Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant– 2019 | CDC RFA OT19 1902

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The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant 2019 (Funding Opportunity Number CDC-RFA-OT19-1902) is a CDC funding notice announcing the agency's intent to support state, territorial, and other eligible public health applicants through the long-standing Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant program. The opportunity is administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention within OSTLTS and is cataloged under CFDA 93.991. It is issued as a discretionary cooperative agreement, which generally means CDC expects to have an ongoing programmatic relationship with award recipients beyond simply issuing funds, including collaboration, guidance, and oversight consistent with cooperative agreement rules.

This 2019 notice is specifically tied to federal appropriations language in Public Law 115-245 (the Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019, along with the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019). In practical terms, that means Congress directed CDC to make these funds available in federal fiscal year 2019 under the block grant structure, and CDC is using this announcement to formalize the availability of funding and the conditions under which applications will be funded.

The program operates under the governing Preventive Health Services Block Grant statutory authority established by Public Law 97-35, codified at 42 U.S.C. sections 300w through 300w-10. In addition to that authorizing legislation, the notice emphasizes that federal administrative requirements remain in effect, including 45 CFR Part 75 (the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards) and 45 CFR Part 96 (which contains additional rules applicable to block grants and certain other awards). Together, these authorities shape what recipients can do with the funds, how they must manage them, what kinds of costs are allowable, what reporting and audit expectations apply, and how CDC will monitor compliance.

From an applicant perspective, the core purpose of the opportunity is to provide flexible funding to support preventive health and health services priorities. Block grants are designed to give recipients latitude to address local and jurisdiction-specific needs while still operating within federal public health goals and statutory boundaries. Although this notice does not list specific required projects in the excerpted text, the block grant framework typically supports a range of prevention-focused activities that can be adapted to emerging issues or persistent health challenges, with an emphasis on improving population health outcomes and strengthening public health capacity.

Key administrative details in the listing include an original closing date of July 1, 2019, and a creation date of March 26, 2019. The award ceiling is shown as 0 in the source data, which commonly indicates that a single per-award maximum was not specified in that field (often because funding levels may be determined by formula, allocation, or final appropriations rather than a stated competitive cap). The expected number of awards is not provided in the dataset excerpt. Eligibility is summarized broadly as "Others," which in federal listings can be a catch-all label and does not, by itself, define the full set of eligible entities; in practice, eligibility for this block grant is typically tied to the statutory design of the program and the categories of governmental public health entities the block grant is intended to support.

Overall, this funding opportunity is best understood as CDC's 2019 cycle of a federally authorized, appropriations-supported preventive health block grant program offered via cooperative agreements. It reinforces that recipients must follow the established block grant legislation and HHS grants management regulations, and it serves as the formal mechanism by which CDC makes FY 2019 funding available and administers the program under the applicable legal and regulatory framework.

• The Centers for Disease Control - OSTLTS in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant– 2019" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.991.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2019-03-26.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-07-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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