Grants / Department of Health and Human Services / Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP

CDC-RFA-DP21-2104: Promoting Cancer Surveillance Workforce, Education, and Data Use

Closed Closed March 30, 2021 Opportunity CDC-RFA-DP21-2104 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is forecast: Promoting Cancer Surveillance Workforce, Education, and Data Use (CDC-RFA-DP-27-0076). Status: Expected deadline March 8, 2027. It is in our archive of Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$500,000
• Award floor$300,000
• Total funding$2.5 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Promoting the Cancer Surveillance Workforce, Education and Data Use awards averaged $1.2 million; this notice allows up to $500,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The charge of the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) is to enhance national cancer data and statistics in order to help public health professionals understand and address the nation's cancer burden. Cancer is a reportable disease in all NPCR-funded states. Cancer registrars ensure that timely, accurate, and complete data are maintained on all types of cancer diagnosed and /or treated within a health care institution or within a defined population. Consequently, registrars at medical facilities (including hospitals, physicians’ offices, therapeutic radiation facilities, freestanding surgical centers, and pathology laboratories) and registrars employed by the central registries are actively involved in reporting accurate, timely and complete data. These data are then submitted annually to CDC by each NPCR funded central cancer registry, resulting in national cancer data that is dependent upon the cancer registrar workforce. A well trained, highly qualified workforce is critical to the success of NPCR and the value of all cancer data. The registry profession is small compared to other allied health professions (Health Information Management 40,000 versus Certified Tumor Registrars at 5,657). Lack of knowledge about the profession and available educational opportunities contribute to the small number of certified registrars. A limited job market results in a profession that must be promoted to recruit new cancer registrars and retain current ones. The 2013 NCRA/NPCR Workload and Time Management Study: Guidelines for Central Cancer Registry Programs supports earlier studies stating that the factor most frequently cited by informants as influencing the supply of cancer registrars was the lack of visibility of the profession. This NOFO will build upon the success of the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) by expanding opportunities to enhance registrars’ capacity, resources to support recruitment and retention and promote cancer surveillance data. Moreover, the iteration of this project will build upon the DP16-1605and the successes and lessons learned from that project.

Category: Health.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, CDC-RFA-DP-27-0076, which is forecast.

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