Deadline: 19-Jul-21
The Centers for Disease Control has announced the applications for Strategic Planning in Southeast Asia to support the mission and goals of CDC’s global health regionalization strategy and advance global health security.
To date, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched four regional platforms: South America, based in Brasilia, Brazil; Eastern Europe/Central Asia, based in Tbilisi, Georgia; Middle East/North Africa, based in Muscat, Oman, and Southeast Asia, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is specific to the Southeast Asia Region and includes the following countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam.
The Southeast Asia region has a long history of working on health security issues because of significant experiences with emerging infectious diseases. The CDC Southeast Asia regional office will be a trusted technical partner well-known to the individual countries and can serve as convener to strengthen the regional relationships, especially those coordinated through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) . The Southeast Asia regional office will work to further development and strengthening of ASEAN networks including Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), the Field Epidemiology Training Network, One Health, laboratory, and Infection Prevention and Control/Antimicrobial Resistance (IPC/AMR).
Purposes
This NOFO supports the mission and goals of CDC’s global regionalization strategy through support for complex high-level regional strategic planning processes. This NOFO will support this objective by working across countries in the region to improve capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats. Strategic planning across countries will identify gaps and opportunities to improve public health throughout the region, including in the areas of surveillance and reporting, workforce development, lab science, and emergency and outbreak response.
Priorities
This funding opportunity supports CDC’s 2019-2021 Global Health Strategy, which focuses on:
- Health Impact—Saving lives, improving health outcomes, and fostering healthy populations globally
- Health Security—Protecting Americans and populations across the globe by strengthening global public health prevention, detection, and response
- Public Health Science Leadership—Leading and influencing the advancement of global public health science and practice
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Fiscal Year Funding: $ 50,000
- Estimated Total Funding: $ 250,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
- Expected Number of Awards: 1
- Approximate Average Award: $ 50,000 Per Budget Period
- Budget Period Length: 12 month(s)
Strategies
- Activities will include the planning, coordinating, and convening of annual strategic and other planning meetings to address an overarching theme of importance to the public health capacity of the region. Public health stakeholders in the region will communicate, coordinate, and collaborate to address regional health issues.
- Strategy 1: Conduct regional landscape analysis
- Identify public health stakeholders (ministries of health, academia, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, etc.) in each country and regionally
- Map existing partnerships between stakeholders, relevant assets (resources), and activities in each country and regionally
- Review existing regional needs assessments or conduct as necessary
- Strategy 2: Coordinate the creation of a regional public health strategy and action plans, where needed
- Convene public health stakeholders at annual meeting to discuss regional priorities and needs
- Develop a regional strategic plan in collaboration with public health stakeholders and CDC regional platform
- Strategy 3: Develop network of regional public health stakeholders
- Coordinate, and where appropriate, establish intra-regional communications between public health stakeholders
Outcomes
- As reflected in the logic model, the strategies have a related set of activities and short- and intermediate-term outcomes for the five-year period of performance. Measurable progress on these outcomes will contribute to the specified long-term outcomes.
- Applicants will assess their existing resources and technical expertise, partner network, and training resources, and determine whether they can successfully achieve the specified outcomes. Recipients are only expected to achieve those outcomes identified in the application and for which they receive funding.
- Short-Term Outcomes:
- Public health stakeholders and assets in region mapped
- National and regional action plans and policies are enacted
- Strong communications system established to ensure an effective approach to global health security
- Collaborative relationships between regional public health partners established
Target Populations
- The target population includes ministries of health and public health partners in the Southeast Asia region and the populations they serve (countries include: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam).
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334245