Enhanced Surveillance for Chronic Disease Grant and Contribution Program of the Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Strategy

Update: December 2008

Funds allocated to our current projects have used our budget for fiscal year 2009/2010 and unfortunately we are unable to launch an Invitation to Submit Proposals at this time. We will keep you informed should additional funds become available.

The Public Health Agency both conducts surveillance on chronic disease at the national level and helps build capacity for public health chronic disease surveillance at the national, provincial/territorial and regional/local level. This Request for Proposals (RFP) is part of the Enhanced Surveillance component of the Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Strategy.

Surveillance is an essential component for the planning, implementation, and assessment of chronic disease prevention and control. It is the tracking of health events and determinants through the ongoing collection of data, the integration, analysis, and interpretation of data, and the dissemination of information to those who need to know. Chronic disease surveillance provides relevant information for public health action.

The objective of the Enhanced Surveillance for Chronic Disease Funding Program is to enhance capacity for public health chronic disease surveillance activities. The projects will develop tools and methods to:

1. Increase the use of existing data sources for chronic disease surveillance
2. Expand data sources for chronic disease surveillance
3. Improve planning, coordination and evaluation of chronic disease surveillance systems

There are 4 priority areas for funding within this Request for Proposals:

Part A General Surveillance



1. Supporting the development of regional risk factor surveillance at the local/regional level.
   1. Developing and validating data collection tools
   2. Coordinating a collaborative approach to risk factor surveillance among several regions
   3. Developing dissemination approaches
   4. Piloting new tools and methods
   
   
2. Developing tools and methods for public health surveillance of chronic diseases, including cancer, using registries and/or health administrative databases (includes assessing data quality and validation studies) Note: Research projects that test hypotheses using cancer registries and administrative databases will not be funded.
   
   
3. Develop capacity for public health surveillance of chronic diseases, including cancer, for:
   1. Indicator development
   2. Data collection tools
   3. Data analysis and interpretation
   4. Dissemination methods including supporting use of surveillance data in decision-making
   5. Collaborative surveillance activities
   
   

Part B Aboriginal Surveillance –only aboriginal organizations are eligible



4. Building capacity within Aboriginal organizations for public health surveillance of risk factors, cancer and chronic diseases, for example:
   1. Developing indicators
   2. Developing and validating data linkages between Aboriginal registries and existing databases (e.g. provincial and territorial administrative data, cancer registry)
   3. Coordinating a collaborative approach to Aboriginal surveillance among several regions or provinces/territories
   4. Developing surveillance dissemination approaches

Please refer to the attached documents for additional information.

1. Letter of Invitation (36 kb)
2. Program Guidelines (266 kb)
3. Proposal Guidelines (288 kb)
4. Application Form (1167 kb)
4a. Application for Funding Instructions (122 kb)
5. Project Summary and Description Template (250 kb)
6. Sample detailed Budget (122 kb)
7. Detailed Project Budget Supplement (123 kb)