93.018: Strengthening Public Health Services at the Outreach Offices of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission

93.018

Inactive

HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) [HHS]

Aug. 14, 2020

March 27, 2020

The anticipated funding, through the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission (BHC),will be used to support the Administration’s priorities of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) to optimize health and quality of life for residents in the border region. Projects should demonstrate that binational collaboration among multiple jurisdictions, academic institutions, and local organizations is feasible, and offer an important opportunity that can be expanded for additional public health impact.

B - Cooperative Agreements

This is a limited eligibility cooperative agreement offered to the Arizona Department of Health Services/Office of Border Health; the California Department of Public Health/California Office of Bi-national Border Health; the New Mexico Department of Health/Office of Border Health; and the Texas Department of State Health Services/Office of Border Health. The BHC’s establishing legislation (22 U.S.C. § 290n) calls for close coordination and integration with each of the four state offices of border health, and enabled the Commission to locate its border health operations within those existing state offices to avoid duplicative efforts. The four U.S. offices of border health have extensive experience supporting the BHC’s bi-national goals, objectives, and initiatives, and maintain important working relationships and shared ongoing initiatives with Mexico through the appropriate BHC outreach office(s) on the Mexican side of the border. Continuity and consistency in this bi-national effort in the border region is essential to the productivity and success of the BHC.

This funding is intended to support projects aligned with the goals of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission, and its mission to provide leadership to optimize health and quality of life for residents in the border region. Special target populations and organizations can include specific sub-groups of interest, such as disadvantaged or medically underserved areas, limited-English speaking groups, migrant populations, native communities, and community-based organizations. The cooperative agreement mechanism encourages the formation and development of collaborative partnerships to facilitate sustainability of efforts and to maximize impact in the border region.