Block Grant U90TP000209

This federal Project Grant award of $2,500,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) will support the County of San Diego's Public Health Laboratory (PHL). The funds will be used to improve the PHL's testing capabilities through the procurement of updated instrumentation and equipment for the new PHL facility, which is projected to be completed by April 2025. This includes movable laboratory equipment, ancillary items...

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Administration and Resource Management under the Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program and Related Assistance (CFDA 66.608). The grant will support DHEC's efforts to enhance its information technology and data management capabilities for environmental protection programs. Key deliverables include training 670...

The University of Massachusetts Medical School was awarded a $1,049,646 Cooperative Agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.323) program. This 5-year award, effective from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2029, aims to enhance the capacity of public health agencies to effectively detect, respond to, prevent, and control known and emerging infectious disease threats. As part of this...

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative was awarded a $3.3 million project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 11.307) on April 15, 2021 to develop and run two COVID-19 recovery challenges. The challenges are designed to source, accelerate, and validate potential digital health solutions that can help the economies of Massachusetts and the United States recover from COVID-19 more quickly. Lever,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.323) program provides $1,499,856.00 to the University of Rochester to implement a project titled "Trusted School Messengers Promoting Non-Mandated Vaccination." The project aims to enhance public health agencies' capacity to detect, respond to, prevent, and control known and emerging infectious diseases through...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) was awarded a $364,210 Cooperative Agreement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the CDC Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283). The award, which runs from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030, will support strengthening vaccine-preventable disease prevention and response efforts across the state of Massachusetts. The funding will enable MDPH to conduct research, surveillance, epidemiological...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) will receive $257,428 under a Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1. The grant funding supports MDPH's efforts under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants, which provides assistance to eligible coastal states and territories to develop and implement beach water quality monitoring and public notification programs as required under Section 518(e) of the Clean Water Act....

The National Institutes of Health's Office of the Director awarded a $8,661,331 project grant under the Lung Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.838) to the Massachusetts General Hospital on June 10, 2021 for the development of interactive data portals and analytic tools to support Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC) cohorts. Key products and services delivered through Massachusetts General Hospital and several sub-awardees include an interactive data portal called the...

The Economic Development Administration awarded a $2.625 million Project Grant to the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 11.307). The funding will support the creation of a Product and Supplier Development Lab at the Foundation's Innovation Center in El Paso, Texas. The Lab will bolster medical supply chain development and manufacturing expertise to assist companies in meeting regulatory standards for production of critical supplies...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Prevention and Control Grants program (CFDA 93.977). The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) was awarded $902,220 on September 30, 2024 to support the Massachusetts STI Surveillance Network. Through this 5-year award, MDPH will provide a range of STI surveillance and prevention services, including: collecting and analyzing data from...