The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) seeks applications for a Coordination Center to create synergy and linkages across projects funded under NIDA’s Racial Equity Initiative (REI) funding opportunity annoucements. The Center will provide coordination for collaborative products and activities while housing shared resources. In addition, the Center will optimize the impact of individual REI projects by strengthening community-engaged research efforts and supporting the dissemination and usage of research products and innovations.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The NIH is committed to supporting health equity research to 1) improve minority health and reduce health disparities and 2) remove the barriers to advancing health disparities research (for more information, see the NIH Minority Health and Health Disparities Strategic Plan 2021-2025. In alignment with this NIH-wide effort, NIDA established the Racial Equity Initiative (REI), with goals that include promoting racial equity in NIDA’s research portfolio. Among the actions taken by NIDA, which were informed by internal and external meetings and listening sessions, the Institute has committed to a significant increase in funding for research to address racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes related to drug use and HIV. The REI funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) seek to advance equity by supporting research and research training efforts that are consistent with NIDA’s mission and with best practices for conducting research with racial and ethnic minority populations.
Center Objectives and Scope
The proposed Coordination Center should maximize the impact of the NIDA REI research projects by 1) facilitating cross-fertilization of ideas and interactions among awardees, 2) enriching the ongoing work products and scholarly output from the REI research projects, 3) facilitating the conduct of community-engaged research, and 4) supporting the robust dissemination of REI research findings. The Center should provide technical assistance and consultation to the research project awardees regarding unique aspects of working with racial and ethnic minority and health disparity communities, such as accessing hard to reach populations, establishing trust within the community, overcoming recruitment challenges, appropriately securing informed consent, selecting valid measures, and reducing barriers to participation in research. In addition, the Center is expected to provide consultation on theories, measures, and best practices in research involving structural racism, social determinants of health as well as the conduct of moderate to large-scale intervention and non-intervention research projects. The Center is expected to provide intervention researchers with support and resources to enable broad dissemination, uptake, and sustainability of effective strategies.
Center Activities
The Center is expected to provide learning opportunties for scientists, as well as end users of research products, such as clinicians, public officials, patients and members of the public. The activities planned and promoted by the Center should feature essential knowledge and skills to support the activities of NIDA REI research projects. Independently or collaboration with REI awardees, the Center investigators may engage in various efforts such as (but not limited to):
- convening workgroups on the recommendation of REI awardees
- providing consultation on the conduct and interpretation of subgroup analyses within a dataset
- providing services to make research products or instruments accessible to persons who have limited English proficiency or accessibility challenges
- providing consultation and resources related to quality control in data management, analysis of intensive, longitudinal data, data security, and data sharing
- developing novel assessment tools and methodologies that will be widely used by researchers who study substance use and health equity
- creating and making accessible resources to facilitate engagement of racial and ethnic minority or other health disparity populations in research
- organizing efforts to create special issues for peer-reviewed journals
- creating lecture series focused on innovations in community-engaged research
- creating opportunities for researchers to learn about the needs and concerns expressed by community advocates and community members
- hosting networking events for health equity scholars
- conducting trainings or producing materials to support efforts to mentor early career investigators conducting racial equity research
- hosting Health Equity Grand Rounds or a journal club
- conducting trainings or preparing written materials related to research ethics
- leading reviews or publications on topics of critical importance to the REI efforts
- maintaining an online resource to share NIDA REI research news, press releases, publications and presentations.
Funding Information
- Application budgets must not exceed $500,000 in direct costs for any year of the project.
- 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 Government
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations.
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