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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation's Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) program is a discretionary grant opportunity that funds research aimed at explaining why infectious diseases spread the way they do, and how ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological forces shape transmission over time. The program is interested in both discovery-oriented work and in the development, improvement, and testing of models that can clarify the underlying rules governing disease dynamics. In practice, that means proposals should go beyond describing an outbreak or a pathogen and instead focus on the mechanisms and principles that control transmission, persistence, and change in real-world disease systems.

EEID encourages projects that examine infectious diseases affecting humans, non-human animals, or plants, across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. The scope is intentionally broad: research can focus on a single pathogen, a host-pathogen interaction, a vector system, or a full environmental system where multiple drivers interact. Topics specifically highlighted include determinants of transmission (what increases or decreases spread), pathogen movement driven by environmental conditions, vectors, or abiotic carriers, and the population ecology, demography, and genetics of reservoir species and alternative hosts. The program also explicitly values the human side of transmission, welcoming studies that incorporate cultural, social, behavioral, and economic factors that influence exposure, susceptibility, and disease control.

The types of disease systems considered a good fit include zoonotic diseases, environmentally borne infections, vector-borne diseases, and enteric diseases. The announcement emphasizes strong interest in work that matters for public health in developing countries, as well as disease challenges in agriculture and in coastal marine systems. Applicants are encouraged to connect closely with the public health research community and to build interdisciplinary teams when appropriate. Examples of relevant collaborators include epidemiologists, physicians, veterinarians, food scientists, social scientists, entomologists, pathologists, virologists, and parasitologists, reflecting the program's expectation that strong proposals may integrate field ecology, evolutionary biology, modeling, lab work, and human dimensions.

From an administrative standpoint, this is an NSF grant program (Funding Opportunity Number 11-580) with an estimated total funding level of about $15,000,000 and an expectation of roughly 9 awards. Individual awards can be as large as $2,500,000, with a nominal minimum listed as $1, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement. The opportunity is open to unrestricted applicants (subject to any eligibility clarifications in the full solicitation). The full proposal deadline is the first Wednesday in December each year; the solicitation lists December 7, 2011 as the original closing date and December 5, 2012 as the then-current closing date. The opportunity is associated with multiple CFDA numbers spanning agriculture, geosciences, biological sciences, social/behavioral/economic sciences, and biomedical and international research training, which matches the program's cross-disciplinary nature. For complete details, the announcement points to NSF Publication 11-580 and notes that Grants.gov support is available via grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov for access issues.

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