The National Syndromic Surveillance Program: Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance Capacity and Practice

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-OE15-1502 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.283Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Agency Name: HHS-CDCClosing Date: Apr 20, 2015Award Ceiling: $400,000Expected Number of Awards: 25Creation Date: Feb 12, 2015Funding Opportunity Description:

The mission of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is to promote the use of high quality syndromic surveillance data for improved nation-wide all-hazard situational awareness for public health decision-making and enhanced responses to hazardous events, and outbreaks. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to assist state and local public health authorities to implement syndromic surveillance to enhance situation awareness and detect and characterize disease outbreaks or other hazardous events or conditions of public health concern in order to respond quickly to local threats. In addition, this program provides support to state and local health authorities to advance the Meaningful Use of syndromic surveillance data from electronic health records (EHR). Activities that will be supported to enhance syndromic surveillance capacity and practice include (1) improving the overall representativeness of syndromic survei...

Source: Grants.gov - February 15, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding