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Reply The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy and Department of Public Health have started working with the CDC toward a Memorandum of Agreement to map out grant administration over the two-year life of the grant. (Shutterstock) CONNECTICUT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded the state a $3.3 million grant to address health disparities. Connecticut successfully applied for the funding opportunity that was issued as part of the CDC s National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities. Victoria Veltri, executive director of the state Office of Health Strategy, said: It s gratifying to have the CDC recognize the groundwork OHS has done to clear language, cultural, racial, and economic hurdles and confront underlying causes of health disparities.

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