Strengthening environmental health capacity (EHC) to detect, prevent, and control environmental health hazards through data-driven, evidence-based approaches; pilot Environmental Health Records EHR/COVID-19 community mitigation

Background
The Strengthening environmental health capacity (EHC) funding opportunity seeks to enhance the nation's environmental health (EH) capacity to protect public health by strengthening the capacity of public health departments using 3 strategies to address specific EH topics and issues. The strategies are carried out across three components: Component (A) Build core capacity to use EH data; Component (B) Strengthen the capacity of EH programs and services; Component (C) Enhance capacity to address emerging or priority EH hazards and issues.

Grant Details
This project will be initiated through the CDC environmental health capacity (EHC) project Component C, which includes two projects. Project C1 aims to assess the implementation of COVID-19 environment-related mitigation strategies in communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. It focuses on promoting behaviors that prevent the spread of the virus and maintain healthy environments, identifying challenges and differences in strategy implementation, and reducing impact among specific groups. Project C2 aims to determine the feasibility and utility of environmental health records EHRs to provide access to more current data with minimal delay between cancer diagnosis and reporting, serve as a potential source of environmental risk factor data, and provide more complete data relative to sociodemographic factors to better identify inequities.

Eligibility Requirements
This announcement is a supplement to CDC-FOA-EH20-2005. All recipients currently funded through CDC-FOA-EH20-2005 are eligible to submit an application. This award is a supplement to the existing CDC funding opportunity announcement (FOA): Strengthening environmental health capacity (EHC) to detect, prevent, and control environmental health hazards through data-driven, evidence-based approaches EH20-2005. Eligibility is limited to current recipients of CDC-EH20-2005.

Period of Performance
The period of performance for this grant is one year, with an anticipated award date of August 24, 2021.

Grant Value
$2,300,000 is the approximate total supplemental funding for this grant opportunity. The awards for this one-year supplement may vary based on the specific project description. The approximate average award is $250,000 with a floor of $150,000 and a ceiling of $250,000 for a 12-month budget period.