CDC-RFA-CK-26-0107: Building National Partnerships for the Prevention of Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases

Sponsor: CDC
Internal Deadline: 06/17/2026
Institutional Submission Limit: 1
Program Website

This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) strengthens the United States’s capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. It improves infrastructure, workforce development, risk and health messaging, and emergency response capabilities. It will help:

• Expand training for infection prevention and control (IPC) and combating antimicrobial resistance (AR).


• Enhance engagement of frontline healthcare and public health workers.


• Improve healthcare facility resilience.


• Improve coordination and surge staffing during public health responses.

 

This NOFO includes four components:

• Component 1 (Required): Programmatic Infrastructure and Capacity Supports foundational infrastructure, including essential management functions and cross-cutting needs such as key personnel, core capabilities, and network access.


• Component 2 (Optional): Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens Strengthens domestic public health infrastructures that prevent and control infectious diseases that threaten population health.


• Component 3 (Optional): Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections Advances evidence-based guidance, practices, and messaging related to preventing and controlling antimicrobial resistance and health-associated infections (AR/HAI).


• Supports Project Firstline projects.


• Component 4: Outbreak and Emergency Response Strengthens the response to public health threats.

Prioritizes surge capacity and improving response effectiveness, speed or coordination.

You must apply for Component 1 and at least one other component. If you apply for Component 4, it may be approved but unfunded. Component 4 is for coordinated emergency response, if needed.

 

Under this NOFO, you may submit only one application under your organization’s UEI.

Submission Process

Limited submissions MUST be coordinated with the Office of the Vice President for Research.

If interested in applying for this opportunity, please combine the following items into a single PDF and email to resdev@mailbox.sc.edu by 5pm on the INTERNAL DEADLINE above:

• Cover page with grant program name & number (if applicable) to which you are applying, your project title, PI (name, department/unit, & email), and list of co-PIs/key collaborators (name & department/unit)
• a two-page project abstract addressing key components/criteria for this specific grant program
• a 2-3 page CV/biosketch for the PI (SCiENcv preferred)