Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA IP 16 004
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Division of Viral Diseases, Epidemiology Branch, announced a competitive cooperative agreement to build and sustain a US network of pediatric medical institutions focused on enhanced surveillance for vaccine-preventable and potentially vaccine-preventable diseases. The project was structured as a 5-year effort beginning in FY2016, with a planned period of performance from September 1, 2016 through August 31, 2021. The core idea was to fund sites that could carry out prospective, active surveillance in real-world clinical environments, especially inpatient units and emergency departments, while also including healthy control populations to strengthen comparisons and interpretation.
The surveillance work centered on two major clinical syndromes in children: acute gastroenteritis (AGE) and acute respiratory illness (ARI), with a strong emphasis on influenza and other viral respiratory pathogens. Rather than limiting the program to a single organism, the grant aimed to support broad, pathogen-inclusive testing and monitoring across a wide spectrum of AGE, ARI, and influenza-related agents. By doing that, the network would function as a principal national pediatric platform for tracking disease trends, identifying emerging or shifting pathogens, and generating evidence that can guide vaccination and therapeutic decisions.
A major expected output of the program was high-quality evaluation of vaccine effectiveness for vaccines already in use, using data derived from active surveillance and carefully defined patient populations. At the same time, the program was designed to help the public health community prepare for upcoming or newly introduced vaccines by documenting disease burden and describing the natural history of infections that might soon become vaccine targets. In practical terms, this includes understanding how often children get sick, how severe illness tends to be, who is most at risk, how cases cluster over time and place, and what clinical outcomes look like before and after new prevention tools are introduced.
Beyond basic counts of illness, the opportunity explicitly called for work that improves understanding of pediatric infectious disease transmission dynamics and that informs vaccination and therapeutic policy development. The network structure also positioned awardees to assess vaccine impact in specific populations, including targeted and vulnerable groups, and to consider how socioeconomic and microbiological factors shape disease risk and the success of interventions. In other words, the program was not just about lab confirmation of viruses, but also about building the evidence base needed to make better public health decisions for children across different communities and settings.
Administratively, the funding mechanism was a cooperative agreement, which typically means substantial CDC involvement in technical direction and collaboration during the project period, rather than a hands-off grant relationship. The opportunity was listed as discretionary funding in the health category, under CFDA 93.185, and was open to a broad range of applicants including state, local, and tribal governments; public and private institutions of higher education; school districts; special district governments; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; and nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status, as well as other eligible entities.
The funding announcement set an award ceiling of $1,000,000 per award and anticipated making about 7 awards. It also included two strict application constraints: proposed activities could not overlap with research already funded under other awards held by the applicant, and any application requesting funds above the stated ceiling would be disqualified from peer review and therefore could not be funded. The original application closing date was January 15, 2016, and the announcement was created on November 13, 2015, under Funding Opportunity Number RFA IP 16 004.Apply for RFA IP 16 004
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Enhanced Surveillance for New Vaccine Preventable Diseases" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.185.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2015-11-13.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-01-15. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 7 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: 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 that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.
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| Spatially Scalable Integrated Tick Vector/Rodent Reservoir Management to Reduce Human Risk of Exposure to Ixodes scapularis Ticks Infected with Lyme Disease Spirochetes Apply for RFA CK 16 002 Funding Number: RFA CK 16 002 Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA Category: Health Funding Amount: $300,000 |
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| Reinforcing Capacity at Two Centers of Excellence to Sustain the Delivery of Comprehensive HIV Clinical Services in Haiti under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Apply for CDC RFA GH16 1680 Funding Number: CDC RFA GH16 1680 Agency: Centers for Disease Control - CGH Category: Health Funding Amount: $3,000,000 |
| Strengthening Health Management Information Systems, Data Use and Data Quality in the Republic of Zimbabwe under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Apply for CDC RFA GH16 1674 Funding Number: CDC RFA GH16 1674 Agency: Centers for Disease Control - CGH Category: Health Funding Amount: $1,500,000 |
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| Building Capacity to Deliver High Quality HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Services for Key Populations and People Living with HIV in the Caribbean Region under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Apply for CDC RFA GH16 1607 Funding Number: CDC RFA GH16 1607 Agency: Centers for Disease Control - CGH Category: Health Funding Amount: $1,036,000 |
| HIV Surveillance for Epidemic Control in Malawi under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Apply for CDC RFA GH16 1629 Funding Number: CDC RFA GH16 1629 Agency: Centers for Disease Control - CGH Category: Health Funding Amount: $700,000 |
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