MENDON GROUP LLC — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase I: NCHHSTP 054
MENDON GROUP LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Health and Human Services.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Health and Human Services in a technical approach.
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- Obligated amount $241,921. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $241,921
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- NCHHSTP 054
- Solicitation
- PHS 2023-1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NY
- Period
- —
Description
Outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic caused schools to go from in-person to virtual classrooms leading to adverse outcomes including lower educational metrics. Inability to prepare for a pandemic could be attributed to a lack of syndromic surveillance system to detect outbreak based on school-related data. Public health officials, including CDC team, tasked with identifying and tracking school learning modes and outbreaks within schools had to craft a manual process that was laborious and time-consuming because it relied on a combination of web scraping and calling school districts. School-related data (e.g., reasons for absences, outbreaks, and school closures) from a surveillance system would have been useful. Preventing future pandemics will require coordination and cooperation at all strata of public health. Syndromic surveillance system to detect outbreaks based on school-related data could be critical in building an infrastructure to address issues identified in the solicitation. Proposal is for (a) identifying systems that could serve as a syndromic surveillance system for school and evaluating systems as per CDC’s framework for evaluating public health systems, (b) developing design for a new surveillance system that would collect school-related data, and (c) providing cost and timeline for developing, testing, and deploying including annual operational and modifications costs.