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ACTION: Notification of Single Source 

Cooperative Agreement Award for the 

Pasteur Foundation for Building and 

Strengthening Core Capacities for 

Influenza Preparedness and Response in 

Support of International Health 

Regulations (2005) Implementation in 

Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan 

Africa and Southeast Asia. CFDA#: 

93.019 

STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Sections 301, 

307, 1701 and 2811 of the Public Health 

Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 241, 242l, 300u, 

300hh–10. 

AMOUNT OF SINGLE SOURCE AWARD: 

$1,800,000. 

PROJECT PERIOD: September 30, 2011 to 

September 29, 2014. 

SUMMARY: In FY2011, HHS/ASPR/OPP 

plans to provide a Single Source 

Cooperative Agreement Award to the 

Pasteur Foundation to build and 

strengthen core capacities for influenza 

preparedness and response in support of 

International Health Regulations (2005) 

implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa 

and Southeast Asia. 

ASPR, in close coordination with the 

HHS Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), will collaborate with 

the Pasteur Institute and Pasteur 

Institute affiliates in Cameroon, Central 

African Republic, and Senegal in Africa, 

and Cambodia in Asia to develop and 

implement activities for preparedness 

and response for pandemic influenza 

with applicability to other emerging 

respiratory infections and public health 

threats in general. The project will focus 

on building upon existing routine health 

systems to further develop IHR (2005) 

core capacities including 

communication (IHR National Focal 

Point communication), workforce 

development, and surveillance and 

laboratory diagnostics. This work will 

be performed in the context of Article 

44 of the IHR (2005), which directs State 

Parties to collaborate with each other to 

detect, assess, and respond to events, 

and to develop, strengthen, and 

maintain core public health capacities 

for surveillance and response. 

Single Source Justification 

In the recent past, ASPR and Pasteur 

Institute collaborated on developing 

epidemiological surveillance capacity 

for influenza-like illness (ILI) in five 

countries in Africa and three countries 

in Asia as the basis for developing the 

capacities to detect influenza viruses 

with epidemic or pandemic potential. 

As a result of this project and the 

collaboration with other international 

partners, eighty surveillance sites were 

established among the eight countries, 

the laboratories in Cameroon and 

Cambodia became National Reference 

Laboratories for avian influenza, and all 

eight laboratories in the host-countries 

became WHO National Influenza 

Centers. 

In Southeast Asia, the International 

Network of Pasteur Institutes is 

strategically positioned to study the 

natural history of Highly Pathogenic 

Avian Influenza (HPAI H5N1). 

Cambodia and its affiliated Pasteur 

Institute are important partners in the 

region that can act as a hub for training 

and sharing of technical expertise as its 

National Influenza Center can identify 

and isolate HPAI H5N1 strains and has 

experience in Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) 

and Severe Acute Respiratory Infections 

(SARI) surveillance. 

In Sub-Saharan Africa, Cameroon has 

built a surveillance system and the 

Centre Pasteur of Cameroun under the 

Ministry of Health has been designated 

by WHO as a National Influenza Center. 

Moreover, the Centre Pasteur du 

Cameroun is also the National IHR 

Focal Point, making it a key partner for 

IHR (2005) implementation. The Pasteur 

Institute of Bangui in the Central 

African Republic (CAR) is recognized by 

WHO as a National Influenza Center. 

This is the only organization capable of 

performing influenza diagnostics in the 

country, which was able to detect the 

first case of H1N1 in 2010. This 

recognition will be leveraged to further 

strengthen and interlink the current 

surveillance network for highly 

pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. A 

solid partnership between Cameroon 

and CAR is particularly important as 

this is a region in Sub-Saharan Africa 

where the virus has been detected. In 

Senegal, the Pasteur Institute of Dakar 

has set up the influenza surveillance 

sentinel system, is reporting to the 

Ministry of Health, and is hosting the 

National Influenza Center. Senegal has a 

leading role in the West African region 

on influenza, and with its involvement 

in regional CDC’s Field Epidemiology 

Training Program, could become an 

important leader with regard to IHR 

(2005) implementation. In addition, 

Senegal is the one of the two countries 

in Africa that currently has the potential 

to develop influenza vaccine 

manufacturing technology in the shortto medium-term, if supported by 

international partners, including ASPR. 

In making this award, ASPR will 

capitalize on the Pasteur Institute 

International Network and its access to 

francophone countries in Africa and 

with a strong French influence in Asia. 

Based on the lessons learned from 

previous collaborations, this new 

investment will allow HHS to contribute 

to build international capacity in 

collaboration with a prestigious 

international partner by sharing 

experiences, strategies, and best 

practices, and other technical resources 

in helping developing countries 

improve their capabilities for pandemic 

influenza and implement IHR core 

capacities. 

In summary, the Pasteur Institute’s 

strong collaborative relationships with 

foreign governments, programmatic 

support, and familiarity with hostcountry involvement in influenza 

preparedness will be critical for the 

viability of this cooperative agreement. 

This collaboration will support HHS 

efforts to continue building capacity 

abroad with the ultimate intent of 

detecting, stopping, slowing or 

otherwise limiting the spread of a 

pandemic to the United States, 

ultimately enhancing the health security 

of the American population. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The agency 

program contact is Dr. Maria Julia 

Marinissen, who can be contacted at 

202–205–4214 or 

Maria.Marinissen@hhs.gov. 

Dated: August 5, 2011. 

Nicole Lurie, 

Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and 

Response. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20312 Filed 8–9–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day-11–11JQ] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–5960 and 

send comments to Daniel Holcomb, CDC 

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or 

send an e-mail to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 


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whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Data Collection for Evaluation of 

Education, Communication, and 

Training Activities—New—National 

Center for Emerging and Zoonotic 

Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division 

of Global Migration and Quarantine 

(DGMQ), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) Division of Global 

Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) is 

requesting a three year approval for a 

generic clearance to conduct evaluation 

research in order to plan and implement 

health communication, education, and 

training activities to improve health and 

prevent the spread of disease. These 

activities include communicating with 

international travelers and other mobile 

populations, training healthcare 

providers, and educating public health 

departments and other federal partners. 

The information collection for which 

approval is sought is in accordance with 

DGMQ’s mission to reduce morbidity 

and mortality among immigrants, 

refugees, travelers, expatriates, and 

other globally mobile populations, and 

to prevent the introduction, 

transmission, or spread of 

communicable diseases from foreign 

countries into the United States. This 

mission is supported by delegated legal 

authorities. 

First, section 361 of the Public Health 

Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 264) 

authorizes the Secretary of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) to make and 

enforce regulations necessary to prevent 

the introduction, transmission or spread 

of communicable diseases from foreign 

countries or possessions into the United 

States and from one state or possession 

into any other state or possession. These 

regulations are codified in 42 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) parts 70 and 

71. 

In addition, the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services also has the legal 

authority to establish regulations 

outlining the requirements for the 

medical examination of aliens before 

they may be admitted into the United 

States. This authority is provided under 

Section 212(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration 

and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 

1182(a)(1)(A)) and Section 325 of the 

Public Health Service Act. These 

regulations are codified in 42 CFR part 

34, which establish requirements that 

determine whether aliens can be 

admitted into the United States. 

Successful implementation of 

DGMQ’s regulatory authority and public 

health mission as outlined above 

requires a variety of communication, 

training and educational activities 

involving staff, partners, mobile 

populations and the general public. 

DGMQ conducts these activities in order 

to inform, educate and empower key 

audiences with respect to important 

public health issues. 

This generic OMB clearance will 

allow DGMQ to quickly collect 

information about the knowledge, 

attitudes, and behaviors of key 

audiences (such as refugees, 

immigrants, migrants, international 

travelers, travel industry partners, 

healthcare providers, non-profit 

agencies, customs brokers and 

forwarders, schools, state and local 

health departments) to help improve 

and inform these activities during both 

routine and emergency public health 

events. This generic OMB clearance will 

help DGMQ continue to refine these 

efforts in a timely manner, and will be 

especially valuable for communication 

activities that must occur quickly in 

response to public health emergencies. 

DGMQ staff will use a variety of data 

collection methods for this proposed 

project: Interviews, focus groups, group 

discussions, surveys, and pre-post tests. 

Depending on the research questions 

and audiences involved, data may be 

gathered in-person, by telephone, 

online, or using some combination of 

these formats. Data may be collected in 

quantitative and/or qualitative forms. 

Numerous audience variables will be 

assessed under the auspices of this 

generic OMB clearance. These include, 

but are not limited to, knowledge, 

attitudes, beliefs, behavioral intentions, 

practices, behaviors, skills, self-efficacy, 

and information needs and sources. 

Insights gained from evaluation research 

will assist in the development, 

refinement, implementation, and 

demonstration of outcomes and impact 

of communication, education, and 

training activities. 

DGMQ estimates that 22,166 hours 

will be involved in evaluation research 

activities each year. The information 

being collected will not impose a cost 

burden on the respondents beyond that 

associated with their time to provide the 

required data. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of 

respondents Form name Number of respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

General Public/Healthcare Professionals Focus 

groups.

Screening form .....................

Focus Groups .......................

3,000 

1,500 

1 

1 

10/60 

90/60 

500 

2,250 

General Public/Healthcare Professionals Interviews.Screening Form ....................

Interviews ..............................

2,000 

1,000 

1 

1 

10/60 

60/60 

333 

1,000 

General Public/Healthcare Professionals Large 

Group Discussions.

Screening Forms ..................

Large Group Discussion .......

2,000 

1,000

1 

1 

10/60 

90/60 

333 

1,500 

General Public/Healthcare Professionals Surveys Screening Forms .................. 15,000 1 10/60 2,500 

Surveys ................................. 7,500 1 45/60 5,625 

General Public/Healthcare Professionals Pre/post 

tests.

Screening Forms ..................

Pre/Post Tests ......................

15,000 

7,500 

1 

1 

10/60 

45/60 

2,500 

5,625 

Total ............................................................... ............................................... ...................... ...................... ...................... 22,166 


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Dated: August 4, 2011. 

Daniel Holcomb, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

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BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60-Day-11–11JD] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–5960 and 

send comments to Daniel Holcomb, CDC 

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or 

send an e-mail to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Evaluation of Dating Matters: 

Strategies To Promote Healthy Teen 

RelationshipsTM—New—National 

Center for Injury Prevention and 

Control—Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention 

Background and Brief Description 

Dating Matters: Strategies To Promote 

Healthy Teen RelationshipsTM is the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention’s new teen dating violence 

prevention initiative. 

Recently, efforts to prevent teen 

dating violence have grown, particularly 

in schools, among policymakers, and 

among sexual violence and domestic 

violence coalitions. Now many states 

and communities also are working to 

stop teen dating violence. However, 

these activities vary greatly in quality 

and effectiveness. To address the gaps, 

CDC has developed Dating Matters, a 

comprehensive teen dating violence 

prevention program based on the 

current evidence about what works in 

prevention. 

Dating Matters focuses on high-risk, 

urban communities where participants 

include: middle school students age 11 

to 14 years; middle school parents; 

brand ambassadors; educators; school 

leadership; program implementers; 

community representatives; and local 

health department representatives in 

four high-risk urban communities. The 

primary goal of the current proposal is 

to conduct an outcome and 

implementation evaluation of Dating 

Matters in four metropolitan cities to 

determine its feasibility, cost, and 

effectiveness. Within each city 12 

schools will implement the two models 

of teen dating violence prevention (48 

schools total over 4 sites). Our burden 

estimates are based on each school 

having 600 students, with 200 students 

per grade (6th, 7th, and 8th grades). 

Therefore the sampling frame for this 

data collection is 48,000 for the three 

years of data collection covered by this 

OMB package (5 cohorts of 200 students 

each in 48 schools; 5 x 200 x 48). The 

5 cohorts will be students who are in 

6th, 7th and 8th grade in year 1 of data 

collection, students in 6th grade in years 

2 and 3 of data collection. That means 

the sampling frame for parents, given 

that we would only include one parent 

per student, is also 48,000 for the three 

years of data collection covered by this 

package. Based on our research and 

consultation with middle schools, most 

schools with approximately 600 

students have approximately 40 staff. If 

we assume 40 educators per school, the 

sampling frame for the educator sample 

is 1,920. The following are explanations 

of estimated burden by respondent. 

Students: We will use random 

selection to identify a subsample of 

students from each cohort from each 

school to participate in the evaluation. 

We estimate that we will enroll 40 

students per cohort per school, for a 

total of 1,920 students per grade and 

9,600 for the entire sample of 5 cohorts 

covered under this OMB package. 

Parents: We will recruit all parents 

participating in the parent curricula and 

select an equal number of parents from 

the standard of care schools to serve as 

a matched comparison group. We will 

enroll 40 parents per grade per school, 

with 1920 parents per grade, so 5,760 

parents per year. 

Educators: We expect that 85% of all 

educators will participate. With an 

estimated 40 educators per 48 schools 

(1920 total), 85% is 1632 educators. 

School data extractors: We will 

recruit one data extractor per each 

school (48 extractors total) to extract 

school data to be used in conjunction 

with the outcome data for the students. 

Individual level school data will only be 

collected for students participating in 

the evaluation, so this data will reflect 

the same sampling frame as the student 

survey data. 

School leadership: We will recruit 

one school leadership (e.g., principal, 

vice principal) per 48 schools, the 

number of respondents will be 48. 

Local Health Department 

representative: We will recruit four local 

health department representatives 

working on the initiative per 

community, the number of respondents 

will be 16. 

Parent Program Manager: With a 

maximum of one parent program 

manager per community, the number of 

program manager respondents will be 4. 

Community Representative: We will 

recruit 10 community representatives 

per site, the number of respondents will 

be 40. 

Parent Curricula Implementers: Each 

school/neighborhood implementing the 

comprehensive approach will have one 

male and one female parent 

implementing the parent programs with 

six comprehensive school/neighborhood 

clusters per community plus one 

additional pair per site (will fill-in as 

needed), respondents will be (2x7x4) 56 

implementers. 

Student Curricula Implementers: We 

will have six student curricula 

implementers per school that will be 

completing fidelity instruments, the 

total number of respondents will be 288. 

Safe Dates Implementers: We will 

have 3 Safe Dates implementers per the 

48 schools, who will implement the 8th 

grade Safe Dates program, the number of 

respondents for the Safe Dates 

implementer survey will be 144. 

Brand Ambassadors: The Brand 

Ambassador Implementation Survey 

will be provided to each brand 

ambassador in each community. With a 

maximum of 20 brand ambassadors per 

community, the feedback form will be 

collected from a total of 80 brand 

ambassadors. 

Communications Implementers 

(‘‘Brand Ambassador Coordinators’’): 

The Communications Campaign 

Tracking form will be provided to each 


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