# Environmental Public Health and Emergency Response (93.070)

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/programs/93-070-environmental-public-health-and-emergency-response/  
Publisher: Well Told Grants. Data: USAspending.gov and Grants.gov, updated October 31, 2026.

Environmental Public Health and Emergency Response is run by Department of Health and Human Services. From fiscal 2021 to 2025 it awarded $213 million in 183 grants, about $1.2 million per award.

## Objectives

To bring public health and epidemiologic principles together to identify, clarify, and reduce the impact of complex environmental threats, including terrorist threats and natural disasters, on populations, domestic and foreign. These programs and activities focus on safeguarding the health of people from environmental threats; providing leadership in the use of environmental health sciences-including environmental epidemiology, environmental sanitation, and laboratory sciences-to protect public health; and responding to issues and sharing solutions to environmental health problems worldwide. To accomplish the above, the CDC: (1) conducts surveillance and investigations that increase the knowledge about the relation between human health and environmental threats; (2) uses this knowledge to develop national public health programs and policies to prevent or control public health problems; (3) plans, prepares, and responds to emergencies, including terrorist threats, technologic accidents, and natural disasters; (4) provides direct service delivery to partners engaged in environmental health services such as food, safety, rodent control, water quality, and sanitation; (5) develops and applies laboratory science to prevent disease and death caused by exposure to environmental chemicals and to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of selected chronic diseases; (6) conducts Biomonitoring to assess individual human exposure to environmental chemicals by measuring them in human specimens (e.g. blood and urine); and, (7) conducts activities on emerging environmental threats such as climate change and the built environment.

## Funding by fiscal year

| Year | Amount | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $63.2 million | 141 |
| 2022 | $60.2 million | 147 |
| 2023 | $68.8 million | 146 |
| 2024 | $800,000 | 2 |
| 2025 | $20.4 million | 34 |

## Largest recipients

| Recipient | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | Michigan | $11.9 million |
| Minnesota Department of Health | Minnesota | $7.8 million |
| Florida Department of Health | Florida | $6.5 million |
| New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services | New Hampshire | $6.2 million |
| State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services | Wisconsin | $6.0 million |
| America's Poison Centers | Virginia | $5.6 million |
| Massachusetts Department of Public Health | Massachusetts | $5.5 million |
| Maine Department of Health and Human Services | Maine | $5.3 million |
| New Jersey Department of Health | New Jersey | $5.2 million |
| North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services | North Carolina | $5.0 million |
| State of Rhode Island Department of Health | Rhode Island | $5.0 million |
| Health Services Kentucky Cabinet for | Kentucky | $4.9 million |
| Department of Public Health Connecticut | Connecticut | $4.8 million |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado | Colorado | $4.8 million |
| Research Triangle Institute | North Carolina | $4.8 million |
| Silent Spring Institute, Inc. | Massachusetts | $4.8 million |
| University of California Irvine | California | $4.7 million |
| Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services | Missouri | $4.7 million |
| The Research Foundation for the State University of New York | New York | $4.7 million |
| Public Health Institute | California | $4.6 million |

## Open opportunities

- [NIH, CDC and FDA Small Business Innovation Research Grant (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Optional)](https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/pa-27-100-nih-cdc-and-fda-small-business-innovation-research/), closes April 5, 2027
- [State Biomonitoring Cooperative Agreement](https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/cdc-rfa-eh-27-0074-state-biomonitoring-cooperative-agreement/), closes not stated