Enhancing Global Health Security: Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems and Preparedness Globally

Background
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is offering a grant opportunity titled 'Enhancing Global Health Security: Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems and Preparedness Globally'. The grant aims to protect and improve public health globally by strengthening public health surveillance systems, improving the public health surveillance workforce, enhancing electronic disease surveillance platforms and systems, and reinforcing emergency surveillance preparedness.

Grant Details
The grant focuses on activities such as conducting disease risk assessments, developing national communicable disease surveillance strategies, improving outbreak case management and infection control, intensifying active surveillance, case finding, contact tracing, monitoring, and other critical response efforts at local levels. It also includes enhancing workforce capacities through training and developing country-specific surveillance training strategies. The grant is divided into five components covering core global health surveillance systems capacity building, rapid response to small-scale infectious disease outbreaks or other public health emergencies, rapid response to large-scale infectious disease outbreaks or other public health emergencies, additional surveillance activities as identified by current or future appropriations or funding availability, and emerging infectious disease threats.

Eligibility Requirements
The grant is open for an open competition. The funding instrument type is Cooperative Agreement (CA). The approximate number of awards is 5 with a total period of performance funding of $300,000,000. The average one-year award amount is $10,000,000. There are no cost-sharing or matching requirements.

Period of Performance
The estimated award date is September 30, 2021. The total period of performance length is 5 years.

Grant Value
$300,000,000 is the total period of performance funding with an average one-year award amount of $10,000,000.

Place of Performance
The target countries/regions for this grant include Bangladesh, Belize, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, China, Cote D’ivoire, DRC, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana and others.