Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA GH20 2081
This funding opportunity, titled "Improving Quality of Care and Health Impact through Innovative Systems and Technologies in Malawi under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)," is a CDC cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening Malawi's health information systems that support HIV service delivery, especially antiretroviral therapy (ART). The opportunity sits within CDC's long-running PEPFAR-supported partnership with Malawi's Ministry of Health (MOH), which since 2004 has focused on building and sustaining point-of-care (POC) electronic medical records (EMR) and complementary data systems. The central idea is to improve clinical care and program performance by making higher-quality patient and program data available faster, more consistently, and in ways that are usable by both frontline providers and decision-makers.
The program is grounded in Malawi's established POC EMR platform, which is designed to help clinicians deliver better care during patient visits by providing real-time information and clinical reminders that can support better decision-making. Alongside this, CDC and partners have supported retrospective data capture solutions that ensure data from care settings are captured and structured so program managers at facility, district, and national levels can monitor trends, identify gaps, and set priorities. A key theme in the NOFO is system integration: collecting information once and making it available across the system, rather than duplicating effort across disconnected tools. This is intended to reduce the burden on health workers, improve data completeness and consistency, and strengthen the link between clinical operations and reporting.
Looking forward, the NOFO emphasizes sustaining and improving prior investments rather than starting from scratch. Priority areas include expanding EMR integration to other health-related systems, maintaining and modernizing existing facility-level electronic systems (both software and hardware), and improving connectivity so that sites can reliably exchange data and support more timely reporting. Another core focus is strengthening data centralization and consolidation so that data can be accessed in real time or near-real time at multiple levels of the health system. In practical terms, this points to continued development and support for national or centrally managed platforms that aggregate facility data, making it easier to use for monitoring, evaluation, supply planning, quality improvement, and targeted program interventions.
The opportunity also makes clear that the reliability of these systems depends heavily on responsive support. A major deliverable is ensuring that software and hardware support functions well enough to meet facility and program demands, with quick resolution of issues identified by users. That includes the operational realities of running EMRs and related systems in clinical environments: keeping devices functional, addressing bugs and performance problems, supporting upgrades, maintaining interoperability between connected systems, and ensuring that the overall ecosystem remains stable as technologies evolve. The intent is a well-functioning, user-centered digital environment that supports high-quality data and, ultimately, better patient outcomes.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under CFDA 93.067, with the funding instrument listed as a cooperative agreement, which typically implies substantial involvement and collaboration with CDC during implementation. Eligibility is described as unrestricted (open to any type of entity, subject to any clarifications in the full notice). The funding opportunity number is CDC RFA GH20-2081. CDC anticipated approximately $10,000,000 in total funding for Year 1, contingent on available funds, and expected to make two awards. The notice lists an Award Ceiling for Year 1 as $0 (none), which generally signals that CDC did not set a per-award upper limit in the summary field, rather than indicating no funding overall. The original posting date was February 24, 2020, with an original application deadline of April 24, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. ET for electronic submissions.
Overall, the opportunity is best understood as an effort to keep Malawi's HIV-focused digital health backbone functioning, modern, and increasingly interconnected, so that clinicians have timely information at the point of care, managers have actionable data for oversight and planning, and the health system can rely on a more integrated, efficient, and resilient information infrastructure to improve ART program quality and health impact.Apply for CDC RFA GH20 2081
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Improving Quality of Care and Health Impact through Innovative Systems and Technologies in Malawi under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 24, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 24, 2020 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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