Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Protecting and Improving Public Health Globally, Deadline: 7 September 2016

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently seeking applications for a program entitled “Protecting and Improving Public Health Globally”.

The U.S. government’s (USG) Global Health Agenda (GHSA) envisions a world safe and secure from global health threats posed by infectious diseases, and the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa further underscores the economic and humanitarian impacts of infectious disease.

The program supports the achievement of the Global Health Security Agenda 12 targets that focus on protecting and improving health globally through Ministries of Health. Its purpose is to support immediate response efforts for the current Ebola outbreak, other infectious disease outbreak or health threats, and Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEICs).

The program will also support African countries that remain at high risk for Ebola (Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Nigeria, and Togo).

Focus Areas

• Preventing avoidable epidemics by ensuring systems, policies and procedures are in place to monitor and slow antimicrobial resistance, develop and implement a whole-of-government national biosecurity system minimize spillover of zoonotic disease to human populations, and increase immunization coverage and rates.
• Detecting threats early though real-time biosurveillance and effective modern diagnostics, including point-of-care and laboratory-based diagnostics carried out in accredited laboratories; improving surveillance systems and creating interoperable, interconnected electronic reporting system; strengthening laboratory systems to detect, differentiate, and characterize pathogens; timely and accurate disease reporting according to WHO, OIE and FAO requirements; and trained epidemiologists, physicians, veterinarians, biostatisticians, and laboratory scientists.
• Responding rapidly and effectively by ensuring that host country detection efforts guide response, building local emergency response expertise including linkages to law enforcement and development of multi-sectoral rapid response teams, improving access to countermeasures during emergencies, creating interconnected robust public health emergency management (EM) programs, including emergency operations centers (EOCs), strengthening the public health workforce, andtraining field epidemiologists whose data analysis informs evidence-based policy

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding is $10,000,000
• Award Ceiling is $1,000,000
• Award Floor is $300,000
• Total Project Period Length is 5 year(s)

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility is limited to National Ministries of Health or thier Bona Fide Agents in countries where there is existing partnership with CDC, but is not limited to countries where CDC has a physical presence.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply by downloading the application package via given website.

Eligible Countries

Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Kenya, Mali,Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam.

For more information, please visit grants.gov.