Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (The PHIT Workforce Development Program) (93.355)

Also known as The PHIT Workforce Development Program

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$75.3 million
• Grant awards10
• Typical award$8.6 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank890 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements

Key findings

• It is the 890th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 10 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 9 states and territories.

What the program funds

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has created the Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program. This program aims to increase the number of public health professionals trained in informatics and technology, with an emphasis on improving public health reporting through modern standards and computing. ONC anticipates awarding $75 million to train individuals to help modernize the nation’s public health data infrastructure, with a focus on recruiting participants from minority serving institutions (MSIs). MSIs will receive funding priority for this opportunity. Through an interdisciplinary approach to data science and managing public health information, the program will build capacity of MSIs to educate and diversify the public health workforce of the future.

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

This funding opportunity is open to accredited colleges and universities with terminal degrees in the United States. Only consortium-based approaches will be considered for this program, and applications must include letters of intent from proposed consortia members. In order to diversify the public health informatics and technology workforce and to increase the number of underrepresented minority professionals, the lead applicant in the consortium should be an MSI with an existing computer science, information science, biomedical technology, public health, health informatics, or similar program. Non-MSI institutions with a strong track record of graduating underrepresented minority students may also apply, but must include at least one MSI as a consortium member. Funding priority will be given to consortia that have an MSI lead

What the money can and cannot pay for

Sub recipients,Contract, Subcontracts Funds under this announcement cannot be used for the following purposes: • To purchase or improve land, or to purchase, construct, or make permanent improvements to any building • Any pre award costs ;

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

Aug 11, 2021

Award range and average, in the agency's words

There has been $75,000,000 allocated for FY21 for these awards. We estimate that we will issue up to 30 cooperative agreements total; the award amounts will be up to $10,000,000. The award amount will be determined upon the documentation, scope, and strength of the application.

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

Colleges and universities received 97% of the money.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

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