Bizzell Awarded CDC Contract to Assess Disparities in Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

The Bizzell Group (Bizzell) is excited to announce that our firm was recently awarded a new contract providing public health professional support services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC), Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention-Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch. Under this contract, Bizzell staff will provide technical assistance in the areas of geographic information systems (GIS), statistical analyses, and health services and systems research for the GIS Capacity Building project.

Bizzell team members will assess the reduction of burdens and disparities in heart disease and stroke prevention through GIS mapping, provide technical assistance to project staff on the utility of GIS and the role of cartography, conduct geocoding, manage and provide statistical analyses of large databases (e.g. National Center for Health Statistics), and create manuscripts to showcase tabular results in support of health services and systems research to inform the field of this critical issue.