The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, is accepting applications for CDC-RFA-TP22-2201, Public Health Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement. The current application deadline is February 11, 2027 at 11:59 PM U.S. Eastern Time through Grants.gov.
This cooperative agreement establishes a roster of approved but unfunded public health jurisdictions that CDC may rapidly fund when a public health emergency exists or is imminent. The current listing shows $500 million in estimated total program funding, approximately 113 awards, a displayed $50,000 to $5 million award range, and no required cost share. The controlling NOFO describes $5 million as an estimated average one-year award amount and states that actual award amounts may be established when the opportunity is activated for a specific emergency.
Eligibility is limited to qualifying state, local, territorial, and Tribal public health entities with existing public health emergency management capacity. Local jurisdictions or bona fide agents must meet the stated population thresholds, and federally recognized Tribal governments or bona fide agents must serve populations of 50,000 or more. Applicants must demonstrate existing emergency management capacity, including a required organizational chart and work plan. This is not a general capacity-building program.
The NOFO overview still displays a legacy September 21, 2024 letter-of-intent date, while the application-content section expressly states that a letter of intent is not required. Applicants should follow the current Grants.gov package and confirm any later CDC amendment before submission. The Project Narrative is limited to 20 pages, single-spaced, using 12-point font and 1-inch margins, and includes the work plan. Required application content includes the Project Abstract, Project Narrative, Budget Narrative, Report on Programmatic, Budgetary and Commitment Overlap, and Table of Contents, together with the required organizational chart and any applicable bona fide agent documentation.
Atlas assigns an N9+ Fit Score of 62/100 and an Atlas Opportunity Score of 74/100. The NOFO expressly contemplates physical infrastructure and equipment, rapid procurement, surge staffing, incident management, information management, countermeasures, mitigation, surge management, and biosurveillance. The Nonagon N9+ device and platform could have a legitimate supporting role in a future emergency response where remote physical examination or distributed clinical assessment is specifically justified, subject to the emergency, the eligible jurisdiction, and CDC supplemental guidance.