The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of funds to support agencies and organizations that coordinate and manage Maternal Mortality Review Committees to identify and characterize pregnancy-related deaths for preventability, abstract clinical/non-clinical data into a standard data system, conduct informant interviews to inform individual case review, and enter information into a standard data system within 2 years of death.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/20/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
This NOFO will support increases in the overall timeliness, comprehensiveness, and availability of information on strategies for prevention of pregnancy-related deaths and reduction of disparities in pregnancy-related mortality nationally. This NOFO will support agencies/organizations that coordinate/manage MMRCs to identify, characterize, and disseminate information on pregnancy-related deaths and opportunities for prevention.
Outcomes
The following outcomes are expected to be achieved by the end of the period of performance: Short Term
- Increased timeliness, accuracy, and standardization of information available about pregnancy-related deaths, including MMRC identified opportunities for prevention.
- Increased engagement and cooperation between MMRCs, partners, and communities to communicate information from data on pregnancy-related deaths.
- Increased availability of MMRC recommendations among communities, clinicians, public health practitioners, and decision makers.
Intermediate Term
- Increased adoption of clinical and non-clinical policies and programs that reflect the highest standards of care.
- Increased implementation of recommendations that reach or consider the needs of populations disproportionately affected by pregnancy-related mortality.
Strategies and Activities
- Actions that improve availability, quality, and timeliness of MMRC data.
- Actions that improve multidisciplinary, population-level review of potentially pregnancy-related deaths and documentation of recommendations for prevention.
- Actions that improve dissemination, access to, and employment of quality Maternal Mortality Review Information Application (MMRIA) data to drive opportunities for prevention.
Funding Information
Estimated Total Funding: $133,725,000
Project Period
5 years
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
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
Additional Eligibility Category:
- Government Organizations:
- State governments or their bona fide agents (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)
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