Deadline: 13-Mar-25
The Centers for Disease Control – NCIRD is pleased to announce the Vaccine-Preventable Disease Prevention and Response Program to support public health systems to protect people and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases by equitably increasing access, confidence, and demand for vaccines.
Priority Strategies
- Activities in this funding opportunity are included within the following seven priority strategies:
- Strengthen Program Infrastructure and Management: Invest in the critical people and the equitable distribution of resources needed to maintain and strengthen the nation’s immunization infrastructure.
- Increase Vaccine Access: Ensure that all communities and populations have equitable access to vaccines. This opportunity invests in programs that identify and prioritize populations of focus, and their defined needs, based on:
- Disparate vaccine coverage rates associated with structural and social conditions.
- Unique and intersectional geographic, sociodemographic, and other characteristics.
- Improve Vaccination Equity: Support efforts to reduce disparities in vaccinations and pursue equitable distribution and administration of vaccines. This opportunity invests in programs that focus on:
- Knowledge-building regarding disparities in vaccination coverage.
- Collaboration with trusted community partners.
- Increasing uptake across communities.
- Promote Vaccine Confidence and Demand: Invest in increasing trust, confidence, and demand for vaccines across communities.
- Enhance Data and Evaluation: Invest in enhancing existing data systems and creating new tools to improve the quality of data and of program outcomes.
- Strengthen Program Support for Partners: Invest in enabling and building partner capacity in immunization across the country. This opportunity builds and leverages strong networks of partners and increases collaboration opportunities to help advance vaccine confidence, equity, and demand activities.
- Enhance Vaccination Response Readiness: Invest in improved systems, data, and capabilities to respond to emerging threats and improve readiness across the nation.
- Component 2: Rapid small-scale response to VPD outbreaks or other public health emergencies.
- Component 3: Rapid large-scale response to VPD outbreaks or other public health emergencies.
Funding Information
- Expected total program funding over the performance period: $2,000,000,000
- Expected total program funding per budget period: $400,000,000
- Expected average award amount per budget period: $6,060,606
- They plan to award projects for 5 12-month budget periods for 5-year period of performance.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only these types of organizations may apply. State, territorial, local, and tribal government organizations may also opt to select a bona fide agent to apply on their behalf.
- State governments.
- County governments.
- City or township governments.
- Special district governments.
- Territorial governments and Freely Associated States.
- Eligible applicants include:
- The 51 state health departments or their bona fide agents, including the District of Columbia.
- Local health agencies or their bona fide agents, if they serve a city population of 1.4 million or more (i.e., Chicago, Houston, New York City, Philadelphia, San Antonio).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.