Environmental Public Health and Emergency Response (93.070)
Environmental Public Health and Emergency Response (Assistance Listing 93.070) is run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $213 million in 183 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $1.2 million per award on average. 2 funding opportunities are open or forecast now.
The typical award was $820,239. Half of the 183 awards fell between $427,000 and $1.8 million, and they ranged from $40,000 to $5.6 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$213 million
- Grant awards183
- Typical award$820,239
- Awarded in FY 2025$20.4 million
- Size rank593 of 1824
- Type of assistanceCooperative agreements
Key findings
- Annual funding fell from $63.2 million in fiscal 2021 to $20.4 million in fiscal 2025.
- It is the 593rd largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- The 20 largest recipients received 53% of the money.
- Awards went to recipients in 43 states and territories.
What the program funds
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.
Open opportunities
- NIH, CDC and FDA Small Business Innovation Research Grant (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Optional)
- State Biomonitoring Cooperative Agreement
Rules from the program listing
What the money can and cannot pay for
Restrictions are indicated in the NOFO posted on Grants.gov
Matching requirements
Statutory Formula: Title Uniform Adminstractions Requirements, Part 2, Subpart E,Public Law Cost Principles.Cost Principles used 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
$10,000 to $1,500,000
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Environmental Public Health and Emergency Response (93.070) awarded$213 million across 183 grant awards, an average of $1.2 million per award.
Who usually wins
State and local governments received 73% of the money, nonprofits 12% and colleges and universities 10%.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| State and local governments | 135 | $157 million | 73% |
| Nonprofits | 21 | $25.8 million | 12% |
| Colleges and universities | 7 | $21.5 million | 10% |
| Other | 18 | $8.7 million | 4.1% |
| Tribal governments and organizations | 1 | $412,111 | 0.2% |
| Small businesses | 1 | $258,622 | 0.1% |
By state
39 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.
| State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | $15.9 million |
| California | 13 | $15.5 million |
| Michigan | 6 | $11.9 million |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $10.2 million |
| North Carolina | 5 | $10.1 million |
| New Jersey | 6 | $10.0 million |
| Virginia | 5 | $8.7 million |
| Minnesota | 7 | $8.0 million |
| Colorado | 5 | $7.7 million |
| Florida | 6 | $7.0 million |
| New Hampshire | 6 | $6.6 million |
| Wisconsin | 7 | $6.5 million |
| Kentucky | 6 | $5.3 million |
| Maine | 5 | $5.3 million |
| Rhode Island | 5 | $5.0 million |
| Iowa | 3 | $4.8 million |
| Connecticut | 5 | $4.8 million |
| Utah | 6 | $4.7 million |
| Missouri | 4 | $4.7 million |
| Oregon | 5 | $4.6 million |
| Vermont | 5 | $4.6 million |
| New Mexico | 4 | $4.3 million |
| Texas | 4 | $3.9 million |
| Arizona | 4 | $3.8 million |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | $3.7 million |
| Washington | 5 | $3.4 million |
| Maryland | 5 | $3.3 million |
| Ohio | 3 | $3.1 million |
| Louisiana | 4 | $2.9 million |
| Indiana | 3 | $2.9 million |
| Illinois | 2 | $2.6 million |
| South Carolina | 1 | $2.6 million |
| Kansas | 3 | $2.5 million |
| Tennessee | 3 | $2.3 million |
| Georgia | 2 | $2.1 million |
| Delaware | 1 | $1.7 million |
| Nebraska | 1 | $1.7 million |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | $1.6 million |
| Montana | 1 | $1.5 million |
| Nevada | 2 | $909,723 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $800,000 |
| Guam | 1 | $246,029 |
| Idaho | 1 | $127,000 |