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Division of Public Health <br />Agreement Addendum <br />FY 20-21 <br />Page 1 of 9 <br />_____________________________________________ ____________________________________ <br />Health Director Signature (use blue ink) Date <br /> Local Health Department to complete: <br />(If follow-up information is needed by DPH) LHD program contact name: <br />Phone number with area code: <br />Email address: <br /> <br />Signature on this page signifies you have read and accepted all pages of this document. Template rev. July 2019 <br />Orange County Health Department Epidemiology / Communicable Disease Branch <br />Local Health Department Legal Name DPH Section / Branch Name <br />543 ELC Enhancing Detection Activities <br />Vanessa M. Greene 919-546-1658 <br />vanessa.greene@dhhs.nc.gov <br />Activity Number and Description DPH Program Contact <br />(name, phone number, and email) <br />01/20/2020 – 05/31/2021 <br />Service Period DPH Program Signature Date <br />(only required for a negotiable agreement addendum) <br />07/01/2020 – 06/30/2021 <br />Payment Period <br /> Original Agreement Addendum <br /> Agreement Addendum Revision # <br />I. Background: <br />The primary mission of the Communicable Disease Branch (CDB) is to reduce morbidity and mortality <br />resulting from communicable diseases that are a significant threat to the public through detection, <br />investigation, testing, treatment, tracking, control, education, and care activities to improve the health of <br />people in North Carolina. <br />The Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) CARES Crisis Cooperative Agreement and <br />Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases <br />(ELC) CARES Cooperative Agreement awards have been critical in supporting North Carolina's <br />response to the coronavirus pandemic. With the addition of the ELC Enhancing Detection award, the <br />primary focus of all three CDC funding sources is: 1) direct allocation to local health departments, 2) <br />enhanced laboratory testing capacity, 3) increasing workforce by hiring temp staff, 4) supporting <br />epidemiology and surveillance activities and 5) expanding informatics and IT infrastructure to increase <br />electronic data exchange. The ELC Enhancing Detection Award includes new activities centered around <br />contracts to external partners to support contact tracing, and strategic planning and project management. <br />The Division of Public Health (DPH), Communicable Disease Branch (CDB), is making an allocation of <br />these ELC Enhancing Detection funds available to all local health departments through the “CDC-RFA- <br />TP18-1802, Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response, COVID- <br />19 Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement – Components A and B Supplemental Funding” to carry out <br />surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory capacity, infection control, mitigation, communications, and <br />other preparedness and response activities. <br />nbontrager@orangecountync.gov <br />919-245-2407 <br />Natalie Bontrager <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 2695E0C0-30FB-4AF9-8AAD-38BDC8738C11 <br />8/11/2020