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These efforts are laying the foundation for the more efficient and effective use of federal grant funds in the coming years.Ĭontinue reading HHS Conference Affords Glimpse Into ‘Reinvention’ of Federal Grants Management In fact, a range of data-related reforms are already being rolled out and tested within HHS. “Imagine creating efficiencies and reducing administrative burden by 1% annually” and utilizing those funds for mission objectives, he said. Peckham, citing a study by the Federal Demonstration Partnership, said that an estimated 44% of awarded grant funds are spent on grantor and grantee overhead. In fiscal year 2018, for example, about 67% of all federal grants came from HHS, totaling about $509 billion. On June 6, attendees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Grants Management Conference in Shady Grove, MD were given glimpses of how data can be leveraged to help achieve mission objectives more effectively and efficiently.Īt HHS, improving efficiency by even a single percentage point can mean billions of dollars saved, said Michael Peckham, who heads up the Reinvent Grants Management initiative at HHS. HHS adds new class of ‘entrepreneurs-in-residence’ External – This Washington Post article provides a description of three of the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence’s projects and what they plan to accomplish.As federal agencies continue their move towards a more data-centric approach to grants management, areas like grantee risk assessment and performance evaluation are positioned to reap the early benefits of the ongoing data revolution in government. An Open Source Project To Improve The Accuracy Of Mortality Data External.

Understanding Death Can Improve Health – Making Mortality Reporting More Timely and Useful External *New.

How We Die Matters: Improving Cause-of-Death Data External *New.

Promoting Dignity, Through Data Accuracy, For The Dead External *New.

In addition to her role as an EIR, Paula teaches a course titled Informatics Solutions for Public Health Decision Making at the Rollins School of Public Health. Prior to her role as an EIR, she worked as a data scientist for a predictive analytics firm called Elder Research, Inc. After that, she served as an analyst at the Government Accountability Office and lived and worked at the US Embassies in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2009-2011.

Paula began her career as a Presidential Management Fellow at CDC in 2005. Paula has experience with big data and data analytics and will be working to develop a strategy on how CDC can better use advances in data science within vital statistics reporting as well as other public health surveillance initiatives. Paula Braun was hired as DDPHSS’ EIR and she works with the National Center for Health Statistics on the surveillance strategy Mortality Surveillance initiative. The program brings entrepreneurs from outside government to work on complex and important government challenges. CDC was selected to participate in the HHS Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) Program External.