Grants / Department of Health and Human Services / Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

EP-HIT-21-004: Partnership for Enhanced Efforts To Strengthen The Nation’s Healthcare And Public Health Preparedness, Response, And Recovery To Disasters And Other Emergencies

Closed Closed September 22, 2021 Opportunity EP-HIT-21-004 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$4.0 million
• Award floor$25,000
• Total funding$20.0 million
• Expected awards7
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits and businesses.

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligibility is limited to U.S. organizations. National profit and nonprofit organizations and associations capable of improving collaboration between ASPR and stakeholders across healthcare delivery, public health, and emergency management to enhance national health security, foster community health resilience, and strengthen health care, public health, and emergency management systems are eligible to apply to this funding opportunity.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Strengthening Emergency Care Delivery in the United States Healthcare System through Health Information and Promotion awards averaged $839,164; this notice allows up to $4.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (67% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

On December 19, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA). PAHPA had broad implications for HHS’ preparedness and response activities. Among other things, PAHPA amended the Public Health Service Act to establish an Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response position in HHS; provided new authorities for a number of programs, including the advanced research and development of medical countermeasures; and called for the establishment of a quadrennial National Health Security Strategy (42 U.S.C. 300hh-1). President Barack Obama signed the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA) in March 2013; it reauthorizes appropriations for certain programs and further amended the Public Health Service Act. President Donald Trump signed the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPAIA) on June 24, 2019; further reauthorizing appropriations for certain programs and further amended the Public Health Service Act. Throughout the COVID-19 response, ASPR discovered a variety of areas and lessons learned where it needs to strengthen and enhance its relationships to be able to leverage public health and healthcare partners to support timely and informed decision making and meet the need of an “all of nation” response to the current pandemic and future emergency incidents. Key areas include capabilities to: o enhance domestic and international disease surveillance technology: o continual assessment of ongoing response impacts, gaps, and the assessment of immediate and future resource needs (e.g., human, financial, material); o quick access to the nation’s public health and healthcare frontline to convey timely and accurate information; and o sharing of established and implemented best practices from the field. ASPR has identified issues the organization will approach to contribute to national health security and preparedness, including prioritization of stakeholder engagement and coordination. Cooperative Agreement(s) with public health, healthcare, and emergency management partners subsequent to this funding opportunity will further the actions to accomplish strategic activities and priorities of ASPR.

Category: Disaster Prevention and Relief.

Applying now

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