Collaboration for Improving and Promoting Standardized Cancer Staging Using the Collaborative Stage Data Collection System

Post Date

April 29th 2013

Application Due Date

June 10th 2013

Dates: ╔Optional Letter of Intent Deadline Date: May 13, 2013 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time ╔Application Deadline Date: June 10, 2013, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time, on www.grants.gov

Funding Opportunity Number

CDC-RFA-DP13-1310

CFDA Number(s)

93.068

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligibility Information Eligible Applicants: ╔ American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized) ╔ American Indian/Alaska native tribally designated organizations ╔ Alaska Native health corporations ╔ Colleges ╔ Community-based organizations ╔ Faith-based organizations ╔ For-profit organizations (other than small business) ╔ Hospitals ╔ Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education) ╔ Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education) ╔ Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with States) ╔ Research institutions (that will perform activities deemed as non-research) ╔ Small, minority, and women-owned businesses ╔ 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) . ╔ Tribal epidemiology centers ╔ Universities ╔ Urban Indian health organizations 2. Special Eligibility Requirements: ╔ Applicants must provide documentation of prior experience in developing, monitoring, updating, and maintaining the Collaborative Stage Data Collection System (CS). ╔ Applicant must provide documentation of prior experience in providing overall management and coordination of CS activities for a nationwide organizational infrastructure, at a minimum of 25 states/territories. ╔ Applicant must provide documentation demonstrating the capacity to partner with and bring together organizations, agencies, and stakeholders from across the country for a national CS governance committee comprised of all cancer surveillance standards-setting agencies and others with expert-level knowledge of current and past AJCC TNM and Summary Stage cancer staging systems and of hospital and central cancer registry operations and standards.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $2100000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to emphasize the importance of coordination and collaboration across agencies, partners, and organizations to: ╔ improve standardized staging for use in cancer surveillance; ╔ support and simplify the evaluation, maintenance, and updating of cancer staging applications; and ╔ support enhancement of attributes that decrease the systemуs complexity.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Agency Contact:

  CDC Procurement and Grants Office
  (PGO) Technical Information Management Section (TIMS)
  Phone: 770-488-2700
  E-mail: pgotim@cdc.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Technical Information Management Section (TIMS)

• Agency Email Address:

  pgotim@cdc.gov

• More Information:

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