Health Information Systems Strengthening for Improved Public Health Care and Program Management in Haiti under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | CDC RFA GH21 2113

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This funding opportunity, titled "Health Information Systems Strengthening for Improved Public Health Care and Program Management in Haiti under PEPFAR" (Funding Opportunity Number: CDC RFA GH21 2113), is a CDC cooperative agreement aimed at modernizing and integrating Haiti's health information infrastructure so the Government of Haiti can routinely use patient and service-delivery data to improve health outcomes and reduce illness and death. The core idea is that better, more connected data systems can directly strengthen continuity and quality of care, sharpen public health surveillance, and make emergency response faster and more effective, while also improving the country's ability to track births and deaths through stronger vital records.

Funding is described in a slightly unusual way: the posted Year 1 "Award Ceiling" is listed as 0 (meaning no per-award ceiling is specified in the announcement for that year), while CDC anticipates approximately $4,000,000 in total Fiscal Year funding for Year 1, assuming funds are available. CDC expects to make two awards. Because this is a cooperative agreement, recipients should expect substantial involvement from CDC compared with a typical grant, often including close technical collaboration, shared planning, and ongoing performance oversight. The opportunity is categorized under the Health funding activity area (CFDA 93.067), and eligibility is broadly "unrestricted," meaning it is open to many entity types as long as they meet any additional eligibility details described in the full notice.

Programmatically, the announcement focuses on reengineering the national health information system (HIS) so it becomes a practical, routine management tool rather than a set of disconnected reporting platforms. The intended improvements include using data more effectively to monitor continuity of care and care quality, strengthening public health surveillance for earlier outbreak detection, and improving Haiti's ability to respond to complex health emergencies. A major additional emphasis is upgrading the National Vital Registry system so the Government of Haiti can more reliably monitor natality and mortality, which is essential for understanding population health trends and measuring the real-world impact of health programs.

Recipients are expected to work in close coordination with the Government of Haiti to leverage and expand existing electronic medical record (EMR) and surveillance technologies, pushing them beyond their current footprints into primary health care settings and into vital statistics. In practice, this signals a move away from siloed, program-specific tools toward an integrated national approach where clinical care data, surveillance signals, and vital events information can support each other. The end state described is a patient-centered integrated system that can uniquely identify patients, support longitudinal follow-up for both acute and chronic conditions, and maintain continuity of care across multiple service delivery contexts including facilities, community-based care, and, where relevant, border regions.

The target system is also expected to enable quality assurance programs and coordinated surveillance activities, including evidence-based responses for reportable conditions and disease outbreaks. Beyond day-to-day operations, it should strengthen evaluation capacity by making it easier to assess intervention effectiveness using more complete and reliable data. Finally, by improving vital statistics generation, the system is meant to produce stronger, more credible national measures of births and deaths, filling one of the most important information gaps for public health planning and accountability.

Key administrative details included in the notice are the publishing timeline (created March 1, 2021, with an original closing date of April 30, 2021) and the submission requirement that applications be submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Overall, the opportunity is positioned as a national health systems strengthening effort under PEPFAR that uses health information modernization as the foundation for better clinical management, stronger outbreak detection, improved emergency response, and more trustworthy vital records in Haiti.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Health Information Systems Strengthening for Improved Public Health Care and Program Management in Haiti under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 01, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 30, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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