# Presentation: 322292

- Mildred Williams-Johnson, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.Director for Extramural Research
- COTPER, Office of Science and Public Health PracticeCenters for Disease Control and PreventionFebruary 20, 2008

***The Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act:***
***Public Health Systems Research***
- Extramural Research Activities
- in the
- Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness
- and Emergency Response

## PAHPA Requirements forPublic Health Preparedness and Response Systems Research

** **Consult with Public and Private Entities
-  Define Existing Knowledge Base
-  Establish a Research Agenda based on
-    Federal, State, Local and Tribal public health
-    preparedness priorities
-  Conduct Public Health Systems Research

**Notes:**
Rich– this is in statement of work– not sure if needed or good idea to repeat it. Next slides give more details regarding the context of the requested research priorities.
The goal of this program is to use a public heath systems research approach to strengthen and improve public health preparedness and emergency response capabilities with the following objectives:
1. Respond to Congressional intent to expand the role of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) at accredited Schools of Public Health to conduct research and improve public health emergency preparedness systems. 
2. Initiate a public health research enterprise (in the form of multi-disciplinary centers) that focuses on new knowledge for application in public health practice and that collectively produces improvement in key public health systems in a 5-year time frame. 
3. Improve capability assessment for emergency response to rare events and uptake of knowledge-to-practice such that variability in performance is reduced. 
4. Improve all-hazards performance as a priority over scenario- or agent-based system performance and target changes that can improve every-day public health practice while improving preparedness for disasters and infrequent emergencies. 
5. Leverage the academic research environment at Schools of Public Health (where a broad spectrum of research disciplines resides) to accelerate the development of research methods, standards, best practices, and templates suitable to breakthrough research in public health emergency preparedness systems. 

## Extramural Research in COTPER                    

- Research Funding Opportunity Announcement
- Purpose “to conduct public health systems research on preparedness and response capabilities at the national, state, local and tribal levels.”
- Mechanism: Research Program Project Center  Grants (P01)

**Notes:**
Objectives
The goal of this program is to use a public heath systems research approach to strengthen and improve public health preparedness and emergency response capabilities with the following objectives:
1. Respond to Congressional intent to expand the role of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) at accredited Schools of Public Health to conduct research and improve public health emergency preparedness systems. 
2. Initiate a public health research enterprise (in the form of multi-disciplinary centers) that focuses on new knowledge for application in public health practice and that collectively produces improvement in key public health systems in a 5-year time frame. 
3. Improve capability assessment for emergency response to rare events and uptake of knowledge-to-practice such that variability in performance is reduced. 
4. Improve all-hazards performance as a priority over scenario- or agent-based system performance and target changes that can improve every-day public health practice while improving preparedness for disasters and infrequent emergencies. 
5. Leverage the academic research environment at Schools of Public Health (where a broad spectrum of research disciplines resides) to accelerate the development of research methods, standards, best practices, and templates suitable to breakthrough research in public health emergency preparedness systems. 
Research Program Project Grants   - For the support of a broadly based, multidisciplinary, often long-term research program which has a specific major objective or a basic theme. A program project generally involves the organized efforts of relatively large groups, members of which are conducting research projects designed to elucidate the various aspects or components of this objective. Each research project is usually under the leadership of an established investigator. The grant can provide support for certain basic resources used by these groups in the program, including clinical components, the sharing of which facilitates the total research effort. A program project is directed toward a range of problems having a central research focus, in contrast to the usually narrower thrust of the traditional research project. Each project supported through this mechanism should contribute or be directly related to the common theme of the total research effort. These scientifically meritorious projects should demonstrate an essential element of unity and interdependence, i.e., a system of research activities and projects directed toward a well-defined research program goal.

## Extramural Research in COTPER

- Program Goal: use a public heath systems research approach to strengthen and improve public health preparedness and emergency response capabilities to:
- Respond to Congressional intent
- 2.  Initiate a public health research enterprise
- 3.  Improve capability assessment for emergency response and knowledge-to-practice
- 4.  Improve all-hazards performance over scenario- or agent-based system performance
- 5.  Leverage the academic research environment at Schools of Public Health to accelerate the development of research methods, standards, best practices, and templates to improve public health emergency preparedness systems.

**Notes:**
1. Respond to Congressional intent to expand the role of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) at accredited Schools of Public Health to conduct research and improve public health emergency preparedness systems. 
2. Initiate a public health research enterprise (in the form of multi-disciplinary centers) that focuses on new knowledge for application in public health practice and that collectively produces improvement in key public health systems in a 5-year time frame. 
3. Improve capability assessment for emergency response to rare events and uptake of knowledge-to-practice such that variability in performance is reduced. 
4. Improve all-hazards performance as a priority over scenario- or agent-based system performance and target changes that can improve every-day public health practice while improving preparedness for disasters and infrequent emergencies. 
5. Leverage the academic research environment at Schools of Public Health (where a broad spectrum of research disciplines resides) to accelerate the development of research methods, standards, best practices, and templates suitable to breakthrough research in public health emergency preparedness systems. 

##  COTPER Charge to the 

- Provide recommendations regarding research priorities for emergency preparedness and response in public health systems specific for the expertise in schools of public health
- Identify opportunities and 3-5 top-priority research areas that will result in measurable outcomes and near-term impact over the next 3-5 yr.

**Notes:**
Rich– this is in statement of work– not sure if needed or good idea to repeat it. Next slides give more details regarding the context of the requested research priorities.

## Extramural Research in COTPER

*Focuses on: *
- Public Health Emergency and Response Content
- Systems in the context of public health emergency preparedness and response
- Management of public health materiel, personnel, and information supply chains in complex and rapidly changing systems

**Notes:**
Systems in context of public health emergency preparedness and response
What system improvements at the local level provide added value for public health response?
Includes management of public health materiel, personnel and information supply chains in complex and rapidly changing systems
How do we provide more effective support at the federal level?

## Extramural Research in COTPER

- Priority Research Themes:
- Enhance the Usefulness of Training ** *excludes formative and summative evaluation studies (such as training evaluation, program evaluation, needs assessment or analysis) *
- Improve Communications in Preparedness and Response
- Create and Maintain Sustainable Preparedness and Response Systems
- Generate Criteria and Metrics Applicable to An All-hazard Approach to Preparedness to Measure Effectiveness and Efficiency** **

**Notes:**
Within the broad theme of research to “Enhance the Usefulness of Training,” only proposals that address one of the following two areas will be considered:
Research to assess the effectiveness of public health preparedness and response simulation games which are role-based and capability-linked to self-efficacy expectations, knowledge, skills, and/or response performance.
Research to determine whether training modalities and instructional methods (including electronic performance support tools) result in improved individual and/or system performance under response conditions. 

## Extramural Research in COTPER                    

- Research Funding Opportunity Announcement: TP08-001
-       *published February 15, 2008 on *_[www.grants.gov](http://www.grants.gov/)_
- Mechanism: Research Program Project Center Grants (P01)
- 		*5-7  Awards in a Program Totaling ~$9.0 million*
*	**	**Average award ~$1.7 million with ceiling of $2.0 million*
-  	   	*Core Component up to $300K*
*	**	**Up to five research projects* up to $350K*
*    **** PROJECTS MUST BE interrelated, interdependent, and multidisciplinary
-                            _All pending the availability of funds_

**Notes:**
Research Program Project Grants   - For the support of a broadly based, multidisciplinary, often long-term research program which has a specific major objective or a basic theme. A program project generally involves the organized efforts of relatively large groups, members of which are conducting research projects designed to elucidate the various aspects or components of this objective. Each research project is usually under the leadership of an established investigator. The grant can provide support for certain basic resources used by these groups in the program, including clinical components, the sharing of which facilitates the total research effort. A program project is directed toward a range of problems having a central research focus, in contrast to the usually narrower thrust of the traditional research project. Each project supported through this mechanism should contribute or be directly related to the common theme of the total research effort. These scientifically meritorious projects should demonstrate an essential element of unity and interdependence, i.e., a system of research activities and projects directed toward a well-defined research program goal.

## Extramural Research in COTPER

- Research Funding Opportunity Announcement: TP08-001
-       *published February 15, 2008 on *_[www.grants.gov](http://www.grants.gov/)_
- Eligibility:  Accredited Schools of Public Health individually or in collaboration with.........
- Application format: currently approved PHS 398
-     _[http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html)_

**Notes:**
Non-eligible schools or colleges within the same institution or university
Public nonprofit organizations; 
Private nonprofit organizations
For profit organizations; 
Small, minority, and women-owned businesses; 
Universities or colleges
Research institutions; 
Hospitals or community-based organizations
Faith-based organizations
Federally recognized or state-recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments; 
American Indian/Alaska Native tribally designated organizations
Alaska Native health corporations
Urban Indian health organizations; tribal epidemiology centers; 
State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau); and political subdivisions of states (in consultation with states). A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified and approved by the state to participate as a state governmental entity. 

## Extramural Research in COTPER

- KEY DATES:
- Additional Information Teleconference: March 7, 2008
-     1-866-741-7636, participant pass code number-5168692
- Letter of Intent: March 17, 2008
- Application Submission Receipt Date: May 15, 2008
- Peer Review : June- July, 2008
- Secondary or Council Review Date: August, 2008
- Earliest Anticipated Start Date: September 30, 2008

**Notes:**
At the discretion of the Director, COTPER, additional consideration may be given to funding research program projects that: address one or more Federal, state, local, or tribal public health preparedness research priority themes determined by COTPER, help to achieve a balance for addressing preparedness research needs in both urban and rural communities, and achieve a geographical or regional distribution of awarded programs.  The COTPER priority themes are based upon recommendations from the IOM report, and described under Section I. Funding Opportunity Description, Objectives. 

## Extramural Research in COTPER

- Contact for Additional Information:
- Mildred Williams-Johnson, PhD, DABT
- Director for Extramural Research
- COTPER Office of Science and Public Health Practice
- Tel: 404-639-0637
- Fax: 404-639-7977
- E-mail: MWilliams-Johnson@cdc.gov

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