Tribal EPI Center Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI)

TECPHI will build public health capacity and infrastructure of GLITEC and Tribal/urban Indian communities to conduct/bolster disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control of disease, injury, disability, and program monitoring/evaluation.

The Tribal Epidemiology Center Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI) Grant is a five-year cooperative agreement through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). TECPHI builds public health capacity and infrastructure of GLITEC and Tribal/urban Indian communities to conduct and bolster disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control of disease, injury, disability, and program monitoring/evaluation.

The TECPHI Opioid Overdose Prevention supplement addresses opioid surveillance and racial misclassification of American Indians and Alaskan Natives within the Bemidji Area (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and city of Chicago)