DHHS-CDC: Strengthening Implementation and Use of Effective Health Information Systems through Improved Governance, Design, Planning, Capacity Development, and Technical Implementation under PEPFAR

Deadline: 17 October 2017

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is seeking applications for its “Strengthening Implementation and Use of Effective Health Information Systems through Improved Governance, Design, Planning, Capacity Development, and Technical Implementation under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

The goal of this program is to enable PEPFAR, CDC, implementing partners, and host countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to:

support the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of HIS, such as EMRs, HRIS, district health information systems (DHIS), LIS, electronic case-based surveillance systems and health and other health-related information systems used to implement or monitor PEPFAR or host government programs and address broader health system goals;
develop and improve policy, governance, and infrastructure needed to implement HIS (including financing and infrastructure development, data and interoperability standards development and implementation, workforce development, and data security, integrity, availability, and confidentiality), and to increase HIS sustainability, costeffectiveness, and country ownership;
sustain informatics workforce and capacity development at all levels of the health system;
protect, secure, standardize, exchange, and share data to promote seamless and timely flow of health data to improve health.

Funding Information

Estimated Total Program Funding:

Award Ceiling: $10,000,000

Eligibility Criteria

Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity)
State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia)
Local governments or their bona fide agents
Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
State controlled institutions of higher education
American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
Ministries of Health
Additional Eligibility:
- Government Organizations:
  - Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States)
- Non-government Organizations:
  - Alaska Native health corporations
  - Tribal epidemiology centers
  - Urban Indian health organizations
  - Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
  - Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
  - Research institutions (that will perform activities deemed as non-research)
- Colleges and Universities
- Community-based organizations
- Faith-based organizations
- For-profit organizations (other than small business)
- Hospitals
- Small, minority, and women-owned businesses
- All Other
The focus of this program is for country based projects are Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, followed by Cameroon and Mozambique.