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\nThank you for your interest in the CDC Zika Local Health Department (LHD) Initiative. The application for field support closed on April 21, 2017. If you have any questions about the LHD initiative, please contact us at eocevent101@cdc.gov.
\nZika Pregnancy and Birth Defects Field Support to Local Health Departments Webinar \u2013 April 2017
\n \nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) solicited applications from local health departments1 for supplemental field support in communities with pregnant women with laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection. The purpose of this initiative is to build local health department capacity to:
\nField support is provided on-site by trained personnel who can provide assistance in one or more of the following areas:
\nField support may be supplemented with technical assistance provided by national organizations and CDC personnel based on the needs of a local health department. Onsite personnel are assigned based on agreement with the local health department. The duration of assignment is based on local health department requests and/or the vendor\u2019s contract period of performance.
\n1For the purposes of this application, local health departments (LHDs) are the primary target for CDC-contracted support.
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