Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA CK 21 003
This grant opportunity, titled Monitoring Cause-specific School Absenteeism for Estimating Community-wide Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission (Funding Opportunity Number RFA CK 21 003), is a CDC cooperative agreement intended to fund a single research project focused on turning K-12 school absenteeism into a practical, cause-specific public health surveillance tool. The central idea is to build and run an influenza-like illness (ILI)-specific student absentee monitoring system that does more than simply count how many students are out. Instead, it aims to determine why students are absent, with particular attention to ILI symptoms that may signal influenza, SARS-CoV-2, or other respiratory pathogens. By doing this systematically and in near real time, the project is meant to test whether school absentee patterns can provide earlier or clearer warning of respiratory disease transmission in schools and in the surrounding community.
The project’s work is organized around three main goals carried out over a three-year period in selected school district(s). First, the research team must rapidly determine the causes of student absenteeism, meaning the system should be able to classify absences in a timely way and identify those consistent with ILI rather than treating all absences as equivalent. Second, the project will examine within-household transmission by following up in households where a student is absent due to ILI, with the intent of detecting and characterizing household spread of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 associated with these school-linked illness events. Third, the project will evaluate how well school-based, cause-specific absenteeism data match up with multiple layers of existing influenza and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance data that are routinely collected in healthcare settings serving the same general population. In practice, this means checking whether trends in ILI-related school absences align with, lead, or differ from clinical and public health indicators captured through the local healthcare system.
Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement mechanism, which typically implies substantial federal involvement and collaboration during the project rather than a completely hands-off grant. The activity category is Health, and the CFDA (assistance listing) number is 93.084. The anticipated number of awards is one, with an award ceiling of $1,000,000, indicating the CDC intended to concentrate resources on a single, potentially high-impact demonstration and evaluation effort rather than funding multiple smaller projects.
Eligibility is broad and includes many types of organizations that could plausibly partner across public health, education, and research domains. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public and Indian housing authorities; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions in those categories); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. This wide eligibility reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the work, which can require coordination between school systems, public health agencies, healthcare providers, and research teams capable of designing surveillance workflows and evaluating data quality and public health utility.
Key dates and submission details provided in the posting include a creation date of September 29, 2020, and an original application closing date of December 18, 2020, with electronic submissions due by 5:00 p.m. ET on the due date. Overall, the opportunity is designed to test whether cause-specific school absentee monitoring can function as an early detection and situational awareness tool for respiratory outbreaks, and to validate that approach against established clinical and community surveillance signals while also exploring household transmission dynamics connected to school absentee events.Apply for RFA CK 21 003
- 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 "Monitoring Cause-specific School Absenteeism for Estimating Community-wide Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.084.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 29, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 18, 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 $1,000,000.00 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, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.
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