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CDC-RFA-GH21-2174: Enhancing Global Health Security: Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems and Preparedness Globally

Closed Closed August 9, 2021 Opportunity CDC-RFA-GH21-2174

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is forecast: Capacity Building for National Immunization Programs in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (CDC-RFA-JG-27-0070). Status: Expected deadline February 12, 2027. It is in our archive of Centers for Disease Control - CGH notices from 2021.

Centers for Disease Control - CGH offered grants to any type of organization. It expected to make about 5 awards worth $300 million in total. Applications closed on August 9, 2021.

From the official notice on Grants.gov, last changed August 5, 2021. Checked November 7, 2026.

Key dates

PostedJune 10, 2021
DeadlineAugust 9, 2021
Archived by Grants.govOctober 1, 2021

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

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Is this a realistic fit?

What the grant funds

Activities under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) should focus on protecting and improving public health globally by: 1) strengthening public health surveillance systems; 2) improving the public health surveillance workforce; 3) improving the interface between public health disease surveillance and laboratory systems; 4) reinforcing emergency surveillance preparedness; 5) enhancing electronic disease surveillance platforms and systems; and 6) enhancing the use of surveillance data for public health action. This NOFO is intended to support global health security partners to develop or continue the implementation of surveillance activities that focus on protecting and improving public health globally through strategic planning, policy, strengthening surveillance capacities and systems through partnerships. These should build and improve regional and country capacities to prevent, detect, respond and control infectious disease outbreaks, strengthen border health security and mitigate public health events of international concern (PHEICs) or other global health threats.

Category: Health.

Who has won Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security grants before

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security (93.318) awarded $1.3 billion across 306 grant awards, an average of $4.3 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
African Field Epidemiology Network LTD6$147 million
The Task Force for Global Health, Inc.Georgia7$138 million
World Health Organization, Somalia14$125 million
Association of Public Health Laboratories, Inc. (the)Maryland3$61.5 million
The Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland5$42.7 million

Top states: Georgia ($178 million), Maryland ($124 million), District of Columbia ($108 million), New York ($61.3 million), Virginia ($40.7 million).

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, CDC-RFA-JG-27-0070, which is forecast.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.

Questions people ask

Is CDC-RFA-GH21-2174 still open?

No. It closed on August 9, 2021. A newer notice is forecast: CDC-RFA-JG-27-0070, expected deadline February 12, 2027.

Who can apply for Enhancing Global Health Security: Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems and Preparedness Globally?

Centers for Disease Control - CGH accepted applications from any type of organization.

What is the deadline for Enhancing Global Health Security: Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems and Preparedness Globally?

Closed August 9, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

How much funding is available?

About $300 million in total across about 5 awards.

Who has won Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were African Field Epidemiology Network LTD, The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., World Health Organization, Somalia. The program made 306 awards worth $1.3 billion in that time.

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