Improving Overseas Detection of Influenza among Refugees and Preventing the Importation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza among U.S.-Bound Refugees - Thailand

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	Federal Grant Title:	Improving Overseas Detection of Influenza among Refugees and Preventing the Importation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza among U.S.-Bound Refugees - Thailand
	CFDA Number:	93.283
	CFDA Description:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention_Investigations and Technical Assistance
	Federal Agency Name:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
	Category of Funding Activity:	Health
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	CDC-RFA-CI06-610
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Aug 02, 2006
	Creation Date:	Aug 02, 2006
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Sep 02, 2006
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Oct 02, 2006
	Expected Number of Awards:	1
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$250,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$250,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Assistance will be provided only to the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) of Mahidol University in the Kingdom of Thailand. No other applications will be solicited. Established in 1986, the SMRU is the field station of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases of the Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. SMRU is based in the border region in Mae Sot, Thailand, and its activities encompass the populations who are living along the Thai-Burmese border. SMRU is the only qualified organization located along the Thai-Burmese border that has the technical and administrative capacity to establish a surveillance network; laboratory testing for influenza, including the H5N1 influenza virus; and implement control and prevention activities in the camps outlined under this cooperative agreement, for the following reasons: 1. Broad range of experience in public health and research: SMRU has been working in the region for approximately 20 years. In addition to performing applied research focused on benefiting refugees and migrants along the Thai-Burmese border, SMRU also provides public-health interventions in collaboration with non-governmental organizations. SMRUs focus includes such diverse areas as malaria treatment, surveillance and prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, and research into respiratory diseases and toxicology. 2. Experience in implementing public-health interventions: SMRU already provides such activities as perinatal HIV prevention in refugee camps. 3. Existing surveillance system: In the mid-1990s SMRU set up a malaria-surveillance system in all refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border, used to monitor trends in malaria incidence, and able to demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions to treat and prevent malaria. The system has continued to operate and to provide useful data long beyond the period for which it was originally funded. 4. Existing relationships with non-governmental organizations: Several non-governmental organizations provide health care in the refugee camps. These organizations are often in competition with each other for resources, which can interfere with collaboration. In addition, the staff of these organizations changes frequently (every six to 24 months). SMRU is in a unique position in that it has a much more stable staff, and has worked with all of the involved non-governmental organizations since the beginning of the refugee crisis 20 years ago. 5. Laboratory capacity, including the capacity to look for respiratory pathogens: SMRU has a well-established, functioning laboratory located in Mae Sot, along the Thai-Burmese border, which has supported research into respiratory diseases among refugees. Recently, SMRU won a grant to perform population-based surveillance for respiratory diseases in one of the refugee camps. 6. Existing relationship with the Royal Thai Government: SMRU is part of the School of Tropical Medicine of Mahidol University, the oldest institution of higher learning in Thailand.
Grant Description: This is a Single Source Funding Opportunity. Assistance will be provided only to the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) of Mahidol University in the Kingdom of Thailand. No other applications will be solicited. Established in 1986, the SMRU is the field station of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases of the Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. SMRU is based in the border region in Mae Sot, Thailand, and its activities encompass the populations who are living along the Thai-Burmese border. SMRU is the only qualified organization located along the Thai-Burmese border that has the technical and administrative capacity to establish a surveillance network; laboratory testing for influenza, including the H5N1 influenza virus; and implement control and prevention activities in the camps outlined under this cooperative agreement, for the following reasons: 1. Broad range of experience in public health and research: SMRU has been working in the region for approximately 20 years. In addition to performing applied research focused on benefiting refugees and migrants along the Thai-Burmese border, SMRU also provides public-health interventions in collaboration with non-governmental organizations. SMRUs focus includes such diverse areas as malaria treatment, surveillance and prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, and research into respiratory diseases and toxicology. 2. Experience in implementing public-health interventions: SMRU already provides such activities as perinatal HIV prevention in refugee camps. 3. Existing surveillance system: In the mid-1990s SMRU set up a malaria-surveillance system in all refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border, used to monitor trends in malaria incidence, and able to demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions to treat and prevent malaria. The system has continued to operate and to provide useful data long beyond the period for which it was originally funded. 4. Existing relationships with non-governmental organizations: Several non-governmental organizations provide health care in the refugee camps. These organizations are often in competition with each other for resources, which can interfere with collaboration. In addition, the staff of these organizations changes frequently (every six to 24 months). SMRU is in a unique position in that it has a much more stable staff, and has worked with all of the involved non-governmental organizations since the beginning of the refugee crisis 20 years ago. 5. Laboratory capacity, including the capacity to look for respiratory pathogens: SMRU has a well-established, functioning laboratory located in Mae Sot, along the Thai-Burmese border, which has supported research into respiratory diseases among refugees. Recently, SMRU won a grant to perform population-based surveillance for respiratory diseases in one of the refugee camps. 6. Existing relationship with the Royal Thai Government: SMRU is part of the School of Tropical Medicine of Mahidol University, the oldest institution of higher learning in Thailand.
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