Pesticides Health Care Initiative: National and Community Based Health Care Provider Training for Pesticide Illness

Aiden Black
black.aiden@epa.gov
202.566.2381

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for a cooperative agreement to improve healthcare providers' ability to prevent, recognize, treat, manage, and report pesticide-related illness. EPA also aims to ensure that HCPs consider the social determinants of health, cultural context, and vulnerabilities of patients at high risk of pesticide-related illness.

The cooperative agreement will have two main objectives:

• Administer a national training and technical assistance program to improve the prevention, recognition, treatment, management, and reporting of pesticide-related illness by providers, particularly those serving patient populations at high risk of pesticide-related illness
• Administer a partnership program to inform the Objective 1 activities and ensure they have both national reach and local applicability

Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with demonstrated experience in providing technical assistance and training to healthcare providers who serve farmworker populations including institutions of higher education and nonprofit hospitals.

Up to $2.1 million over 5 years

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.