Health and Mental Health Funding Opportunities
March 2013
1. Program: Child Care Research Scholars
Agency: Administration for Children and Families
Next Deadline: May 10, 2013
Supports dissertation research on child care policy issues. Each student must work in partnership with a faculty mentor. Within this mentoring relationship, scholars are expected to become independent researchers with the skills necessary to address critical child care issues with a high level of technical quality. IHEs apply on behalf of students. In FY 13, approximately $150,000 is available to support six awards.
Seehttp://www.acf.hhs.gov/hhsgrantsforecast/index.cfm?switch=grant.view&gff_grants_forecastInfoID=43576 for details.
Email:
Contact: Ann Rivera, Program Officer
c/o ICF International
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA 22031
202/401-5506
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2. Program: Child Care Research Partnership Grants
Agency: Administration for Children and Families
Next Deadline: May 20, 2013
Supports projects to address child care issues of current relevance to decision makers at the local, state and national levels. Partnerships must include the state agency that administers the Child Care and Development Fund. Additionally, at least one member must be a research group affiliated with a university or four-year college. Approximately $1.25 million is available for five awards.
Seehttp://www.acf.hhs.gov/hhsgrantsforecast/index.cfm?switch=grant.view&gff_grants_forecastInfoID=65120 for details.
Email:
Contact: Ann Rivera, Program Officer
Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation
901 D Street, SW
Washington, DC 20447
202/401-5506
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3. Program: Health Services Research Projects
Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Next Deadline: Jun 05, 2013
Supports ongoing extramural grant applications (R01) for research, demonstration, dissemination, and evaluation projects to support improvements in health outcomes; improve decision-making at all levels of the health care system; strengthen quality measurement and improvement; and improve access. Special focus on health care disparities. Increase in R01 budget limit applications due 3/28/13.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-045.html and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-13-005.html for details.
Email:
Contact: Angela Lavanderos, Program Officer
540 Gaither Road
6th Floor
Rockville, MD 20850
301/427-1505
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4. Program: Small Grants to Improve Health Care Quality through Health IT
Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Next Deadline: Jun 16, 2013
Supports small grant applications (R03) on a wide variety of research designs in order to improve quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare through health IT. Applications must focus on the following settings: ambulatory setting; transitions in care between ambulatory settings; or transitions in care between an ambulatory setting and non-ambulatory setting. Expires 11/17/13.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-268.html for details.
Email:
Contact: Angela Lavanderos, Program Officer
Center for Primary Care & Prevention
540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
301/427-1505
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5. Program: Small Research Grant Program
Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Next Deadline: Jun 16, 2013
Supports small grants (R03) for different types of health services research projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and, development of new research technology. AHRQ is interested in research involving collaborative efforts between researchers and medical and public health or healthcare providers, purchasers or payer organizations. Awards offer up to $100,000 for 24 months. Expires 3/17/14.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-168.html for details.
Email:
Contact: Angela Lavanderos, Program Officer
Center for Primary Care
540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
301/427-1505
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6. Program: Understanding User Needs and Context to Inform Consumer Health IT Design
Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Next Deadline: Jun 05, 2013
Supports research (R01) that builds a knowledge base of individuals' personal health information management practices. Research should examine what currently exists between consumer health IT designers and the users themselves. This grant opportunity seeks to bridge the chasm that currently exists between consumer health IT designers and the users themselves, by bolstering basic research to better understand users’ PHIM practices, needs, and goals. Expires 7/6/14.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-199.html for details.
Email:
Contact: Angela Lavanderos, Program Officer
Center for Primary Care, Prevention & Clinical Partnerships
540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
301/427-1505
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7. Program: Joint Grants, Research Stimulation Awards, & Visiting Professorships
Agency: American Academy of Family Physicians
Next Deadline: Jun 01, 2013
Supports research in the area of family practice and offers several awards, including: Joint Grant Awards Program (6/1, 12/1 annually) of up to $50,000 for two years for research projects of high relevance to family practice/medicine using rigorous design; Research Stimulation Grants (3/1, 9/1 annually) for smaller scale studies of no more than $7,500; and Practice Based Research Network Stimulation Grants (3/1, 9/1 annually) of up to $7,500. Other programs available.
See http://tinyurl.com/anbm3w2 for details.
Email:
Contact: Sondra Goodman, Manager (ext. 4457)
11400 Tomahawk Creek Pkwy
Suite 440
Leawood, KS 66211-2672
800/274-2237
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8. Program: NIOSH Exploratory/Developmental Grant Program
Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Next Deadline: Jun 16, 2013
The purpose of this R21 grant program is to develop an understanding of the risks and conditions associated with occupational diseases and injuries, to explore methods for reducing risks and for preventing or minimizing exposure to hazardous conditions in the workplace, and to translate significant scientific findings into prevention practices and products that will effectively reduce work-related illnesses and injuries. Interested in applications to reduce injury and illness in construction, transportation, agriculture, mining, and health care. Expires 9/8/15.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-252.html for details.
Email:
Contact: Linda Frederick, Scientific Program Officer
1600 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30333
404/498-2557
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9. Program: NIOSH Small Research Program
Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Next Deadline: Jun 16, 2013
Supports small grants (R03) to identify and investigate relationships between working conditions and associated occupational diseases and injuries; to evaluate hazards at work sites; and to develop new protective equipment, engineering control technology, and work practices. A Research to Practice (r2P) initiative seeks to reduce or eliminate occupational illness and injury by increasing the transfer and translation of knowledge, interventions, and technologies into highly effective prevention practices and products. Awards provide up to $50,000/year for up to two
years. PA expires 9/8/15.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-200.html for details.
Contact: Linda Frederick, Scientific Program Officer
1600 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329-4018
404/498-2557
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10. Program: Data Concepts &Terminology Standards for Clinical Research & Drug Development
Agency: Food and Drug Administration
Next Deadline: Jun 01, 2013
Supports applications (R24) for programs to expedite development of data concepts and terminology to support human drug development and evaluation, especially for the development of non-proprietary, consensus-based, national data standards for use in clinical studies of human drugs and biologics. Projects may focus on solutions to general data standards development and implementation challenges or on specific clinical concepts or domains where standardization is needed. Expires 11/16/13.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-209.html for details.
E-mail:
Contact: Catherine Jansto, Program Officer
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
10903 New Hampshire Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20993
301/796-5104
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11. Program: Research Grants
Agency: Gerber Foundation
Next Deadline: Jun 01, 2013
Supports specific nutrition-related interventions to improve infant health and development from first
year before birth to age three. Projects should have a specific nutrition focus with defined outcome parameters. Preference given to projects with national or regional impact that are sufficiently focused to make a difference in field of interest. Up to $300,000 available per award. Novice Researcher Award also available and offers up to $20,000 per project. Deadlines refer to required concept papers; full proposals by invitation only.
See http://www.gerberfoundation.org/ for details.
Email:
Contact: Catherine Obits, Program Manager
4747 West 48th Street
Suite 153
Fremont, MI 49412-8119
231/924-3175
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12. Program: Research Grants Program
Agency: March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Next Deadline: Apr 15, 2013
Provides millions in grants and scholarships for community programs and education for professionals. Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research award provides $75,000 per year over two years for new investigators holding recent faculty appointments to conduct independent research on birth defects (deadline 3/15/13). General Research Grants (LOI deadline 4/30) support the prevention of birth defects. Prematurity Research Initiative LOIs due 4/15.
See http://www.marchofdimes.com/research/researchgrants.html for details.
Email:
Contact: Joe Leigh Simpson, Senior Vice President for Research
Research & Grants Administration
1275 Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
914/997-4555
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13. Program: Grants for Inclusion of Youth with Disabilities
Agency: Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
Next Deadline: Jun 01, 2013
Supports projects that advance the independence, productivity and community inclusion of young people with disabilities. Projects should have broad scope and the potential for replication nationally. Applicants are urged to develop partnerships with other organizations and involve people with disabilities in planning and implementation. Required concept papers may be submitted online starting 1/1, but must be received by 6/1 to be considered for funding the following year. Applicants are strongly discouraged from phoning during the application process.
See http://www.meaf.org/how_to_apply/priorities_guidelines for details.
Contact: Colleen Maher, Program Officer
1560 Wilson Boulevard
Suite 1150
Arlington, VA 22209
703/276-8240
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14. Program: Research and Development Grants
Agency: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Next Deadline: Jun 15, 2013
Supports one to three year research projects on muscular dystrophies and related neuromuscular diseases. Research Grants offer unlimited support to senior researchers and Development Grants offer up to $60K/year to researchers working as part of a team under a senior investigator. All applicants must hold an Ph.D. or equivalent (+18 months of postdoc training for Development Grant applicants). Multiple applications accepted from same campus, but PI must differ on each submission. Deadlines refer to required LOIs.
See http://www.mdausa.org/research/guidelines.html for details.
Email:
Contact: Grants Manager
Research Department
3300 East Sunrise Drive
Tucson, AZ 85718
520/529-2000
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15. Program: Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA)
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Next Deadline: Jun 25, 2013
Supports renewable awards (R15) up to $300,000/three years for projects in biomedical and behavioral sciences conducted by faculty and students in health professional schools, and other academic components that have not been major recipients of NIH funds. Goal is to strengthen institutional research environment and support active involvement of undergraduate (preferred) and graduate students in research. Students may be paid full time during summer and/or part-time during the semester. PA expires 1/8/15.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-006.html
E-mail:
Contact: Erica Brown, Director, AREA Program
Office of Extramural Research
6705 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-7963
301/402-1081
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16. Program: NIH Pathway to Independence Award
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Next Deadline: Jun 12, 2013
Most NIH institutes and centers provide up to five years of support in two phases. Initial mentored phase (K99) supports salary and research expenses for up to two years for new investigators (no more than five years of postdoctoral research training); and then applicant may request up to three years of support to transition to independent scientist (R00). Applicants cautioned that not all NIH institutes and centers participate in this program. NIH will reissue this PA later in 2013 for applications due 2/12/14. Changes can be expected. Expires 9/8/14.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-197.html
Contact: Contacts Vary
Office of Extramural Research
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
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17. Program: Practical Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence in Primary Care
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Next Deadline: Jun 05, 2013
Many NIH institutes/centers support research (R01; R21) to test interventions with the potential to significantly improve medication adherence in patients with chronic health conditions in settings where primary health care is delivered (including, dental and eye care settings). Applications may target medication adherence in the context of treatment for a single illness or chronic condition (e.g., hypertension) or multiple comorbid conditions (e.g., hypertension and HIV/AIDS). Expires 1/8/14.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-022.html for R01 details.
Email:
Contact: Wendy Nilsen, OBSSR
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-2027
301/496-0979
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18. Program: Research On Ethical Issues in Biomedical, Social and Behavioral Research
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Next Deadline: Jun 05, 2013
Many NIH institutes support research (R01; R03; R21) to analyze ethical challenges and issues related to the conduct of research within the NIH mission. Of specific interest: ethical considerations of new technologies; research study design issues; issues associated with therapeutic misconception and the interface between treatment and research; research involving vulnerable populations and urgent situations; research with existing specimens, data and health information; dissemination and translation of research findings; and oversight of research. Expires 5/8/14.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-180.html for R01 details.
Contact: Ann Hardy, Program Office
NIH Office of Extramural Programs
6705 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-7963
301/435-2690
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19. Program: Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Next Deadline: Jun 05, 2013
Many NIH institutes support basic and applied research (R01; R21) using systems science methodologies relevant to human behavioral and social sciences and health. Intended to encourage a broader scope of topics to be addressed with systems science methodologies, beyond those encouraged by existing open FOAs, especially those either applied or basic in nature (including methodological development), having a human behavioral and/or social science focus, and that feature systems science methodologies. Expires 9/8/14.
See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-314.html for R01 details and other contacts.
E-mail:
Contact: Patricia (Patty) Mabry, Senior Advisor OBSSR
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-2027
301/402-1753
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20. Program: Behavioral Interventions to Address Multiple Health Conditions in Primary Care
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Next Deadline: Jun 05, 2013
Several NIH institutes support research (R01) that proposes to use a common conceptual model to develop behavioral interventions to modify health behaviors and improve health outcomes in patients with comorbid chronic diseases and health conditions. Specifically supports research in primary care that uses a multi-disease care management approach to behavioral interventions with high potential impact to improve patient-level health outcomes for individuals with three or more chronic health conditions. Expires 1/8/14.