OpportunityTitle: Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible Applicants:     At the time of submission applicant will describe or illustrate its organizational attributes that enables it to link with primary care clinician communities across the 10 federal regions. This may be a distribution of organizational units located across the nation that are formally affiliated with the applicant, organizational members that collaboratively work with to achieve the applicant&amp;rsquo;s organizational mission, or other organization structures that connect the applicant to regional primary care clinicians. (Name this file: National Reach)   If this required documentation is missing, the application will be deemed non-responsive and will not be passed along for further review. Documentation of this reach through an organizational chart or list of affiliate organizations across each of the 10 federal regions must be provided with the application. Name this file: National Reach, and upload it as a pdf at www.grants.gov.
Description: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has maintained a long-standing relationship in the development and advancement of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) Program, through ongoing cooperative agreements initiated by ATSDR. The PEHSU serves health professionals, community organizations, governmental officials, federal staff, child-care providers, parents, and others having interest in environmental conditions that influence reproductive and pediatric health. Primary focuses of the PEHSU are to: (1) Build the capacity of primary care clinicians to recognize environmental exposure risks, provide risk reduction counseling, and deliver patient care to those at risk of or harm from acute or chronic exposures to hazardous substances in the environment. (2) Integrate environmental health content, placing emphasis on hazardous substances in the environment and related health effects, into pre-service clinical (i.e., medical, nursing, and allied health) course work; and primary care residency programs (i.e., clinicians in pediatrics, family medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology). (3) Increase patient and population awareness of environmental exposure risks and ways to reduce those risks. (4) Provide education and consultative services to community members, clinicians, state and local health departments, appropriate federal programs, and others involved in protecting children and couples of reproductive age from environmental threats. (5) Provide educational and consultative assistance in communities where ATSDR and/or Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are addressing environmental contamination.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Grants Policy
GrantorContactText: Technical Information Management Section&lt;br/&gt;ogstims@cdc.gov
CloseDateExplanation: Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.