Public Health Programs Monitor (PHMP)

Embargoed until April 8th, 2026

The Public Health Programs Monitor (PHPM) tracks federal public health programs and activities to provide overviews about federal health promoting programs and their shifts due to major federal changes. It includes an interactive dashboard with program overviews, as well as other resources that document both early and ongoing challenges facing federal health promoting programs. The analysis and narratives help explain trends that data alone cannot show, including how well programs are able to operate—even when they are fully funded.

This effort starts by identifying and summarizing programs and offices within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) deemed at risk due to being proposed for elimination in the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request and preliminary federal budgetary information, and/or proposed to be reorganized elsewhere in HHS. The dashboard describes the program or activity’s role in public health and the communities and populations they serve and provides updates on funding changes that have occurred in the past year. Importantly, as HHS programs affect the public’s health, we include them in this initiative even if they are not traditionally labeled as public health programs. This work will be updated as new information becomes available, with opportunities for public input and feedback.

What content is currently included in this initiative?

The PHPM initiative includes: (1) a dashboard documenting public health infrastructure changes and (2) brief explanations that help put the dashboard information in context.

Dashboard: This tool contains information about

• • Issue Areas: Programs are tagged based on what public health issue areas they address
  • Population Focus: Programs are tagged to show what communities and/or individuals have been served by a program.
  • Grantee organization level: Indicates organization types that have received funding from these programs, if applicable.
  • Reorganizations: Indicates whether a program was proposed to be reorganized to a newly created area of HHS.
  • Website activity: Most recent updates and status of programs webpages.
  • Budget and Funding: Where available, proposed and final budgetary information from FY25 to the present.

Briefs: The dashboard does not currently contain every part of the policy landscape affecting health promoting programs (such as executive orders, legislation, community impact, workforce changes). As this initiative progresses, we will continue to provide context through these tools that will help put the dashboard information in context.

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