.
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We're at risk of losing the funding that equips us to prevent outbreaks and should they occur respond immediately.
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We're entering a public health funding bust while facing unique infectious disease threats and insecurity in our federal funding under the current administration.