Closed · RFA-EH-25-011 · 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 $200K
Award range
Closed
Status
December 2, 2024
Close date
10
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 $200,000 across 10 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 $200K
award range
Closed
application status
10
expected awards
93.070
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Environmental Health Specialists Network is closed (last close December 2, 2024). 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 December 2, 2024

Posted Aug 29 Closes Dec 2

Est. Total Funding

$10,000,000

Expected Awards

10

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) supports programs in public health departments to: (1) As a funded member of EHS-Net, collaborate with other EHS-Net recipients and partners to develop and conduct multisite research projects focused on improving retail food safety; (2) Develop and conduct individual research projects focused on improving retail food safety. These projects will be unique to each recipient’s needs; and (3) Include an environmental health component in foodborne outbreak investigations and report data from outbreak investigations to CDC’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS). You must be able to collaborate with epidemiology and laboratory staff in your health departments or in other agencies that conduct foodborne outbreak investigations. Environmental health programs are typically responsible for retail food safety in their jurisdictions; foodborne outbreaks commonly occur in retail food establishments such as restaurants, delis, and caterers. Thus, the focus of these research and investigation efforts is retail food safety. We will award recipients for the first 12 months. We expect to award four more separate 12-month budget periods after that. Those separate budget period awards depend on whether funds are available and whether the recipient’s progress is satisfactory. Key activities include: 1) Practice-based research with a focus on retail food establishments; 2) Foodborne outbreak investigation; and 3) Collaboration with other EHS-Net recipients. Topics of interest include: a) Food safety management systems; b) Foodborne illness risk factors and practices that contribute to outbreaks, such as sick workers, inadequate temperature control of food, and cleaning and sanitizing; c) Interventions to reduce foodborne illness risk factors; d) Norovirus prevention and investigation; e) Cottage food and food freedom regulations; and f) Restaurant inspection and outbreak investigation practices.

Wide-open applicant board · 16 Grants.gov doors

Environmental Health Specialists Network prints 16 distinct Grants.gov eligibility doors (State governments; County governments; City or township governments; Special district governments; +12 more). Filter fit before reading award size as demand — most applicant classes appear on the row. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Health (HL). 65 other Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA listings share this eligibility-code string (10% of 640).

Code 00
State governments
Code 01
County governments
Code 02
City or township governments
Code 04
Special district governments
Code 05
Independent school districts
Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Code 07
Federally recognized tribal governments
Code 08
Public / Indian housing authorities
Code 11
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Code 12
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 13
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 20
Private institutions of higher education
Code 22
For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Code 23
Small businesses
Code 25
Others (see official listing text)
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.

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Agency Contact

Candis M. Hunter, PhD, MSPH, REHS/RS ncipc_erpo@cdc.gov

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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