The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) is announcing the availability of cooperative agreement funding to carry out the Antimicrobial Resistance Dashboard (AMR Dashboard) as described in the U.S. House of Representatives Report for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2021.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/20/2023
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
This funding opportunity supports APHIS Veterinary Services’ (VS) mission to protect animal health as well as USDA APHIS Strategic Plan Goal 2: Safeguard American Agriculture, Objective 2.2: Manage plant and animal pests and disease once established in the United States to promote plant and animal health, Tactic: Understand antibiotic use in livestock, conduct surveillance of antibiotic drug susceptibility of selected bacterial organisms, and monitor antimicrobial resistance in animals over time.
Priorities
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS) is announcing the availability of up to $3 million in funds in the Antimicrobial Resistance Dashboard (AMR Dashboard) to support projects in the topic areas listed below.
Topic 1. Develop antimicrobial resistance dashboard tools that can securely track the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant microbes in domesticated animals. The dashboard tool must also include the following elements:
- Ensure similar confidentiality protections to the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act.
- Must be able to track phenotype and/or genotype of microbes.
- This could include dashboards that help us identify new research questions and perspectives on antimicrobial resistance in domesticated animals.
Topic 2. Identify and/or develop methods for protecting confidentiality of data related to antimicrobial resistance in domesticated animals.
- This could include developing statistical approaches to improve confidentiality of antimicrobial resistance data in domesticated animals.
Topic 3. Identify data user needs and preferences for antimicrobial resistance dashboard tools.
- This could include necessary elements for using antimicrobial resistance dashboard tools to monitor trends in antimicrobial resistance patterns in domesticated animals.
- This could include preferences for visualizing antimicrobial resistance data in domesticated animals for different intended audiences, such as domesticated animal owners/producers, veterinarians, diagnostic laboratories, or the general public.
Topic 4. Explore aspects of data management for antimicrobial resistance dashboard tools.
- This could include data acquisition, data transfer, data flow, data storage, data aggregation, and data analysis.
Funding Information
APHIS anticipates that most agreements awarded will not exceed $500,000.
Period of Performance
Projects must be completed within 12 months.
Eligible Applicants
- State departments of agriculture
- Offices of the chief animal health official of a State
- Nonprofits
- Institutions of higher education
- State or national livestock, poultry, or aquaculture producer organizations with direct and significant economic interest in livestock, poultry, or aquaculture production
- State, national, allied, or regional veterinary organizations or specialty boards recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association
- Tribal entities
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
