World Trade Center Youth Research Coordinating Center (U54)

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA (Department of Health and Human Services) has announced this as a forecast: an opportunity it expects to post. It is not open for applications yet. Estimated posting date: Nov 24, 2026. Estimated application due date: Feb 23, 2027.

Awards are up to $10,000,000 each, the agency expects to make 1 award and estimated total program funding is $50,000,000.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted (open to any type of applicant), subject to any clarification in the listing.

The listing says cost sharing or matching is not required.

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Additional eligibility information (excerpt from the listing):

Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Applicants may not include foreign components, as defined in the HHS Grants Policy Statement. Applicants may include collaborators or consultants from foreign institutions.

Excerpt from the official forecast on Grants.gov (shortened; read the full text on the official listing):

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program, plans to establish a WTC Youth Research Coordinating Center ("Center") through a U54 cooperative agreement. In December 2022, Congress amended the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. § 300mm–51(c)) to direct the WTC Health Program Administrator to establish a research cohort for emerging health impacts on youth. The cohort must be of sufficient size to support future research studies on the health and educational impacts of exposures resulting from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11). The overall purpose of the Center is to: • Establish and maintain a WTC Youth Research Cohort of individuals who were: • 21 years of age or younger at the time of 9/11 exposure, including those exposed in utero. • Within a certain distance of the WTC site on and after 9/11. …

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