[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 172 (Thursday, September 5, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54651-54652]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-21551]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Sole Source Cooperative Agreement Award to the National
Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
AGENCY: Office of Policy and Planning, Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notification of a Sole Source Cooperative Agreement Award to
the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
for a grant titled: ``Technical Assistance to Obtain Local Health
Department and Community Input for National Health Security-related
Activities''.
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Statutory Authority: Public Health Service Act, Section 1703(a), 42
U.S.C. 300u-2(a).
Estimated Amount of Award: $1,500,000 USD.
Project Period: September 30, 2013 to September 29, 2016.
SUMMARY: ASPR requires collaboration with local health departments and
officials to ensure that local governments, communities, private sector
entities, non-governmental organizations, academia, and individuals can
optimally coordinate their respective national health security roles
and responsibilities to achieve community health resilience and
strengthen health care, public health, and emergency management
systems. This project aims to improve collaboration between ASPR and
the local health departments (LHDs) to enhance national health
security, foster community health resilience, and strengthen health
care, public health, and emergency management systems.
One of the overarching goals of both the National Health Security
Strategy (2009) and the ASPR Strategic Plan 2011-2015 is to build
community health resilience. ASPR seeks to partner with LHDs and health
officials which play a critical role in building community health
resilience by employing and evaluating localized public health
strategies, such as preparing local communities to withstand and
recover from public health emergencies and disasters, and engaging
local health departments and health care organizations to build
healthcare coalitions. The project will foster better approaches for
building community health resilience.
LHDs and health officials are intimately familiar with the
communities and populations that they serve and are an essential
partner in carrying out the mission of ASPR. ASPR seeks to engage LHDs
and health officials as well as other appropriate local stakeholders in
bi-directional communications to evaluate the effectiveness of, and
ensure that, ASPR's strategies, policies, and programmatic activities
are informed by and support the needs of local communities. The project
will foster collaboration with local health officials to achieve, for
example, national health security and strengthen local emergency
preparedness, response, and recovery systems and capabilities, and
build
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well-functioning healthcare coalitions, among other activities.
ASPR seeks to partner with LHDs and local communities which
frequently prepare for, respond to, and recover from localized
emergency incidents and to identify valuable lessons and promising
practices to collect and share these practices with other LHDs and
communities. This project will capture lessons learned and promising
practices from local communities and share them more widely.
Justification: The National Association of County and City Health
Officials (NACCHO) is the national nonprofit organization representing
all local and tribal health officials from across the country. Members
are elected by their peers, and include ex officio members representing
the National Association of Counties, of which NACCHO is an affiliate,
and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. NACCHO advocates on the behalf of
county and city health departments by providing Congressional
testimony, submitting letters to the Administration, and endorsing
proposed legislation.
NACCHO has demonstrated experience establishing partnerships with
both traditional and non-traditional organizations to impact both
county and city public health departments and the broader public health
system.
NACCHO's existing network of health officials will provide ASPR
with the unique ability to collaborate on federal programs and actions
that could impact the preparation for, response to or recovery from
emergencies and disasters impacting public health and health care.
Additional Information: The agency program contact is Lisa
Kaplowitz, who can be contacted by phone at (202) 202-2882 or via email
at [email protected].
Dated: August 28, 2013.
Nicole Lurie,
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
[FR Doc. 2013-21551 Filed 9-4-13; 8:45 am]
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