Deadline: 31 October 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – ERA is currently inviting applications for its Creation of a Healthcare-Associated Infectious Disease Network to Improve Prevention Research and Healthcare Delivery with an aim to support innovative transmission modeling research that will expand knowledge and develop tools to better understand the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), particularly those that are resistant to antimicrobials.
This includes the creation of a new network of multidisciplinary scientists conducting computational and mathematical research to improve the ability to prepare for, detect, control, and prevent the growing problem of HAIs in the United States, particularly HAIs involving antimicrobial resistant pathogens.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding is $11,250,000
- Award Ceiling is $750,000
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- County governments
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) Hispanic-serving Institutions Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government U.S. Territory or Possession Faith-based or Community-based Organizations Bona Fide Agents: a Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application.
- If applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, a legal, binding agreement from the state or local government as documentation of the status is required.
- Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): FFRDCs are operated, managed, and/or administered by a university or consortium of universities, other not-for-profit or nonprofit organization, or an industrial firm, as an autonomous organization or as an identifiable separate operating unit of a parent organization.
- A FFRDC meets some special long-term research or development need which cannot be met as effectively by an agency’s existing in-house or contractor resources.
- FFRDC’s enable agencies to use private sector resources to accomplish tasks that are integral to the mission and operation of the sponsoring agency. For more information on FFRDCs.
Eligible Country: United States
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