Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA DP 21 001
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) grant opportunity is a CDC cooperative agreement focused on strengthening and expanding surveillance of maternal experiences and behaviors surrounding pregnancy. PRAMS began in 1987 in response to stalled progress in infant mortality, and it fills a key public health gap by collecting jurisdiction-specific, population-based information directly from people who have recently given birth (and, in specific components, those who have experienced a stillbirth). Because only a small share of the general population is pregnant at any given time, general surveys often do not capture enough pregnancy-related respondents to produce reliable, detailed estimates. PRAMS addresses this by sampling specifically from recent births, allowing programs and researchers to generate stable statistics overall and within subgroups, track trends over time, compare indicators across jurisdictions, and identify disparities that can guide targeted interventions.
At its core, PRAMS is a standardized survey of postpartum individuals that asks about attitudes, circumstances, and experiences before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and shortly after delivery, along with questions about the newborn. The data are used for ongoing monitoring of maternal and infant health indicators and for applied research that links risk factors to outcomes. Historically, PRAMS has been used to follow changes in areas like safe infant sleep practices, unintended pregnancy, and health insurance coverage patterns, and it also supports investigation of emerging reproductive and maternal-child health issues as they arise. A major emphasis of this funding announcement is ensuring that data collection is timely, high-quality, and actionable so that findings can translate into program improvements, policy decisions, and systems changes that affect maternal and infant health.
The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits applications to carry out three broad aims: first, to implement standardized surveillance of postpartum women with a recent live birth or stillbirth focused on selected maternal behaviors and experiences around the pregnancy period; second, to add the capacity to conduct surveillance on emerging or urgent issues that arise during the data collection cycle, including post-disaster or emergency surveillance; and third, to ensure the collection of high-quality data that can be used continuously for monitoring, research, and programmatic decision-making. These goals reflect PRAMS being not just a research dataset, but an operational surveillance system meant to inform real-time public health practice.
Funding is structured across three distinct components. Component A, Core Surveillance, supports population-based surveillance among women with a recent live birth across up to 53 vital records jurisdictions, which generally refers to states, territories, or other jurisdictions with vital statistics systems that can support sampling from birth certificate records. This component is the backbone of PRAMS and is designed to keep data collection consistent and comparable across places and over time while still allowing for jurisdiction-specific estimates and subgroup analyses. Component B, Point-in-time Tribal Surveillance, supports a one-time surveillance effort (for a single birth year) in up to two federally recognized American Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Villages, or Urban Indian Organizations, or tribal support organizations whose service areas cover at least 1,000 live births annually. This component is designed to generate focused, population-based information for Tribal communities where data are often limited, supporting locally relevant maternal and infant health insights. Component C, Stillbirth Surveillance, supports population-based surveillance in up to two vital records jurisdictions focused specifically on women who recently experienced a stillbirth, recognizing that stillbirth is both a critical and historically under-measured outcome and that understanding associated experiences and risk factors requires dedicated sampling and methods.
Administratively, this opportunity is offered by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a discretionary cooperative agreement under CFDA 93.946. The eligible applicant pool is broad and includes state, county, and local governments; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Tribal governments and other Tribal organizations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; for-profit organizations (including small businesses); and other entities as allowed in the eligibility clarification. The funding opportunity number is RFA-DP-21-001. The NOFO was created May 6, 2020, with an original application deadline of July 7, 2020 (applications due by 5:00 p.m. ET). The stated award ceiling is $175,000, with an expected 57 awards, aligning with the multi-jurisdictional structure of PRAMS and the intention to support many participating sites while also piloting or expanding special surveillance components like Tribal point-in-time work and stillbirth surveillance.
Overall, this grant opportunity is about maintaining and enhancing a national public health surveillance platform that produces comparable, jurisdiction-level maternal and infant health data while also building flexibility to respond to emerging issues. The practical outcome CDC is seeking is a steady stream of reliable, stratifiable data that can be used to measure prevalence of key behaviors and experiences, identify inequities, evaluate progress, and guide interventions that improve maternal and infant health outcomes.Apply for RFA DP 21 001
- 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 "Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.946.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 06, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 07, 2020 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.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $175,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 57 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification), 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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