The USAID Global Health Challenge BAA | BAA GLOBALHEALTH 2017

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The USAID Global Health Challenge Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is an umbrella funding mechanism that USAID uses to find and support innovative science, technology, and research-and-development approaches aimed at major global health problems. Rather than funding one single, pre-defined project, this BAA is designed to bring in fresh ideas and partnerships that can lead to new or improved interventions, technologies, and implementation models. The core emphasis is on collaboration with USAID and its partners to develop, test, and eventually scale solutions that help prevent, detect, and manage critical global health challenges aligned with U.S. Government priorities.

A key feature of this opportunity is that it is not a standard open grant competition with a single application package and due date. The BAA itself does not ask applicants to submit an Expression of Interest, and it does not provide one universal set of submission requirements. Instead, USAID releases specific "Global Health Challenge" addenda under the BAA. Each addendum functions like a targeted call that lays out the particular problem statement, what USAID is looking for, how to respond, who to contact, and the relevant deadlines. In practice, organizations monitor for these addenda and respond when there is a match between their innovation and the challenge USAID has defined.

The opportunity is explicitly built around co-creation and shared investment, meaning USAID is looking for partners willing to work jointly on design and implementation, and potentially bring complementary resources to the table (such as technical expertise, products, data, operational capacity, or funding). The intent is to move beyond pilot-only concepts and toward solutions that can be validated and then scaled in real-world settings. Because it is categorized under science and technology and other R&D, the types of activities supported can reasonably include early-stage development, applied research, field testing, implementation research, operational trials, and approaches that improve delivery and uptake of proven interventions, depending on what an individual addendum requests.

Eligibility is broad and essentially unrestricted unless a specific addendum narrows it. USAID indicates that public and private entities are eligible, including for-profit companies, non-profits, universities and other higher education institutions, public international organizations, NGOs, U.S. and non-U.S. government entities, and international donor organizations. Regardless of organization type, respondents must be judged "responsive" to the BAA and "responsible" enough to carry out the work or participate in the final award arrangement, which typically refers to meeting USAID standards around capability, integrity, and performance risk.

Several of the listing details reinforce that this is an umbrella mechanism rather than a single award. The Funding Opportunity Number is listed as BAA GLOBALHEALTH 2017, with a creation date of May 30, 2017, and an original closing date shown as May 30, 2018. The award ceiling is shown as 0 and expected awards is blank, which is common for broad announcements where the actual funding levels, number of awards, and specific award structures are determined later through the individual addenda and negotiations. The instrument type is simply listed as "Other," signaling that USAID may use a range of award approaches depending on the addendum and the nature of the partnership.

Overall, the best way to think about the USAID Global Health Challenge BAA is as a standing invitation to innovators across sectors to watch for targeted addenda and then propose solutions that are novel, practical, and scalable. The real "how to apply" information, including technical requirements, evaluation criteria, submission formats, points of contact, and timelines, is not contained in the umbrella BAA description and is instead released with each addendum.

• The Agency for International Development in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "The USAID Global Health Challenge BAA" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-05-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-05-30. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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