Deadline: 15-Jul-2024
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is pleased to announce a call for proposal for the Rural Maternal Health Data Support and Analysis program to provide data support to rural maternal health care networks to assist them in their efforts to improve maternal health care at the community- and regional-levels.
Understanding the rural maternal health landscape and the impact of various interventions is crucial to informing efforts to reduce disparities between rural and urban areas. Rural providers, policymakers, and the public need high-quality data and analysis to understand what works in rural maternal health care to improve pregnancy- and birthing- outcomes in rural communities nationwide. A comprehensive approach to data is particularly important to coordinate across the multiple entities involved in maternal health care including clinicians, hospitals, outpatient clinics, academic medical centers, payers, social service providers, and more.
Program Objectives
- The goal of the program is to:
- Increase capacity of rural maternal health care networks to: 1) collect and report data related to maternal health, obstetrics, and post-birth outcomes including infant health and 2) use this data to assess performance and identify promising practices in implementing sustainable models designed to improve health care during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.
- Enhance public awareness and understanding, through data analysis and dissemination of findings, of: 1) the unique considerations associated with delivering prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum services to rural areas and 2) opportunities for improving rural maternal health care.
Funding Information
- They estimate $750,000 will be available each year to fund 1 recipient. You may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $750,000 annually (reflecting direct and indirect costs).
- The period of performance is September 30, 2024, through September 29, 2028 (4 years).
- Support beyond the first budget year will depend on:
- Appropriation
- Satisfactory progress in meeting the project’s objectives
- A decision that continued funding is in the government’s best interest
Program Activities
- Aside from monitoring and technical assistance (TA), they also get involved in these ways:
- Consulting in the planning, development, and implementation of technical assistance (TA) provided to rural maternal health care networks to support the collection, use, and assessment of qualitative and quantitative data.
- Providing technical assistance to the recipient, upon request, on processes for the identification or selection of rural maternal health care networks to receive direct data support TA under this award.
- Reviewing and commenting on project design and methodology for collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data in work plan proposals.
- Consulting in the planning and development of the annual work plan, including consulting in the data analysis projects and rapid data analyses.
- Facilitating the use of HRSA and FORHP-supported communications resources as needed to support the cooperative agreement.
- Reviewing and providing feedback and recommendations on data TA and analysis work products, including but not limited to presentations, program documents (e.g., program plans, work plans, budget, contracts, key personnel), reports, briefs, and manuscripts, prior to implementation or dissemination.
- Consulting in the planning and implementation of any meetings, webinars, or work groups conducted by the award recipient during the period of performance.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply if your organization is in the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau, and is one of the following:
- Public or private (nonprofit or for-profit) organizations
- Native American tribal governments
- Native American tribal organizations, nonprofit or for-profit
- They may not consider an application for funding if it contains any of the following non responsive criteria:
- Exceeds the funding ceiling amount
- Fails to satisfy the deadline requirements
For more information, visit Grants.gov.