About Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Support and strengthen state and territorial epidemiologists and public health surveillance to improve population health through capacity building, training, collaboration, and evidence-based practice.
Focus Areas
chronic disease epidemiologypublic health surveillanceworkforce developmenttraining and educationstate and local health departments
Who They Fund
state and local public health agenciesvulnerable and high-risk populations (socially disadvantaged groups)pregnant people / perinatal populationspublic health practitioners and injury-prevention partners
Funding Style
capacity building for public health systems
About Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
A defining feature of Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc is its use of large, programmatic grants to public health agencies and academic partners working on surveillance, outbreak response, and epidemiology capacity. The foundation’s recent grants include $804,492 to Salt Lake County Health Department for COVID-19 ISHSP and $792,457 to Lehigh University for FLU, showing support for both health departments and research institutions. The funding pattern centers on applied public health work rather than general philanthropy. Grants reach state and local health departments, universities, and public health practitioners across topics such as respiratory mortality surveillance, outbreak tools, informatics, and epidemiology infrastructure. Several awards support workforce development and training through fellowships, while others back modeling and surveillance systems tied to infectious disease and chronic disease epidemiology. Recent awards also show repeat engagement with specific public health systems. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services appears multiple times across different years and purposes, and Utah and Minnesota recipients recur in surveillance- and respiratory-related grants. That pattern fits a funder focused on strengthening public health practice through capacity building, collaboration, and evidence-based epidemiology work.
What Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Funds
In infectious disease surveillance, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc funded several large awards tied to flu and COVID-19 work. Examples include $424,168 to Michigan Dhhs for FLU and $387,219 to Ohio Department of Health for FLU, alongside grants for COVID-19 respiratory death surveillance. The foundation also supports outbreak response and operational readiness. A $295,896 grant to the University of Virginia was designated for COVID-19 outbreak tools, and a $224,498 award to The Regents of the University of California Berkeley supported the same area. Those grants point to practical tools for public health operations. Workforce development is another clear theme. The University of Nebraska Medical Center received $263,366 for MCH FELLOW, and the foundation’s fellowship programs place fellows in health departments to build informatics, data strategy, and applied epidemiology capacity. Public health surveillance infrastructure appears throughout the portfolio, including NAS awards to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.5M
Total Assets
$15.5M
Total Revenue
$39.8M
Total Expenses
$38M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $24K and $149K, with a median of $66K.
25th Percentile
$24K
Median
$66K
75th Percentile
$149K
Geographic Reach
National41 states funded
About 6% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
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