Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA GH15 1627
Apply for CDC RFA GH15 1627
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Protecting and Improving Public Health Globally Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity, and Security" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.318 Protecting and Improving Health Globally Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Securit.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 15, 2015 and posted on May 15, 2015.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 30, 2015 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The funding agency has allocated a total of $157,500,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $10,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 21 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
- Government Organization Eligibility is limited to National Ministries of Health or thier Bona Fide Agents in countries where there is existing partnership with CDC, but is not limited to countries where CDC has a physical presence.
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Opportunity Summary:
This CDC funding opportunity (CDC RFA GH15-1627) is a discretionary cooperative agreement designed to help partner countries strengthen their ability to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats in line with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). The core idea is to build and reinforce practical, country-led public health systems that can stop outbreaks before they spread, pick up signals of emerging threats quickly, and mount an effective response when events occur. Rather than focusing on a single disease, the opportunity is framed around broader health security capabilities and the infrastructure needed to sustain them.
The program is organized around three major focus areas that mirror GHSA and IHR priorities. The first is preventing avoidable epidemics, which generally involves strengthening upstream protections that reduce the chance of outbreaks occurring or escalating. In practice, this can include improving immunization and other prevention strategies, enhancing biosafety and biosecurity practices, and addressing risks at the human-animal-environment interface where many emerging infections originate. The second focus area is detecting threats early, emphasizing the kinds of surveillance, laboratory systems, data reporting, and workforce capacity that allow a country to identify unusual events quickly and confirm what is happening. The third focus area is responding rapidly and effectively, which centers on preparedness and response systems such as emergency operations coordination, rapid response teams, incident management, and the ability to communicate and coordinate across sectors during a crisis. Across all three areas, the intent is to produce measurable improvements in national and subnational public health capacity that are durable beyond the life of the award.
Because this is a cooperative agreement, CDC’s role is expected to be more hands-on than in a typical grant. Cooperative agreements commonly involve substantial technical collaboration, joint planning, and ongoing engagement from the federal agency, which fits the announcement’s emphasis on working with countries and stakeholders in a collaborative effort. This structure signals that awardees should anticipate close coordination with CDC on implementation approaches, technical standards, monitoring, and alignment with GHSA/IHR benchmarks.
The opportunity anticipated 21 awards, with an estimated total funding level of $157,500,000. Individual awards could be as high as $10,000,000, and the award floor is listed as $0, indicating a range that could include smaller awards depending on country context, proposed scope, and available funds. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which reduces barriers for eligible applicants and places the financial responsibility for project costs primarily on the federal award, subject to the approved budget and cooperative agreement terms.
Eligibility is limited to government organizations, specifically National Ministries of Health or their bona fide agents, in countries where there is an existing partnership with CDC. Importantly, eligibility is not limited to countries where CDC has a physical presence, which suggests the program can support partner governments even when CDC does not maintain in-country offices, as long as an established partnership exists. This narrow eligibility reflects the nature of health security work, which often requires formal national authority, access to surveillance and laboratory networks, and coordination power that typically sits with ministries of health and official governmental counterparts.
From an administrative standpoint, the announcement was posted May 15, 2015, with an application due date of June 30, 2015. Applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date. The archive date is July 30, 2015, indicating the opportunity is historical/closed, but the details remain useful for understanding the scope, structure, and expectations of similar CDC global health security funding.
For applicants or partners seeking more information from the original posting, the listed point of contact was Herbert Kimble (cwz2@cdc.gov) in CDC Grants Policy. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a major CDC investment in national health security capacity-building, aiming to help partner countries achieve internationally recognized preparedness standards by strengthening prevention, early detection, and rapid response capabilities through sustained, government-led public health system improvements.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1) What is CDC RFA GH15-1627?
CDC RFA GH15-1627 is a CDC discretionary cooperative agreement intended to help partner countries strengthen their ability to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats in alignment with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA).
2) What is the main goal of this funding opportunity?
The main goal is to build and reinforce practical, country-led public health systems that can stop outbreaks before they spread, detect emerging threats quickly, and respond effectively when public health events occur. The emphasis is on durable improvements in public health capacity and infrastructure rather than short-term, single-disease projects.
3) Is this opportunity focused on a single disease or multiple threats?
It is not focused on a single disease. The opportunity is framed around broader health security capabilities and the public health infrastructure needed to sustain prevention, early detection, and response across a wide range of threats.
4) What are the three major focus areas of the program?
The program is organized around three focus areas that mirror GHSA and IHR priorities:
- Preventing avoidable epidemics
- Detecting threats early
- Responding rapidly and effectively
5) What kinds of activities fit under "Preventing avoidable epidemics"?
This focus area generally includes upstream protections that reduce the chance of outbreaks occurring or escalating. Examples mentioned include strengthening immunization and other prevention strategies, improving biosafety and biosecurity practices, and addressing risks at the human-animal-environment interface where many emerging infections originate.
6) What kinds of activities fit under "Detecting threats early"?
This focus area emphasizes the capabilities needed to identify unusual events quickly and confirm what is happening. The opportunity highlights strengthening surveillance, laboratory systems, data reporting, and workforce capacity that support early detection.
7) What kinds of activities fit under "Responding rapidly and effectively"?
This focus area centers on preparedness and response systems, such as emergency operations coordination, rapid response teams, incident management, and the ability to communicate and coordinate across sectors during a crisis.
8) What does CDC mean by "measurable" and "durable" improvements?
Based on the opportunity description, the intent is to produce measurable improvements in national and subnational public health capacity that are sustainable beyond the life of the award, across prevention, detection, and response systems.
9) What type of funding mechanism is this?
This is a cooperative agreement, not a standard grant.
10) What does it mean that this is a cooperative agreement?
The description indicates CDC is expected to play a more hands-on role than in a typical grant. Awardees should anticipate substantial technical collaboration, joint planning, and ongoing engagement with CDC on implementation approaches, technical standards, monitoring, and alignment with GHSA/IHR benchmarks.
11) How many awards were anticipated?
The opportunity anticipated 21 awards.
12) What was the estimated total funding level?
The estimated total funding level was $157,500,000.
13) What was the maximum award amount?
Individual awards could be as high as $10,000,000.
14) What does an award floor of $0 mean?
An award floor listed as $0 indicates the minimum award amount was not set above zero, meaning awards could potentially be smaller depending on country context, proposed scope, and available funds.
15) Was cost sharing or matching required?
No. The opportunity states there is no cost sharing or matching requirement.
16) Who was eligible to apply?
Eligibility was limited to government organizations, specifically National Ministries of Health or their bona fide agents, in countries where there is an existing partnership with CDC.
17) Does CDC need to have a physical in-country presence for a country to be eligible?
No. Eligibility was not limited to countries where CDC has a physical presence, as long as there is an established partnership with CDC.
18) Why is eligibility limited to Ministries of Health or their agents?
The opportunity description ties this narrow eligibility to the nature of health security work, which often requires formal national authority, access to surveillance and laboratory networks, and the ability to coordinate across systems that typically fall under ministries of health and official government counterparts.
19) When was the opportunity posted and when were applications due?
The announcement was posted on May 15, 2015. The application due date was June 30, 2015.
20) What time were applications due on the closing date?
Applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date.
21) Is this funding opportunity still open?
No. The archive date is listed as July 30, 2015, indicating the opportunity is historical/closed.
22) What standards or frameworks does the program align with?
The opportunity is explicitly aligned with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), with an emphasis on aligning implementation and monitoring to GHSA/IHR benchmarks.
23) What kinds of systems does the opportunity aim to strengthen?
The description emphasizes strengthening practical public health systems and infrastructure, including (as examples across the focus areas) immunization and prevention strategies, biosafety and biosecurity, surveillance, laboratories, data reporting, workforce capacity, emergency operations coordination, rapid response teams, incident management, and cross-sector communication and coordination.
24) Who was the listed point of contact for more information?
The original posting listed Herbert Kimble (CDC Grants Policy) as the point of contact at cwz2@cdc.gov.
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