CURE Epilepsy has joined a coalition of 52 organizations asking the U.S. Congress to allocate $3.75 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) in its mission to help people and communities treat and prevent chronic diseases and promote health and wellness for all.
Congress is currently drafting the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) appropriations legislation for fiscal year (FY) 2022. After more than a decade of stagnant funding, a congressional commitment to triple NCCDPHP’s budget over no more than the next three fiscal years is long overdue given the increasing threat chronic diseases pose to individuals living in America both pre- and post-pandemic.
A robust investment, appropriate to the magnitude of the problem, will allow NCCDPHP to fulfill its mission by expanding the current patchwork of existing programs to all jurisdictions nationwide and by implementing new programs to address emerging health challenges, including the chronic disease cohort of COVID-19 “long-haulers.”