This grant from the U.S. Government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aims to support international capacity building programs to enhance national public health laboratory systems. The goal is to establish national tiered laboratory services that adhere to international best practices, detect pathogens accurately, and contribute to evidence-based public health decision-making. By improving laboratory systems and integration with healthcare and surveillance networks, the initiative seeks to bolster readiness in responding to global health security threats and improving disease surveillance. The focus is on addressing existing vulnerabilities and enhancing prevention, detection, and response efforts for infectious disease outbreaks and health threats.
Opportunity ID: 318567
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | CDC-RFA-GH16-17200101SUPP19 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Strengthening Public Health Laboratories Internationally |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Health |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.318 — Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 18, 2019 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jul 18, 2019 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 19, 2019 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 19, 2019 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | Sep 18, 2019 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $2,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $10,000,000 |
| Award Floor: | $100,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Sole Source to APHL – Non-profit, National Public Health Laboratory Networks/Associations |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Centers for Disease Control – CGH |
| Description: | The U.S. Government’s (USG) Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was established as a framework for implementing the core capacities of the International Health Regulations (2005). Specifically, core capacity 8 focuses on laboratory development and includes the following components: policy and coordination of laboratory services; laboratory diagnostic and confirmation capacity; laboratory biosafety and biosecurity; and, laboratory based surveillance ;http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/84933/WHO_HSE_GCR_2013.2_eng.pdf;jsess ionid=9F3B8C843E818A183D7053426CC0C54F?sequence=1). To help countries reach the goals of the GHSA and IHR, CDC’s Global Disease Detection (GDD) and GHS laboratory initiatives have supported international capacity building programs to strengthen national public health laboratory (NPHL) systems. https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/security/pdf/ghs_overarching_target.pdf The overarching goal of these initiatives is to support national tiered laboratory services that meet international standards of best practices and are capable of accurately detecting and characterizing pathogens of high impact and concern in support of evidence-based public health decision-making. A well-functioning NPHL system, prepared to respond to global health security threats, is dependent on and supported by a network of laboratories (both public and private, including clinical, public health, veterinary, food safety, and environmental laboratories), that serve public health functions and are fully integrated with the overall national health care and surveillance systems. Together, these systems should be inter-connected through shared information, communication and referral linkages to contribute to conducting the full range of quality controlled laboratory services necessary to detect, differentiate, report, and characterize new threat events in any part of the country in a safety-minded and secured environment. Tiered services within a public health system provide for distributed functions in a decentralized health care environment and enhance a unified vision of the public health laboratory service in both the public and private sectors while strengthening linkages to clinical services. The aim of the functional integration of these networks is to provide strategic advice and share expertise to strengthen national capacity for laboratory supported disease surveillance. Integral to this is the provision of informative data in a timely manner to governmental authorities that permit informed and rapid response to epidemic prone diseases. To date, the world has made great progress in strengthening local, regional, and international capacity for addressing emerging infectious disease threats. Ongoing vulnerabilities include geographic areas with limited disease surveillance systems, institutional and logistic barriers to adequate delivery of services and interventions, reluctance to share outbreak information or biological samples, emergence of new pathogens and development of drug-resistance, limited border public health security measures, and intentional or accidental release of biological agents. These vulnerabilities illustrate the critical need to improve prevention, detection, and response efforts for infectious disease outbreaks, PHEICs, and other health threats. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Herbert Kimble
CWZ2@cdc.gov Email:CWZ2@cdc.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 318567 Full Announcement-FULL_ANNOUNCEMENT -> CDC-RFA-GH16-17200101SUPP19.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Herbert Kimble CWZ2@cdc.gov Email: CWZ2@cdc.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93.318 | CDC-RFA-GH16-17200101SUPP19 | Strengthening Public Health Laboratories Internationally | PKG00253082 | Jul 18, 2019 | Aug 19, 2019 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
318567 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
318567 SF424A-1.0.pdf
318567 BudgetNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
318567 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
318567 Project_Abstract_1_2-1.2.pdf
Optional forms
318567 OtherNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
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