Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA GH21 2177
This funding opportunity, titled "Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Systems, Capacity and Security - Advancing Regional Health Security for Prevention and Control of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases in the Caribbean" (Funding Opportunity Number: CDC RFA GH21-2177), is a CDC Center for Global Health cooperative agreement designed to strengthen regional health security in the Caribbean. The focus is on building stronger public health systems that can prevent, detect, and respond to health threats, with CARPHA (the Caribbean Public Health Agency) positioned as the central regional partner for improving surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, and emergency preparedness and response across participating countries.
At its core, the program aims to improve CARPHA's ability to run and support robust communicable disease surveillance mechanisms, expand and modernize diagnostic testing capacity, and increase preparedness and response capability for public health events, including events considered significant to health security. While COVID-19 is explicitly referenced as an urgent priority, the scope extends beyond the pandemic to other communicable diseases and also non-communicable diseases, reflecting the region's need to manage both outbreak-driven threats and ongoing population health burdens using stronger, more integrated public health infrastructure.
The opportunity lays out several key achievement markers. One major marker is the development and strengthening of national and regional capacity to analyze and link data across surveillance systems. This includes improving the ability to integrate epidemiologic and laboratory data, which is essential for tracking how diseases are introduced and how they spread within and across borders. The emphasis on linking data implies work such as improving interoperability between information systems, strengthening data management and analytics, improving reporting timeliness and completeness, and building the workforce skills and standard operating procedures needed to turn raw surveillance inputs into actionable intelligence for public health decision-making.
A second major marker is improved laboratory capacity to support effective diagnosis. This is framed as a practical requirement for containing outbreaks, including COVID-19, and for improving detection and management of other communicable and non-communicable diseases. In practice, this kind of objective typically involves strengthening laboratory quality systems, expanding testing platforms and methods, improving specimen referral and transport systems, ensuring reliable supply chains for reagents and consumables, enhancing biosafety and biosecurity practices, and building or reinforcing external quality assessment and accreditation-aligned processes. The goal is not only more testing, but better and faster diagnostics that can guide containment measures and clinical and public health interventions.
A third marker is strengthened outbreak response capacity, with attention to coordinating earlier responses to serious cross-border health threats, including Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEICs). The NOFO highlights enhancing CARPHA's ability to provide technical assistance, including the deployment and support of rapid response teams. This signals investment in operational readiness: clearer incident management structures, response protocols, surge staffing, field epidemiology support, risk communication and coordination functions, and mechanisms for quickly mobilizing expertise and resources to affected areas. The overall intention is to reduce the time between detection and action and to improve the consistency and effectiveness of response efforts across the region.
Administratively, the opportunity is offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Agency: CDC-CGH), as a discretionary cooperative agreement, meaning the CDC expects to have substantial involvement during implementation rather than acting only as a pass-through funder. The CFDA number listed is 93.318. The notice was created May 26, 2021, with an original application due date of July 25, 2021 (with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time). The listing indicates an expectation of a single award. The award ceiling is shown as 0 in the posted data, which often reflects a posting or formatting issue rather than a literal lack of funding, but the public listing itself does not provide a definitive maximum amount.
In summary, this grant opportunity is structured to improve Caribbean regional health security by strengthening CARPHA's surveillance data systems, boosting laboratory diagnostic capacity, and enhancing outbreak preparedness and response, including rapid technical assistance for major health emergencies. The end result the CDC is seeking is a regional public health system that can identify threats sooner, confirm them faster through reliable diagnostics, and respond more quickly and effectively to limit spread and protect population health.Apply for CDC RFA GH21 2177
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Systems, Capacity and Security - Advancing Regional Health Security for Prevention and Control of Communicable & Non-Communicable Diseases in the Caribbean" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.318.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 26, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 25, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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