[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 155 (Friday, August 12, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47208-47209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16006]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[Program Announcement AA048]
Cooperative Agreement for Promoting Disease Prevention and Health
Policy; Notice of Intent To Fund Single Eligibility Award
A. Purpose
The purpose of the program is to develop and promote national
health promotion and disease prevention strategies, with comprehensive
prevention policy development and promotion addressing and involving
multiple sectors as a premiere strategy, and to assist state and local
health departments, and local, state, regional, and national health
care organizations, businesses, and other nonprofit organizations in
the implementation of prevention policies and programs to promote
prevention, improve health care quality, and improve the public's
health.
Authority: This program is authorized under Section 317(k)(2) of
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b(k)(2)) as amended.
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program
is 93.283.
B. Eligible Applicant
Assistance will be provided only to Partnership for Prevention.
Partnership for Prevention is a truly cross-cutting organization
involving representation from business, health care delivery, and
community organizations, and involving multiple sectors and target
groups in health prevention as compared with numerous other
organizations who are single purpose or serve one particular target
group or audience. Partnership for Prevention embraces the range of
organizations and sectors necessary to impact the broad field of
prevention and health promotion. It is a national nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving people's health by
preventing disease and injury. Partnership's science-based policy tools
and recommendations leverage America's investments in disease and
injury prevention by ensuring that they make the greatest impact.
Partnership represents prevention leaders in every sector committed to
using prevention resources most effectively to improve health and
control health costs through informed policy and practice. Partnership
is a nonprofit organizations whose members and boards include public
(public health, health nonprofits, academia) and private sector
(businesses and for profit entity) representatives. The unique
characteristics of Partnership for Prevention are (1) A mission focus
on comprehensive prevention and prevention policy as a strategy to
produce health impact; (2) a mission focus of engaging all sectors in
prevention policy development and implementation and to make prevention
policy relevant to all sectors; (3) a mission focus to engage all
sectors in prevention policy; (4) extensive knowledge and experience in
developing both comprehensive and categorical prevention policy; (5)
extensive knowledge and experience in providing assistance in policy
development and implementation with all sectors (health, business,
education, government, etc.), and public, private, and nonprofits; (6)
current, working knowledge of the evidence base on which to base
comprehensive and categorical prevention policy; (7) knowledge of and
current and extensive experience in working with the governmental
sector at the national level as well as the State and Community level
in developing and providing assistance for the implementation of
policy; (8) established relationships with all sectors to convene
stakeholders from sectors to work collaboratively on health policy and
its implementation; (9) knowledge and skills to help multiple sectors
understand health promotion and prevention to be the principal solution
to many of their most pressing problems and to assist them in
developing policies appropriate to their sector to find solutions
through health promotion and prevention policies; (10) Experience and
established relationships to connect policy to programs with a wide
understanding of prevention programs and model programs available to
support policy. (11) Opportunity to maximize resources for the long-
term because mission is comprehensive prevention policy is linked to
networks of cross-cutting leaders and stakeholders.
C. Funding
Approximately $1,500,000 is available in FY 2005 to fund one award.
It is expected that the award will begin on or before September 15,
2005, and will be made for a 12-month budget period within a project
period of five years. Funding estimates may change.
D. Where To Obtain Additional Information
For general comments or questions about this announcement, contact:
Technical Information Management
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Section, CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road,
Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-2700.
For technical questions about this program, contact: Priscilla B.
Holman, Ph.D., Project Officer, Office of Strategy and Innovation,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600 Clifton Road
NE., Mailstop E-99, Atlanta, GA 30333, Telephone: 404-498-3302, E-mail:
[email protected].
Dated: August 8, 2005.
William P. Nichols,
Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-16006 Filed 8-11-05; 8:45 am]
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