OpportunityTitle: Domestic Laboratory Biosafety for Ebola and other Highly Infectious Diseases
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Sole-Source to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
Description: The purpose is to support APHL to develop a laboratory safety program for public health and clinical laboratories that provides: - Access to subject matter experts on clinical and public health laboratory safety for infectious agents, including highly infectious agents like Ebola. - Coordination of sharing of best practices among laboratories on safe handling and testing of specimens. - Assistance to laboratories for assessment of training, facilities, and equipment for safe handling and testing of specimens for highly infectious agents like Ebola. - Training to laboratories on laboratory safety risk assessement and risk mitigation.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Grants Policy
GrantorContactText: Greg Jones&lt;br/&gt;GJJ1@cdc.gov&lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on 5/1/2015.