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OHA partners with 125 Oregon CBOs to advance public health equity
Agency provides $25 million to support adolescent health, communicable disease prevention, seven other program areas
PORTLAND, Ore.—Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has awarded $25 million in public health equity grants to 125 nonprofit organizations to support work on community-led and culturally and linguistically responsive programs.
The funding through OHA’s Partnerships for Community Health Program covers nine program areas and supports the work of community-based organizations between Jan. 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027.
“The response to this grant was remarkable — more than 800 applications from community-based organizations committed to supporting public health in Oregon, reviewed through a collaborative effort between state and local public health,” said OHA Public Health Director Naomi Adeline-Biggs.
The Partnerships for Community Health Program will work with CBOs and programs within the Public Health Division to engage communities on long-term public health efforts in the following areas:
- Adolescent and School Health
- Communicable Disease Prevention: Immunizations
- Communicable Disease Prevention: Prevention of HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Tuberculosis
- Commercial Tobacco Prevention
- Community Resilience: Community Connection & Empowerment
- Community Resilience: Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Environmental Public Health
- Overdose Prevention
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Preventing Environmental Exposures for Children’s Health (PEECH)
View the list of grant recipients here.
“I want to recognize the dedication of the many reviewers who brought both expertise and care to this work. Local public health leaders played a critical role alongside state partners to ensure a thoughtful, equitable and conscientious review,” said Adeline-Biggs. “That same collaboration will be essential as we move forward with communities to support meaningful, lasting change.”
Through the grants, OHA seeks to improve health outcomes with increased access to health care and prevention services for everyone in Oregon. OHA recognizes that past and present policies, barriers in systems such as health care and housing, and lasting social and economic challenges, have made it harder for some communities to be healthy and create futures they want for themselves and their families. Differences in income, education and opportunities have led to critical and persistent health gaps.
Some communities most affected by health inequities include communities of color, Tribal communities, persons with disabilities, members of immigrant and refugee communities, undocumented populations, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, faith-based communities, people living with lower incomes, older adults, rural communities, individuals without stable housing and others.
OHA’s commitment to eliminating health inequities by 2030 relies on building trusting relationships with community-based organizations that collectively serve every county, and on supporting their efforts to uplift community health priorities that are grounded in equity and accessibility.
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