FY 2021 Initiatives
After requesting $30 million for this initiative in the FY 2021 CJ, CDC ended up receiving a much larger total due to needs made clear during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is Public Health Data Modernization?
As officially recognized by the CDC Library and the CDC Leadership webpage, Dr. Walensky is preceded by this number of former CDC directors.
What is eighteen?
SARS-CoV-2 is the first virus for which vaccines developed around this biological molecule have been authorized for use outside of clinical trials.
What is mRNA?
A 1950s sitcom starring the current Member of Congress whose father is memorialized by a large CDC campus.
What is I Love Lucy-ille Roybal-Allard?
This Congresswoman, new to the committee, is a member of the same sorority as VP Kamala Harris (and at least one OA staffer).
Who is Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL 14)?
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae are described as "nightmare bugs", and fighting them is one goal of this $172 million initiative (FY 2021 enacted).
What is Antibiotic Resistance?
Number of appropriators with the first name "Chris" or "Christopher" (extra challenge: name them).
What is four?
Rep. Stewart (R-UT), Sens. Coons (D-DE), Murphy (D-CT), and Van Hollen (D-MD)
CDC updated mask guidance in early February 2021, recommending that the most effective face coverings have multiple layers, this characteristic, or both.
What is snug or tight fit?
A band that got its start in Athens, GA, in the early 80s but pivoted to singing the contents of CDC's flagship public health journal.
What is R.E.MMWR?
Of the GOP House and Senate Appropriations committees, the one with more women as members (extra challenge: name them).
What is the Senate?
HAC: Reps. Granger (TX 12), Herrera Beutler (WA 3), Hinson (IA 1)
SAC: Sens. Capito (WV), Collins (ME), Hyde-Smith (MS), Murkowski (AK)
This pregnancy and birth-related measure is relatively high for the U.S., as compared to other high-income countries, and NCCDPHP is working to reduce it through an FY 2021 initiative.
What is maternal mortality?
This account received the largest reduction in support, comparing FY 2020 enacted to to FY 2021 enacted levels.
What is Buildings & Facilities?
Number: $220 million
These two cooperative agreement program formulas have been used to calculate eligibility for supplemental resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What are ELC and PHEP?
If the junior Senator from Maryland were particularly expert at making sauce for Eggs Benedict, he might proudly call it this.
What is Chris Van Hollen-daise?
David Valadao and Josh Harder, new additions to the HAC, both represent agriculture-rich regions of this coastal state.
What is California?
Technical assistance for SSPs, or these, is provided to jurisdictions under the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative.
What are syringe service programs?
Number of states with two SAC members (extra challenge: name them).
What is two?
Montana, West Virginia
This supplemental appropriations act, the third such package responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, was enacted on March 27, 2020.
What is the CARES Act?
A party, popularly held at churches or elementary schools, where attendees eat sweet frozen treats and discuss the conditions and environments in which people live that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
What is an ice cream social determinants of health?
Despite his counterpart's close identification with the far-left end of the political spectrum, this Senator is the only Democrat ever elected to the upper chamber from his state.
Who is Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)?
The Polio Eradication Initiative seeks, among other goals, to stop circulation of wild poliovirus in these two countries.
What are Afghanistan and Pakistan?
The greater of two: FY 2021 enacted levels for NCHHSTP, NCCDPHP
Numbers: $1.314b NCHHSTP, $1.277b NCCDPHP
This HHS OpDiv received $12.5 million in supplemental funds for various mapping and pediatric outreach activities.
Former HAC staffer/new Biden OMB Deputy Director, listening to a Frank Sinatra song.
What/who is Shalanda Young at Heart?
Three new Senate appropriators.
(extra challenge: name the one on LHHS)
Who are Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)?
Sen. Braun joins LHHS.