Deadline: 4-Jun-23
CDC announces a new five-year cooperative agreement for eligible American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) federally recognized Tribal Nations and/or regional tribally designated organizations.
This Program’s purpose is to strengthen the quality, performance, and infrastructure of tribal public health systems, including workforce, data and information systems, and programs and services. This Program’s ultimate outcome is to improve public health outcomes and health inequities in Indian country.
Purpose
- This Program’s ultimate goal is to improve public health outcomes in Indian Country. Recipients will work toward improving the quality, performance, and infrastructure of tribal public health systems and increasing health equity within AI/AN communities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $75,000,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
Target Populations
- American Indian and Alaska Native people
Strategies and Activities
- Within the Project Narrative, applicants must clearly identify and address one or two of the following strategies. Examples of activities for each strategy are listed and include Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) standards/measures and Healthy People (HP) 2030 objectives.
- Foundational Public Health Capabilities implemented to strengthen the ability to conduct assessments/surveillance; prepare for and respond to public health emergencies; develop and support policies, communications, community partnership, organizational competencies, and accountability and performance management. These activities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Assessments/Surveillance
- Public Health Emergencies
- Policy Development and Support
- Communications
- Community Partnership
- Organizational Administrative Competency
- Accountability/Performance Management
- Data Modernization activities to develop and deploy scalable, flexible, and sustainable technologies, policies, and methods to implement data and analytical capabilities to support the Essential Public Health Services. These activities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Enhance the use and capabilities of informatics in public health (HP 2030: Public Health Infrastructure)
- Collect and share data that provide information on conditions of public health importance and health status of the population (PHAB Standard 1.2)
- Analyze public health data and use results to improve population health
- Identify opportunities for collaboration on data processing, tracking, analysis, and surveillance
- Enhance organizational capacity to collect and use public health data through conducting a capacity assessment
- Identify, access, and integrate data sources into current data analysis and visualization processes
- Engage partners in identifying and refining data set access points, permissions, and available analysis tools
- Support enhancements that enable interoperability and bidirectional data exchange between tribal public health and partners in state and local public health departments and clinical care
- Public Health Programs and Services implemented to strengthen the ability to comprehensively meet tribal public health needs. These activities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Contribute to an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy (PHAB Domain 7)
- Provide health education and health promotion policies, programs, processes, and interventions to support prevention and wellness
- Assist intended population with identifying and prioritizing programs that efficiently maximize effectiveness in lowering disease rates, preventing injuries, and improving health
- Assess healthcare service capacity and access to healthcare services
- Engage with partners in the health care system to assess and improve health service availability (PHAB Standard 7.1)
- Assist in building public health and healthcare linkage models
- Evaluate the health effects and costs of legislation, regulations, and policies
- Connect the population to services that support the whole person (PHAB Standard 7.2)
- Facilitate the intended population’s cultural adoption of evidence-based and evidenceinformed initiatives that promote health and prevent disease and injury
- Identify and use the best available evidence for making informed public health practice decisions
- Workforce activities to develop and maintain a diverse workforce with cross-cutting skills and competencies. These activities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Encourage the development, recruitment, and retention of qualified public health workers (PHAB Standard 8.1)
- Select or develop culturally informed training, educational materials, and process evaluation tools to build workforce capacity
- Identify and address continuing education for core and discipline-specific competencies and leadership development needs
- Expand practice-based continuing education for public health professionals (HP 2030: Public Health Infrastructure)
- Incorporate core and discipline-specific competencies for public health professionals into job descriptions and performance evaluations (HP 2030: Public Health Infrastructure)
- Use core and discipline-specific public health competencies, individual training and professional development, and provisions of a supportive work environment to ensure a competent workforce
- Implement culturally appropriate evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies to develop and sustain supportive work environments
- Promote the use of internships, fellowships, post-graduate programs, etc., to recruit and strengthen the public health workforce (HP 2030: Public Health Infrastructure)
- Inform and educate health officials and other governing leaders on public health issues and functions and their role in strategic workforce development
Outcomes
- During the period of performance, recipients are expected to carry out the selected strategy(ies) and activities to achieve the selected outcome(s) and document additional outcomes accomplished. Applicants should identify at least one of the following outcomes:
- Improved capacity to develop public health programs and services to address prioritized public health activities in AI/AN communities.
- Improved capacity to implement public health programs and services to address prioritized public health activities in AI/AN communities.
- Improved capacity to evaluate public health programs and services to address prioritized public health activities in AI/AN communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility Category:
- 07 (Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized))
- Additional Eligibility Category:
- Non-government Organizations
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
- To be eligible for funding, an applicant must be in one of the following:
- Federally recognized AI/AN tribal governments (i.e., Tribes) must provide an official letter from a currently elected tribal leader or a tribal resolution to demonstrate support from the Tribe
- Regional AI/AN tribally designated organizations must demonstrate support in the form of tribal resolutions or letters of support from currently elected tribal leaders from at least half of the Tribes within the organization’s service area
For more information, visit Grants.gov.