Budget Function Description
Funding for Health Equity Capacity Building, which seeks to implement collective action strategies to build community power and capacity to address health inequities and the social determinants of health. Through stakeholder engagement, community-informed strategies, capacity building, community-driven advocacy and data, and narrative change, the bureau supports the efforts to reduce overall premature mortality from the top leading causes of preventable death, close the racial gap for premature mortality, and increase the contribution of social well-being to significantly reducing health inequities.