Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA EH20 20030101SUPP20
The National Public Health Surveillance for Chemical and Radiologic Exposures and Emerging Drug Threats - COVID-19 Supplemental opportunity is a CDC emergency supplemental funding notice designed to strengthen national surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic by making better use of poison center information. Administered by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), the award is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning CDC staff are expected to work closely with the recipient on implementation and public health impact. The central purpose is to expand what CDC can learn from poison center calls tied to COVID-19, especially details that are not available through the routine data feed CDC receives from the National Poison Data System (NPDS).
The grant builds on a long-standing partnership dating back to 2006 between CDCs Environmental Health and emergency response functions and the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), which maintains NPDS. NPDS aggregates information from U.S. poison centers and supports national-level situational awareness of toxic exposures, early detection of emerging public health threats, and faster response when patterns suggest a developing emergency. Under normal operations, CDC can see key structured fields in NPDS such as why someone called, basic demographics, and the call outcome. During COVID-19, those standard fields were not enough to capture the nuances of what people were experiencing, what they were asking about, and what behaviors were driving exposure risks.
The supplemental funding focuses on two major enhancements. First, it supports CDC access to a targeted subset of poison center call notes for calls connected to COVID-19 illness and clinical management, such as questions about treatment, medication use, side effects, and adverse events. It also covers exposure-related calls linked to potentially harmful prevention or treatment behaviors, for example ingestion or misuse of vitamins and herbal products, unsafe use of cleaners or disinfectants, and other actions people might take in response to fear or misinformation. These narrative call notes can contain the practical, real-world details that are often missing from coded data, including symptoms described in the callers own words, circumstances of exposure, product specifics, dosing or frequency of use, and the types of guidance poison center staff provided.
Second, the funding supports coordination between AAPCC and regional poison centers to conduct follow-up studies on COVID-19 and related exposure calls. Follow-up can help clarify clinical outcomes, confirm what substances were involved, and better characterize the severity and trajectory of illness or injury. In a fast-moving pandemic where public behavior and medical practice shift quickly, follow-up efforts can help distinguish isolated events from emerging trends and can provide richer evidence to inform targeted public health action.
In practical public health terms, the goal is to turn poison center interactions into a sharper surveillance tool for COVID-19 response. By expanding access beyond basic NPDS variables into call narratives and follow-up findings, CDC and state health departments can improve risk communication, tailor public messaging, identify misinformation-driven harms earlier, and strengthen preparedness for future outbreaks or similar emergencies. The expected result is better situational awareness of pandemic-related chemical exposures, medication concerns, and other hazards that rise alongside large-scale public health crises.
Key administrative details in the notice include the funding opportunity number CDC RFA EH20 20030101SUPP20, an estimated single award (ExpectedAwards: 1) with an award ceiling of 750,000 dollars, and an original application deadline of August 19, 2020, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The CFDA listing associated with the program is 93.070. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with clarification referenced in the full eligibility section, but the described intent is specifically to support AAPCC-led work in partnership with CDC to enhance access and analysis capabilities tied to poison center data during COVID-19.Apply for CDC RFA EH20 20030101SUPP20
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCEH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Public Health Surveillance for Chemical and Radiologic Exposures and Emerging Drug Threats - COVID-19 Supplemental" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.070.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 02, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 19, 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 $750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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