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Purpose of the Award: The purpose of 

these awards is to support disease 

surveillance and outbreak response, 

emergency management, safe laboratory 

systems and diagnostics and developing 

the public health workforce in Guinea, 

Indonesia, Pakistan, and Tanzania. 

Amount of Award: For Guinea Agence 

Nationale de Securite Santiare, the 

award is for approximately $2,000,000 

in Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025, with 

an expected total funding of 

approximately $10,000,000 for the, 5- 

year period of performance, subject to 

availability of funds. For Kementerian 

Kesehatan RI, the award is for 

approximately $1,500,000 in Federal 

Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025, with an 

expected total funding of approximately 

$7,500,000 for the 5-year period of 

performance, subject to availability of 

funds. For Pakistan National Institute of 

Health, the award is for approximately 

$700,000 in Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 

2025, with an expected total funding of 

approximately $3,500,000 for the 5-year 

period of performance, subject to 

availability of funds. For Ministry of 

Health Tanzania, the award is for 

approximately $2,000,000 in Federal 

Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025, with an 

expected total funding of approximately 

$10,000,000 for the 5-year period of 

performance, subject to availability of 

funds. 

Authority: This program is authorized 

under Section 307 of the Public Health 

Service Act [42 U.S.C. 242l] and Section 

301(a) [42 U.S.C. 241(a)] of the Public 

Health Service Act. 

Period of Performance: September 30, 

2025 through September 29, 2030. 

Dated: December 17, 2024. 

Terrance Perry, 

Acting Director, Office of Grants Services, 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Notice of Award of a Single Source 

Cooperative Agreement To Fund 

Ponce Health Sciences Foundation, 

Inc. 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), located 

within the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS), announces the 

award of approximately $5,000,000, 

with an expected total funding of 

approximately $25,000,000 over a 5-year 

period, to Ponce Health Sciences 

Foundation, Inc. The award will 

support surveillance and research 

studies for endemic and emerging 

arboviruses in Puerto Rico. 

DATES: The period for this award will be 

09/01/2025 through 08/31/2030. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Anderson, MS, MPH, Scientific 

Review Officer, National Center for HIV, 

Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB 

Prevention, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, 

Mailstop H24–6, Atlanta, Georgia 

30329–4027. Telephone: (404) 718– 

8833; Email: gca5@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The single 

source award will strengthen an 

established research platform for 

arboviruses in hospital and community 

settings to identify emerging and 

endemic pathogens like dengue and 

Oropouche viruses, improve patient 

management, and evaluate prevention 

and control strategies. The core 

objectives include: 1) strengthen 

hospital surveillance of acute febrile 

illness (AFI); 2) maintain an AFI 

platform for conducting clinical 

research on special populations such as 

children and pregnant women; 3) 

maintain a community cohort to assess 

incidence and prevalence of arboviral 

infections and other AFIs, while also 

evaluate the effectiveness of vector 

control strategies; 4) strengthen the 

infrastructure for project data 

management and analysis; and 5) 

strengthen collaborations with the local 

government, community leaders, and 

other stakeholders to ensure continuity 

of the established program. 

Ponce Health Sciences Foundation 

(PHSF), Inc. is in a unique position to 

conduct this work, as it is the only 

institution with the infrastructure, 

training, and established community 

trust to implement study objectives 

rapidly and effectively. It successfully 

implemented the Sentinel Enhanced 

Dengue Surveillance System (SEDSS) at 

the St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital 

(SLEH) in 2012 and Centro de 

Emergencia y Medicina Integrada 

(CEMI) in 2016 in Ponce, PR. PHSF 

successfully built and managed a 

community cohort of >3000 participants 

with annual visits and implemented 

interventions to evaluate efficacy of 

vector control techniques. PHSF has 

built long-standing relationships with 

the community stakeholders, which 

facilitates rapid implementation of 

public health programs and 

interventions. In addition, it has the 

following: an extensive historical 

database and well-developed data 

management systems in place to handle 

the large volume of data generated by 

this work; a well-trained workforce 

familiar with the local epidemiology, 

cultural context, and public health 

challenges; and laboratories equipped to 

process arbovirus samples quickly and 

efficiently, with validated protocols and 

established quality control measures. 

Summary of the Award 

Recipient: Ponce Health Sciences 

Foundation, Inc. 

Purpose of the Award: The purpose of 

this award is to support surveillance 

and research studies for endemic and 

emerging arboviruses in Puerto Rico. 

Amount of Award: $5,000,000 in 

Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025 funds, 

with a total estimated $25,000,000 for 

the five-year period of performance, 

subject to availability of funds. 

Authority: This program is authorized 

under Public Health Service Act, 

sections 301(a) (42 U.S.C. 241) and 

317(k)(2) (42 U.S.C. 247b), as amended. 

Period of Performance: 09/01/2025 

through 08/31/2030. 

Dated: December 23, 2024. 

Terrance Perry, 

Acting Director, Office of Grants Services, 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Notice of Award of a Single Source 

Cooperative Agreement To Fund 

University of Oslo (UiO). 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), located 

within the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS), announces the 

award of approximately $1,500,000, 

with an expected total funding of 

approximately $7,500,000 over a 5-year 

period, to the University of Oslo (UiO). 

This award will protect Americans and 

people worldwide from public health 

threats by building capacity within their 

respective countries to strengthen 

public health preparedness; early 

pathogen detection to mitigate the 

impact of global disease outbreaks and 


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public health; and bolstering rapid 

response to global health emergencies. 

DATES: The period for this award will be 

September 30, 2025 through September 

29, 2030. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Broderick Yoerg, Division of Global 

Health Protection, Global Health Center, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd., Atlanta, 

GA 30329, Telephone: (404) 234–0666, 

Email: DGHPNOFOs@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The single 

source award will enhance public 

health surveillance, outbreak detection 

and response for disease that pose 

global health security risks by delivering 

high-quality, effective, and timely 

informatics solutions to strengthen data 

and health information systems. This 

award will strengthen the core District 

Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) 

software, improve interoperability with 

laboratory information systems, and 

enhance electronic Integrated Disease 

Surveillance and Response’s 

functionality in support Integrated 

Disease Surveillance and Response, 

National Disease Surveillance, and other 

types of public health surveillance 

systems. 

University of Oslo is in a unique 

position to conduct this work, as it is 

the only organization that can modify 

and share the core DHIS2 software 

therefore, CDC can only work with them 

to provide enhancements that are then 

available to all countries, globally. 

Summary of the Award 

Recipient: University of Oslo. 

Purpose of the Award: The purpose of 

this award is to support and further 

scale the DHIS2, an open-source 

software platform developed and 

maintained by UiO. The global strategy 

seeks to leverage the Health Information 

Systems Program (HISP) partnership 

network to collect, validate, analyze, 

visualize, and implement public health 

data, while building local capacity to 

strengthen health information systems 

in countries worldwide. This effort is 

expected to significantly strengthen 

global health surveillance systems, 

contribute to improved public health 

outcomes and respond more effectively 

to global health threats. 

Amount of Award: $1,500,000 in 

Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025 funds, 

with a total estimated $7,500,000 for the 

5-year period of performance, subject to 

availability of funds. 

Authority: This program is authorized 

under Section 307 of the Public Health 

Service Act [42 U.S.C. 242l] and Section 

301(a) [42 U.S.C. 241l(a) of the Public 

Health Service Act. 

Period of Performance: September 30, 

2025 through September 29, 2030. 

Dated: December 17, 2024. 

Terrance Perry, 

Acting Director, Office of Grants Services, 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity: Unaccompanied Children 

Bureau Assessments for Children and 

Sponsors (Office of Management and 

Budget #: 0970–NEW) 

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Refugee 

Resettlement (ORR), Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, is inviting public comments 

on the proposed information collection, 

including proposed changes. The 

request consists of several forms that 

will allow the Unaccompanied Children 

Bureau (UCB) to continue conducting 

statutorily mandated assessments of 

unaccompanied children in ORR care 

and custody as well as their sponsors. 

These assessments allow ORR to 

understand the status and needs of the 

child and their potential sponsor; 

assessment findings inform all decisions 

concerning the child’s care while in 

ORR custody and eventual reunification 

with a sponsor. 

DATES: Comments due February 28, 

2025. In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting 

public comment on the specific aspects 

of the information collection described 

in this notice. 

ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the 

proposed collection of information and 

submit comments by emailing 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. Identify all 

requests by the title of the information 

collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: ORR has undertaken a 

reorganization of its information 

collections to promote operational 

efficiency. The reorganization will 

result in more collections that contain 

fewer forms under a single Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

number. This request is to create a new 

information collection that contains 

forms associated with the provision of 

critical assessments to unaccompanied 

children and their sponsors. This 

information collection will contain 

seven forms transferred from one 

existing information collection and two 

new forms. The forms and the 

information collection under which 

they are currently approved are as 

follows: 

• Services Provided to Unaccompanied 

Children (OMB #0970–0553) 

Æ Sponsor Assessment (Form S–5) 

Æ Adult Contact Profile (Form S–7) 

Æ Initial Intakes Assessment (Form S– 

8) 

Æ Assessment for Risk (Form S–9) 

Æ UC Assessment (Form S–11) 

Æ UC Case Review (Form S–12) 

Æ Individual Service Plan (Form S– 

13) 

• Newly Developed Category 4 

Initiative Forms: 

Æ Category 4 Reunification Case 

Review and Staffing (Form TBD-#) 

Æ Family Finding and Mobility 

Mapping (Form TBD–#) 

These forms are completed by care 

provider case managers and clinicians at 

care provider facilities, and exclusively 

for the Sponsor Assessment (Form S–5), 

by unification specialists operating 

remotely. These forms assess the 

suitability of potential sponsors 

applying to reunify with an 

unaccompanied child; capture critical 

historical, biographic and medical data 

for children upon admission to the UCB 

care provider; assess the child for sexual 

abuse history and risk of abusive 

behavior towards others; review and 

update prior assessment data over time; 

and collaboratively identify potential 

sponsors for children without a viable 

sponsor (referred to as ‘‘Category 4’’ 

cases) utilizing child-friendly 

interactive techniques and extensive 

kinship network mapping. These forms 

are documentary in nature and a critical 

component of the child’s case file. In 

addition to grouping forms related to 

Assessments together in this 

information collection, ORR is 

proposing the following revisions: 

• Global Changes across all currently 

approved forms: 

Æ Replace ‘‘UC’’, ‘‘UAC’’, and 

‘‘Minor’’ with ‘‘Child’’ or 

‘‘Unaccompanied Child’’ wherever 

they appear 

Æ Update dropdown options for the 

‘‘Gender’’ field, wherever it 

appears, to include male, female, 

and nonbinary 

Æ Replace ‘‘Primary’’ language with 

‘‘Preferred’’ 


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