NIOSH Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health

Background
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is inviting applications for the Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health (Ag Centers). These centers are expected to conduct high quality research and subsequently disseminate their findings and recommendations in audience appropriate products to contribute to improving the safety and health of agriculture, forestry, and fishing workers. Emphasis should be placed on the creation and implementation of evidence-based solutions that address important agricultural, forestry, and fishing safety and health problems.
Centers should also use innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based solutions.

Grant Details
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide support for Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health (Ag Centers) to address the significant and varied morbidity and mortality burden in U.S. AgFF occupations. Ag Centers conduct research and outreach activities as a means of building and expanding upon existing scientific evidence and transferring evidence-based research findings to appropriate stakeholders for adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability. The overarching goal of the Ag Centers is to reduce adverse outcomes in AgFF worker health and safety.
The Ag Centers should address agriculture, forestry, and fishing issues in a cohesive and coordinated fashion, focusing on problems that are particularly burdensome in their region or potential solutions that are reasonably anticipated to have a high likelihood of improving the health and well-being of AgFF workers.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include higher education institutions, public/state controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status (other than institutions of higher education), nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS status (other than institutions of higher education), small businesses, for-profit organizations (other than small businesses), state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), faith-based or community-based organizations.

Period of Performance
The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 5 years. The estimated total funding is $15-18 million total costs in FY 2022 with an anticipated number of awards being approximately 10-12.

Grant Value
It is anticipated that the maximum amount for each application/award will be $1,400,000 in direct costs for each 12-month budget period.

Place of Performance
Ag Centers are distributed throughout the nation to be responsive to safety and health issues unique to different regions of the country.