CDC Partnership: Strengthening Public Health Laboratories

The summary for the CDC Partnership: Strengthening Public Health Laboratories grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

CDC Partnership: Strengthening Public Health Laboratories:




This 5-year cooperative agreement will award funds to improve the effectiveness, capabilities, and sustainability of public health laboratories (PHLs) — individually and as components of a national PHL system — in the United States and in other countries that CDC supports. The FOA aims to improve PHL infrastructure, develop a well-trained and maintained PHL workforce, and strengthen the PHL system in order to promote quality and safe laboratory practice in the entire health system as it pertains to public health in the United States and globally. Activities conducted through this cooperative agreement will use science-based knowledge to identify best practices that will improve PHL effectiveness, capabilities, and sustainability. Through this cooperative agreement, PHLs will become a much stronger component of the public health system and substantively improve the overall healthcare system.

The awardee will conduct activities in six cross-cutting areas and four program-specific areas.
Cross-Cutting Areas will support:
• Public Health Laboratory Strengthening and Leadership
• Public Health Preparedness and Response
• Global Health
• Laboratory Systems and Standards
• Workforce Development
• Informatics Capacity





Each cross-cutting and program-specific area must be written as a stand-alone section of the application: (1) Public health laboratory strengthening and leadership, (2) Public health preparedness and response, (3) Global health, (4) Laboratory systems and standards, (5) Workforce development, (6) Informatics Capacity, (7) Newborn screening, (8) Food safety, (9) Infectious diseases and (10) Environmental health. After FOA publication, grantee may contact CDC programmatic contact for attachments A-J, Program-Specific Project Areas.