Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA IP 18 003
This government grant opportunity, titled "Understanding and Addressing the Disparity in Vaccination Coverage Among U.S. Adolescents Living in Rural Versus Urban Areas" (Funding Opportunity Number RFA IP 18 003), is a discretionary health-focused funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), administered through the CDC ERA system. The award is offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the CDC expects to be substantially involved during the project period through collaboration, technical assistance, and shared oversight rather than acting only as a passive funder. The overall aim is to close the gap in adolescent vaccination coverage between rural and urban communities across the United States.
The NOFO has two core objectives. First, it seeks to generate a stronger, evidence-based understanding of why vaccination coverage differs between adolescents in rural areas and those in urban areas for all routinely recommended adolescent vaccines, with a particular emphasis on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. This portion of the work is meant to move beyond simply describing the disparity and instead identify the drivers and barriers that contribute to lower coverage in rural settings. Those drivers may include factors such as limited access to healthcare services, fewer vaccination providers, longer travel distances, clinic hours that are difficult for working families, reduced availability of adolescent-focused preventive care, differences in provider recommendation practices, challenges related to vaccine confidence or misinformation, and structural issues such as insurance coverage or availability of reminder/recall systems. While the NOFO text does not list specific required factors, the intent is clearly to pinpoint the practical and social reasons the rural-urban gap persists, especially for HPV vaccination, which has historically shown uneven uptake.
Second, the opportunity requires applicants not only to study the problem but also to put solutions into practice. The project must implement and evaluate one or more interventions designed specifically to improve vaccination coverage among adolescents living in rural areas. In other words, the funded work is expected to move from assessment into action, with evaluation built in to determine whether the intervention improves vaccination rates and under what conditions it is most effective. Interventions could reasonably include approaches such as strengthening provider recommendation and communication, improving clinic workflows to support vaccination at every visit, implementing reminder/recall systems, expanding access points or clinic hours, partnering with schools or community organizations, addressing logistical barriers like transportation, or other evidence-informed strategies tailored to rural contexts. The evaluation requirement signals that the CDC is looking for measurable outcomes and usable lessons that could inform replication or scaling in other rural communities.
Eligibility is broad and includes a range of public and private entities that could realistically carry out research and practice-based public health work. Eligible applicants include state, county, city, township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other Native American tribal organizations; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; and nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education for the nonprofit category). This wide eligibility suggests the CDC anticipated applicants might come from public health agencies, universities, school systems, tribal entities, or community-based organizations capable of partnering with healthcare providers and rural communities.
Funding details indicate a single expected award, with an award ceiling of $350,000. Because only one award was anticipated, the competition was likely intended to support one comprehensive project rather than multiple smaller projects. The NOFO was created on December 5, 2017, and the original application deadline was February 13, 2018, with electronic applications due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. The CFDA number associated with the opportunity is 93.185, aligning it within CDC public health assistance programs.
In practical terms, the grant is designed for an applicant that can combine analytic capacity (to identify and characterize rural-urban disparity drivers, particularly around HPV vaccination) with implementation capacity (to roll out interventions in rural settings) and evaluation expertise (to measure changes in vaccination coverage and interpret results). The deliverable value for the CDC is not just a report on why rural adolescents lag behind, but tested, evidence-backed intervention insights that can inform broader public health efforts to raise adolescent vaccination coverage in rural America.Apply for RFA IP 18 003
- 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 "Understanding and Addressing the Disparity in Vaccination Coverage Among U.S. Adolescents Living in Rural Versus Urban Areas" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.185.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 05, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 13, 2018 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 $350,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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