Addressing Conditions To Improve Population Health (ACTion)

The CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) announces the availability of funds to state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions, that are ready to take ACTion (Addressing Conditions To improve population health) in communities to implement policy, systems, and environmental change (PSE) interventions that address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) to reduce chronic disease related disparities, risk factors, and inequities. This NOFO will incorporate the lessons learned from the fiscal year (FY) 21 (DP21-2111) and FY 22 (DP22-2210) SDOH Accelerator...

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 is delineated in Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2023, House Report 117-403 page 82, which directed CDC to award competitive grants to state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) jurisdictions to support the development of Social Determinants of Health Accelerator Plans, the implementation of those plans, and to improve the health of Medicaid beneficiaries.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. Applications that do not include a “Proposed_Work_Statement” will be considered non-responsive and will not receive further review.If the applicant is NOT a health department, the applicant is required to submit a letter of support from the community’s jurisdictional health authority stating they support the applicant working as a bona fide agent for the STLT health authority to carry out this NOFO. The letter should outline the represented organization’s specific role in carrying out the ACTion project and their relationship to the “Community Health Needs Assessment (CHA) or State Health Needs Assessment (SHA)". The applicant will name the file “Health_Authority_Letter_of_Support” and upload it to www.grants.gov.Any application requesting an award higher than the ceiling will be deemed by CDC as nonresponsive and will not be reviewed.   

Candice Floyd, MPH ACTion@cdc.gov