Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Strengthening Public Health through Surveillance, Epidemiologic Research, Disease Detection and Prevention (93.326)

Also known as Global Health Research

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$345 million
• Grant awards205
• Typical award$725,005
• Awarded in FY 2025$32.5 million
• Size rank461 of 1824
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements

Key findings

• Annual funding was roughly flat, $32.8 million in fiscal 2021 and $32.5 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 461st largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 54% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 59 states and territories.

What the program funds

CDC’s global health efforts are to assist Ministries of Health and other international partners to plan, effectively manage and conduct public health research in the intent of public health protection; achieve US Government program and international organization goals to improve health; including surveillance, intervention and prevention in global health programs that focus on leading causes of global health security, mortality, morbidity and disability including infectious diseases including bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases , non-communicable diseases, injury and violence, environmental health, generate and apply new knowledge to achieve public health goals and strengthen public health systems and capacity.

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

Open opportunities

• NIH, CDC and FDA Small Business Innovation Research Grant (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Optional)
  Open · Closes April 5, 2027 (156 days left) · up to not stated

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Dependent on the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), eligibility may range from open, competitive, limited or single eligibility in accordance with authorizing legislation. May include non-profit organizations who may be domestic, international or Ministries of Health. Domestic academic institutions, community organizations, universities

What the money can and cannot pay for

Applications will be externally peer reviewed and evaluated based on the evidence submitted which specifically describes the applicant's abilities to meet the following criteria: (1) the plans to develop and implement the study describing how study participants will be identified, enrolled, tested and followed; (2) the ability to enroll and follow an adequate number of eligible study participants to assure proper conduct of the study. This includes both demonstration of the availability potential study participants and the experience of the investigator in enrolling and following such persons; (3) the applicant's current activities in research, intervention and how they will be applied to achieving the objectives of the study; letters of support from cooperating organizations that demonstrate that nature and extent of such cooperation should be included; (4) the applicant's understanding of the research study objectives and, their ability, willingness and/or need to collaborate with CDC and researchers from other study sites in study design and analysis, including use of common forms, and sharing of specimens and data; (5) the plan to protect the rights and confidentiality of all participants and ensure adequate participation; (6) the size, qualifications and time allocation of the proposed staff and the availability of facilities to be used during the research study; (7) how the project will be administered to assure the proper management of the daily activities of the...

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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 from $100,000 to $7,500,000

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

Who usually wins

State and local governments received 51% of the money, nonprofits 15% and colleges and universities 11%.

By state

43 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

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