PPHF 2017: Immunization Grants-CDC Partnership: Strengthening Public Health Laboratories-financed in part by 2017 Prevention and Public Health Funds
This 5-year cooperative agreement will award funds to improve the effectiveness, capabilities, and sustainability of public health laboratories (PHLs) — individually and as components of a national PHL system — in the United States and in other countries that CDC supports.
The FOA aims to improve PHL infrastructure, develop a well-trained and maintained PHL workforce, and strengthen the PHL system in order to promote quality and safe laboratory practice in the entire health system as it pertains to public health in the United States and globally.
Activities conducted through this cooperative agreement will use science-based knowledge to identify best practices that will improve PHL effectiveness, capabilities, and sustainability.
Through this cooperative agreement, PHLs will become a much stronger component of the public health system and substantively improve the overall healthcare system.
The awardee will conduct activities in six cross-cutting areas and four program-specific areas.Cross-Cutting Areas will support:• Public Health Laboratory Strengthening and Leadership• Public Health Preparedness and Response• Global Health• Laboratory Systems and Standards • Workforce Development• Informatics CapacityEach cross-cutting and program-specific area must be written as a stand-alone section of the application:
(1) Public health laboratory strengthening and leadership, (2) Public health preparedness and response, (3) Global health, (4) Laboratory systems and standards, (5) Workforce development, (6) Informatics Capacity, (7) Newborn screening, (8) Food safety, (9) Infectious diseases and (10) Environmental health.
The applicant must demonstrate a minimum of 15 years of experience working with the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the strengthening of PHL practice both domestically and abroad.
Applicants must have experience working with external partners and stakeholders of PHLs and must demonstrate a history of successful partnerships, credibility, and influence among PHLs.
Applicants must be fully capable of managing the required deliverables in accordance with 45 C.F.R.
Part 7 5.
The FOA aims to improve PHL infrastructure, develop a well-trained and maintained PHL workforce, and strengthen the PHL system in order to promote quality and safe laboratory practice in the entire health system as it pertains to public health in the United States and globally.
Activities conducted through this cooperative agreement will use science-based knowledge to identify best practices that will improve PHL effectiveness, capabilities, and sustainability.
Through this cooperative agreement, PHLs will become a much stronger component of the public health system and substantively improve the overall healthcare system.
The awardee will conduct activities in six cross-cutting areas and four program-specific areas.Cross-Cutting Areas will support:• Public Health Laboratory Strengthening and Leadership• Public Health Preparedness and Response• Global Health• Laboratory Systems and Standards • Workforce Development• Informatics CapacityEach cross-cutting and program-specific area must be written as a stand-alone section of the application:
(1) Public health laboratory strengthening and leadership, (2) Public health preparedness and response, (3) Global health, (4) Laboratory systems and standards, (5) Workforce development, (6) Informatics Capacity, (7) Newborn screening, (8) Food safety, (9) Infectious diseases and (10) Environmental health.
The applicant must demonstrate a minimum of 15 years of experience working with the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the strengthening of PHL practice both domestically and abroad.
Applicants must have experience working with external partners and stakeholders of PHLs and must demonstrate a history of successful partnerships, credibility, and influence among PHLs.
Applicants must be fully capable of managing the required deliverables in accordance with 45 C.F.R.
Part 7 5.
Related Programs
Laboratory Training, Evaluation, and Quality Assurance Programs
Department of Health and Human Services
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Funding: $32,250,000
Office: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Funding: $32,250,000
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Additional Information of Eligibility:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement is a single-source eligibility.
The single-source grantee is the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL).
No other applications are sought.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
Contact:
Technical Information Management SectionsCDC Office of Grants Services2920 Brandywine Road, MS E-14Atlanta, GA 30341Telephone: 770-488-2700
Agency Email Description:
Technical Information Management Section
Agency Email:
ogstims@cdc.gov
Date Posted:
2017-02-23
Application Due Date:
2017-04-28
Archive Date:
2017-05-28
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