SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Letter of Intent: July 26, 2021. Due Date: Aug. 11, 2021.
$ AVAILABLE: ONC will fund up to 30 cooperative agreement awards for a 4-year period of performance. The program will be funded at $75 million with funding contingent upon the availability of funds, satisfactory completion of milestones, and a determination that continued funding is in the best interest of the federal government and the public. The remaining $5 million in funds will be used to support the program’s overall administration. Each individual award will not exceed $10 million.
ELIGIBILITY: This funding opportunity is open to accredited colleges and universities with terminal degrees in the United States. Only consortium-based approaches will be considered for this program, and applications must include letters of intent from proposed consortium members. In order to diversify the public health informatics and technology workforce and to increase the number of underrepresented minority professionals, the lead applicant in the consortium should be a Historically Black College or University (HBCU), Tribally Controlled College or University (TCCU), Hispanic-serving institution (HSI), Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI), or other Minority Serving Institution (MSI) with an existing computer science, information science, biomedical technology, public health, health informatics, or similar program. Non-HBCU, TCCU, HSI, AANAPISI, or other MSIs may also apply but must include at least one of these types of institutions as a consortium member.
PURPOSE: The ONC has received $80 million to implement or expand training, certification and degree programs in public health informatics and data science at MSIs and other colleges and universities. The funding will help to address the need for more public health professionals trained in informatics and technology, a need that has been highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CFDA: 93.355
CONTACT: Please see URL for multiple contacts. For more information, go to www.healthit.gov/topic/onc-funding-opportunities/public-health-informatics-technology-phit-workforce-development.
From Grants.gov website, accessed June 23, 2021.
Subject(s): health literacy, technology, health professions training, public health.