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HHS’ Office of Inspector General Announces New Strategic Plan: What CDC Grantees and Contractors Should Know
On October 3, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General, which is also responsible for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published a strategic plan for improving oversight of public grants and contracts “to strengthen compliance with HHS award requirements; promote award practices that achieve program outcomes; and mitigate fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.” This comes as grant fraud related to awards by HHS, CDC, and other agencies routinely makes the news.