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Opportunity Summary:

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) (U01) funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number RFA DP 11 001) is a CDC discretionary grant offered as a cooperative agreement to help state-level public health agencies produce reliable, state-specific data that can be used to shape and improve perinatal health programs and policies. The central idea is to strengthen and standardize surveillance on maternal behaviors, experiences, and health factors that occur before, during, and shortly after pregnancy, including the early infancy period. By supporting this kind of ongoing, population-based data collection, the program aims to give states practical evidence they can use to target interventions, evaluate services, and respond more quickly to emerging maternal and infant health concerns.

This FOA focuses on three main areas of work. First, it supports states in establishing or maintaining a state-specific, population-based surveillance system that captures selected maternal behaviors and experiences around pregnancy and early infancy. In practice, that means building or sustaining the operational capacity to systematically collect and analyze information directly from mothers, producing data that complements what is found in birth certificates, clinical records, or administrative datasets. Second, it allows states to implement a point-in-time surveillance project, described as a one-time effort tied to a specific birth year, where women are surveyed about selected maternal behaviors and experiences. This option is meant for states that may not be positioned to sustain ongoing surveillance at full scale but can conduct a focused project to answer urgent questions or fill a key data gap. Third, the FOA encourages expanding surveillance for special populations to address emerging public health issues, which signals an emphasis on flexibility and the ability to tailor data collection to groups that may be at higher risk, underrepresented in standard systems, or newly affected by changing conditions.

The opportunity sits within the CDC health activity category and is associated with CFDA number 93.946, identified as cooperative agreements supporting state-based safe motherhood and infant health initiative programs. There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement, which generally reduces the financial barrier to participation and allows eligible public agencies and partners to focus resources on staffing, survey administration, data management, and use of findings. The award ceiling is listed as 200,000 dollars, and the award floor is listed as 0, indicating that budgets could vary by applicant scope and that funding levels may depend on the proposed activities and available appropriations.

Eligibility is geared toward governmental and quasi-governmental entities involved in public health surveillance and maternal-child health programming. Eligible applicants include federally recognized or state recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments, tribal epidemiology centers, and state and local governments or their bona fide agents. The FOA explicitly includes U.S. territories and freely associated states in its definition of state and local governments, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. For organizations applying as a bona fide agent on behalf of a state or local government, the FOA requires documentation in the form of a letter from the state or local government confirming that status, submitted with the application (as an attachment behind the first page for paper submissions or as a PDF labeled appropriately for electronic submissions). This requirement is important because it clarifies who is authorized to apply and ensures the project is aligned with official public health functions.

From an administrative standpoint, the FOA was posted on December 1, 2010, with an original and current closing date of January 20, 2011. Applications had to be submitted through Grants.gov and successfully validated by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline date, which highlights that timely submission was defined not just by upload but by system validation. The opportunity was archived on February 19, 2011. The sponsoring agency is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and questions about accessing the full announcement could be directed to the CDC Procurement and Grants Office, Technical Information and Management Section (TIMS), via phone at 770-488-2700, with a general email contact referenced but not fully listed in the provided text.

Overall, PRAMS (U01) is essentially a surveillance capacity-building and data-generation program. It is designed to help states and eligible public entities collect actionable, mother-reported information about behaviors and experiences that influence pregnancy outcomes and infant health, and to use that information to guide decisions in public health practice. By emphasizing both ongoing surveillance and one-time targeted projects, as well as the ability to expand data collection to special populations, the FOA supports a mix of stability and adaptability in how jurisdictions monitor and respond to maternal and infant health needs.

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