Closing the Gap with Social Determinants of Health Accelerator Plans

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of funds to develop multi-sector action plans that address the social determinants of health (SDOH) by accelerating action in state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions, and communities that lead to improved chronic health conditions among Americans experiencing health disparities and inequality. The award ceiling for this NOFO is $145,000.  Please direct all question related to this NOFO to SDOHAccelerator@cdc.gov.

Eligibility is limited to State Governments, County Governments, City or Township Governments, Special District Governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia), Local governments or their bona fide agents, Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized) and American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized). Eligibility limitation is delineated in Division H-Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022, Joint Explanatory Statement, which provides an increase for these activities started in fiscal year 2021 (Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021), “as directed in House Report 116-450,” which directed CDC to establish the Social Determinants of Health Pilot Program: to “award competitive grants to State, local, Territorial, or Tribal jurisdictions to support the development of Social Determinants of Health Accelerator Plans.” Applicants must be physically located and operate in the state, tribe, locality, or territory for which work is proposed. Applicants must provide a statement that identifies and defines the community in which the applicant will do the proposed work. This documentation must be labeled “Proposed_Work_Statement” and uploaded as a PDF file at www.grants.gov. Applicants proposing to work in a state, tribe, locality, territory, or community other than where the applicant is physically located and operates will be considered non-responsive and will not receive further review. Recipients under CDC-RFA-DP21-2111 - Closing the Gap with Social Determinants of Health Accelerator Plans - are NOT eligible to apply for this NOFO given they were previously funded to complete SDOH plans. The award ceiling for this NOFO is $125,000. CDC will consider any application requesting an award higher than this amount as non-responsive and it will receive no further review.

Brigette Ulin SDOHAccelerator@cdc.gov