Opportunity Information: Apply for EP IDS 17 004
The grant opportunity titled "Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacities in the Americas" is a single-source funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), specifically the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). It is designed as a five-year cooperative agreement intended to strengthen public health emergency preparedness and response across the United States, Mexico, and the broader region. The work is framed as a continuation and expansion of established U.S.-Mexico collaboration on health security, with an emphasis on building practical capabilities that help both countries prevent, detect, assess, report, and respond to public health threats that can quickly cross borders.
A key feature of this opportunity is its structure and the roles of the participating organizations. Although the technical and programmatic beneficiary is CENAPRECE, a component of Mexico's Secretariat of Health (SALUD), the only eligible applicant and intended award recipient is the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), a binational nonprofit organization. Under its relationship with SALUD, FUMEC functions as the administrative and financial intermediary: it receives the federal funds, hires contract personnel to support CENAPRECE's work, and makes disbursements as authorized by the Director of CENAPRECE. In other words, the cooperative agreement supports an operational partnership between ASPR and CENAPRECE, but it is legally and administratively executed through FUMEC as the awardee.
The program focus is broad but clearly targeted to high-consequence hazards. Activities proposed for the agreement are expected to blend strategic coordination (how preparedness and response programs are organized, aligned, and operated) with technical collaboration (hands-on capacity building, systems development, and specialized support). The primary threat areas highlighted are pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious diseases, along with chemical, biological, and radiological hazards, including threats associated with terrorism. The underlying logic is that preparedness infrastructure should be robust enough to manage naturally occurring outbreaks as well as accidental or deliberate events, and that interoperable cross-border processes are essential when threats spread faster than traditional national response timelines.
This opportunity is strongly grounded in international and U.S. policy frameworks, most notably the International Health Regulations (2005). The announcement explicitly ties the cooperative agreement's goals to IHR implementation requirements, including the need for countries to maintain legal, policy, surveillance, and response systems that allow rapid detection and action during public health events. It also aligns with IHR Article 44, which encourages countries to collaborate on event detection and assessment, response coordination, technical cooperation and logistical support, and mobilization of financial resources to fulfill IHR obligations. In addition, the FOA cites alignment with the Global Health Security Agenda, HHS's Global Health Security Strategy, the National Health Security Strategy of the United States, and the ASPR Strategic Plan. Taken together, these references signal that the award is intended not as a standalone project, but as part of a broader health security agenda emphasizing surveillance, prevention, preparedness, and coordinated response.
The FOA also explains why this kind of cross-border capacity building is increasingly important. It points to real-world drivers that raise the likelihood and impact of international public health emergencies, such as increased international travel and migration, climate-related shifts in disease patterns, human encroachment into wildlife reservoirs that can seed new zoonotic diseases, and the globalization of medicines, food, and other goods. These conditions make early detection, transparency, and intergovernmental coordination central to limiting outbreaks and preventing broader public health crises. The cooperative agreement is therefore positioned as a mechanism to improve shared situational awareness and response readiness, so that decisions and actions can be taken quickly and in a coordinated way.
From a funding and administrative standpoint, the announcement is categorized as discretionary funding using a cooperative agreement mechanism, indicating substantial involvement and collaboration between the federal government and the recipient during performance. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 93.019, with an award ceiling of $500,000 and an expectation of a single award. The posting indicates the opportunity was created on June 29, 2017, with an original closing date of August 29, 2017. Eligibility is narrowly defined in practice due to its single-source nature, with FUMEC identified as the single eligible applicant, even though the eligibility field also references for-profit organizations other than small businesses and "others" with clarification in the full text.
Overall, the grant can be summarized as a targeted, policy-aligned, five-year cooperative effort to reinforce and modernize the operational backbone of public health emergency preparedness and response between the United States and Mexico, implemented through FUMEC to support CENAPRECE. Its intent is to translate high-level health security commitments into practical, sustained capacities that improve readiness for infectious disease events and other high-impact hazards, with benefits extending beyond national borders to regional health security in the Americas.Apply for EP IDS 17 004
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacities in the Americas" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.019.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 29, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 29, 2017 No Explanation. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: For profit organizations other than small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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