US Public Health Pathogens Genomics Centers of Excellence

Background
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2022 funds for a cooperative agreement program to establish The US Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence (PGCoE) network. The underlying objective of the PGCoE network is, through partnerships between academic and public-health organizations, to foster innovation in pathogen genomics and molecular epidemiology in order to improve the control of and response to microbial threats of public-health importance.

Grant Details
The NOFO will implement a three-pronged strategy. The first prong involves accelerated translation of relevant pathogen genomic technologies and innovations into the US public health system, particularly in public health agencies at the local, state, tribal, territorial and national level. The second prong focuses on training the public health workforce in microbial genomics and genomic epidemiology. The third prong aims at rapid and scalable use of pathogen genomics in responding to public health emergencies from infectious diseases in order to improve detection, characterization, and prevention of infectious disease threats.

Eligibility Requirements
U.S. state, local, Tribal, or territorial public health departments or public health laboratories are eligible to be prime recipients. Applications should be submitted by the intended prime recipient. For each site the cooperative agreement will be with one prime recipient, which needs to be a health department. A single CoE may include more than one health department, but a single health department will be the prime recipient.

Grant Value
The total value of the grant is not specified.