Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA CE13 1312
Apply for CDC RFA CE13 1312
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Development of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) CDC RFA CE09 904" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.136 Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 18, 2013 and posted on Jun 18, 2013.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 22, 2013. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The funding agency has allocated a total of $1,066,552.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $255,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
- Five states, Michigan, Kentucky, New Mexico, Utah and Ohio were previously funded to implement NVDRS in 2009. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is limited to these states 1) to provide comparable data from a group of states over time, therefore, allowing national, state and local public health agencies to assess trends more quickly 2) to maintain the infrastructure that has already been created to collect violent deaths and 3) to maximize the public health expenditures by building on current experience and work.
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Opportunity Summary:
This CDC funding opportunity, titled "Development of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) CDC RFA CE09 904" (Funding Opportunity Number CDC RFA CE13 1312), is a one-year cooperative agreement designed to help participating states maintain and expand their ability to collect, manage, and share high-quality surveillance data on violent deaths. The central goal is to strengthen the timeliness, completeness, and usefulness of statewide violent death data so public health and prevention partners can better understand patterns and circumstances of violent deaths and use that evidence to inform prevention strategies. The announcement emphasizes that building and sustaining this data infrastructure supports the broader national objective of reducing and preventing violent deaths in the United States and advancing systematic violent death surveillance across all 50 states.
The program is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning the CDC is expected to have substantial involvement with awardees compared with a standard grant. While the specific roles are not detailed in the excerpt, cooperative agreements typically involve CDC collaboration on programmatic direction, technical assistance, data standards, and performance monitoring to ensure states collect data in a consistent manner that can be rolled up into a national system. The funding activity category is Health, and the CFDA listing is 93.136 (Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs). There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which reduces the financial barrier for the eligible applicants and keeps the focus on implementation and data quality.
Eligibility is limited and highly specific. Only five states are allowed to apply: Michigan, Kentucky, New Mexico, Utah, and Ohio. These states were previously funded in 2009 to implement NVDRS, and the CDC explicitly restricts eligibility to them for three reasons: to preserve comparability of data over time in a consistent group of states (so trends can be assessed more quickly and reliably), to maintain the infrastructure already created for violent death data collection, and to maximize prior public health investments by building on existing experience and work rather than starting from scratch. In other words, this opportunity is about sustaining and extending an established system in places that already have it operating, not onboarding brand-new states.
Award scale and competition details are straightforward. The CDC expected to make five awards, aligning with the five eligible states. Total estimated funding for the program is $1,066,552. Individual awards were projected to fall between an award floor of $170,000 and an award ceiling of $255,000. The opportunity was posted and created on June 18, 2013, with an application deadline of July 22, 2013, and an archive date of August 21, 2013, which signals that it was a time-limited competition for that one-year budget period.
The required work is focused on maintaining comprehensive case-level surveillance while also pushing the system toward more timely, near-current reporting. Applicants are expected to complete ongoing collection of a comprehensive dataset covering all violent deaths occurring in 2012, and that 2012 dataset must be compiled using three required data sources: death certificates, coroner or medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports. This three-source requirement is significant because NVDRS is designed to be a linked, multi-source surveillance system. Each source contributes unique details: death certificates provide standardized mortality information, medical examiner or coroner reports add autopsy and investigative findings, and law enforcement reports contribute incident context and investigative details. Requiring all three sources for 2012 reinforces completeness and the ability to reconcile discrepancies across records, which improves data accuracy and analytic value.
Beyond completing 2012 with full source coverage, the FOA prioritizes timeliness by requiring preliminary data collection for all violent deaths occurring in 2013 from at least one of the sources (death certificate, coroner/medical examiner, or law enforcement). This preliminary collection must include the abstractor-assigned manner of death, which indicates that trained abstractors are expected to make a standardized determination within the NVDRS framework even if full documentation from every source is not yet available. The approach reflects a practical surveillance strategy: states maintain a fully documented year (2012) while also ensuring more current-year visibility (2013) to support earlier detection of emerging issues and faster public health response, with the understanding that the 2013 records may be less complete initially and may be supplemented later.
The opportunity also pushes awardees to begin moving into 2014 by initiating data collection on a portion of violent deaths occurring between January 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014. Even though it is only a portion of cases during that four-month window, this requirement signals an expectation that states are developing the operational capacity for more real-time or near-real-time surveillance and can start capturing early-year incidents while the year is still in progress. Taken together, the three timeframes create a pipeline: finalize a fully comprehensive prior year (2012), establish a preliminary but statewide view of the next year (2013), and begin early capture of the current year (early 2014). That sequencing is aimed at balancing data completeness with timeliness, which is a constant tradeoff in surveillance systems.
From a public health outcomes perspective, the CDC frames NVDRS as a tool to support prevention by making violent death data more actionable. By collecting and disseminating accurate, timely, and comprehensive information, states can better identify who is most affected, the circumstances leading up to deaths, geographic or demographic patterns, and potential points for intervention. Although the excerpt does not list specific dissemination requirements, it explicitly includes dissemination as part of the purpose, suggesting that recipients are expected not only to gather and manage data but also to make it usable for stakeholders such as state and local health departments, injury and violence prevention programs, and other partners working to reduce suicides, homicides, deaths of undetermined intent, legal intervention deaths, and other categories typically tracked within NVDRS.
Administrative details include that the sponsoring agency is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The notice also provides a support contact for technical issues accessing the full announcement: the CDC Procurement and Grants Office, Technical Information Management Section (TIMS), reachable by phone at 770-488-2700 or email at pgotim@cdc.gov. The listing notes that the additional information link in the posting is not active and instructs users to click the full announcement at the top of the page to access the full FOA, which is a practical detail for applicants navigating the application materials.
Overall, this FOA is best understood as a short-duration, targeted continuation and capacity-building investment in five previously funded NVDRS states. It aims to preserve the integrity of multi-source violent death surveillance for a completed historical year, accelerate the availability of newer data through preliminary abstraction for the subsequent year, and demonstrate readiness for early current-year data capture. The intended payoff is stronger, more comparable violent death surveillance data that can be used more quickly to track trends and guide violence prevention efforts at state and national levels.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the title of this CDC funding opportunity?
The opportunity is titled "Development of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) CDC RFA CE09 904."
What is the Funding Opportunity Number?
The Funding Opportunity Number listed is CDC RFA CE13 1312.
What type of funding mechanism is this?
This is a one-year cooperative agreement. A cooperative agreement generally means CDC is expected to have substantial involvement with awardees (for example, collaboration around programmatic direction, technical assistance, data standards, and performance monitoring), rather than operating like a standard grant with less federal involvement.
What is the main purpose of the award?
The central purpose is to help participating states maintain and expand their ability to collect, manage, and share high-quality surveillance data on violent deaths through NVDRS. The CDC emphasizes improving the timeliness, completeness, and usefulness of statewide violent death data so partners can better understand patterns and circumstances of violent deaths and use that evidence to inform prevention strategies.
What public health area does this funding fall under?
The funding activity category is Health.
What CFDA program is associated with this opportunity?
The CFDA listing is 93.136, "Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs."
Is cost sharing or matching required?
No. The opportunity states there is no cost sharing or matching requirement.
Who is eligible to apply?
Eligibility is limited to five states only: Michigan, Kentucky, New Mexico, Utah, and Ohio.
Why is eligibility restricted to only these five states?
The CDC restricts eligibility because these states were previously funded in 2009 to implement NVDRS. The stated reasons for limiting eligibility are: (1) preserving comparability of data over time within a consistent group of states so trends can be assessed more quickly and reliably, (2) maintaining the infrastructure already created for violent death data collection, and (3) maximizing prior public health investments by building on existing experience rather than starting from scratch.
How many awards did CDC expect to make?
CDC expected to make five awards, aligning with the five eligible states.
What is the total estimated funding available?
The total estimated funding for the program is $1,066,552.
What is the expected award amount per recipient?
Projected individual awards were expected to range from an award floor of $170,000 to an award ceiling of $255,000.
How long is the project period?
The award is described as a one-year cooperative agreement.
When was the opportunity posted and when were applications due?
The opportunity was posted/created on June 18, 2013. The application deadline was July 22, 2013.
Is this opportunity still open?
No. The listing includes an archive date of August 21, 2013, indicating it was a time-limited competition associated with that one-year budget period.
What is the core work recipients are expected to perform?
The work focuses on maintaining comprehensive case-level violent death surveillance while improving timeliness and near-current reporting. Recipients are expected to collect, manage, and support sharing/dissemination of high-quality violent death surveillance data.
What data must be completed for violent deaths occurring in 2012?
Applicants are expected to complete ongoing collection of a comprehensive dataset covering all violent deaths occurring in 2012.
What sources are required for the 2012 dataset?
The 2012 dataset must be compiled using three required data sources: death certificates, coroner or medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports.
Why does the FOA require all three data sources for 2012?
NVDRS is designed as a linked, multi-source surveillance system, and each source contributes different information: death certificates provide standardized mortality information, medical examiner or coroner reports add autopsy and investigative findings, and law enforcement reports provide incident context and investigative details. Using all three sources supports completeness, helps reconcile discrepancies across records, and improves data accuracy and analytic value.
What is required for violent deaths occurring in 2013?
The FOA requires preliminary data collection for all violent deaths occurring in 2013 from at least one source (death certificate, coroner/medical examiner, or law enforcement).
Does preliminary 2013 collection need information beyond basic case capture?
Yes. The preliminary 2013 collection must include the abstractor-assigned manner of death.
What does "abstractor-assigned manner of death" mean in this context?
Based on the information provided, it indicates trained abstractors are expected to make a standardized determination of manner of death within the NVDRS framework even when full documentation from every source may not yet be available for 2013 cases.
What is required for violent deaths occurring in early 2014?
Awardees are expected to initiate data collection on a portion of violent deaths occurring between January 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014.
Why does the FOA include three different timeframes (2012, 2013, and early 2014)?
The requirements create a pipeline that balances completeness and timeliness: finalize a fully comprehensive year (2012) using all required sources, establish a more current (but preliminary) statewide view for 2013 using at least one source plus abstractor-assigned manner of death, and demonstrate readiness for early capture of current-year incidents (early 2014).
What kinds of violent deaths are intended to be informed by NVDRS data?
The excerpt describes NVDRS as supporting prevention partners working to reduce and prevent violent deaths and notes categories typically tracked within NVDRS, including suicides, homicides, deaths of undetermined intent, legal intervention deaths, and other related categories.
What outcomes does CDC expect this funding to support?
CDC frames NVDRS as a tool that makes violent death data more actionable by improving accuracy, timeliness, and completeness. This supports identifying who is most affected, understanding circumstances leading up to deaths, detecting geographic or demographic patterns, and identifying potential points for intervention to guide violence prevention efforts at state and national levels.
Does the opportunity mention dissemination or sharing of data?
Yes. The purpose statement includes helping states collect, manage, and share high-quality surveillance data and notes that strengthening data infrastructure supports prevention partners. While specific dissemination requirements are not detailed in the excerpt, dissemination is explicitly included as part of the purpose.
Which federal agency is sponsoring this opportunity?
The sponsoring agency is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Who should applicants contact for technical issues accessing the full announcement?
The support contact listed for technical issues is the CDC Procurement and Grants Office, Technical Information Management Section (TIMS). Phone: 770-488-2700. Email: pgotim@cdc.gov.
What should users do if the additional information link is not active?
The posting notes that the additional information link is not active and instructs users to click the full announcement at the top of the page to access the full FOA.
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