Funding Opportunities

If your organization is offering funding related to vaccination and health equity, please let us know at PHEbranch@cdc.gov.

• Effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers to Advance Health Equity – From the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support research that investigates the effectiveness of school-based health centers (SBHCs) as a health services care delivery model to address the needs of school-aged children from populations with health disparities (underserved youth). Deadline: January 7, 2025
• Patient-Clinician Relationship: Improving Health Outcomes in Populations that Experience Health Care Disparities – From the National Institutes of Health (NIH). to support innovative multi-disciplinary (such as behavioral, biological, environmental, social, cultural) and multi-level (e.g., patient, clinician, interpersonal, community) research designed to understand and address how optimizing patient-clinician relationships/communication affects health care outcomes for patients from populations with health disparities. Deadline: January 7, 2025
• Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) – From Health Research and Services Administration (HRSA), to support community-based projects that promote access to preventive clinical and public health services for underserved children, focusing on behavioral health screenings and referrals, children’s immunizations, and adolescents’ well-visits in underserved communities. Forecasted Opportunity – Anticipated Deadline: January 25, 2025
• Rapid-Cycle Survey Collaborative for Provider and Public Input on Immunization Issues – From the CDC, to support a research project to obtain timely input from nationally representative samples of healthcare providers and of the public on critical immunization issues of importance to public health. The objectives of this forecasted opportunity are: (1) to conduct multiple surveys of healthcare providers and the public each year of the period of performance to collect immunization-related data using scientifically sound methods with adequate response rates that produce generalizable results, and (2) to disseminate these results broadly to assist in informing recommendations for new vaccines, developing strategies to improve immunization coverage, and instituting contingency plans to address urgent problems (e.g., vaccine supply shortages). Forecasted Opportunity – Anticipated Deadline: February 14, 2025

• Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved Communities – From the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support the planning phase of the Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved Communities. MCCI is a multi-ICO dissemination and implementation science initiative to advance health equity and end health disparities in racial/ethnic minority women and girls of reproductive age. Deadline: February 19, 2025

• Strengthening Vaccine-Preventable Disease Prevention and Response – From the CDC's Immunization Services Division (ISD), to build upon and continue to implement both Section 317 and Vaccines for Children (VFC) Programs. Deadline: May 7, 2025
• Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Intervention – From the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance the science of minority health and health disparities by supporting research on family health and well-being and resilience. Deadline: May 7, 2025
• Addressing the Impact of Structural Racism and Discrimination on Minority Health and Health Disparities – From the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support intervention research that addresses structural racism and discrimination (SRD) to improve minority health or reduce health disparities. Deadline: January 7, 2026
• The Health Equity Fund – From the Greater Washington Community Foundation, offers grant opportunities for demonstration projects that provide proof of concept and determine potential for scalability. The projects must consist of two or more partner organizations working collaboratively in a new and targeted way to implement economic mobility models that increase strategic economic participation and build community wealth for people and communities with the greatest economic and health disparities. Limited to projects based out the Washington, DC area. Deadline: March 2026 (or until funds have been exhausted)
• Health and Health Care Disparities Among Persons Living with Disabilities – From the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support novel and innovative research that examines and/or intervenes upon the underlying and multilevel causes, pathways, and factors adversely impacting the health and well-being of persons living with one or more disabilities among populations experiencing health disparities. Deadline: November 5, 2026

• Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity – From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to support studies that focus on “upstream” causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis
• Health Services Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities – From the National Institutes of Health, to encourage innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the improvement of minority health and/or the reduction of health disparities at the health care system-level as well as within clinical settings. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis

• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research to Address Vaccine Uptake and Implementation Among Populations Experiencing Health Disparities – From the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support research on strategies and interventions to increase vaccine uptake and implementation among populations experiencing health disparities in the United States (U.S.) and its territories. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis

• Community Heart & Soul Planning, Technical Assistance, and Seed Grant Program – From Community Heart & Soul, a resident driven process that engages the entire population of a town in identifying what they love most about their community, what future they want for it, and how to achieve it. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis
• Community Health Center Capital Fund LoanPLUS Program – From Capital Fund, to support the growth and development of community-based health centers by providing capital structured to meet health centers’ financing needs and targeted technical assistance to help assist health centers meet their growth objectives. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis
• National School Lunch Afterschool Snack Program – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis
• Racial Equity Seed Grants – Youth development grants for Black-led organizations in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from the POISE Foundation. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis on the 10th of each month
• Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative Grant – Grant from the Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis
• Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation – Grant from Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation provides support for projects that directly impact the health and well-being of Alaska Native people and communities through various funding initiatives. Deadline: Applications Accepted on an Ongoing Basis
• FDA OMHHE Health Equity Innovation Award: Racial & Ethnic Minority Acceleration Consortium for Health Equity (REACH) – This purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is for FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity's (OMHHE) Health Equity Innovation Award: Racial & Ethnic Minority Acceleration Consortium for Health Equity (REACH), that will strengthen and advance minority health and health equity focused research, outreach, and communications as well as support training and mentoring of diverse students, fellows, and/or researchers. Forecasted Opportunity – Deadline TBD