Deadline Date: August 14, 2026
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is inviting applications for a cooperative agreement to strengthen global health security and improve public health systems across Kenya.
The opportunity focuses on preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats while strengthening disease surveillance systems, laboratory capacity, outbreak detection, emergency preparedness and response, public health emergency operations, National Public Health Institute development, global health security priorities, rapid outbreak response, health data and surveillance systems, workforce development, cross-border disease monitoring, emergency risk communication, civil registration and mortality surveillance, laboratory networks, public health infrastructure, and implementation of the 7-1-7 framework for timely outbreak detection and response.
For more than four decades, CDC has partnered with the Government of Kenya to strengthen the country’s health system through investments in global health security, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, immunization, and influenza programs. This new funding opportunity builds on previous CDC-supported activities to expand programs that improve Kenya’s capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.
The program will be delivered through a cooperative agreement with an expected total Year 1 funding of $10.5 million, supporting 2 to 3 awards over a five-year period consisting of five 12-month budget periods. Applicants must submit work plans and budgets for all three funding components, although initial funding is expected to support only the core global health security component, with additional emergency response components eligible for future funding as resources become available.
Eligible applicants include government entities, higher education institutions, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, small businesses, tribal organizations, and foreign or non-U.S.-based entities. Projects must be implemented in Kenya, and local partners that meet CDC’s definition of a local partner may receive additional consideration during the review process.
The initiative supports strengthening disease surveillance, laboratory systems, emergency management capacity, outbreak preparedness, and coordination of essential public health functions. Applicants are encouraged to align their activities with time-bound outbreak response frameworks such as the 7-1-7 approach, demonstrating their organization’s expertise in advancing Kenya’s public health security objectives.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
