Deadline: 9-Aug-21
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Centers for Disease Control – OSTLTS is seeking applications to Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health.
The purposes of this supplemental funding opportunity are to strengthen the nation’s public health infrastructure, ensure a competent, current, and connected public health system, and improve delivery of essential public health services through capacity-building assistance (CBA).
Activities
- Public Health Systems and Infrastructure: Activities to improve operational capacity, such as policies and plans, administrative and management, and quality improvement.
- Assess and address gaps in organizational performance, using tools such as national accreditation standards
- Assess and reduce agency fragmentation and duplication
- Develop and implement organizational strategic plans
- Formulate population health goals and strategies
- Ensure generation, analysis, and use of information about emerging health trends
- Ensure organizational structure aligns with health goals and strategies
- Establish performance management systems to monitor organizational objectives
- Establish and maintain effective financial management systems
- Build models that align public health with other sectors
- Ensure system transparency and accountability
- Identify, strengthen, and coordinate stakeholders’ roles
- Develop and implement quality improvement processes for practices, processes, and interventions
- Develop and maintain operational infrastructure to support performance of public health functions
- Maintain current operational definitions and statements of organizational roles, responsibilities, and authorities
- Leadership and Workforce Development: Activities designed to improve leadership and workforce competencies, recruitment, and retention.
- Strengthen leadership engagement across public and private sectors
- Determine leaders’ engagement in specific public health priorities
- Establish feedback loops across systems for organizational planning
- Address existing and emerging public health priorities
- Address the social determinants of health and health disparities and inequities
- Perform network analysis to identify opportunities for collaboration
- Assess workforce training needs
- Establish and maintain workforce development plan
- Assess the workforce’s scientific skills and subject matter expertise
- Develop workforce strategy for hiring and retaining employees
- Develop and implement strategies to sustain supportive work environments
- Establish relationships with organizations that promote the development of future public health workers
- Implement activities to scale-up delivery of public health training at lower costs
- Sustain the working relationship among public health and leaders across sectors
- Data and Information Systems: Activities to improve the collection, management, interpretation, and dissemination of data to guide decision-making.
- Assess health and health-related data sources
- Assess available information systems used across organizations
- Develop systems or processes for cross-integration and ease of use
- Improve system infrastructure for data storage, protection, and management
- Determine readiness for information system implementation, use, and maintenance
- Create manuals and protocols to ensure best practices and standardization of data and information systems
- Establish data governance by creating policies and guiding principles to improve the collection, interpretation, and meaningful use of data
- Increase information access, data use, and sharing across organizations
- Develop and implement protocols critical for integrating surveillance and monitoring systems
- Develop workforce training on managing data and information systems
- Link public health data, clinical care data, and other relevant data sources to improve surveillance
- Determine effective ways to use public health data, health care data, and other relevant data sources to monitor the health of populations
- Communication and Information Technology: Activities to improve the use of communication and information technology to affect health decisions and actions.
- Develop communication processes for effective cross-sector collaboration
- Develop communication procedures to provide information to the public
- Create communication campaigns that are relevant, culturally competent, and at a sufficient level of health literacy
- Provide accessible, accurate, actionable, and current information that is culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate
- Develop communication systems to enable efficient and effective community-centered dialogue
- Develop and disseminate educational materials, health communication and marketing activities, and program evaluation and assessment tools
- Provide information about public health issues and functions to diverse audiences through multiple methods to inform public health decision making
- Partnerships: Activities to improve the establishment and maintenance of results-driven partnerships.
- Assess agency’s current internal and external partnerships
- Expand organization or program partnerships through community engagement and mobilization
- Perform network analysis to identify opportunities for collaboration
- Leverage partnerships to address specific public health issues or population health needs strategically
- Identify successful practices and develop new mechanisms to inform and mobilize the public and private sectors in collaborative efforts
- Engage with the public health system and community in identifying and addressing health problems through collaborative processes
- Engage various sectors in the adoption of Health in All Policies
- Laws and Policies: Activities to improve the ability to interpret and inform laws, including statutes and regulations, and policies that affect health.
- Conduct systematic surveillance of applicable laws and policies to public health aims and evaluate them
- Engage multiple sectors to identify priorities for development of relevant laws and policies based on needs and data
- Provide technical assistance and develop tools to support public health practitioners and policymakers in advancing evidence-based or evidence-informed law and policy
- ngage multiple sectors in activities that contribute to providing evidence to inform laws and policies that affect public health
- Inform governing entities, elected officials, and the public of potential public health effects from laws and policies
- Educate individuals and organizations on purpose, benefit, and requirements of laws and policies that affect public health
- Identify the common barriers and facilitators of legal and policy strategies that affect health Note recipients must ensure compliance with Administrative Requirement-12 (AntiLobbying) when engaging in all activities, especially those related to laws, policies, and regulations.
- Programs and Services: Activities to improve the identification of best practices and implementation of evidence-based/informed programs and services.
- Identify, prioritize, and fund programs that lower disease rates, prevent injuries, and improve health
- Integrate prevention strategies and actions across multiple settings
- Adopt initiatives to develop, implement, and evaluate effective health promotion and disease prevention strategies
- Translate and disseminate evidence-based public health science to improve health and lower health care costs
- Identify effective mechanisms to ensure capable assessment and response to public health needs
- Develop indicators and measures to determine effectiveness in meeting public health needs
- Use evidence to implement programs and services that address emerging or real-time priority public health needs
- Develop and adopt evidence-based interventions that reduce high-burden diseases
- Assess access to health care services
- Identify and implement strategies to improve access to health care services
Funding Information
- Approximate Total Supplemental Funding: $ 62,000,000
- Approximate Average Award: $ 2,000,000
- Anticipated Award Date: September 24, 2021
- Budget Period Length: 11 month(s)
- Period of Performance Length: 2 year(s)
Eligibility Criteria
The following recipients may submit an application:
- State governments
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Others
- (Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Private institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334146