Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA EH18 1802
This grant opportunity, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the CDC (National Center for Environmental Health), supports work that strengthens the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program by improving how key public health statistics are accessed, standardized, administered, and ultimately integrated into the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (the Tracking Network). The central problem it addresses is that important health and environmental data in the United States have historically been scattered across separate systems, collected for different purposes, and managed under different rules, which makes it hard to connect environmental hazards and exposures with health outcomes in a timely, consistent way. The opportunity traces its roots to the September 2000 Pew Environmental Health Commission report, which argued that existing environmental health systems were fragmented and inadequate and called for a nationwide tracking network that could follow diseases and exposures. Congress subsequently funded CDC beginning in FY 2002 to establish and sustain the Tracking Program and Tracking Network, and this cooperative agreement is part of the continued effort to build out that national infrastructure.
The Tracking Network itself is described as an integrated surveillance system that brings together health, exposure, and hazard data from national, state, and local sources into a nationally standardized format. Its value is that it helps produce accurate, timely, and comparable information that public health and environmental agencies can use to spot patterns over time and geography, identify communities most affected, and design or evaluate policies and interventions intended to prevent or reduce disease linked to environmental factors. By making these datasets more accessible and consistent, the network also supports researchers, health officials, clinicians, and the public in understanding potential links between environmental conditions and adverse health outcomes and using that information for practical decision-making.
A major emphasis of this particular funding announcement is on improving access to existing statewide electronic hospital discharge data and emergency department data, and reducing barriers that prevent those datasets from being shared and used efficiently. Hospital and emergency department datasets are often among the most important sources for tracking environmentally related health conditions (for example, asthma exacerbations, heat-related illness, carbon monoxide poisoning, and other conditions that may show up in acute care settings). However, these data are typically controlled by different state-level data agencies, shaped by a mix of legal mandates and voluntary reporting arrangements, and governed by varying data use agreements, privacy rules, and administrative processes. The grant focuses on the practical work needed to make access more consistent and workable across states so the data can be used more quickly and more uniformly for tracking purposes.
The announcement also makes clear that this effort is not starting from scratch. It explicitly builds on prior CDC work under an earlier funding opportunity (CDC-RFA-EH15-1502), continuing the push to facilitate interstate data sharing, improve the timeliness of data availability, and develop standards and principles for managing and integrating public health statistics into the Tracking Network. One example of progress from the prior effort is the creation of state data agency profiles. These profiles document which agency in each state is responsible for collecting hospital data, what type of agency it is, whether data collection is required by law or voluntary (including links to relevant statutes), what data systems are maintained, and where to find agency websites and reports. That kind of standardized, cross-state reference material reduces friction for public health practitioners who need to understand how to request data, how long it may take, what restrictions apply, and what level of data detail is available.
In terms of administrative details, this is a discretionary cooperative agreement (meaning CDC expects substantial involvement or collaboration during the project, rather than a hands-off grant). It falls under CFDA 93.070 and is categorized under health funding activities. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning applications are open broadly to entity types, subject to any clarifications in the full eligibility section of the notice. The funding opportunity number is CDC RFA EH18 1802. The posted award ceiling is $125,000, and CDC anticipated making one award. The notice was created May 1, 2018, with an original application deadline of July 3, 2018 (electronically submitted applications due by 5:00 p.m. ET).
Overall, the opportunity is best understood as targeted capacity-building for the Tracking Network: it seeks to make high-value clinical utilization datasets (hospital discharge and emergency department data) easier to obtain, faster to use, and more consistent to integrate across jurisdictions, while also advancing the shared standards and practical operating principles needed to bring diverse public health statistics into a single national system that can reliably inform environmental public health action.Apply for CDC RFA EH18 1802
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCEH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Developing Standards and Principles to Effectively Administer and Integrate Public Health Statistics into the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network" 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 May 01, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 03, 2018 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 500 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 $125,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 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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