Non-research determination

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REQUEST FOR NCHHSTP PROJECT DETERMINATION & APPROVAL
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PROJECT REQUEST
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Project Information:
Project Title: Strengthening U.S. Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG)
NCHHSTP Project Number:

Division: DSTDP

Project Location/Country(ies):
CA, CO, GA, HI, IN, NYC, NC, WA,WI

Telephone: (404) 718-5660

CDC Project Officer or CDC Co-Leads:

Karen Schlanger; Shacara Johnson

Project Dates:
Start 01/01/2017
End 07/31/2021
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I. Activity is not human subject research. The primary intent of the project is public health practice or a disease
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D. Post-marketing surveillance of effectiveness or adverse effects of a new regimen, drug, vaccine, or
device.
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II. Activity is not human subjects research. The primary intent is public health program activities.
A. Public health program activity (e.g., service delivery; health education programs; social marketing
campaigns; program monitoring; electronic database construction or support; development of patient
registries; needs assessments; and demonstration projects to assess organizational needs, management,
and human resource requirements for implementation).
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III. Activity is research but does NOT involve identifiable human subjects.
A. Activity is research involving collection or analysis of data about health facilities or other
organizations or units (i.e., not individual persons.)
B. Activity is research involving data or specimens from deceased persons.
C. Activity is research using unlinked or anonymous data or specimens: ALL (1–4) below are required:
1. No one has contact with human subjects in this project; and
2. Data or specimens are or were collected for another purpose; and
3. No extra data or specimens are or were collected for this project; and
4. Identifying information was (one of the following boxes must be checked)
a. not obtained;
b. removed before this submission, or before CDC receipt, so that data cannot be linked
or re-linked with identifiable human subjects; or
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human subject research.” Select only one option by checking the box: A indicates the project has current
funding; B or C indicates no current funding is applicable.
A. This project is funded under a grant, cooperative agreement, or contract award mechanism. ALL of
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1. CDC staff will not intervene or interact with living individuals for research purposes.
2. CDC staff will not obtain individually identifiable private information.
3. Supported institution(s) must have a Federalwide Assurance (FWA), and the project must be
reviewed and approved by a registered IRB or an institutional office linked to the
supported institution’s FWA.*
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B. CDC staff provide technical support that does not involve possession or analysis of data or interaction
with participants from whom data are being collected (no current CDC funding).
C. CDC staff are involved only in manuscript writing for a project that has closed. For the project, CDC
staff did not interact with participants and were not involved with data collection (no current CDC
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Project Description
Participating project staff must complete all 18 elements of this section.
This is a required description from CDC employees or staff for review and approval of a project plan or
proposal (or for changes) for projects conducted by CDC or in which CDC is involved. All 18 elements
are required to standardize the review and approval process across NCHHSTP, document that all 18
elements have been addressed, expedite review and approval by the NCHHSTP ADS or ADLS office, and
minimize CDC/OD/ADS office audit requests for additional information. A protocol may be attached to
this form, but it does not eliminate the requirement to complete all 18 elements.
PROJECT TITLE: Strengthening U.S. Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG)

Instructions: Use the following boxes to complete the 18 items. Each box will expand as you type, and you are not
limited in the length of your answers. Formatting features and symbols also may be used.
1. CDC Principal Investigator(s) or Project Directors and branch/division/office affiliations:
Karen L. Schlanger, Ph.D., MPH
Division of STD Prevention, Epidemiology and Statistics Branch

2. CDC Project Officer(s) and each person’s role and responsibilities and affiliations:

Shacara Johnson, MPH
Division of STD Prevention, Epidemiology and Statistics Branch

3. Other CDC project members, branches, divisions, and other participating institutions, partners, and
staff:
DSTDP: Robert D. Kirkcaldy, MD, MPH, Kyle Bernstein, PhD: Epidemiology and Statistics Branch; John Papp, PhD., Cau Pham, PhD, Ellen
Kersh, PhD: Laboratory Reference and Research Branch; LaZetta Grier and Rodney Pressley, PhD: Surveillance and Data Management Branch
Grantees: San Francisco Department of Public Health/California Department of Public Health; Denver Public Health/Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment; Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness/Georgia Department of Public Health; City & County of
Honolulu/Hawaii State Department of Health; Marion County Public Health Department/Indiana State Department of Health; Guilford County
Department of Health and Human Services/North Carolina Division of Public Health; New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene;
Public Health – Seattle and King County/Washington State Department of Health; Milwaukee Health Department/Wisconsin Division of Public
Health

4. Institution(s) or other entity(ies) funding the project:

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5. Project goals:
- Enhance timeliness and sensitivity of local surveillance for resistant gonorrhea
- Strengthen local resistant gonorrhea response capacity (programmatic, laboratory and epidemiological)
- Enhance local capacity to rapidly conduct gonorrhea case investigations and partner services, to ensure appropriate treatment
of patients with resistant gonorrhea infections, and halt the spread of identified resistant strains
- Evaluate yield and impact of gonorrhea case investigations for halting spread of identified resistant strains
- Develop deeper understanding of sexual networks and gonorrhea transmission (using observational clinical, epidemiological,
network, and genomic data) to identify opportunities for innovative approaches to gonorrhea prevention and control

6. Project objectives:
- Substantially increase local specimen collection for Neisseria gonorrhoeae culture and AST
- Build and expand local capacity to routinely conduct rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) capacity (via Etest with ~5 day turnaround)
- Strengthen local data system functionality and interoperability to strengthen surveillance and programmatic response capacity
- Build capacity for local STD programs to conduct enhanced cluster field investigations of and partner services for persons diagnosed with gonorrhea
of public health significance (such as resistant/reduced susceptibility) and those in his/her sexual network
- Ensure appropriate treatment of patients diagnosed with gonorrhea with resistance/reduced susceptibility; ensure partners are tested and treated
- Utilize genomic data of N. gonorrhoeae isolates to support and inform local cluster investigations
- Conduct local and multi-site analyses using clinical, epidemiological, network, and genomic data to identify opportunities for inform cluster field
investigations and develop and evaluate prevention/control interventions

7. Public health (program or research) needs to be addressed:
Gonorrhea is a nationally notifiable disease, and state and local health departments have authority to conduct surveillance of gonorrhea and collect patient-level data about persons with gonorrhea and their contacts. Gonorrhea is
the 2nd most commonly reported notifiable disease in the United States; in 2015, over 300,000 cases were reported to CDC. Rapid detection and effective treatment is a cornerstone of public health gonorrhea control and
prevention. However, treatment of gonorrhea has been complicated by the organism's keen ability to develop antimicrobial resistance. Widespread emergence of resistance to currently recommended therapies could cripple
treatment and control efforts, increase rates of gonorrhea and complications of inadequately treated gonorrhea, and contribute to estimated additional direct medical costs of at least $235 million. CDC designated N. gonorrhoeae
one of three “urgent” antimicrobial threats facing the US. Addressing the threat posed by N. gonorrhoeae is featured prominently in the White House National Strategy and National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant
Bacteria (CARB). The Action Plan calls for maintenance of the prevalence of ceftriaxone-resistant N. gonorrhoeae below 2% through 2020, a target supported by a goal of slowing the emergence of resistant bacteria and
preventing spread of resistance.The Strengthening U.S. Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG) project is a critical vehicle for achieving this target
AST currently requires culturing of live bacteria. Detection of resistance in the US is severely hampered by the widespread shift to molecular assays for diagnosis of gonorrhea and limited use of culture. CDC conducts surveillance
of N. gonorrhoeae susceptibility trends through the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP). While GISP provides robust data on long-term trends, GISP does not provide AST data in a timely manner to support rapid
response and has limited sampling (only up to 25 men monthly in STD clinics). Many local STD programs lack resources to adequately respond to outbreaks of resistant infections. SURRG seeks to fill these critical gaps in our
public health infrastructure by enhancing local capacity to rapidly identify and respond to resistant gonorrhea and identify best practices that can be implemented more widely to prevent the emergence of untreatable gonorrhea.

8. Population(s) or groups to be included:
*Clinic-based populations
- Patients with culture-positive gonorrhea presenting at project health centers (public health STD clinics and other partnering health centers reporting large
numbers of gonorrhea cases) in nine regionally dispersed jurisdictions of the United States (clinic-based populations)
- for program evaluation purposes, minimal demographic will be collected on persons diagnosed in STD clinics with gonorrhea by nucleic acid
amplification tests (NAATs) but who had negative cultures
*Field investigations
- Patients (from clinic-based population) identified as having resistant gonorrhea and their named recent sexual partners and social contacts
- (As local capacity builds) Patients (from clinic-based population) identified with drug-susceptible gonorrhea and their named sexual partners and social contacts

9. Project methods:
- Per clinic protocol (determined locally), eligible patients will have swab(s) collected for gonorrhea culture and NAAT at all anatomic sites of exposure
- The local public health lab will perform cultures and conduct AST via Etest on all positive cultures (isolates). All purified bacterial isolates will be sent onto a regional laboratory for confirmatory AST via agar
dilution, and whole genome sequencing for molecular characterization will be conducted on a subset (no human DNA will be included in the sample).
- Public health disease intervention specialists (DIS) will conduct cluster case investigations and partner services activities (using a standardized but locally modifiable SURRG case investigation protocol) for
all patients identified as having resistant gonorrhea. As local capacity builds, investigations and partner services for non-resistant infections can be conducted. DIS will collected data from patients about
recent sexual exposures and elicit names and contact information for their recent sexual contacts and up to 2 social contacts who might benefit from STD screening. DIS will attempt to contact named sexual
partners and social contacts, and refer them to the local STD clinic for STD testing (including gonorrhea culture) and treatment (as appropriate). To enhance the speed of investigations and before the
partners' test results are available, DIS will also attempt to collect identifying information on partners from the index patients' partners (i.e. 2nd generation sexual partners to the index case); DIS will attempt to
contact them and refer them to the STD clinic for testing and treatment (as appropriate). Any sexual partner or social contact who tests positive for gonorrhea will become a new index case; DIS will attempt to
conduct SURRG case investigations and partner services with that patient, two social contacts, and 1st and 2nd generation sexual partners. The investigation will continue until no new cases are identified.
- Demographic, clinical, and laboratory data will be abstracted from the health records participating clinics by the local epidemiological coordinator. Unique patient identifiers will be assigned locally that will not
contain personally identifiable information. These de-identified data will be linked by the locally assigned identifier and transmitted to CDC following the Secure Access Management Service protocols.

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10. Selection, inclusion, or sampling of participants (persons or entities):
-Men or women attending a participating STD clinic or partnering health care site will be selected for gonorrhea culture
according to local clinical practice, standards of care, and CDC screening recommendations (such as patients who meet
CDC/USPSTF gonorrhea screening criteria, are to be presumptively treated for gonorrhea [e.g. symptomatic, sexual
contact of a case], or who are diagnosed with gonorrhea by NAAT and are returning to the clinic for treatment).
- Selection of anatomic sites for specimen collection will be guided by patient self-report of which anatomic sites were
exposed.

11. Incentives to be provided to participants:

None.

12. Plans for data collection and analysis:
Standardized data elements for the project have been defined and can be found in Appendices A-C. Clinical data will be collected in the electronic
medical records at participating sites; laboratory data on culture, AST and NAAT results will be collected in the local public health laboratory's
information management system. Case investigation and partner services data will either be collected in the grantees' STD management information
system or a secure Access database created specifically for this project (depending on site capacity). CDC will provide guidance to grantees on
required data structure for submission, as well as proper syntax for data cleaning and validation checks. All data will be de-identified prior to
submission to CDC. Data will be submitted to CDC every two months following CDC's Secure Access Management Service (SAMS) protocol. Data
from the ARLN laboratory network will be transmitted to CDC via a secure AIMS data portal and an existing CDC secure genomic pipeline. Data will
be analyzed cross-sectionally for prevalence estimates and longitudinally for trends. Partnership data will be analyzed using network approaches.

13. Confidentiality protections:
No individually identifiable information is collected by CDC. CDC will treat data/information in a secure manner and will not disclose, unless
otherwise compelled by law. A unique number will be locally assigned to each isolate and corresponding patient. This identifier will not be a
medical record number nor will it include PII. Grantees will adhere to NCHHSTP Data Security and Confidentiality guidelines. All individually
identifiable information PII (e.g., name, address) on individual patients is retained by the local clinic, STD program, and laboratory, and is not
recorded with data sent to CDC or the regional laboratories.
At CDC, only the SURRG data manager and project epidemiologists have direct access to these data; data may be shared with Laboratory
Reference and Research Branch and Surveillance and Data Management Branch partners. The electronic SURRG database will stored on
the CDC mainframe computer and only the Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) data managers have access rights to the data.

14. Other ethics concerns (e.g., incentives, risks, privacy, or security):
Participants may be nervous about answering questions about sexual activity and/or identifying sexual
partners. However, such questions are part of routine STD care. Participants may feel minor discomfort during
the urethral, rectal, or oral pharyngeal swab collection; the discomfort should resolve once the swab is
removed. Participants may benefit from having AST susceptibility testing performed and partner services
conducted, and information from this project may help prevention and control of gonorrhea in the future.
Personally identifiable information will be collected locally in accordance with local confidentiality policies. No
personally identifiable information will be submitted to CDC. No incentives are provided. The risks are minimal.

15. Projected time frame for the project:
January 2017: Training and local piloting of expanded cultures and performance of AST via Etest
June 2017: Train DIS staff on SURRG case investigation and partner services practices and data to collect
July 2017: Sites to begin conducting SURRG case investigation and partner services for patients with resistant gonorrhea
December 2017 (pending OMB approval): Grantees will begin submitting line-listed data (clinical, laboratory, and investigation data) to CDC
January 2018: Sites to begin conducting SURRG case investigations and partner services on small subset of patients with susceptible gonorrhea
January 2018: Review submitted data; work with grantees to address identified issues
February 2018: Begin data cleaning and analysis (continue through 2021)
March 2019: Draft initial manuscript(s) and submission for publication
July 2021: End data collection
June 2022: Draft and submit additional manuscripts for publication

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16. Plans for publication and dissemination of the project findings:
Project findings will be published as at least three manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.
Investigators will submit abstracts based on study findings to scientific conferences.
Evidence on effective practices or interventions will be shared with participating and
non-participating jurisdictions through publications, conference presentations, webinars, or other
communication approaches.

17. Appendices — including informed consent documents, scripts, data collection instruments, focus
group guides, fact sheets, or brochures:
Data dictionary:
A. Required data elements from STD clinics and non-STD clinics
B. Required data elements from local PHL lab
C. Required data elements from case investigations and partner services

18. References (to indicate need and rationale for project):
Barbee, L.A. (2014). Preparing for an era of untreatable gonorrhea, Current Opinion Infectious Disease, 27(3): 282-287.
Bolan, G.A., Sparling, F.P., Wasserheit, J.N. (2012). The emerging threat of untreatable gonococcal infection, The New
England Journal Of Medicine, 366(6), 485-7.
Bowen, V.B., Johnson, S.D., Weston, E.J., Bernstein, K.T., Kirkcaldy, R.D. (2017). Gonorrhea, Current Epidemiology
Reports, 4:1-10.
Unemo, M., and Shafer, W.M. (2014). Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the 21st Century: Past,
Evolution, and Future, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 27(1): 587-613.

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PROJECT APPROVAL
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NCHHSTP BRANCH AND DIVISION ADS REVIEW AND APPROVAL (Sign electronically by clicking next to the X
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Kyle T.
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Digitally signed by Kyle T. Bernstein -S
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ou=CDC, ou=People,
0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1=1000698282,
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Branch Chief or Branch Science Officer

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1. This project is approved by NCHHSTP/CDC and CDC (per CDC policies and federal regulations) for CDC staff
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2. Participating partners and sites must obtain project review and approval, according to their institutional
policies and procedures and according to local, national, and international regulations and laws, including
45 CFR 46 regulations and state laws. CDC project officers must maintain a current copy of local sites’
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3. CDC investigators and project officers need to adhere to the highest ethics standards of conduct and to
respect and protect the privacy, confidentiality, autonomy, data, welfare, and rights of participants and
integrity of the project. All applicable country, state, and federal laws and regulations must be followed.
4. Informed consent or script is needed as required by laws and regulations. Information conveyed in an
informed consent or script process needs to address all applicable required elements of informed consent.
Consent of employees in related projects about their institutions needs to include a statement that their
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Approval must be granted by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Associate
Director for Science (ADS), Acting ADS, or Deputy ADS, or for laboratory-associated projects, by the Associate
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