Opportunity Information: Apply for PAR 20 297
The NIOSH Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health (TWH) (U19) funding opportunity, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services through the CDCs National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), supports the creation or continuation of multidisciplinary Centers of Excellence focused on improving worker safety, health, and overall well-being. The program is built around the Total Worker Health approach, which integrates traditional workplace safety and health protection with broader efforts that promote physical health, mental health, and well-being. The intent is to help organizations develop practical, evidence-based solutions that respond to real and changing conditions in the working world, including emerging risks and opportunities that affect workers across industries and occupations.
This opportunity uses a cooperative agreement mechanism (U19), which generally means funded Centers are expected to have active collaboration and substantial involvement with NIOSH during the project. Rather than supporting a single research project, NIOSH is looking for Center-level applications that can run a coordinated portfolio of activities, typically spanning research, intervention development and testing, outreach and education, and evaluation. Centers are expected to draw on diverse scientific expertise and resources, and to design their structure in a way that makes sense for the worker populations and occupational health needs they plan to serve, whether those needs are local, regional, or national in scope.
A central expectation is that each applicant clearly defines the occupational safety and health burden in its intended service area, then directly ties proposed research and outreach activities to reducing that burden. In practice, this means applicants should present a concise but convincing case about which worker populations are most affected, what hazards or conditions are driving harm or inequity, and why the proposed Center is well-positioned to address those issues. NIOSH also emphasizes that Centers should not only generate knowledge, but translate that knowledge into implementable strategies. That includes designing, testing, and refining interventions and dissemination approaches that employers, workers, labor organizations, and other stakeholders can realistically adopt.
Collaboration is treated as a core feature rather than an optional add-on. Applications are expected to reflect partnerships with academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and other entities working in occupational safety and health. These partnerships should strengthen both the scientific quality of the work and the likelihood that findings and tools will reach the workplaces and communities that can use them. Strong proposals typically show how partners will be engaged throughout the process, from identifying priority problems to co-developing solutions and evaluating impact.
NIOSH is also looking for applicants to articulate impact in a concrete way, both within the project period and after the grant ends. That includes near-term outputs such as tested interventions, training and education offerings, outreach products, and evaluation results, as well as longer-term outcomes such as sustained adoption of effective practices, improved working conditions, reduced injuries or illnesses, better mental health supports, and overall improvements in worker well-being. The emphasis on evaluation signals that Centers should be able to measure what they do, learn from it, and demonstrate what works for different worker populations and workplace contexts.
From the published opportunity details, this is a discretionary grant program with a maximum award amount (ceiling) of $1,400,000, with an anticipated 12 awards. The funding opportunity number is PAR 20 297, and it is associated with CFDA 93.262. The opportunity was created on August 27, 2020, with an original closing date of October 31, 2023. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement, which usually means applicants should confirm their organizational type and any specific requirements in the official FOA text before applying.Apply for PAR 20 297
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NIOSH Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health® (U19)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.262.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 27, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 31, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,400,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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