The Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant Program allows recipients to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with evidence-based, innovative, and community-driven methods. The program enables recipients to implement innovative and community-driven methods that meet their priority public health needs. Examples of key goals include addressing emerging health issues and gaps, decreasing premature death and disabilities by focusing on the leading preventable risk factors, supporting local programs to achieve healthy communities, and establishing data and surveillance systems to monitor the health status of targeted population(s). • Addressing emerging health issues and gaps • Decreasing premature death and disabilities by focusing on the leading preventable risk factors • Supporting local programs to achieve healthy communities • Establishing data and surveillance systems to monitor the health status of targeted population(s)