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RFP 2014-N-15787 Attachment J.3 Sample Task Order #1: DGMQ Professional Services Page 36 of 36

Division of Global Migration and Quarantine Professional Services – Task 1

Services and Prices/Costs:

September 26, 2014 – June 25, 2015

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

September 26, 2014 – June 25, 2015

Cost-reimbursable line item

$112,500.00

Geography and Website Development Expertise for the BioMosaic Application

September 26, 2014 – June 25, 2015

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2015 – June 25, 2016

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2015 – June 25, 2016

Cost-reimbursable line item

$150,000.00

Geography and Website Development Expertise for the BioMosaic Application

June 26, 2015 – June 25, 2016

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2016 – June 25, 2017

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2016 – June 25, 2017

Cost-reimbursable line item

$150,000.00

Geography and Website Development Expertise for the BioMosaic Application

June 26, 2016 – June 25, 2017

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2017 – June 25, 2018

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2017 – June 25, 2018

Cost-reimbursable line item

$150,000.00

Geography and Website Development Expertise for the BioMosaic Application

June 26, 2017 – June 25, 2018

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2018 – June 25, 2019

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

June 26, 2018 – June 25, 2019

Cost-reimbursable line item

$150,000.00

Geography and Website Development Expertise for the BioMosaic Application

June 26, 2018 – June 25, 2019

Firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term line item

*Not to exceed amounts for travel are for proposal preparation purposes.

Contract type:

This contract is a hybrid of firm-fixed-price, level-of-effort term and cost-reimbursable as delineated on the line items schedule.

CDC42.0002 Evaluation of Contractor Performance Utilizing CPARS (April 2013)

In accordance with FAR 42.15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will review and evaluate contract performance. FAR 42.1502 and 42.1503 requires agencies to prepare evaluations of contractor performance and submit them to the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS). The CDC utilizes the Department of Defense (DOD) web-based Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) to prepare and report these contractor performance evaluations. All information contained in these assessments may be used by the Government, within the limitations of FAR 42.15, for future source selections in accordance with FAR 15.304 where past performance is an evaluation factor.

The CPARS system requires a contractor representative to be assigned so that the contractor has appropriate input into the performance evaluation process. The CPARS contractor representative will be given access to CPARS and will be given the opportunity to concur or not-concur with performance evaluations before the evaluations are complete. The CPARS contractor representative will also have the opportunity to add comments to performance evaluations.

The assessment is not subject to the Disputes clause of the contract, nor is it subject to appeal beyond the review and comment procedures described in the guides on the CPARS website. Refer to: www.cpars.gov for details and additional information related to CPARS, CPARS user access, how contract performance assessments are conducted, and how Contractors participate. Access and training for all persons responsible for the preparation and review of performance assessments is also available at the CPARS website.

The contractor must provide the CDC contracting office with the name, e-mail address, and phone number of their designated CPARS representative who will be responsible for logging into CPARS and reviewing and commenting on performance evaluations. The contractor must maintain a current representative to serve as the contractor representative in CPARS. It is the contractor’s responsibility to notify the CDC contracting office, in writing (letter or email), when their CPARS representative information needs to be changed or updated. Failure to maintain current CPARS contractor representative information will result in the loss of an opportunity to review and comment on performance evaluations.

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Technical Evaluation Criteria:

Task Order Methodology and Technical Approach:

In preparing the technical response to each task order proposal, the Offeror should provide narrative and other information that is considered relevant to the work required to provide the services identified in each PWS and that best demonstrates the offeror’s technical capabilities and innovative approaches such as technical understanding, methodologies, and approach.

Personnel/Staff Expertise and Experience:

The response should include a description of the offeror’s ability to provide qualified technical labor resources in numbers adequate to address the technical and administrative requirements and deliverable schedules outlined in the sample task orders. The description shall also include:

· A staffing matrix showing type and number of staffing resources readily available for the base effort, including breakdowns by skill sets and functions of each person

· A description of the offeror’s approach to rapidly obtain and/or replace qualified staffing resources to support existing and new task order work and to meet changing workload requirements, including a table showing employee turnover rates for each of the past three years (for Offeror and any proposed subofferors)

· Resumes detailing relevant experience and training for proposed Key Personnel who will conduct work Time and effort (labor hours) of proposed staff on this project and other projects

Management Plan:

The Offeror shall demonstrate an overall understanding of the project and adequate and feasibility of plans to address all items in the Performance work statement. This includes the detailed description of specific tasks to be performed, methods, and resources to be used and a discussion of problems likely to occur and plans for addressing them. The Offeror must provide an organizational chart and shall describe their organizational structure and how they propose to manage this task, including a discussion of transition plan activities, timelines, and issues. The Offeror shall describe the methodology for managing the task, performance measures they will use to monitor performance, any management tools they will use, how they will ensure quality products are delivered, how they will mitigate risk and how they will communicate. Offeror shall adequately describe the resources they propose to complete the work described in the PWS and a rational for their proposed approach. The Offeror shall identify any resources (facilities, hardware, software, communications, etc) that would be required above and beyond that already addressed as part of each Request for Task Order Proposal. The Offeror shall clearly indicate how the metrics in the PWS will be monitored and corrective action taken if appropriate. Plans for security and confidentiality of information/data/data files shall be described.

Performance Work Statement (PWS) Vision Statement:

Aims to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States

1.0 Introduction:

Work is to be accomplished for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

1.1 Background:

With continued technological advances, the world has experienced a dramatic increase in the volume and speed of intercontinental movement of people, animals, and cargo. More than two million people travel to or through the United States by air, sea, or land daily. About half of worldwide international travelers have some kind of health problem while traveling and approximately eight percent of them seek medical attention while abroad or after their return. In addition to the mass movement of people into and out of the United States through international travel, the U.S. Government offers U.S. resettlement to approximately 80,000 refugees and 1.2 million immigrants annually. Before resettlement, most refugees and some immigrants have resided in difficult environments with limited access to medical care and preventive health services, leaving them at a significantly increased risk of illness, death and disability from a variety of health problems. Infectious diseases among immigrants, refugees, international travelers, and other globally mobile populations pose a significant health risk to these individuals and their families, but also pose a public health risk to the U.S. communities in which they visit and/or reside.

CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine activities aim to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by infectious diseases among immigrants, refugees, international travelers, and other mobile populations that cross international borders through:

Modernizing regulations to ensure swift and appropriate responses to events of public health significance. Through delegated authority, CDC has statutory responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases into the United States (42 U.S.C. § 264) Providing technical and regulatory oversight of health screening and post-arrival health monitoring of immigrant and refugee populations that are undergoing U.S. resettlement to protect and improve their health Characterizing risks associated with international travel to develop appropriate guidance Enhancing public health preparedness and effective action to mitigate the impact of infectious disease events Providing technical assistance and developing collaborative partnerships with state and local health departments, federal agencies, and international ministries of health.

Operating 20 quarantine stations across the United States that serve to limit the introduction and spread of infectious diseases by working with federal, state, and local partners to develop a comprehensive operational plan to manage ill and/or exposed travelers.

Emergence of a human influenza virus with pandemic potential presents a formidable response challenge (HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan). As was evidenced by the response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 and the recent H1N1 pandemic flu, it takes the coordinated efforts of many organizations and agencies to perform the critical quarantine functions of planning, surveillance, assessment and response, and communication. The SARS experience also showed that CDC’s quarantine network is uniquely positioned to coordinate nationwide responses to global microbial threats of public health significance that have the potential to or cross US borders.

In response, the DGMQ has expanded its activities to protect the U.S. public from pandemic influenza through research, science, partnership and collaboration, and increased presence and capacity at US ports of entry. These activities represent a rebuilding of the U.S. quarantine infrastructure in order to meet the needs of the 21st century and to play an active, anticipatory role in worldwide biosurveillance and response. This role is essential to mitigating the risks posed by pandemic influenza to residents of and travelers to the United States. This rebuilding effort not only included an increase in CDC's physical presence and capability at our nation's gateways, but also expanded partnership and collaboration with state and local agencies to increase their capacity to rapidly respond to public health threats entering the US. In addition, DGMQ is developing and using a scientific base upon which effective pandemic influenza planning and response must be built and enhancing our global network for international traveler and mobile population disease surveillance. Together these activities will improve the United States’ ability to detect, prepare, and respond to pandemic influenza.

In addition, as a result of continuing the transition from H1N1 response mode to normal preparedness mode, activities and resource requirements continue to develop and emerge. CDC learned during the response that we need an organization that focuses on community measures that can be used during a pandemic to limit transmission until a vaccine becomes available. To meet this emerging need, DGMQ is working to develop a new unit, the Community Interventions for Infection Control Unit (CI-ICU) to lead research, guidance and policy for non-pharmaceutical interventions with the aim to reduce the morbidity and mortality in the community by reducing the transmission and spread of communicable diseases through research, guidance and policies for non-pharmaceutical interventions.

DGMQ is working on a number of important initiatives including communications and collaboration, research, public health program development and management and program operational support services. In order to accomplish these projects, DGMQ requires contractor support. DGMQ requires support in the approaches and processes for developing and maintaining these as well as potential future initiatives which may be driven by new or emerging legislation or public health requirements.

1.2 Project Objectives:

· Ensure that CDC has ongoing timely, high quality, cost-effective, efficient, innovative, and comprehensive professional, scientific, and administrative consulting services in as needed leveraging industry best practices and professional standards;

· Ensure related and interdependent functions and disciplines are covered in the contract services;

· Provide a comprehensive performance and solutions-based contract; and

· Contribute to the achievement of DGMQ’s mission and program goals.

1.3 Scope:

The Contractor will provide a highly motivated, dedicated, professional staff to perform non-personal services, applicable to the schedule awarded, to support DGMQ programs. The Government and the Contractor understand and agree that the services under this order are non-personal services and the parties recognize and agree that no employer-employee relationship exists or will exist under the contract between the Government and the Contractor employees.

The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine requires technical, program and management expertise to accomplish program, business and service requirements. The scope of this task includes:

1.3.1.1 Public Health Program Development, Management, and Operations

· Development, enhancement and operation of various program operations support services, including administrative support, are needed to maintain ongoing operations and maintain accountability and transparency. DGMQ research and laboratory activities require support in developing and implementing research studies.

· Data management

· Statistical support

· Administrative support

· Financial and contract management

· Human resource support

· Planning and budgeting

· Financial management

· Policies and procedures

· Human resource planning and development

· Facilities and logistics support

· Quality assurance and quality control

1.3.1.1.1 – Statistical Support for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

· Identify methodologies, measures, and research questions for assessment and summarization of findings

· Initiate, formulate, plan and execute analytic research projects

· Select appropriate statistical and epidemiologic techniques and databases

· Assist in developing and managing databases for analysis

· Maintain quality control programs

· Ensure reliability and consistency of the data

· Provide technical assistance on the use of complex statistical and epidemiologic techniques

· Serve as technical expert in all phases of statistical interpretation

· Prepare comprehensive reports of study results

· Disseminate results of research projects in a wide range of venues including publications, peer reviewed journals, summaries, manuscripts, and special reports

1.3.1.1.2 – Research Support for the Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch

· Support research studies and epidemiological projects for the branch and division projects using data management and statistical support methods

· Design and produce tools and materials to support data collections and surveys, including survey instruments and data entry tools

· Support data collection, surveys, and statistical analyses

· Develop, clean, and maintain branch databases

· Conduct analyses of databases using statistical software packages such as SAS, SPSS, MS Excel and Access

· Conduct searches and reviews of scientific literature to support analyses of branch data collections and projects

· Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to ensure the scientific integrity and quality of branch surveys and data collections

1.3.1.1.3 Operational Support for the Office of the Director

1.3.1.1.3.1 – Documentum Management for the Office of the Associate Director of Science

· Create and maintain user accounts, cabinets, permission sets and routing matrices in Documentum.

· Maintain list of published documents and set up folder structure to manage documents.

· Produce weekly reports including DGMQ clearance reports, and other reports.

· Resolve issues within reports (e.g., the Documentum clearance report)

· Manage and update the DGMQ intranet and internet sites and the share drive and share point sites

· Maintain the ADS share point site to include current protocols, manuscripts, and conference lists

· Distribute system release notes

· Proactively monitor and archive documents

· Interface with Documentum and with the IT department for resolution of identified issues

· Coordinate end user training with Documentum instructors

1.3.1.1.3.2 – Writing and Editorial Support for the Office of the Associate Director of Science

· Provide editorial and writing support to DGMQ

· Work closely with the DGMQ staff in editing or writing materials for publication and presentation

· Format materials for electronic and print media

· Assist with clearance of materials through Documentum

· Serve as a consultant for staff members on the DGMQ clearance process

· Support coordination of award submissions for DGMQ

· Serve as POC and editor for DGMQ’s Clinical Infectious Disease Journal submissions

· Compile SME contributions and create the DGMQ Disease and Activity Report for clearance

· Develop ‘new authorship experience’ features for internal DGMQ distribution

1.3.1.1.3.3 – Project Management Support for the Office of the Director

· Provide project management expertise on DGMQ informatics portfolio

· Interface with subject matter experts in DGMQ to articulate program needs for informatics projects including defining data analysis and reporting needs

· Coordinate all phases of informatics projects within DGMQ’s portfolio

· Obtain user feedback and recommend usability improvements for future enhancements

· Increase capability, adaptability, and efficiency of DGMQ informatics systems to accommodate emergency response situations

· Develop responses to inquiries related to informatics projects

· Provides subject matter expertise to coordinate with CDC and NCEZID informatics partners

· Prepare reports and presentations for staff and leadership on informatics projects

1.3.1.1.3.4 – Administrative Support for the Office of the Director

· Manage scheduling for the Division and Division leadership

· Manage Division Director and Deputy Division Director’s travel arrangements and travel schedule

· Providing planning and logistical support for meetings, conference calls, and seminars

· Prepares executive correspondence

· Assists with development of presentations and briefing documents

· Handles general and international visitor's entry requests and management

· Prepares reports for review and clearance

· Maintains a filing system

1.3.1.1.3.5 – Resource and Property Management Support for the Office of the Director

· Develop plans and identify resources to provide recommendations for program development and implementation

· Conduct monthly assessments of supply and equipment needs and provide recommendations for purchasing

· Manage Division mail distribution and mailroom maintenance in accordance with CDC policies

· Assist with the formulation of administrative related Standard Operating Procedures, including property management

· Manage multiple tracking systems to track and maintain files regarding staffing, procurement, property inventory, work requests, and office and storage space (including the PMIS (Sunflower) and the IFMS system)

· Coordinate the annual property inventory process and provide an annual status report

· Assist with the development of the necessary paperwork and coordination to excess equipment and furniture as required

· Provide assistance with the development of reports of survey for any property unaccounted for upon completion of the annual inventory

· Provide personnel and procurement support for the Office of Education, Training, and Communication (OTEC)

· Maintains all OD hardware (shared printers, copiers, fax machines)

· Handles on-boarding of new OD FTEs and non-FTEs

· Handles OD badge renewals for those that are expiring or had expired

· Maintains schedules for the hoteling room (4214)

· Manages Division VIP Folders for the OD

· Management of copies of Division communication materials (Division fact sheets, pamphlets, etc.), housed in the CDC warehouse, for OTEC

· OD POC for ordering of DGMQ communication materials Division communication materials (Division fact sheets, pamphlets, etc.) from the CDC warehouse

· As needed, prepares paperwork for processing of training (ILA, IDP), supply purchases (1350 forms - general and equipment), for OTEC

· Assists with exhibit booths

1.3.1.1.3.6 – Personnel Management Support for the Office of the Director

· Coordinate personnel actions to ensure complete and timely application of personnel resources in the division

· Provide support to managers and staff in writing position descriptions, developing job analyses, and processing training requests

· Keep managers informed on the status of ongoing personnel actions

· Manage internal Division staffing list and updates, including system updates (e.g., the Position Based Management System and the Workforce Information Zone)

· Draft responses to data calls including property, staffing, space, and compliance

· Submit OD procurement and personnel related ASK requests

· Coordinates OD Landline/Cellphone orders, and repairs

· Manage space and floor plans

· As needed, prepare paperwork for processing of training (ILA, IDP), supply purchases (1350 forms - general and equipment), Commissioned Corps Actions

· As needed, assists OD with general and international visitor's entry request and management

· Maintain OD FTEs and Non-FTEs in People Processing

· Assist with property management

· Coordinate on-boarding of new OD FTEs and non-FTEs

· Submit Division award packages

· Troubleshoots administrative issues as needed

· Develop recommendations for DGMQ’s personnel administration, program planning, and policy formulation

· Review, analyze and interpret incoming requests to recommend appropriate actions and suggest appropriate alternatives based on knowledge of internal operations, agency personnel policies, budgetary constraints, and work priorities

1.3.1.1.3.7 – Operations Systems Support for the Office of the Director

· Coordinate and collaborate as necessary with personnel in DGMQ, NCEZID and other CDC entities to process requests, effect problem resolutions, and implement corrective action

· Process domestic travel functions related to all aspects of DGMQ travel authorizations and vouchers (including associated audits and memorandums)

· Process Civil Service, Commission Corps, SBRS Distinguished Consultant and Non-FTE Personnel Actions in the Capital HR system

· Use discretion and judgment to ensure all travel and procurement requests are processed in compliance with management policies and standard operating procedures

· Distribute tickets in ASK to the administrative team for processing

· Assist in the management and tracking of pre-approvals for travel to meetings, seminars, and conferences

· Review and update unliquidated obligation reports for travel obligations

· Enter procurement requisitions into ICE as needed

· Contribute to the development, enhancement, and improvement of internal/external systems, policies, planning, internal controls, and assessment

· Develop reports to promote process and delivery improvements and enhanced customer service while sustaining efficient and effective strategic business operations

· Prepare and submit oral or written reports, assessments, briefings and reconciliations as required by management policies, procedures, and regulations for review, tracking or internal workflow analyses, process improvement or other assessments

· Contribute to providing efficient and effective service, clear guidance and policy interpretation, program development, coordination of all business activities and, attends and participates in meetings, briefings, and workgroups to assess or improve business operations

1.3.1.1.3.8 – Administrative Support for the Travelers Health Branch (TH) and the Office of the Director

· Provide travel related services to senior level management (hotel, air fare, ground transportation and all other travel needs)

· Serve as travel backup to other OD administrative staff as needed

· Maintains the DGMQ Conference Calendar

· Serve as the liaison between the conference solicitor and the division staff to assure that those individuals that have a vested interest in attending a particular conference have their name submitted as part of the HHS Memo by the given deadline

· Coordinate the forecasting of fiscal year travel for OD Senior Management

· Prepare paperwork for processing of training (ILA, IDP), supply purchases (1350 forms - general and equipment), Commissioned Corps Actions, for the OD and Travelers Health Branch (TH) Senior Leadership

· Handles on-boarding of new FTEs and non-FTEs working with OD Senior leadership and TH

· Handles general and international visitor's entry requests and management for OD Senior Management and TH

· Maintains FTEs and non-FTEs in People Processing in support of OD Senior Management and TH

· Submit procurement packages including inter-agency agreements and GSA SmartCard Purchases

· Serves as OD POC for live meeting logistics

· Handles international visitor's entry requests and management through the Visitors Management System (VMS)

· Serves as back up for envision meetings

· Assist in the management and tracking of pre-approvals for travel to meetings, seminars, and conferences

· Provide tracking and logistical support for meetings, conference calls, seminars, and conferences.

· Develop hiring packets TH which includes Title 42, Title 5, permanent lateral reassignments and details. Once these have been completed will go through review and signatures of the deputy branch chief.

· Coordinate ORISE fellowship requirements for bringing on new fellows

1.3.1.1.4 Public Health Program Development for the Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch

1.3.1.1.4.1 – Research Support for the Immigrant and Migrant Health Branch

· Review reported cases of suspect Tuberculosis (TB) in the Electronic Diseases Notification System (EDN)

· Summarize case data for state and local health departments and TB control programs

· Conduct trainings for state and local health departments to submit follow-up case reports to EDN

· Routinely monitor reports from each jurisdiction for timeliness, completeness, and accuracy

· Identify and troubleshoot reporting problems

· Summarize reported follow-up TB case data

· Analyze and prepare reports of TB follow-up exam for overseas panel physicians

· Prepare abstracts and presentations on follow-up case reports for submission to scientific meetings

1.3.1.1.4.2 – Mapping Expertise and Public Health Program Management for the Immigrant and Migrant Health Branch

· Using ArcGIS, develop maps

· Manage the database of panel physicians

· Coordinate with Consular Affairs on issues related to the panel physician program

· Coordinate panel physician attendance at “Clinical Intensive” courses at Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers (RTMCC)

· Provide assistance in training and education activities for panel physicians

· Coordinate with Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center regarding the RTMCC clinical consultation service for panel physicians

· Work with Information Technology personnel for the Division in establishing and maintain the Quality Assurance Program database

· Communicate directly with U.S. Consulates and panel physicians on medical examination issues.

· Work with panel physicians on tabulating tuberculosis indicators

· Communicate with receiving health departments on issues related to the overseas medical examination for tuberculosis

· Communicate to receiving health departments changes in Technical Instructions and updates regarding implementation activities

· Assist in communications with receiving health departments about recently arrived persons with tuberculosis

1.3.1.1.4.3 – Immigrant and Refugee Health Waiver and Public Health Program Management for the Immigrant and Migrant Health Branch

· Managing mental health and TB waivers including collecting mail, date stamping all mail, and setting up mental health and TB waiver files, copying waivers documents, and mailing response letters

· Assisting with management of the Waiver database and entering information on waiver files into the database

· Prepare response letters for mental health waivers

· Preparing files for FRC

· Assist with inquiries from the public, USCIS offices, and DOS officers regarding waiver processing and status requests

· Assist in communications with receiving health departments about recently arrived persons with tuberculosis

· Work with panel physicians on tabulating tuberculosis indicators

· Communicate with receiving health departments on issues related to the overseas medical examination for tuberculosis

· Communicate to receiving health departments changes in Technical Instructions and updates regarding implementation activities

· Review medical records (DS Forms) sent by Quarantine Station personnel that may contain errors made by panel physicians

· Perform queries of EDN data for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating the performance of panel physicians

· Communicate directly with US Consulates and panel physicians on medical examination issues

· Using ArcGIS, develop maps

1.3.1.1.4.4 – Public Health Program Development for Overseas Refugee and Immigrant Health Programs

· Support DGMQ Africa and Asia field programs with existing and proposed field surveillance projects

· Systematically evaluate the activities, accomplishments and gaps of cooperative agreement awardees by working with field staff and awardees

· Develop plan of activities which will address HIV issues with immigrants and refugees in Kenya and potentially in other countries in the region

· Provide technical assistance to international and domestic partners

· Provide subject matter expertise in HIV related immigrant and refugee issues

· Assist partners with implementing vaccine and presumptive treatment programs for refugees in Africa and other locations

· Develop evaluation policies and protocols for refugee vaccination and presumptive treatment programs

1.3.1.1.4.5 – Program Implementation Support for Refugee and Immigrant Health Programs

· Support implementation of Culture and DOT Tuberculosis Technical Instructions (TB TI) in selected countries

· Monitor TB TI adherence in selected countries

· Provide technical assistance to the State of Colorado and others to enhance their epidemiology surveillance for a host of infectious diseases in the resettled refugee population

· Draft and post the Refugee Health Profiles for Iraqis, Burmese’s, and Congolese, and other refugee populations

· Conduct qualitative data analysis of data from focus groups

· Coordinate focus groups

· Translate updated documents into Spanish

· Develop the worldwide implementation strategy for the Expanded Vaccination Program

· Monitor and evaluate the implementation strategy for the Expanded Vaccination Program

1.3.1.1.4.6 – Psychiatric Consultation Services for the Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Health Branch

· Review all medical documents, including the medical examination form (DS-2053 or DS-2054 and supporting worksheets, and I-693) and the waiver application form (I-601 and I-602), submitted from the Department of State (DOS) or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to determine if the applicant has been appropriately examined in accordance with the Technical Instructions for Physical or Mental Disorders with Associated Harmful Behaviors and Substance-Related Disorders and appropriately classified in accordance with the American Psychiatric Association’s most current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

· Provide, in writing, for each reviewed case the diagnosis per the DSM, classification per INA, and any additional relevant information concerning the diagnosis and classification.

· Provide medical expertise as needed in developing future regulations and revisions to the Technical Instructions for Physical or Mental Disorders with Associated Harmful Behaviors and Substance-Related Disorders that implement the statutes concerning the medical examination of aliens as it relates to mental health and substance abuse.

· Provide medical expertise as needed in developing and participating in CDC/DGMQ training activities relating to the Technical Instructions for Physical or Mental Disorders with Associated Harmful Behaviors and Substance-Related Disorders. Participation may include travel and presentations outside of scheduled visits.

· Provide subject matter expertise for other related projects.

1.3.1.1.5 Public Health Program Development Support for the US-Mexico Unit

1.3.1.1.5.1 – Operational Support for the El Paso Quarantine Station

· Review medical records of immigrants for specific medical conditions requiring evaluation or treatment

· Prepare and send Class B medical Immigration Visa Packets for processing to EDN

· Interview and educate immigrants with Class A and B conditions

· Provide referrals for immigrants with Class A and B conditions for treatment and follow up to respective health departments

· Review, sort, and ship medical documents

· Coordinate communication and collaboration with U.S .Department of State and panel physicians in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

· Maintain unit shared calendars

· Provide logistical support for meetings, conference calls, seminars, and conferences

· Take accurate and detailed meeting notes and prepare summary reports

· Ensure relevant documentation is reviewed and maintained

· Assist with follow up on reports of illness or death on airplanes, ships, buses or trains at international ports of entry

· Participate in Quarantine Station emergency preparedness planning, trainings, and exercises

· Prepare responses to inquiries related to the entry of animals, etiologic agents, and vectors deemed to be of public health significance at international ports of entry

· Assist with design, implementation, and evaluation of a system to monitor immigrant referral and follow up

· As needed, provide travelers with essential health information

1.3.1.1.5.2 Data Management Support (San Diego Quarantine)

· Manage border and binational data systems with a goal of timeliness, accuracy and efficiency

· Provide summary surveillance reports

· Assist with enhancement of surveillance of infectious diseases in collaboration with border jurisdiction surveillance coordinators

· Assist in training and providing support to surveillance officers and other system users on the border and binational data systems and data quality control

· Assist with internal USMU coordination of Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) program and oversight with CDC programs.

· Maintain regular communication with USMU BIDS team and border jurisdiction surveillance coordinators.

· Participate in BIDS site visits.

· Provides a written site visit report within one month

· Maintain the BIDS share point site and communicate any updates to USMU BIDS team.

· Coordinate local data entry and analyses and preparation of local reports

· Review/update/approve data entry into the data system on a daily/weekly basis

· Contact surveillance coordinators on site as needed for good communication and to improve data quality

· Assist with improvements and updates to border and binational data systems in collaboration with IT system developers

· Prepare data files and statistical analyses for special studies, manuscripts and proposals

· Make presentations and participates in public health surveillance and epidemiology meetings as needed

1.3.1.1.5.3 Laboratory Management Support (San Diego Quarantine Station)

· Maintain regular communication with participating laboratories and Mexico counterparts in the border infectious disease surveillance network, and other binational projects

· Provide technical consultation and training in laboratory testing procedures and algorithms used in agreed upon binational protocols

· Assists in writing, revising, and translating protocols, algorithms, and testing procedures

· Participate in border, state and binational laboratory site visits

· Provides a written site visit report within one month

· Provide technical laboratory training to border/binational laboratorians on assays used in binational projects

· Maintains BIDS protocols on share drive and disseminates them

· Assist with organizing all aspects of the logistics for participants’ travel to trainings.

· Assist in liaison with state and federal laboratories to assure the timely communication of laboratory results for binational projects.

· Share results within one week of receipt

· Order laboratory reagents for binational projects when indicated

· Oversee proficiency testing of the laboratories

· Assist in the shipment of specimens to reference laboratories

· Make presentations (scientific or training) and participates in local, regional and national border and binational surveillance, epidemiology and laboratory meetings

· Assist in writing scientific or project reports for distribution to project partners or for publication in scientific journals

· Prepare summary reports on laboratory testing/results, other laboratory related items as needed (may include running reports from online systems)

· Work with BIDS data system and CDC IT developers to improve and update data system as needed

· Update laboratory techniques and skills through continuing education and training

1.3.1.1.6 Program Operations Support for the Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch

1.3.1.1.6.1 – Administrative Support for the Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch

· Manage scheduling for Branch Chief

· Manage Branch Chief’s travel arrangements and travel schedule

· Track and assist in further implementation of management projects and priorities

· Maintain electronic calendars to include scheduling and arranging for telephone and in-person meetings with multiple participants as well as resolving meeting conflicts

· Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements using Federal guidelines, preparing and entering travel requests, and tracking travel vouchers using an online travel system.

· Provide planning and logistical support for meetings, conference calls, seminars, and conferences

· Take accurate and detailed meeting notes and preparing summary reports

· Ensure relevant documentation is reviewed and maintained

1.3.1.1.6.2 – Personnel Management Support for the Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch

· Prepare, analyze, execute, and follow up on personnel actions

· Develop and support implementation of personnel standard operating procedures

· Provide consultative advice to branch management on personnel issues

· Liaise with CDC human resources on behalf of the branch

· Provide current and comprehensive awareness and knowledge of personnel regulations and operating procedures at CDC

· Assist with management and branch utilization of admin e-systems pertaining to personnel, such as telework, performance review, people processing, WIZ, PBMS, etc.

· Assist with and support general administrative functions needed to implement program operations in the branch

1.3.1.1.7 Public Health Program Development Support for the Office of the Director

1.3.1.1.7.1 – Mobile App Development and Support for the BioMosaic Application

· Develop a mobile application that combines US census data and real-time public health surveillance data

· Identify, collect, clean, organize, and update new data sources for use in the project Develop and maintain spatially indexed databases

· Maintain maps and update data sources

· Provide user support for use of the mobile application

· Develop system documentation and training material for both web and mobile applications

· Deliver end user training

· Assist in the writing of publications related to the project

1.3.1.1.7.2 – Geography, Web and Mobile Expertise for the BioMosaic Application

· Design a geo-database and a corresponding plan to develop the database in consultation with project lead and project team members

· Develop scripts to automate and enhance the efficiency, accuracy and abilities of our spatial data holdings

· Employ best practices within ESRI system design strategies and technical documentation

· Assist with the installation, support and maintenance of ArcGIS Server and ArcSDE and any spatial database relate software

· Create technical and functional database design documents

· Produce a manual defining the structure and content of the geo-database

· Coordinate the development of the web application

· Produce a user-manual for the newly developed web-application

· Conduct research in the fields of migration health, travel medicine, epidemiology of infectious disease in foreign born populations, demography, and geographic medicine to further project objectives as required

1.3.1.1.7.3 – Research Support for the Office of the Associate Director of Science

· Develop IRB pre-approved Template protocols for Investigation of communicable diseases in mobile populations

· Develop, update and maintain the EndNote database for DGMQ publications

· Organize and coordinate scientific sessions

· Monitor, manage and triage of public inquiries mailbox for DGMQ from CDC.INFO

· Liaise for the Associate Director for Science and provides support for the DGMQ or Branch conferences

· Use Microsoft Access to support the ADS office in developing the database listing of DGMQ projects and protocols

· Assist Travelers Health Branch with a descriptive study in consultation with Global TravEpiNet (GTEN) partners

· Provide support to branches and units for epidemiologic investigations to programs

1.3.1.1.8 Public Health Program Development Support for the Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch

1.3.1.1.8.1 – Public Health Preparedness Management Support

· Oversee and direct preparedness requirements on the task

· Provide subject matter expertise on preparedness and response planning and implementation

· Review and revise assigned regional quarantine station communicable disease response plans to include supporting the refinement of influenza response plans developed prior to and during the 2009 Novel Type A influenza outbreak and expansion of those plans to address public health concerns supported by outcomes of mitigation and response efforts at the state and local level

· Support the development and implementation of training exercises per the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program to evaluate current plans, involving state and local public health partners in activities associated with preparing for and implementing the response plans

· Assist the quarantine station leadership in the analysis of exercise and response outcomes

· Coordinate with station leadership to develop after action improvement plans following the exercises, and assist in monitoring the implementation of those plans

· Assist with the development of contingency plans that address response to less severe outbreaks and the response to single conveyance incidents

· Provide support to the CDC Emergency Operations Center for response management for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine

· In the event of response to an outbreak, assist with management and communications during the response, evaluation of the response, and the development of an after action review and improvement plan to address the outcomes of the response

· Provide regional planning support and station support, working with the HHS Regional Emergency Coordinators, to determine surge capacity and support requirements for response to influenza and other communicable diseases

· Serve as the information conduit to and from the Region and Station Officers in Charge to branch leadership concerning preparedness activities

· Develop templates for contingency plans for mass gathering events of an international nature

1.3.1.1.8.2 – Public Health Preparedness Support

· Provide expertise on preparedness and response planning and implementation

· Assist with reviewing and revising assigned regional quarantine station communicable disease response plans to include supporting the refinement of influenza response plans developed prior to and during the 2009 Novel Type A influenza outbreak and expansion of those plans to address public health concerns supported by outcomes of mitigation and response efforts at the state and local level

· Support the development and implementation of training exercises per the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program to evaluate current plans, involving state and local public health partners in activities associated with preparing for and implementing the response plans

· Assist the quarantine station leadership in the analysis of exercise and response outcomes

· Assist with the coordination with station leadership to develop after action improvement plans following the exercises, and assist in monitoring the implementation of those plans

· Assist with the development of contingency plans that address response to less severe outbreaks and the response to single conveyance incidents

· Provide support to the CDC Emergency Operations Center for response management for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine

· In the event of response to an outbreak, assist with management and communications during the response, evaluation of the response, and the development of an after action review and improvement plan to address the outcomes of the response

· Assist with regional planning support and station support, working with the HHS Regional Emergency Coordinators, to determine surge capacity and support requirements for response to influenza and other communicable diseases

· Assist with the development of templates for contingency plans for mass gathering events of an international nature

1.3.1.1.8.3 – Quarantine Station Public Health Implementation Support (Atlanta, Detroit and Minneapolis Quarantine Stations)

· Review medical records of immigrants for specific medical conditions requiring evaluation or treatment

· Prepare and send Class B medical Immigration Visa Packets for processing to EDN

· Provide referrals for immigrants with Class A and B conditions for treatment and follow up to respective health departments

· Review, sort, and ship medical documents

· Maintain shared calendars

· Provide logistical support for meetings, conference calls, seminars, and conferences

· Take accurate and detailed meeting notes and prepare summary reports

· Ensure relevant documentation is reviewed and maintained

· Assist with follow up on reports of illness or death on airplanes, ships, buses or trains at international ports of entry

· Participate in Quarantine Station emergency preparedness planning, trainings, and exercises

· Prepare responses to inquiries related to the entry of animals, etiologic agents, and vectors deemed to be of public health significance at international ports of entry

· Assist with design, implementation, and evaluation of a system to monitor immigrant referral and follow up

· As needed, provide travelers with essential health information

· Enter information into QARS; review and close out open reports

· Assist in preparation of information in response to station Contact and Do Not Board Investigations

· Coordinate and package drug shipments

· Answer station phones and provide appropriate response to queries

· Provide logistical support and coordination for all aspects of station visitor tours

· Prepare and send dog confinement agreements to state health department partners

· Schedule and conduct educational outreach activities with CBP, EMS, and other port partners

· Package and ship bushmeat samples; enter into QARS tracking system

· Coordinate station support staff badging and orientation

· Prepare spreadsheets, analysis and reports in response to special data requests and projects

· Administrative support for the Travel…