93.065: Laboratory Leadership, Workforce Training and Management Development, Improving Public Health Laboratory Infrastructure

93.065

Active

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [HHS]

Sept. 6, 2022

Sept. 6, 2022

This program addresses the “Healthy People 2010” focus areas of: #8 – Environmental Health, #10 – Food Safety, #11 – Health Communication, #13 – HIV, #14 – Immunization and Infectious Diseases, # 17 - Medical Product Safety, #20 - Occupational Safety and Health, #23 – Public Health Infrastructure, #24 - Respiratory Diseases and #25 – Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Its major objective is to improve public health laboratory infrastructure, maintain a competent and trained laboratory workforce, promote laboratory leadership activities to ensure future laboratory leaders, ensure laboratory preparedness for emerging infectious diseases or other biologic and chemical public health threats, promote technology transfer to ensure up-to-date technologies for the testing laboratory, and to enhance communication linkages between state and local public health laboratories, and the clinical laboratory testing community.

B - Cooperative Agreements

Assistance will be provided only to APHL. CDC approved single eligibility of this award. This group is the appropriate and only qualified organization to address the activities described under this program announcement. Application may be submitted by the APHL consistent with the single eligibility justification that follows. State governments, specifically State public health laboratories, particularly any organization representing state public health laboratories and having an established training network. In regards to Eligibility for Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding will be limited solely to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), the current partner in the cooperative agreement with CDC.

This project represents the front line defense against health threats to the nation's public. The nation's public is the ultimate recipient of benefits from this program.

https://sam.gov/fal/f70e56b3198e47b28a72263492614e50/view