Protecting and Improving Global Health Security by Engaging Local Partners: Strengthening and Sustaining Public Health Systems in Ghana
CDC will fund cooperative agreement activities to strengthen and sustain public health system capacity in Ghana for infectious disease prevention, surveillance, laboratory systems, emergency response, sequencing/bioinformatics, and workforce development.
⚑ Foreign-country implementation focused on Ghana; eligibility not specified in notice · Cooperative agreement with CDC involvement implied · Primarily system-strengthening and capacity-building, not investigator-driven research
This is a global public health systems/service-delivery and infectious disease capacity-building NOFO, centered on laboratories, surveillance, sequencing, and workforce development in Ghana. That is far outside IPPRA’s survey/risk-perception/communication and policy-evaluation lines, with no clear PI-level fit for the team.
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Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | portfolio topic: public_health (primary); signature methods: community engaged; social/behavioral work is minor; funds service delivery, not research (capped); eligibility unclear — verify in the NOFO; biomedical core — IPPRA health lane is communication/crisis/policy (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 35 weak | technical depth: substantial; funds service delivery (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 30 weak | prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
Description
This NOFO seeks to build and sustain a more resilient public health system in Ghana capable of identifying, responding to and mitigating public health threats. CDC, through this NOFO, will continue to leverage and complement the strengths and resources of multi-sectoral and multilateral partners in Ghana to build and improve country capacity and leadership in the prevention, early detection and response to infectious disease threats. The NOFO builds upon laboratory, surveillance, emergency response, and workforce development activities previously funded by CDC to enhance Global Health Security. In addition, this NOFO has expanded to include support for surveillance and laboratory capacity strengthening in border districts and sequencing and bioinformatics. This NOFO"s outcomes aim to improve prevention of avoidable epidemics and improve early detection of disease threats and respond rapidly and effective to public health threats.
Eligibility
N/A
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