CDC to award $24 million for pandemic prep IT

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CDC to award $24 million for pandemic prep IT

By Heather B. Hayes
Published on January 16, 2008

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will award numerous one-year grants totaling $24 million for projects that use IT to help communities prepare for and respond to a pandemic influenza outbreak.

The types of projects CDC seeks to fund involve electronic laboratory data exchange to support pandemic influenza surveillance; integration of state-based immunization information systems to track pandemic countermeasures; and development of statewide Public Health Information Network (PHIN)-compliant electronic mortality reporting systems.

CDC said other candidates are projects that explore ways to engage the public in civic health decision-making and those that enable collaborative planning among health care providers to ensure essential services during an outbreak.

The deadline for applications is March 17. Awards will be made on April 18.

This is the last round of funding in a series of grants that resulted from a 2005 congressional appropriation of $350 million to the Health and Human Services Department to help upgrade state and local capacity to prepare for and respond to an influenza epidemic.

The CDC awarded $100 million to 62 jurisdictions in March 2006 to identify gaps in preparedness and another $225 million to those same jurisdictions in July 2006 to address those preparedness gaps.

The $24 million in grants, available only to the 62 previous awardees, will fund demonstration projects that are deemed to be replicable.

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