The Centers for Disease Control is seeking non-research, cooperative agreement applications to conduct population-based surveillance of congenital heart defects (CHD) to describe health outcomes including health equity, with the goal of identifying opportunities to improve the health of all people living with CHD.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
This project will involve a required component (A) and an optional component (B). The population included in this surveillance activity can be an entire state or a region within a state. Individuals with CHD should be identified through existing data sources including the jurisdiction birth defects surveillance system, electronic health records, administrative data (e.g., Medicaid/Medicare, hospital discharge), or other sources available to funding recipients.
This NOFO addresses the following priority areas:
- Reduce the rate of infant deaths
- Reduce the rate of deaths in children and adolescents aged 1-19 years
- Increase the proportion of children and adolescents who
- Receive care in a medical home
- Get support for their transition to adult health care
- Improve cardiovascular health in adults
- Improve cardiovascular health and reduce deaths from heart disease and stroke
Short-term outcomes
Component A
- Improved knowledge about the characteristics of individuals identified from multiple data sources
- Improved understanding of:
- age-specific mortality in individuals with CHD
- healthcare use, comorbidities, and outcomes of individuals with CHD
- health equity among individuals with CHD
- racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic patterns in healthcare use and long-term outcomes in individuals with CHD
- Respiratory viruses (including COVID-19, influenza, and RSV) and immunizations among individuals with CHD
- healthcare use during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with CHD
- the potential impact of state and national healthcare policies on individuals with CHD
- Increased awareness among stakeholders of nationwide CHD issues
Component B
- Improved understanding of how machine learning algorithms and models can be applied to surveillance data to identify individuals with CHD
Intermediate outcomes
Component A
- Inform stakeholders on healthcare utilization, comorbidities, and outcomes of individuals with CHD
Component B
- Improved accuracy of surveillance of CHD
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,100,000
- Component A: 3-7 awards for 5 year period of performance; up to $400,000 average award per budget period
- Component B: Up to $50,000 for Year 1, up to $300,000/year for Years 2-5
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
Additional Eligibility Category: - Government Organizations:
- State (includes the District of Columbia)
- Local governments or their bona fide agents
- Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam,
the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of
Palau - State controlled institutions of higher education
- American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
- Private colleges and universities
- Community-based organizations
- Faith-based organization
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
