Maternal-Child Surveillance and Partnerships for Action, Results, and Knowledge

The Centers for Disease Control - NCBDDD is seeking applicants for the Maternal-Child Surveillance and Partnerships for Action, Results, and Knowledge grant. This grant aims to integrate maternal child health surveillance with national partnership activities to address key public health challenges, including alcohol use during pregnancy, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), and cytomegalovirus (CMV). The grant will support entities with appropriate data authority and infrastructure to initiate, sustain, enhance, and/or expand clinical surveillance systems capturing data on pregnant women, infants, and/or children. The grant will also invest in national partnership activities to prevent FASDs and improve early identification as well as support and care of affected infants and children. Some key aspects of this grant include: • Improving data quality and enabling timely reporting and dissemination of evolving outcome data • Monitoring prenatal exposures such as alcohol use and polysubstance use during pregnancy • Addressing emerging, reemerging, and persistent public health threats to pregnant women and infants • Providing technical assistance to funded entities conducting clinical surveillance • Supporting dissemination of data through visualizations • Serving as a national FASD resource • Advancing evidence-based messaging • Building clinical capacity through a holistic, lifespan approach