Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA EH20 20050101SUPP21
This CDC funding opportunity, offered through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), is designed to strengthen environmental health capacity across the country by helping public health agencies and partners use better data and stronger evidence to detect, prevent, and control environmental health hazards. The basic idea is to improve how communities identify environmental risks, take action to reduce them, and measure whether those actions actually work. The program is structured around three required, interconnected strategies: first, improving the use of environmental health data and information; second, identifying and addressing environmental health hazards; and third, evaluating the effectiveness and public health impact of environmental health interventions. Applicants are expected to build their project activities, objectives, and performance measures so that all three strategies are clearly addressed, rather than focusing on only one part of the cycle.
The opportunity is issued as a cooperative agreement, which generally means recipients should expect active involvement from CDC staff in areas such as technical guidance, performance monitoring, and alignment with national environmental health priorities. The funding instrument supports practical, applied public health work that can produce measurable improvements in environmental health practice and outcomes. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 93.070 and categorized as a discretionary health funding program.
Two main pilot focus areas are highlighted under Component C of the Environmental Health Capacity (EHC) project. The first pilot centers on COVID-19 community mitigation in communities that were disproportionately affected by the pandemic. The emphasis is on mitigation approaches that support behaviors and environmental conditions that reduce viral spread and maintain healthier indoor and community environments. Examples specifically mentioned include cleaning and disinfection practices, proper ventilation, and safe water systems. A key objective is to understand how mitigation strategies were actually implemented in real-world settings, where implementation may vary because of resources, housing conditions, infrastructure, workplace constraints, or local policy. The project also calls for identifying challenges and differences in implementation that may affect the ability to prevent transmission and reduce impacts among priority groups, including racial and ethnic minority populations, people with low incomes or experiencing poverty or homelessness, low-wage essential workers, and rural communities. In practice, this means the project is not only about what strategies are recommended, but also about what barriers prevent consistent adoption, what adaptations occur on the ground, and what supports are needed to improve effectiveness and equity.
The second pilot area focuses on Environmental Health Records (EHRs), specifically exploring whether environmental health record systems could be feasible and useful as a data source for faster, more complete, and more equity-focused public health surveillance and decision-making. This component highlights three related goals. First, it seeks to determine whether these records can provide access to more current data with minimal delay, using cancer diagnosis and reporting timeliness as a key example of where delays can limit public health action. Second, it examines whether environmental health records could serve as a potential source of environmental risk factor data, which is often fragmented or missing in traditional health datasets. Third, it aims to improve the completeness of sociodemographic information to better identify inequities, since gaps in demographic and social context can make it harder to see who is most affected and why. Taken together, this pilot is about modernizing and strengthening the data pipelines that connect environmental exposures, community conditions, and health outcomes, with an explicit focus on making disparities more visible and actionable.
In terms of basic funding details, the opportunity (CDC RFA EH20-2005-01SUPP21) was created on June 16, 2021, with an application deadline of July 23, 2021, and electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. ET on the closing date. The expected number of awards was 12, with an award ceiling of $250,000. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning a wide range of entity types could apply, subject to any additional eligibility notes contained in the full announcement. Overall, the grant is intended to help recipients build lasting capability: stronger environmental health data use, better hazard identification and response, and clearer measurement of which interventions work, for whom, and under what conditions.Apply for CDC RFA EH20 20050101SUPP21
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCEH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening environmental health capacity (EHC) to detect, prevent, and control environmental health hazards through data-driven, evidence-based approaches; pilot Environmental Health Records EHR/COVID-19 community mitigation" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.070.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 16, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 23, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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