2013 President's Budget Request

On February 13, 2012 the White House released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 President’s Budget request. The total funding level requested for FY 2013 for CDC/ATSDR is just over $11 billion. This includes $4.9 billion in base budget authority, a $660 million decrease from FY2012 and $1.4 billion below FY 2010. It also includes a request for $903 million from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Prevention and Public Health Fund, an increase of $78 million above FY2012 to invest in prevention and public health programs to improve health and restrain growth in health care costs. Finally, the request includes $766 million in Public Health Service (PHS) Evaluation funds and transfers from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF) an increase of over $360 million from FY 2012.

The request increases support for core programs such as domestic HIV/AIDS Prevention, food safety, HAI surveillance, health statistics, global polio eradication and improving efficiency of state laboratories while prioritizing streamlined agency operations and building on investments in FY 2012. However, some programs impacted by reductions in FY 2011 and/or FY 2012 may continue in the FY 2013 President’s Budget, thus causing significant challenges in their ability to protect Americans from many leading causes of death.

2013 President's Budget Request for Injury and Violence Prevention

The FY 2013 President’s Budget request includes $137.75 million for injury prevention and control, a net increase of $61,000 above the FY 2012 level. The request will allow NCIPC to continue a sustained effort to prevent injuries and violence across the United States. For example:

• The FY 2013 request of $96.789 million, an increase of $36,000 from FY 2012, for intentional injury prevention will support the identification and promotion of prevention strategies to reduce intentional injuries and their consequences impacting over 90 state, local, university, and community grantees, which link over 900 community organizations (including local health departments, rape crisis centers, domestic violence coalitions, and other organizations) across the country to prevention resources.
• Maintaining state prevention (including education and outreach) capacity and increasing program evaluation activities within the Rape Prevention and Education program activities with the goal of generating practice-based findings to inform the implementation of interventions that can reduce sexual violence nationwide.
• The FY 2013 request of $30.998 million, an increase of $22,000 from FY2012, for unintentional injury prevention will support the development and dissemination of effective, evidence-based interventions to address unintentional injuries impacting prevention interventions in all 50 states.
• CDC investments will further build state and local prevention capacity by translating science into capacity building programs and by requesting $9.977 million, an increase of $3,000 from FY 2012, for Injury Control Research Centers to support research to document the burden of and identify ways to prevent injuries and violence and their consequences.

Please see the NCIPC budget request for additional details.