2022 Catalyst for Infant Health Equity

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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Catalyst for Infant Health Equity program. The purpose of this new program is to support the implementation of existing action plans that apply data-driven policy and innovative systems strategies to reduce infant mortality (IM) disparities in a specific county/jurisdiction. For the purposes of this NOFO, since “county” is not a term used for all geographic areas, the term “jurisdiction” is also used and refers to tribal areas; the District of Columbia; municipalities within Puerto Rico; and similar geographical areas found within the US-affiliated Pacific Islands and Freely Associated States. The goals of the Catalyst for Infant Health Equity program are twofold: 1) to continue reducing overall IM rates in the United States, and 2) to decrease and ultimately eliminate disparities in IM across racial/ethnic groups by achieving steeper declines for groups with the highest rates. To accelerate disparity reduction, this project seeks to move beyond direct services to implementing targeted policy and systems interventions that will focus on one or more specific social determinants of health (SDOH) domains that contribute to IM disparities in a particular county/jurisdiction.