Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA GH 20 005
This funding opportunity, titled "Conducting Public Health Research in South America" (RFA GH 20 005), is a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cooperative agreement designed to support applied public health research, surveillance, and laboratory work across multiple South American countries. The overall goal is not just to generate data, but to actively conduct and monitor epidemiologic and lab-based projects that improve real-world disease detection, prevention, and response systems in the region. The work is intended to cover a broad set of high-priority infectious disease and public health threats, with flexibility to address locally important issues as they emerge.
The geographic scope is explicitly regional and includes Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Ecuador. Within these countries, the program emphasizes core public health functions such as disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and laboratory-supported research. Priority topic areas named in the announcement include acute febrile illness, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and hospital-acquired infections, respiratory infections including influenza, and enteric illnesses, while also leaving room for other threats of local importance. In practice, this means applicants would be expected to design and implement projects that can detect and characterize pathogens, track transmission and disease burden, and strengthen the evidence base needed for effective interventions.
A central theme of the announcement is translation of findings into operational public health action. The CDC is looking for efforts where research and surveillance results are fed back into disease control programs, informing decisions such as how to target prevention strategies, improve clinical and infection control practices, refine surveillance protocols, or strengthen outbreak response. The opportunity also explicitly ties proposed work to capacity strengthening under the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), signaling that workforce development, laboratory quality and systems, surveillance infrastructure, and preparedness and response capabilities are expected outcomes alongside publications or technical reports.
The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically means substantial involvement by CDC compared with a standard grant. While the exact roles can vary by project, cooperative agreements generally involve close technical collaboration, ongoing monitoring, and joint planning or evaluation with the agency to ensure the work aligns with public health priorities and is implemented effectively across partner countries and institutions.
Eligibility is open to several types of organizations that can realistically conduct multi-country public health research and capacity-building work. Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions). The notice also lists an "Others" category with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement, which suggests CDC may allow other qualified entities under specific conditions.
In terms of funding scale, the listed award ceiling is $5,000,000, with an anticipated total of about five awards. The opportunity is categorized under Health (CFDA 93.326) and was posted January 9, 2020, with an original closing date of March 9, 2020, and applications required to be submitted electronically by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Finally, dissemination is a stated expectation: results should be shared across the region, with partners, and globally, indicating a strong preference for projects that produce actionable knowledge, strengthen regional collaboration, and contribute to broader public health learning beyond a single site or country.Apply for RFA GH 20 005
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Conducting Public Health Research in South America" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.326.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 09, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 09, 2020 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 500 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.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $5,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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