Newborn Screening Clearinghouse

Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-14-085 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.110Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-HRSAClosing Date: Jun 02, 2014Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Apr 16, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: This announcement solicits applications for the Newborn Screening Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse).? The purpose of this program is to establish and maintain a central, online repository or clearinghouse of current educational information, materials, resources, research, and data on newborn screening, including information on family support services, follow-up services, and national and state policies and best practices to enable parents, family members, and expectant individuals to increase awareness, knowledge and understanding ?of newborn screening and newborn diseases; and to maintain current data on quality indicators to measure performance of newborn screening, such as false-positive rates and other quality indicators as determined by the Discretionary Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (DACHDNC). More specifically, the goals of the Clearinghouse are to: Create an interactive, web-based forum orgainized in a clear format for multiple audiences that promotes informa...
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