The Centers for Disease Control is seeking applications for Emerging Infections Program to sustain and enhance the multi-site EIP network which provides high quality scientific information to monitor emerging infectious diseases in the United States, evaluate public health interventions, and inform public health policy.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/20/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,200,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) was initiated in 1995 in response to the growing concern over the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases. Following the 1992 Institute of Medicine report “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to the United States,” CDC developed and published in 1994 a plan for addressing these threats. That plan highlighted the foundational role of public health surveillance and included in its recommendations, the creation of a network of population-based centers of excellence established through state public health departments collaborating with academic institutions, local health departments, public health and clinical laboratories, infection control professionals, healthcare providers, and CDC for special surveillance and applied public health research, which became the EIP network.
Outcomes
The overall outcomes will focus on:
- High quality, adequate, and timely data on infectious diseases and other emerging health threats for informing public health policy and practices available
- Novel/improved surveillance methods developed and implemented
- Baseline incidence/prevalence of infectious diseases and other conditions and associated disparities established, and population is monitored for outbreaks
- Risk factors for infectious diseases and other health threats established
- Trends in infectious diseases and other conditions, including antimicrobial resistance, identified and monitored
- Interventions with established effectiveness developed and available
- New/updated disease treatment guidelines and interventions with established effectiveness developed and made accessible for infectious diseases and other health threats
- Disproportionately affected populations for various infectious diseases and other conditions identified and interventions tailored for those populations of focus are developed and publicly accessible.
The EIP network assists with local, state, and national efforts to prevent, control, and monitor the public health impact of infectious diseases. Activities of the EIP network fall into the following overall categories:
- active infectious disease surveillance;
- applied public health epidemiologic and laboratory activities;
- implementation and evaluation of pilot prevention/intervention projects; and
- rapid and flexible response to public health emergencies and newly emerging issues for infectious diseases. The EIP network is particularly suited to address key and emergent public health issues for the U.S. that require a collaborative approach across multiple sites and timely data to inform public health policy and practices and lead directly to the prevention of disease.
Strategies and Activities
- Enhance population based approach to surveillance and public health research
- Provide crosscutting scientific and business support Maintain flexibility to address emerging/urgent issues with a population based approach Enhance partnerships and collaborative network
- Provide training and workforce development
- Enhance data management and information dissemination
- Modernize information systems for data collection and electronic data exchange
- Enhance laboratory specimen collection and banking
- Enhance active surveillance, applied public health epidemiologic and laboratory activities and public health research, prevention, and evaluation
Funding Information
Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $767,000,000
Average One Year Award Amount: $10,200,000
Performance Length
5 year
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
Additional Eligibility Category
- Government Organizations:
- State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia)
- Local governments or their bona fide agents
- Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
- State controlled institutions of higher education
- American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
- Non-government Organizations
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
