Public Health Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement

The Centers for Disease Control - OPHPR is seeking to enhance the nation's ability to rapidly mobilize, surge, and respond to public health emergencies by establishing a roster of approved but unfunded applicants that may receive rapid funding to respond to public health emergencies. The applicants will undergo an objective merit review process, and entities that successfully meet the requirements for approval will be placed on the roster. The funding will be used to support the surge needs of existing programs responding to significant public health emergencies. The applicants must demonstrate their ability to respond to a public health emergency and must have established, functional public health emergency management programs, legal authorities, and existing public health emergency management capacity. • The applicants must submit their response organizational charts and work plans. • The applicants must have demonstrated experience and legal authority, infrastructure, and capacity to address public health emergencies. • The applicants must be capable of providing surge support critical to address large-scale public health emergencies. • The applicants must be able to activate new or surging current emergency response activities. • The funding will be used to support the surge needs of existing programs responding to significant public health emergencies. • The funding will be contingent upon the availability and stipulations of appropriations.