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Improving Protection against Influenza and Other Respiratory Pathogens: the US Flu VE Network

Funds a national network that measures how well flu and other respiratory vaccines actually work.

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Flu shots and other respiratory vaccines get updated every year, and nobody actually knows how well a given season's vaccine works until someone measures it against people who get sick anyway.

This continues the U.S. Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Network: annual vaccine-effectiveness and correlates-of-protection surveillance from outpatients, electronic acute respiratory illness surveillance, househo…

Funds a multi-site cooperative network conducting influenza and respiratory-pathogen vaccine-effectiveness surveillance: active enrollment and testing of outpatients, electronic acute respiratory illness surveillance, household transmission studies and immunogenicity research, structured into four components with different eligibility per component.

CycleiHow often this grant runs - e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.One-off
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.31 Dec 2026
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.-
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.-
Award typeiThe form of funding - grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Cooperative agreement
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.-
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.$75.3M

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Emerging Infections Network - Research for Preventing, Detecting, and Managing Travel-associated Infectious Diseases

🇺🇸CDC · United States

Funds surveillance and research networks that detect, diagnose and track infectious diseases among international travelers.

Biotech
$1.8M – $6MNov'26
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National Center for Construction Safety and Health Research and Translation

🇺🇸CDC · United States

Funds a single national center that researches, translates and spreads solutions to construction workers' safety and health problems.

$3M – $5.8MDec'26
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Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement

🇺🇸CDC · United States

Funds research and engineering work that cuts injuries and deaths in commercial fishing, from vessel design to severe-weather detection.

Hardware
$150K – $975KJan'28
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Expanded Surveillance for Pediatric Infectious Diseases

🇺🇸CDC · United States

Funds a hospital network that tracks pediatric respiratory and gut infections to measure vaccine effectiveness.

$850K – $1.1MDec'26
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Early Detection, Response, and Control of Global Rabies Outbreaks and Associated Threats to America's Dog-Rabies Free Status

🇺🇸CDC · United States

Funds tools and research to track, model and help eliminate canine-transmitted rabies worldwide.

$150K – $400KFeb'27
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Occupational Safety and Health Research

🇺🇸CDC · United States

Funds a single, self-contained research project on any occupational safety or health problem the investigator chooses to study.

$680KFeb'27
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The Home Visiting Research, Improvement, Sustainability and Evaluation Center (HV-RISE)

🇺🇸HRSA · United States

Funds one national center that helps home visiting programmes use research to test and spread small improvements.

$5MFeb'27
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Leveraging Network Infrastructure to Conduct Innovative Research for Women, Children, Pregnant and Lactating Women, and Persons with Disabilities

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds multisite clinical trials and studies for infants, children, pregnant or lactating women, or people with disabilities, through NICHD's own network.

$6.3MNov'27
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Health and Extreme Weather Solutions-Focused Research Hubs

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds regional research hubs studying how wildfire smoke, heat, floods and other extreme weather harm health, with community partners built in.

Climate Tech
$2MJan'27
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Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Research Network

🇺🇸HRSA · United States

Funds a national effort to build the research base behind care for kids with complex, ongoing medical needs.

$1.6MMar'27
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Animal and Veterinary Innovation Centers

🇺🇸FDA · United States

Funds academic institutions to become long-term FDA partners researching bird flu, animal genomics and unmet veterinary needs.

BiotechAgritech
$1.3MMay'28
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Single Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV (SCORCH) Program: Phase 2

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds single-cell research into how opioid use and HIV interact in brain tissue, building on the SCORCH consortium's first phase.

Biotech
$1MJun'27