RFI Avian and Pandemic Influenza and Zoonotic Disease Program PREDICT

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Global Health, Office of Health, Infectious Disease and Nutrition (GH/HIDN) anticipates awarding two (2) cooperative agreements, PREDICT and RESPOND, under its Avian and Pandemic Influenza and Zoonotic Disease Program. The goal of PREDICT is to establish a global early warning system for disease emergence that is capable of detecting, tracking and predicting the emergence of new infectious diseases in high-risk wildlife (e.g. bats, rodents, and non-human primates) that could pose a major threat to human health. At this time the Agency is requesting information/comments regarding the attached draft program description from potential bidders. Please note that the Request for Information (RFI) for Respond is posted independently. After receipt of comments and prior to posting the Request for Applications (RFA), USAID anticipates hosting a bidders conference. This conference is tentatively scheduled for April 29, 2009. Potential bidders should be U.S. based institutions of higher education, research institutions, for profit, non-profit, or private voluntary organizations with capacity and experience in wildlife surveillance, epidemiology, data analysis and reporting, modeling, threat detection and forecasting, and other related activities.