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HRSA-22-066: Catalyst for Infant Health Equity

Closed Closed April 26, 2022 Opportunity HRSA-22-066 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$500,000
• Total funding$5.0 million
• Expected awards10
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes, small businesses and businesses.

Eligible applicants include any domestic public or private entity. Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are also eligible to apply for these funds. Note: Eligible applicants are not required to be Healthy Start grant recipients. See Section III.1 of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for complete eligibility information.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Healthy Start Initiative awards averaged $4.2 million; this notice allows up to $500,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Catalyst for Infant Health Equity program. The goals of the new Catalyst for Infant Health Equity program are twofold: 1) to continue reducing overall infant mortality (IM) rates in the United States, and 2) to decrease and ultimately eliminate disparities in IM across racial/ethnic groups by achieving steeper declines for groups with the highest rates. To accomplish these goals, award recipients are expected to address the broader social and structural determinants (or root causes) contributing to IM disparities at the county or jurisdiction1 level. For example, recipients will support implementation of existing action plans that address public policies, systemic racism and discrimination, and/or institutional practices. To maximize impact on disparities in infant mortality rates at the national level, counties/jurisdictions with larger numbers of excess infant deaths2 will be considered priority areas. 11 For the purposes of this NOFO, "jurisdiction" refers to tribal areas; the District of Columbia; municipalities within Puerto Rico; and similar geographical areas found within the US-affiliated Pacific Islands and Freely Associated States. 2 Excess infant deaths are those that occur due to higher mortality rates relative to non-Hispanic White infants, and can be referred to as deaths attributable to disparity or deaths that need to be prevented to achieve equity in IM rates. Excess infant deaths are calculated by multiplying excess infant mortality rates by the number of births (e.g., [Black IMR – White IMR] X Black births). 3 https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/social-determinants-health The purpose of the Catalyst awards is to support the implementation of existing action plans that apply data-driven policy and innovative systems strategies to reduce IM disparities and prevent excess infant deaths. Recipients are expected to implement action plans that address the social determinants of health (i.e., environmental, social, and economic conditions), and/or the structural determinants of health (e.g., institutions, systemic barriers, policies) that contribute to disparities in IM. The policy and systems change strategies in such action plans should be targeted and specific to reducing disparities among the racial or ethnic group(s) with the highest IM rates or excess infant deaths (i.e., priority population) in a target county/jurisdiction.

Category: Health.

Applying now

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