This funding supports advancing birth defects and stillbirth surveillance through data modernization and electronic case reporting. It also funds high-quality stillbirth surveillance and case-control studies to assess risk factors, aiming to prevent birth defects and stillbirths by identifying emerging threats to mothers and babies.
Eligible applicants include state, county, city, and tribal governments; public and private higher education institutions; nonprofits; for-profit organizations; small businesses; and other specified entities meeting eligibility criteria.
