PPHF-CDC Partnership: Strengthening Public Health Laboratories

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) makes Cooperative Agreement awards under CFDA 93.765 to strengthen the capacity, infrastructure, and workforce of public health laboratories domestically and internationally, with the most recent posted opportunity due May 26, 2015.

The program funds activities centered on improving quality and safety of public health laboratory practice, enhancing laboratory infrastructure, and developing a trained public health laboratory workforce. The scope includes science-based identification of best practices to increase laboratory effectiveness, capability, and long-term sustainability as a component of the broader public health and healthcare systems. Activities span six cross-cutting areas and four program-specific areas across the U.S. and globally.

The program operates as a single Cooperative Agreement structure. The most recent posted opportunity (CDC-RFA-OE15-1501) was a five-year cooperative agreement with a due date of May 26, 2015, restricted to single-source competition with the Association for Public Health Laboratories (APHL) as the sole eligible applicant.

No grant award portfolio data, award history, award magnitudes, or recent grant awards are present in the source. No current open solicitations are present in the source. The most recent opportunity posting dates to May 2015, indicating no active solicitation presently available. Given the source material provided, the recency and current status of this program cannot be determined from the available data.