CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) issued the Funding Notice Improving and Enhancing the U.S Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System for program funding for $2,550, 000 with March 14, 2022 as the closing date.
CDC seeks non-research cooperative agreement applications to enhance CDC’s Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS). The system uses data from a variety of sources to assess U.S. national, state, and county-level prevalence of major eye diseases, vision impairment, and utilization of eye care.
The funding notice focus is on maintaining, improving, and enhancing the VEHSS which is the only interactive, comprehensive collection of vision and eye health data in the U.S. The VEHSS includes data from 5 national surveys, 4 administrative claims databases, EHR registry, and published examination studies.
Activities in the funding notice include adding new data, streamlining indicators, identifying data gaps, and prioritizing data sources and key indicators that have the greatest value for public health surveillance.
The project will also identify and add other sources of vision and eye health data. For example, other sources might include data from the VA, HHS, and other EHR systems. The plan is to incorporate national, state, and county-level data on social determinants of health.
In addition the goal is to improve the functionality of the VEHSS and end-user experience by enhancing data visualization and presentation in the VEHSS. The project will also focus on outreach and dissemination of the VEHSS to key partners to drive an increase in end user engagement with the surveillance system.
Eligible applicants can include for profit organizations, small businesses, private ,public and state controlled institutions of higher education state city and or county governments, nonprofits, plus other applicants.
Go to https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html for more information.