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Division of Public Health Agreement Addendum FY 20-21 Page 1 of 9 Lee County Health Department Epidemiology/ Communicable Disease Branch Local Health Department Legal Name DPH Section / Branch Name Vanessa M. Greene 919-546-1658 543 ELC Enhancing Detection Activities vanessa.greene@dhhs.nc.gov Activity Number and Description DPH Program Contact (name,phone number,and email) 01/20/2020 —05/31/2021 Service Period DPH Program Signature Date (only required for a negotiable agreement addendum) 07/01/2020 —06/30/2021 Payment Period Fi Original Agreement Addendum n Agreement Addendum Revision # I. Background: The primary mission of the Communicable Disease Branch (CDB) is to reduce morbidity and mortality resulting from communicable diseases that are a significant threat to the public through detection, investigation, testing, treatment, tracking, control, education, and care activities to improve the health of people in North Carolina. The Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) CARES Crisis Cooperative Agreement and Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) CARES Cooperative Agreement awards have been critical in supporting North Carolina's response to the coronavirus pandemic. With the addition of the ELC Enhancing Detection award, the primary focus of all three CDC funding sources is: 1) direct allocation to local health departments, 2) enhanced laboratory testing capacity, 3) increasing workforce by hiring temp staff, 4) supporting epidemiology and surveillance activities and 5) expanding informatics and IT infrastructure to increase electronic data exchange. The ELC Enhancing Detection Award includes new activities centered around contracts to external partners to support contact tracing, and strategic planning and project management. The Division of Public Health (DPH), Communicable Disease Branch (CDB), is making an allocation of these ELC Enhancing Detection funds available to all local health departments through the "CDC-RFA- TP18-1802, Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response, COVID- 19 Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement— Components A and B Supplemental Funding" to carry out surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory capacity, infection control, mitigation, communications, and other preparedness and response activities. Health Director Signature (use blue ink) Date Local Health Department to complete: LHD program contact name: (If follow-up information is needed by DPH) Phone number with area code: Email address: Signature on this page signifies you have read and accepted all pages of this document. Template rev.July 2019