The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – ERA is accepting applications for the Strengthening Training, Evaluation, and Partnerships in the Prevention and Control of Vector-Borne Diseases.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – ERA
States: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/22/2022
Size of the Grant: $43,750,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports the priorities of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases and supports the Division’s goal of improving regional capacity to address the growing health threat of vector borne diseases. The primary strategies of the NOFO include: building the vector-borne disease prevention and control workforce and its capacity through training; conducting evaluation and operationalizing vector-borne disease prevention control programs, tools, and technologies; and facilitating partnerships between academic institutions and federal, local, state, territorial, Tribal public health agencies and/or other interested parties. This NOFO is intended to establish a roster of organizations that would be pre-identified and pre-approved for rapid funding to address vector-borne disease threats through the program strategies.
The NOFO strategies are to:
- TRAIN – Increase opportunities for students and professionals to receive training in vector-borne disease (VBD) prevention and control; this must include training university/college-based students and currently practicing vector-borne disease prevention and control professionals;
- EVALUATE – Evaluate the impact and effectiveness (non-research) of existing or commercially available vector-borne disease prevention and control tools, technologies and programs; and
- PARTNER – Build partnerships among institutions and organizations in the vector-borne disease community to accomplish the activities proposed in Strategies 1 and 2. Activities must include collaborative partnerships with private partners, academic centers, or public health organizations at federal, state, Tribal or local levels to develop and implement training and evaluation activities.
Funding Information
- Total Period of Performance Funding: $43,750,000
- Average One Year Award Amount: $1,750,000
Total Period of Performance Length
5 year(s)
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
- Nonprofits without 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)
- Non-government Organizations
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
- Other
- Ministries of Health
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
