Department: Public Health Services
Department Head/Elected Official: Leah Barton - Interim Executive Director
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Grant
Project ID (if applicable): FY24_MPOXHAZARD _STATE
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): Texas Department of State Health Services
MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request by Public Health Services for approval to accept an amendment to an agreement with the Texas Department of State Health Services to update certain programmatic reporting deliverable dates for the Monkeypox/Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program.
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Background and Discussion:
The purposed of this amendment/funding is to support the governmental public health response to Mpox (monkeypox), the Texas Department of State Health Services ("DSHS") is providing Grantee this award to expand vaccination and quickly implement other response activities for Mpox. These funds will provide urgently needed resources to jurisdictions to implement Mpox response activities, such as case and cluster investigation, vaccination, increasing timeliness and completeness of data reporting on cases and vaccination, community engagement, and activities to increase demand for and access to Mpox vaccines, as well as other response-related activities for Mpox, using a synergistic approach.
Expected Impact:
The amendment allows for the continuation of program activities and assures that the intended outcomes of this award- The purpose of this Amendment is to update certain programmatic reporting deliverable dates in support of monkeypox activities
Alternative Options:
There are no alternative options
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