Advancing Global Capacity to Detect and Respond to Fungal Diseases
This grant supports building and strengthening global systems for detecting, diagnosing, and responding to fungal diseases to enhance public health capacity and reduce international health risks.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control - NCEZID
Due Dates: August 31, 2026 (full application due by 11:59 p.m. ET)
Funding Amounts: Total program funding: $15,000,000 over 5 years | Expected awards: 10 | Typical award: $100,000–$1,000,000/year (up to ~$1,250,000 per award over 5 years)
Summary: Supports projects to build and strengthen global capacity for fungal disease detection, diagnosis, surveillance, and response.
Key Information: Applications requesting over $300,000 or missing required documents will not be reviewed.
Description
This funding opportunity from the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) supports efforts to strengthen sustainable systems for detecting, diagnosing, surveilling, and responding to fungal disease threats globally. The program targets core public health infrastructure, including laboratory capacity, surveillance systems, workforce development, and data use, with the goal of reducing the burden of fungal diseases, improving global health security, and mitigating risks of international spread and antifungal resistance.
Applicants may propose activities that align with one or more of the following strategies:
- Strengthening laboratory and diagnostic capacity
- Enhancing surveillance systems
- Supporting workforce development
- Improving data collection, analysis, and use for public health action
The cooperative agreement is structured in two components:
- Component 1 (required): Core capacity strengthening for fungal disease detection and response.
- Component 2 (optional): Rapid response to emerging public health needs, such as outbreaks or antifungal-resistant threats (may be approved as unfunded and activated later if needed).
