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Summary

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, which the President signed into law on February 17, 2009 (P.L. 111-5), provided more than $17 billion in supplemental FY2009 discretionary appropriations for biomedical research, public health, and other health-related programs within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ARRA also included new authorizing language to promote health information technology (HIT) and establish a federal interagency advisory panel to coordinate comparative effectiveness research. ARRA funds were designated as emergency supplemental appropriations for FY2009. Regular FY2009 appropriations for HHS were included in the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (P.L. 111-8), enacted March 11, 2009. This report discusses the health-related programs and activities funded by ARRA, including details of how the administering HHS agencies and offices plan to allocate, award, and spend the funds. It will be updated as new information becomes available. Unless otherwise noted, all the funds will remain available through the end of FY2010 (i.e., through September 30, 2010). Table 1 summarizes ARRA's discretionary health funding, by HHS agency and office. Table 2 provides more details on the funding, by type of activity funded, and includes a comparison of the amounts provided in ARRA, as enacted, with the funding recommendations in the earlier House and Senate versions of the legislation.

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