CDC Seeks Feedback on Fellowship App Tracking System
Published Date: 12/5/2025
Notice
Summary
The CDC wants your thoughts on their Fellowship Management System, a tool that helps manage fellowship applications and track progress. This affects potential fellows, host sites, and CDC programs by keeping things organized and efficient. Comments are open until February 3, 2026, with no new costs involved—just a chance to help improve the process!
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Host Site Application Burden Jump
If your organization applies to host a CDC fellow, the estimated average time to complete a host site application rose from 75 minutes to 461 minutes. The estimated annual number of host site responses was decreased from 970 to 560.
Fellow Application Time Increase
If you apply to a CDC fellowship, the agency now estimates the average application takes 163 minutes instead of 87 minutes. CDC also reduced the estimated annual number of applicants from 5,286 to 2,500.
Overall Burden Reduced; No Monetary Costs
CDC proposes a net decrease in total annual respondent burden from 13,477 hours to 12,655 hours. CDC states there are no costs to respondents other than their time to participate.
Reference Letter Time Burden
If you write a reference letter for a CDC fellowship applicant, CDC estimates 5,000 reference letters annually at about 15 minutes each. That totals an estimated 1,250 hours per year for letter writers.
Activity Tracking Respondent Cut
CDC reduced the estimated annual number of activity-tracking respondents from 555 to 100. CDC did not change the estimated time per activity-tracking response (30 minutes, two responses per respondent), yielding an estimated 200 annual hours.
Alumni Module Deactivation
CDC proposes to deactivate the FMS Alumni Module. As proposed, the Alumni Module shows zero annual responses and therefore imposes no time burden in this revision.
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