The Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science, and Practice (CoE) program establishes national centers that strengthen and expand the maternal and child health (MCH) workforce by training graduate and post-graduate public health (PH) students in MCH.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 01/27/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
CoEs also establish academic-practice partnerships with state Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant recipients and other MCH organizations, providing technical assistance and subject matter expertise to strengthen MCH capacity.
Purpose
The purpose of the Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Education, Science, and Practice (CoE) program is:
- To strengthen and expand the MCH workforce by training graduate and postgraduate public health students in MCH.
- To advance MCH science, research, practice, and policy through a well-trained MCH public health workforce.
Program Goals and Objectives
The program goals are to:
- Establish national centers that recruit and train graduate and post-graduate students in MCH public health and support faculty experts who provide technical assistance to the MCH public health field.
- Expand the MCH public health workforce.
The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance include:
- Provide didactic and experiential training in MCH public health that leads to a graduate-level MCH degree, certificate, or concentration.
- Recruit and train students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the MCH workforce, including but not limited to students from economically disadvantaged and racially/ethnically underrepresented backgrounds.
- Retain and graduate at least 80% of MCH public health students who complete over 300 hours of training per student.
- Establish or strengthen a minimum of three academic-practice partnerships with state Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant recipient agencies or community organizations to provide MCH subject matter expertise.
Funding Information
- Expected total available funding in FY 2025: $5,659,000
- Expected number and type of awards:
- Up to 13 grants for base CoE funding.
- Up to 5 supplements for the MCH Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Up to 1 supplement for the annual meeting.
- Funding range per award:
- Up to $366,769 per year for base CoE.
- Up to $170,000 per year for the MCH Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Up to $41,000 per year for the annual meeting.
Funding Period
HRSA plans to fund awards for five 12-month budget periods for a total five-year period of performance from June 1, 2025, to May 31, 2030.
Who can Apply
These types of domestic organizations may apply:
- Public institutions of higher education.
- Non-profit private institutions of higher education.
- Native American tribal governments and organizations that are institutions of higher learning (education)
“Domestic” means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
