This Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO) is to announced the availability of funding for a three-year cooperative agreement help CDC reach a larger proportion of clinical laboratory professionals and bridge, train, and sustain the laboratory community to support rapid, large-scale responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/25/2022
Grant Size: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The program purpose is to enhance US clinical laboratory workforce capacity by building competency to support rapid, large-scale responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies. The outlined activities support CDC’s OneLab Initiative to bridge, train, and sustain a capacity-building community among public health laboratory and clinical laboratory communities. The activities will expand the reach of CDC’s laboratory training and workforce development resources and help build essential bridges between the clinical laboratory and public health laboratory communities.
This NOFO aims to support the following three categories of strategies to help build the laboratory-preparedness competency of clinical laboratory professionals:
- Bridge – strengthen essential links between clinical and public health laboratory training professionals and CDC;
- Train – develop and evaluate education and training resources for clinical laboratory professionals to be ready, respond, and lead others; and
- Sustain – expand the reach of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) training and workforce development resources among the clinical laboratory community, including those who perform point-of-care testing, and promote awareness of the laboratory profession to broader audiences.
Funding Information
- Total Period of Performance Length: 3 year(s)
- Approximate Average Award: $300,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $100,000 Per Budget Period
Eligibility Criteria
- 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)
- Non-government Organizations
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
For more information, visit Grants.gov.