Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA DP20 2008
The CDC funding opportunity titled "Developing and Disseminating Strategies to Build Sustainable Lupus Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Partnerships" (Funding Opportunity Number: CDC RFA DP20-2008) is a national cooperative agreement designed to close long-standing gaps in lupus recognition, diagnosis, care, and patient support. Lupus is described as a serious systemic autoimmune disease that can be difficult to identify because its symptoms often overlap with many other conditions. The opportunity highlights that lupus can be sudden in onset, severe, and sometimes fatal, with no known cure and unclear causes that likely involve genetic, environmental, and hormonal factors. The NOFO emphasizes the substantial burden lupus can place on individuals and communities, including disability, stigma, lost productivity, time away from work, reduced quality of life, organ damage or failure, and early death. A central public health concern in the announcement is that delayed or missed diagnoses can worsen outcomes and increase the likelihood of serious complications, and that even after diagnosis, people may still struggle to access or maintain effective ongoing care.
A major equity focus runs through the NOFO. While anyone can develop lupus, the CDC points out that about 9 out of 10 diagnoses occur in women ages 15 to 44. The opportunity specifically underscores disproportionate risk and severity among African American and Latino women compared with white women, including earlier onset and more severe symptoms. It also notes higher prevalence among Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and Alaska Native women. These disparities are part of what the NOFO aims to address by improving clinical recognition, strengthening care systems, and expanding access to practical self-management supports that can improve day-to-day functioning and long-term health outcomes.
The overall purpose is to fund national organizations to implement national-level efforts that shorten the time to lupus diagnosis, increase the number of people receiving needed care and ongoing treatment, improve care quality (including care coordination and transitions), strengthen lupus self-management behaviors, and ultimately improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living with lupus. The NOFO is structured around two distinct strategies, and the CDC intends to make one award per strategy, for a total of two awards. Applicants are allowed to apply to one or both strategies, but they must submit a separate application for each strategy, reflecting that each award supports a different scope of work.
Strategy A focuses on the healthcare provider side of the problem, aiming to increase awareness, knowledge, and practical skills so clinicians can recognize lupus sooner, respond appropriately when lupus is suspected, and deliver well-coordinated, higher-quality care. Key activities include developing and promoting lupus training and education for healthcare providers, increasing the role of technology in clinical settings (such as telehealth and electronic systems), and partnering with health professional associations to create or expand sustainable educational opportunities. Another core component is improving how lupus care is transitioned from pediatric to adult care by developing and promoting practice procedures that make this handoff more consistent and safer, since transitions can be a vulnerable time for patients and a point where continuity of care is often lost.
Strategy B centers on people living with lupus and the broader stakeholder ecosystem that supports them, with the goal of driving national uptake and real-world use of effective lupus self-management tools and services. Activities under this strategy include raising awareness of lupus signs and symptoms and encouraging appropriate next steps among targeted populations, using existing national lupus campaigns, websites, and tools rather than reinventing resources. It also includes supporting implementation and evaluation of lupus-specific self-management tools or services, promoting their use specifically among women ages 15 to 44 and other key stakeholders, and leveraging electronic health records, medical record systems, or other health information technology to help refer patients to appropriate self-management supports and track relevant patient information. An additional emphasis is identifying and addressing barriers that keep patients from accessing or benefiting from self-management tools or services, recognizing that availability alone does not guarantee adoption or sustained use.
The CDC lists several intended outcomes that serve as practical performance targets for the funded work. On the clinical side, the NOFO seeks an increased number of healthcare providers who can recognize lupus signs and symptoms and know what to do when lupus is suspected, as well as increased provider use of telehealth and/or electronic health records to identify potential lupus cases and treatment gaps. It also aims to expand the number of settings that receive guidance on transitioning pediatric lupus care to adult care. On the patient support side, the NOFO aims to increase the number of people living with lupus who actively use lupus self-management tools and services, increase referrals to those tools and services through electronic systems, and improve self-management behaviors, which is closely tied to better symptom control, adherence, and quality of life.
Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement mechanism, meaning the CDC expects to have substantial involvement with awardees compared to a more hands-off grant. The program sits within HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, specifically NCCDPHP, and is listed under CFDA 93.068. Eligible applicants are broad and include state governments, special district governments, public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status, and for-profit organizations other than small businesses, with eligibility described as largely unrestricted within the listed entity types (subject to any additional clarifications in the full announcement text).
Funding is set at a total of $2,670,230 available annually across both awards, with each successful applicant expected to receive between $1.1 million and $1.5 million (award ceiling $1,500,000). The NOFO anticipates two awards total, aligning with the two-strategy structure. The posting details indicate a creation date of May 1, 2020, and an original closing date of June 26, 2020, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline. Overall, the opportunity is framed as a national public health effort to reduce diagnostic delays, strengthen provider capacity, modernize and integrate care processes with technology, and scale effective self-management supports in ways that can meaningfully reduce inequities and improve outcomes for populations disproportionately impacted by lupus.Apply for CDC RFA DP20 2008
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Developing and Disseminating Strategies to Build Sustainable Lupus Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Partnerships" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.068.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 01, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 26, 2020 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, 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, Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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