El Paso County will use more than half of a nearly $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire more public health employees and bolster the effort to address pandemic-related health inequalities among underserved populations.
The county received the funds through the CDC’s two-year $2.25 billion national initiative to address COVID-19 health disparities, county Development Officer Carolyn Gery and Grants Coordinator Jordan Linder told the El Paso County Board of Health on Wednesday.
“This funding really directly targets the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 had within certain sectors, within certain population groups, throughout the nation,” Gery said.
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