The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works with its partners to monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, conduct research to enhance and implement prevention strategies, develop and promote sound public health policies, promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthful environment.

The CDC is seeking proposals for improving the state-of-the-art in the following areas:

Address Critical Gaps in Knowledge of the Total Preventive Benefit of Influenza Vaccines
Compare the Immunogenicity of Alternative Influenza Vaccines and Vaccine Strategies
Use Modeling and Forecasting Tools to Improve the U.S. Response to Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza
Virology, Surveillance and Diagnosis Branch in the Influenza Division, NCIRD, CDC is seeking technologies that will improve vaccines through in-depth virus characterization and by identifying/selecting optimal candidate vaccine viruses.
Develop approaches to assess the level of pre-existing immunity to influenza viruses
Evaluate risk and diagnosis of Pertussis
Building the evidence base for maternal group B streptococcal vaccine decision making
Understanding the underlying causes of the continued increase in reported Legionnaires’ disease cases
Understanding carriage of Influenza
Assess prevalence of complement system and Meningitis
New Diagnostic, Sequencing, and Metagenomic Tools for AR Detection, Microbiome Analysis, and Improved Antibiotic Use
International Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR Pathogens
Domestic Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR Pathogens and CDI
Antibiotic resistant pathogens and genes in water systems and the environment and their contribution to human infections
Evaluating and Improving Antibiotic Use
Approaches to Prevention and Control of Soil Transmitted Helminth Infections

Additional topic areas of interest and submission requirements are detailed via Solicitation Number: 75D301-19-R-67835. White papers must be received electronically by 3:00 PM EST for December 17, 2018.