Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers: 2022 Special Interest Project Competitive Supplements (SIPS) | RFA DP 22 003

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The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers: 2022 Special Interest Project Competitive Supplements (SIPS) opportunity is a CDC funding announcement designed to provide additional, targeted support to existing Prevention Research Centers (PRCs). Rather than creating an entirely new standalone grant program, this is a competitive supplement meant for PRCs that are already funded under CDC RFA-DP-19-001. The purpose is to help these established centers take on Special Interest Projects (SIPs) that strengthen applied public health prevention research and produce practical, usable results in real-world settings.

At its core, the NOFO focuses on developing and advancing interventions and tools that can reduce major drivers of illness, disability, and death in the United States. The CDC frames these interventions broadly, covering programs, practices, policies, and strategies. The emphasis is not only on designing or testing ideas in controlled environments, but on work that happens where public health is actually carried out: in communities, health systems, schools, workplaces, and other everyday contexts. Projects supported through these supplements are expected to move beyond research for research's sake and instead generate evidence that can be implemented, scaled, and sustained.

A major theme of this opportunity is the full pipeline of applied prevention research: design, test, evaluate, disseminate, and translate. That means applicants are encouraged to produce results that can be shared with practitioners and decision-makers and converted into routine practice or policy. In other words, the NOFO signals that success is not just demonstrating an effect in one setting, but also showing how an intervention can be communicated, adopted, and adapted so it can have broader impact.

The research areas for these Special Interest Projects are tied to national public health priorities reflected in Healthy People 2030 topic areas. The NOFO highlights several priority domains, including cancer (with specific mention of adolescents), health care access and quality, children with disabilities and access/quality of care, environmental health, emergency preparedness, older adults and dementia, people with disabilities and mental health and mental disorders, and women as they relate to emergency preparedness and access/quality of care. This mix shows a strong interest in both chronic disease prevention and the systems and conditions that shape health outcomes, including preparedness and access to services for populations that are often underserved or face higher risk.

Administratively, the opportunity is offered by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and it uses a cooperative agreement as the funding instrument. A cooperative agreement typically implies substantial CDC involvement compared with a traditional grant, often through collaboration, technical assistance, and ongoing coordination during the project period. The activity category is health, and the CFDA (assistance listing) associated with this program is 93.135.

Eligibility is limited to certain types of higher education institutions, specifically public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education. In practical terms, this aligns with the PRC model, which is university-based and designed to connect academic public health expertise with community and practice partners. Because this is a competitive supplement to currently funded PRCs, the real pool of eligible applicants is effectively the set of institutions that already hold the underlying PRC award under RFA-DP-19-001.

Key dates included the creation date of December 23, 2021, with an original application deadline of March 4, 2022. Applications were required to be submitted electronically by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. The NOFO anticipated making 14 awards. The listed award ceiling is shown as 0, which usually indicates that the specific maximum amount was not provided in the summarized field and would need to be confirmed in the full announcement or related budget guidance.

Overall, this NOFO is best understood as a focused investment in turning proven or promising prevention approaches into actionable, field-ready solutions through established CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers. It supports pragmatic research that responds to Healthy People 2030 priorities, emphasizes implementation and translation, and aims to produce interventions and tools that public health agencies and community partners can actually use to improve health outcomes.

• 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 "Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers: 2022 Special Interest Project Competitive Supplements (SIPS)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.135.
• This funding opportunity was created on Dec 23, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 04, 2022 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.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 14 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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