Closed · CDC-RFA-OT21-2103 · CFDA 93.391 · Discretionary

National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities

Federal grant opportunity posted by Centers for Disease Control - OSTLTS, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$500K-$50M
Award range
Closed
Status
May 3, 2021
Close date
108
Expected awards

The verdict

National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities is a closed discretionary listing from Centers for Disease Control - OSTLTS that offered $500,000 -- $50,000,000 across 108 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 39 other opportunities from Centers for Disease Control - OSTLTS.

$500K-$50M
award range
Closed
application status
108
expected awards
93.391
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Healt… is closed (last close May 3, 2021). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Centers for Disease Control - OSTLTS still indexes 39 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 May 3, 2021

Posted Mar 17 Closes May 3

Est. Total Funding

$2,250,000,000

Expected Awards

108

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260), which contained the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260, Section 2, Division M) provided, in part, funding for strategies to improve testing capabilities and other COVID-19 response purposes in populations at high-risk and underserved, including racial and ethnic minority groups and people living in rural communities. Strategies also include those to develop or identify best practices for states and public health officials to use for contact tracing. To achieve these purposes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is announcing a non-competitive grant CDC-RFA-OT21-2103 titled “National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities.” This grant will provide funding to state, local, US territorial and freely associated state health departments (or their bona fide agents) to address COVID-19-related health disparities and advance health equity by expanding state, local, US territorial and freely associated state health departments capacity and services to prevent and control COVID-19 infection (or transmission).

Multi-door applicant board · 5 Grants.gov types

Grants.gov prints 5 distinct applicant types for National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Healt… (State governments; County governments; City or township governments; Special district governments; +1 more). Filter fit against the official announcement before drafting. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Health (HL). Inside Centers for Disease Control - OSTLTS's indexed book this exact eligibility-code string is unique to this listing.

Code 00
State governments
Code 01
County governments
Code 02
City or township governments
Code 04
Special district governments
Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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.

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Agency Contact

Shirley K Byrd OT21-2103Support@cdc.gov

What to do next

National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Healt… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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