Maternal and Child Health Program

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Maternal and Child Health Program: The Indian Health Service (IHS) Maternal and Child Health Program (MCH) announces a limited competition for cooperative agreements for applications responding to the Secretaries' Initiative on Closing the Health Disparities Gap for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Infant Mortality (IM). This program is authorized under Snyder Act, 25 U.S.C. 13, 25 U.S.C. 1621(m), 25 U.S.C. 1653(c), and Indian Health Care Improvement Act Public Law 94-437, as amended by Public Law 102-573. This program is described at 93.231 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA). This limited competition seeks to improve American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) maternal and infant outcomes in key populations through surveillance and outreach projects conducted by existing Tribal and urban Indian epidemiology centers. Enhancement of MCH epidemiology activities currently underway in select disparate populations is necessary to reduce IM. The purpose of this announcement is to respond to the Department of Health and Human Services Closing the Health Disparities Gap on SIDS and IM in AI/AN populations. Urban and Tribal Epidemiology Centers provide surveillance, monitoring, conduct studies and apply interventions to reduce risk of IM in defined regions. Enhancement of AI/AN MCH surveillance will build Tribal public health infrastructure and complement outreach projects. Existing expertise in MCH epidemiology and a history of regional MCH support is required to address risk factors of SIDS and IM. This limited competition will augment existing expertise in MCH epidemiology to address risk factors of SIDS and IM. This announcement is specifically geared toward all eligible MCH programs who lack resources to serve targeted AI/AN populations under this initiative. Eligible Epi Centers under this announcement are geographically located in Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and/or with urban Indian organizations. The nature of these projects will require collaboration with the IHS MCH Program to: (1) coordinate activities, (2) participate in projects, investigations, or studies of national scope, and (3) share surveillance and other data collected, in compliance with the Federal Privacy Act, HIPAA, or similar Tribal laws. The IHS will, therefore, have substantial programmatic involvement in these projects (see II. B. IHS Activities below).