evidence: Investing in America’s Health: A State-by-State Look at Public Health Funding and Key Health Facts [...] In Investing in America’s Health: A State-by-State Look at Public Health Funding and Key Health Facts, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) examine public health funding and key health facts in states around the country, finding: [...] - Cuts in State and Local Funding: At the state and local levels, public health budgets have been cut at drastic rates in recent years. According to a TFAH analysis, 29 states decreased their public health budgets from FY 2010-11 to FY 2011-12. Budgets in 23 states decreased for two or more years in a row, and budgets in 14 states decreased for three or more years in a row. In FY 2011-12, the median state funding for public health was $27.40 per capita, ranging from a high of $154.99 in Hawaii to a low of $3.28 in Nevada. From FY 2008 to FY 2012, the median per capita state spending decreased from $33.71 to $27.40. This represents a cut of more than $1.15 billion, based on the total states’ budgets from those years, which would be $1.9 billion adjusted for inflation.