The Centers for Disease Control – NCBDDD is soliciting proposals for its Pregnant People-Infant Linked Longitudinal Surveillance Program.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control – NCBDDD
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,350,000
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to sustain, improve, and expand surveillance efforts from clinical sites and health departments related to pregnant people-infant linked longitudinal data to ensure availability of timely, high-quality, modern, and efficient surveillance data related to reporting of key exposures and outcomes that impact pregnant people, infants, and children. These efforts can be used to improve public health strategies, innovate clinical recommendations, and identify novel findings.
Strategies and Activities
All Components A, B, and C:
- Coordinate with CDC and recipients of other components to identify opportunities for collaboration, improve data quality, and disseminate findings Engage in data modernization initiatives
- Establish collaborations with internal and external program partners to strengthen data collection and translation of data
- Routinely monitor and evaluate data for completeness, accuracy, and time
- Use data for prevention activities
Component A Only
Access, extract, and abstract electronic health record (EHR) data from pregnant person infant dyads from pregnancy through six years of age for surveillance and submit data to CDC
Component B Only
- Conduct surveillance for pregnant person infant dyads using standardized surveillance case definitions or surveillance guidance and submit data to CDC
- Improve monitoring of infants and children to assess long-term outcomes
Component C
- Only Advance interoperability and data infrastructure, develop and revise data schemas, and prepare datasets for analysis and reporting
- Post-processing of data from components A and B and provide technical assistance to those recipients
- Evaluate data flow from clinical and health department sites in general to CDC to provide recommendations for improvement.
Funding information
Total Period of Performance Funding: $20,000,0
Components A-C – estimated funding ranges and approximate average award per budget year
- A: $300,000 – $500,000 = $400,000
- B: $320,000 – $800,000 = $560,000
- C: $700,000 – $2,000,000 = $1,350,000
Period of Performance Length
4 year(s)
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
Additional Eligibility Category:
- Government Organizations:
- State (includes the District of Columbia)
- Local governments or their bona fide agents Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
- State controlled institutions of higher education
- American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)
- American Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations
- Other:
- Private colleges and universities
- Community-based organizations
- Faith-based organizations
`Additional Information on Eligibility
- Eligible applicants must have the public health authority, legislative mandate or otherwise show legal access to the requisite data to conduct clinic or population-based surveillance. This authority allows unique and specific access to datasets from multiple data sources that are required to implement the activities outlined in this NOFO. This may be an MOU, letter of support, or other legal documentation to demonstrate public health authority, legislative mandate, or legal access to the data. Eligible applicants must document this authority in “Other Attachment Forms” with attachment name “Legal Authority” as a PDF uploaded to www.grants.gov. CDC will consider any application that does not include this required documentation as non-responsive, and it will receive no further review.
- A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application. If applying as a Bona Fide Agent of a state government, a letter from the state government as documentation of the status is required and should be submitted under “Other Attachment Forms” with attachment name “Bona Fide Agent.” If the Bona Fide Agent attachment does not specify legal authority, the applicant must include an attachment named “Legal Authority” in “Other Attachment Forms”.
- The NOFO has three components: A, B, and C. Eligible applicants may only apply for Component A, Component B, or Component C. If an applicant submits multiple applications, all applications will be deemed non-responsive, and none will receive further review. In the “Descriptive Title of Applicant’s Project” on the SF-424 form, applicants must identify the component to which they are applying
For more information, visit Grants.gov.