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NV-VSR-21-001: Promoting Vaccine Confidence in Local Communities through Partnership with Regional Health Offices

Closed Closed August 17, 2021 Opportunity NV-VSR-21-001 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$125,000
• Total funding$750,000
• Expected awards8
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Any public or private entity located in a state or territory (which includes one of the 50 states in the United States, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands) is eligible to apply for an award under this announcement. State and local governments, faith-based organizations and American Indian/Alaska Native/Native American (AI/AN/NA) organizations are eligible to apply.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Research, Monitoring and Outcomes Definitions for Vaccine Safety awards averaged $449,286; this notice allows up to $125,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (60% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) announces the availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 under the authority of sections 1702 and 1703 of the Public Health Service Act, (42 U.S.C. 300u-1 and 300u-2). OIDP oversees the National Vaccine Program that provides strategic leadership and coordination of vaccine and immunization activities among federal agencies and other stakeholders with the goal to help reduce the burden of preventable infectious disease. OIDP has maintained that vaccine confidence is critical to improving vaccination coverage rates and has prioritized its work on strengthening public trust in vaccines. This project aligns with the priority of the OASH to respond to and prevent the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other vaccine-preventable diseases, and strategic goals of the HHS including “Goal 2: Protect the health of Americans Where they Live, Learn, Work, and Play” and “Goal 3: Strengthen the Economic and Social Well-being of Americans Across the Lifespan”. Vaccines are among the most effective public health interventions to promote health and prevent diseases. According to the World Health Organization, vaccines prevent between two and three million deaths per year globally. An essential pillar of success for a national vaccine program is maintaining high rates of immunity in communities. To reach the necessary number of vaccinated individuals to achieve community immunity, a high level of public trust in the immunization systems, i.e., vaccine confidence, is needed. In the United States, vaccination coverage for adolescents and adults have generally remained persistently low. Even among children, where coverage rates are high at 90% or higher for most vaccines, nearly 12% of parents refuse at least one recommended vaccine for their children and approximately 30% delay one or more vaccines from being administered to their children. Additionally, non-medical exemptions from school immunization requirements have hindered higher vaccination coverage in children. These data suggest a deficiency in public trust in vaccines. If the national trend of reduced vaccine confidence continues, gains made over the past decades in preventing serious and potentially deadly diseases are threatened.

Category: Health.

Applying now

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