Closed · RFA-EH-20-001 · CFDA 93.070 · Discretionary
Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) - Practice based research to improve food safety
Federal grant opportunity posted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- up to $193K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- March 6, 2020
- Close date
- 8
- Expected awards
The verdict
Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) - Practice based research to improve food safety is a closed discretionary listing from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA that offered Up to $192,587 across 8 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 639 other opportunities from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA.
- up to $193K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 8
- expected awards
- 93.070
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Environmental Health Specialists Network is closed (last close March 6, 2020). The parent program page for CFDA 93.070 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA still indexes 639 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed March 6, 2020
Est. Total Funding
$7,703,500
Expected Awards
8
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
This Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) research opportunity seeks to develop and sustain a network of environmental health program staff, in collaboration with epidemiologists and other public health professionals, to identify retail food safety research practice-based priorities focused on identifying and preventing foodborne illness risk factors, and to conduct the research. This announcement will fund EHS-Net research projects related to food safety activities under the jurisdiction of departments of health or other health agencies responsible for regulatory oversight of retail food service including restaurants, delis, cafeterias, schools, etc. For more information on EHS-Net, please visit our web page at: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ehsnet/ The purpose of Amendment 1 to this NOFO is to update the application submission deadline to no later than 5:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time on March 6, 2020, to update the expected project start date to September 30, 2020, and to provide additional clarifying information based on questions received from potential applicants during the Pre- Application Conference Call held on January 7, 2020. A summary of these questions and answers can be found in Section VIII. Other Information, of the amended NOFO. Applicants are strongly encouraged to pay close attention to the Responsiveness Criteria and the Application Review Criterial listed in the NOFO and to keep these in mind while preparing their proposals.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · RFA-EH-20-001
Grants.gov marks Environmental Health Specialists Network with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Health (HL). 54 other Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA listings share this eligibility-code string (8% of 640).
- Code 99
- Unrestricted / see official listing
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
Environmental Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency Contact
Dan Holcomb DWH6@cdc.gov
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What to do next
Environmental Health Specialists Network is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.
- Parent CFDA 93.070 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
- Environmental Justice Programs indexes 1 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA lists 639 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog
Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.
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