OpportunityTitle: Surveillance and Response to Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza by Regional Offices of the World Health Organization
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible grantees are: Regional Offices of the World Health Organization1.  Regional Office for Africa &amp;ndash; AFR, Brazzaville, Congo;2.  Regional office for the Americas &amp;ndash; PAHO, Washington, D.C.;3.  Regional Office for South-East Asia &amp;ndash; SEAR, New Delhi, India;4.  Regional Office for Europe &amp;ndash; EUR, Copenhagen, Denmark;5.  Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean &amp;ndash; EMR, Cairo, Egypt; and6.  Regional Office for the Western Pacific &amp;ndash; WPR, Manila, Philippines).
Description: CDC-RFA-IP16-1606 will support Regional Offices of the World Health Organization, to implement a coordinated plan to assist national governments and regional authorities to improve surveillance for influenza by enhancing capacity for laboratory and epidemiologic surveillance of seasonal and pandemic influenza; to assist the development of simple methods to determine burden of influenza disease in countries and regionally using surveillance data and other routinely collected information; to detect and respond to outbreaks of novel influenza viruses with pandemic potential, such as highly pathogenic avian influenza or swine viruses; and, to assist countries to conduct activities that inform policies on introduction and increased use of influenza vaccines.
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GrantorContactText: Technical Information Management Section &lt;br/&gt;Department of Health and Human Services &lt;br/&gt;CDC Office of Financial Resources &lt;br/&gt;Office of Grants Services &lt;br/&gt;2920 Brandywine Road, MS E-14 &lt;br/&gt;Atlanta, GA 30341 &lt;br/&gt;Telephone: 770-488-2700 &lt;br/&gt;E-mail: ogstims@cdc.gov &lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.