Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA PS19 1907
The STD Surveillance Network (SSuN) grant opportunity (CDC RFA PS19-1907) is a CDC cooperative agreement designed to strengthen how state and local public health agencies track and respond to rising sexually transmitted diseases, while also paying closer attention to how STDs overlap with HIV and other co-occurring public health crises such as the opioid epidemic. The core idea is that traditional STD reporting from providers and labs, while essential, does not capture enough detail to understand who is being affected, what risk factors are driving transmission, where prevention services are reaching people (or missing them), and how STD diagnoses intersect with HIV risk, substance use, and broader inequities. SSuN fills those gaps by supporting a geographically diverse network of health departments and clinical partners to carry out standardized, protocol-based surveillance that produces timely, higher-quality patient-level data.
The program focuses on three nationally notifiable, curable bacterial STDs: chlamydia (CT), gonorrhea (GC), and syphilis. The need for better surveillance is tied to steep national increases in these infections, with CDC reporting about 2.3 million cases in 2017, a 35 percent increase since 2013. Even that figure understates the true burden because many infections have no symptoms, never get tested, and therefore never get reported, and because other STDs are not nationally notifiable. The opportunity emphasizes that STDs can cause serious long-term outcomes like infertility, create substantial healthcare costs, and are tightly linked to HIV transmission dynamics. In practical terms, people diagnosed with STDs are often at higher risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV, so STD surveillance is positioned as a direct lever for progress on national HIV prevention goals.
SSuN supports two main, complementary surveillance approaches. First is enhanced, community-based surveillance through expanded case investigations across the full range of diagnosing providers, not just specialized STD clinics. These enhanced investigations are meant to gather richer patient-level information than routine reporting typically includes, such as demographic and behavioral data, indicators of co-occurring conditions, and information needed to evaluate health equity and identify populations experiencing disproportionate harm (including racial, ethnic, and sexual minority groups). This is intended to help jurisdictions move beyond simple case counts toward understanding patterns of risk, missed prevention opportunities, and variations in outcomes.
Second is sentinel surveillance in specialized STD or sexual health clinics that serve as safety-net providers for people at elevated risk for STDs and HIV. These clinic settings are highlighted as strategic places to measure and improve HIV prevention and care connections, including whether HIV-negative patients are being linked to preventive services like PrEP and PEP, and whether people living with HIV are being re-engaged or connected to treatment and ongoing care. By tracking eligibility for and receipt of these services at the patient level, the program aims to pinpoint gaps in prevention and clinical practice, and to strengthen the broader system that links STD diagnosis to HIV prevention and treatment pathways.
A key feature of the NOFO is flexibility to respond to emerging STD-related health issues, using the network structure to support consistent methods and high-quality data collection while still allowing adaptation as new threats or questions arise. The overall public health objective is to expand local and state capacity for integrated STD and HIV surveillance, generate actionable intelligence for prevention and control programs in both public and private healthcare sectors, and sustain a robust network of clinic and health department partners that can also support investigations into diagnostics, treatment, clinical presentation, and longer-term consequences of STDs.
Administratively, this is a discretionary cooperative agreement under HHS/CDC (NCHHSTP), CFDA 93.977, with eligibility listed as unrestricted subject to any additional clarifications in the full notice. The expected number of awards is 10, with an award ceiling of $600,000. The original NOFO was posted February 15, 2019, with an original closing date of May 15, 2019 (applications due by 11:59 p.m. ET).Apply for CDC RFA PS19 1907
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCHHSTP in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "STD Surveillance Network (SSuN)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.977.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 15, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 15, 2019 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.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $600,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 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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