This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites applications for REsearch Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) virtual resource centers.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/10/2022
Size of the Grant: $750,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) recognizes a compelling need to support the development of clinician scientists trained in complementary and integrative health practices to pursue clinically informed research careers. Academic institutions training health care practitioners in the use of complementary approaches (i.e. complementary and integrative health clinical institutions) often lack key resources to fully support clinician scientist research careers of their faculty. The REACH Virtual Resource Centers are intended to fill that gap by fostering partnerships with accredited, academic institutions providing clinical degrees in complementary and integrative professions and by providing a wide array of research and training resources to support clinician scientist faculty at accredited complementary and integrative health clinical institutions, such as: schools of acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathy, naturopathy, physical therapy, music and art therapy.
This initiative aligns with NCCIH Strategic Priorities for workforce development and with recommendations of the NCCIH Working Group Report on Clinician-Scientist Workforce Development, specifically the following recommendations:
- To support a variety of career paths to the goal of clinician-scientist, addressing specific roadblocks in each type of path. As part of this effort, develop innovative approaches to support research training for clinicians with complementary and integrative health degrees;
- Develop programs to support the host environments at all types of institutions involved in research training in complementary and integrative health. This effort should include incentivizing institutions to reward teams of scientists and clinicians.
Objectives
The REACH virtual resource centers will be scientific hubs that provide resources to virtually support the research environment and provide resources for faculty at partnering complementary and integrative health clinical institutions to pursue a research career. It is expected that the REACH Virtual Resource Centers program will lead to the following outcomes:
- Increase in the quality and quantity of grant applications submitted by clinician scientists at the partnering complementary and integrative health clinical institutions
- Formation of multi and interdisciplinary research partnerships across partnering complementary and integrative health clinical institutions
- Enhanced research environments at complementary and integrative health clinical institutions, thereby exposing more students to research
- A stronger pipeline for developing clinician scientists trained in complementary and integrative health practices to gain expertise in clinical science and to pursue research careers at clinical institutions.
Funding Information
- Application budgets may not exceed $750,000 per year in direct costs and should reflect the actual needs of the proposed 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 Governments
- 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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
