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Laboratory Leadership, Workforce Training and Management Development, Improving Public Health Laboratory Infrastructure (93.065)

Also known as Enhancing Disease Detection in Newborns: Building Capacity in Public Health Laboratories

Laboratory Leadership, Workforce Training and Management Development, Improving Public Health Laboratory Infrastructure (Assistance Listing 93.065) is run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $19.6 million in 30 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $654,875 per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.

The typical award was $315,878. Half of the 30 awards fell between $79,482 and $734,796, and they ranged from $353 to $4.0 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

This program will increase the capacity and capability of state and territorial newborn screening laboratories to test for newborn screening conditions as recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC), and those that might be added to individual state panels by state-level advisory committees or state legislatures. Early detection of these conditions, whose symptoms are not clinically observable at birth, save thousands of infants and children from disability and death through early detection and treatment.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

NOFOs published under this listing are typically unrestricted. See the published NOFOs on grants.gov for additional information on eligibility.

What the money can and cannot pay for

The purpose of the program is to enhance the work of public health laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. The program aims to promote quality public health laboratory practice, improve public health laboratory infrastructure, strengthen the public health laboratory system, and to develop a well-trained public health laboratory workforce in the U.S. and globally. It also aims to ensure laboratory preparedness for emerging infectious diseases or other biologic and chemical public health threats, promote technology transfer to ensure up-to-date technologies for the testing laboratory, and enhance communication linkages between state and local public health laboratories and the clinical laboratory testing community Improvement of public health laboratory infrastructure, state-of-the-art training for the nation's laboratorians to be prepared in dealing with public health threats, improving laboratory leadership capabilities, enhancing inter-laboratory communications.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Check Grants.gov for any relevant NOFO information regarding processes for applying for assistance.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Awards range up to $1,900,000 and average $300,000.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Laboratory Leadership, Workforce Training and Management Development, Improving Public Health Laboratory Infrastructure (93.065) awarded$19.6 million across 30 grant awards, an average of $654,875 per award.

Top states: Maryland ($7.0 million), Texas ($5.1 million), Georgia ($1.3 million), Wisconsin ($872,084), Nevada ($803,125), Utah ($740,591), Arizona ($683,071), Florida ($567,575), North Carolina ($423,900), New York ($415,780).

Who usually wins

Nonprofits received 46% of the money, businesses 19% and state and local governments 17%.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Nonprofits8$9.1 million46%
Businesses1$3.7 million19%
State and local governments11$3.4 million17%
Other8$1.8 million9.2%
Colleges and universities2$1.7 million8.5%

By state

3 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. They are Maryland, Texas and Georgia.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
Maryland3$7.0 million
Texas4$5.1 million
Georgia2$1.3 million
Wisconsin1$872,084
Nevada1$803,125
Utah1$740,591
Arizona1$683,071
Florida2$567,575
North Carolina1$423,900
New York1$415,780
Virginia1$366,000
Iowa1$354,338
Michigan1$314,335
Nebraska2$264,790
Minnesota1$249,958
Ohio1$200,000
New Hampshire1$28,000
Pennsylvania1$353

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.