Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Description

The purpose of this Affordable Care Act funding through the ELC is to enhance public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth of health care costs through building epidemiology, laboratory, and health information systems capacity in state and local public health departments. Specifically, the Affordable Care Act funding is being made available via this FOA to enhance the ability of state, local, and territorial ELC grantees to strengthen and integrate capacity for detecting and responding to infectious disease and other public health threats in state and local public health departments. The purpose of these enhancements is to provide flexible and multi-purpose resources to address current high-priority infectious disease problems within grantee jurisdictions, as well as new threats as they emerge. This FOA addresses the following three inter-related areas which are fully consistent with and build upon the existing ELC activities: a. Epidemiology Capacity – To ensure staff are well-trained and well-equipped to provide rapid, effective, and flexible response to infectious disease threats. b. Laboratory Capacity – To achieve modern and well-equipped public health laboratories, with well-trained staff, employing high quality laboratory processes and systems that foster communication and appropriate integration between laboratory and epidemiology functions. c. Health Information Systems Capacity – To develop and enhance current health information infrastructure for public health agencies. Working towards modern, standards-based and interoperable systems, that support electronic exchange of information within and between epidemiology and laboratory functions in public health agencies (e.g., systems that support public health surveillance and investigation, laboratory information management systems (LIMS)); among local, state, and federal public health agencies; and between public health agencies and clinical care systems (e.g., health care providers, clinical laboratories). Enhancing electronic exchange of information between public health agencies and clinical care entities will make a critical contribution to health reform in the U.S.

Who can apply

• Others

Contact

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <br/>Procurement and Grants Office <br/>TIMS <br/>Phone 770-488-2700
PGOTIM@cdc.gov