[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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