Enhancing the Ability of Emergency Medical Services to Transfer Patients with Confirmed or Suspected High Consequence Infectious Diseases

Funding Opportunity Number: EP-IDS-16-004 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Disaster Prevention and ReliefCFDA Number: 93.878Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: HHS-OS-ASPRClosing Date: Jul 13, 2016Award Ceiling: $350,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: May 31, 2016Funding Opportunity Description: Beginning in March of 2014, West Africa experienced the largest Ebola outbreak on record. Unlike many smaller preceding outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (Ebola), this particular outbreak spread to multiple African countries and caused (as of January 2016) more than 28,000 suspected human cases. In August 2014, the first American Ebola patient was flown to the United States (U.S.) for treatment. Additional patients have subsequently been medically-evacuated to the U.S. and two returned travelers were diagnosed and treated in Dallas, Texas and New York City, New York. These experiences, identified opportunities to improve the transport of patients with suspected and confirmed infections with Ebola. In response, Congress appropriated emergency funding, in part to ensure that the health care system is adequately prepared to respond to future Ebola patients. In doing so, Congress directed the Department of Health a...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Disaster Prevention and Relief Source Type: funding