ELC Domain Areas
In August 2019, ELC began a new 5-year period of performance under CK19-1904. ELC funds 64 recipients to detect, prevent, and respond to the growing threats posed by infectious diseases through three domain areas.
The difference between a program and a project is that a program must have activities in all three domain areas. A project can have activities in one or two domain areas. Below are the domain areas:
Surveillance, Detection, and Response
- Enhance investigation and outbreak response
- Improve surveillance and reporting
- Strengthen laboratory testing for response
- Improve laboratory coordination and outreach to improve efficiency
- Enhance workforce capacity
- Enhance coordination between epi-lab
- Advance electronic information exchange implementation
- Sustain and/or enhance information systems
- Enhance laboratory testing for surveillance and reporting
Prevention and Intervention
- Implement public health interventions and tools
- Implement health promotion strategies
- Implement public health best practices, guidelines, programs, and policy
- Surveillance data used to inform and prepare intervention strategies
Communications, Coordination, and Partnerships
- Facilitate information dissemination to the public regarding infectious disease surveillance and prevention strategies
- Enhance collaborations between state epidemiology and laboratory as well as regional/local public health departments
- Strengthen partnerships between public health, hospital infection control, and clinical labs