NCEZID COVID-19 Project Plan.docx

Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS)/Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS)

FY 2020 CIO PROJECT PLAN

CDC-RFA-OE15-15010501SUPP20: CDC/APHL Partnership: “Strengthening Public Health Laboratories”

GENERAL INFORMATION

CIO: NCEZID

Division: DPEI

CIO POC Name: Jason Hall CIO POC E-Mail Address: zfr9@cdc.gov CIO POC Phone Number: 678-458-4033

$1,500,000 (Whole #s Only)7

|_| Remainder of Current Budget Period Only |_| Remainder of Project Period (through June 30, 2020):

|_| Other: Please specify. (One Year ONLY)

PROPOSED PROJECT/ACTIVITY

|X| New Project/Activity?

Need Identified by: |_| Grantee |X| CIO

|_| Existing Project/Activity?

Projects/Activities currently identified in the published FOA reflected below. Select the project/activity that is most suitable.

Cross-Cutting Areas (Identify specific project/activity):

|_| Laboratory Strengthening and Leadership |_| Public Health Preparedness and Response |X| Public Laboratory Informatics |_| Global Health |_| Laboratory Systems and Standards |_| Workforce Development

Program Specific Areas (Identify specific project/activity):

|_| Newborn Screening and Genetics |_| Environmental Health |_| Infectious Diseases |_| Food Safety |X| Other. Specify: 2019 COVID-19 Response

APHL will provide stakeholders at the local, state, and national level access to the technical tools, resources, and documentation needed to meet COVID-19 response data exchange goals related to:

· Laboratory Test Data from public health departments to CDC

· ELR data from AIMS to public health departments as available

· Testing data from device manufacturers to AIMS

· Sars-CoV-2 Test Data to CDC

· Upgrading public health LIMS

This funding is intended to support the following strategies:

Strategy: Support the advancement of COVID-19 Informatics activities to support comprehensive laboratory reporting via State Health Departments

The following activities will be supported by this funding:

Infrastructure and tools costs TA support for onboarding COVID-19 Services and Expertise provided:

· Data formatting, integration and extraction

· HL7 and flat file structure and content

· Message transformation services

· Partner onboarding

· AIMS and AWS infrastructure, services and tools

· Vocabulary value set development, maintenance and documentation

· Project coordination and business process analysis

· Message validation tools and process development

· Knowledge management and communications

· Provide support for the Laboratory Response Network;

· Shape and promote policies that support laboratory preparedness and response;

· Enhance laboratory surge capacity plans;

· Ensure clear guidance is communicated to clinical labs and physicians on how to obtain appropriate lab testing; and

· Assess commercial and public health capacity for lab testing.

Coordination of upgrading public health LIMS to standardize data elements and add additional standard fields for outbreak unique IDs.

Mid-Term Outcomes |_| Promotes competent, collaborative, and practice ready PHL workforce |X| Improves laboratory methods, systems, and informatics capacity |_| Increases laboratory effectiveness in response to public health needs, including emergencies |_| Improves public health laboratory detection and response programs |_| Develops model policies and tools for quality and safe PHL practice |_| Assures CLIA standards and good laboratory practices are followed by PHLs and are promoted to clinical laboratories performing tests of public health importance |_| Other: Prepared netwok of public and private laboratories.

Long-Term Outcomes |X| Reduces incidence and prevalence of preventable diseases and public health threats |_| Reduces morbidity and mortality equitably delivered throughout the United States and the world |_| Protects the public from public health threats |_| Creates sustainable and resilient PHLs that effectively and efficiently adapt to evolving public health needs |_| Revises standards for the PHL system resulting in a more efficient, higher quality, and safe PHL system |_| Other ____________________________________________________________________________________

BUDGET INSTRUCTIONS

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