This U2C Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) initiative to establish a novel national Stakeholder Engagement Innovation Center for advancing equity in type 2 diabetes research (SEIC-T2D).
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/26/2022
Size of the Grant: $3,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
A primary goal of the SEIC-T2D is to accelerate equitable engagement of individuals from and communities of diverse backgrounds and sectors in developing the research priorities and activities that involve them, particularly NIH designated health disparity populations, underserved communities, and those with the highest proportion of diabetes-related morbidity and mortality. The SEIC-T2D will provide highly specialized research resources to support field investigators by fully embedding communities, patients, and other stakeholders into the full spectrum of research activities through expert consultations and education in principles and methods of community-engaged research. The SEIC-T2D will also establish a network consisting of multidisciplinary research investigators, including from underrepresented groups, with expertise in T2D and community-engaged methods, community experts with lived experiences, and representatives of various health and other organizations deemed essential for addressing disparities and advancing health equity in T2D prevention and treatment.
The Stakeholder Engagement Innovation Center for Advancing Health Equity in Type 2 Diabetes Research (SEIC-T2D) will provide highly specialized research resources to accelerate use of appropriate methods and meaningful and equitable engagement of diverse stakeholders. The stakeholders will include communities and patients that experience diabetes-related health disparities, and the organizations and people that impact their health and are essential for promoting health equity, to improve NIDDK mission-related T2D research. Specific goals are to support T2D investigators or investigative teams to facilitate or improve:
- Use of appropriate research methodologies with potential for addressing health disparities and promoting equity such as community-engaged research methods, implementation science, and pragmatic effectiveness trials which may allow researchers to better identify/address barriers to care and other health promoting resources, and optimal outcomes.
- Use of key equity approaches such as strength-based perspectives, incorporating community members’ research priorities, values, lived experiences, and their health promoting resources and challenges into the research; and avoiding unintended stigmatization, tokenism, and harmful implicit bias in the research efforts;
- The science of engagement involving outreach, communications, recruitment and retention strategies, and principles of reciprocity that would benefit clinical trial research;
- Equitable stakeholder partnership development between researchers and community-based organizations, members, or other entities to promote research efforts that involve mutually beneficial processes, metrics, and outcomes; and
- Dissemination of effective practices for equitable engagement with stakeholders, including effective strategies for sharing research findings with diverse communities, lessons for improving the adoption and scalability of efficacious and evidence-based interventions, and tailored health communications to reduce T2D-related disparities and promote health equity.
The SEIC-T2D will focus on initiating and building a robust infrastructure for delivering expert research engagement resources to improve uptake of appropriate research principles and methods to improve equity, and stakeholder engagement in developing research studies, and in mitigating obstacles with research studies that are not meeting proposed targets (e.g., challenges with delayed recruitment and retention, insufficient participatory research methods). Consultations should be made available to the T2D research community through a minimum of two core services: 1) stakeholder engagement studios whereby the Center designs customized consultation sessions to provide varied stakeholder or community input on the research objectives and approaches; and 2) structured, expert research consultations with center faculty at any stage of the investigator’s (i.e., core user’s) grant writing or research project.
Funding Information
- NIDDK intends to commit $3,000,000 in Fiscal Year 2023 to fund one award.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
