This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications to test cancer preventive or screening interventions to reduce the burden of cancer in populations that experience health disparities.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/05/2023
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications to test cancer preventive or screening interventions to reduce the burden of cancer in populations that experience health disparities.
Interventions should include screening, preventive services, or other healthcare processes, including timely follow-up of abnormal findings, and referral to accessible care. Projects are encouraged to leverage collaborations with community partners and service providers. Interventions should address barriers and facilitators at two or more of the following levels: patient, clinician, healthcare setting, and neighborhood/community. Specific research interests of participating NIH ICs are detailed within.
Projects are encouraged to leverage collaborations with community partners and service providers to promote or enhance existing interventions and/or adapt new combinations of evidence-based strategies. Interventions should address barriers and facilitators at two or more of the following levels: patient, clinician, healthcare setting, and neighborhood/community.
Research Objectives
The NIH Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) invites applications to test interventions to promote cancer screening and preventive services among populations that experience health disparities. In the United States, several populations demonstrate increased incidence and/or more aggressive disease for specific cancer types. The causes of these health disparities are multifactorial, including access to healthcare, screening uptake, prevalence of inherited pathogenic mutations associated with cancer risk factors, among others. Novel interventions for improving preventive, screening behaviors, or interventions that test strategies for disseminating or implementing interventions with known effectiveness, are warranted to improve cancer outcomes in populations that experience health disparities.
Research Scope and Expectations
Projects are expected to develop and/or test interventions to expand or improve cancer screening, vaccinations and other preventive services, referrals, and/or follow-ups by addressing barriers and facilitators that impede use or uptake of cancer screening and preventive services in populations that experience health disparities.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCI is interested in prospective interventions that include outcomes at more than one level (e.g. patient, provider, care-giver, clinic, system) and that have high potential for future scalability and sustainability. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, interventions that focus on:
- Populations with historically low rates of cancer screening, such as American Indian and Alaska Natives and those from sexual and gender minority groups;
- Lung cancer screening processes, including shared decision making and screening uptake;
- Following up after abnormal test results and other components of the screening process beyond screening uptake; and,
- Changes in organizational practices (e.g., workflow, reminder systems) following updates to guidelines, such as starting colorectal cancer screening at a younger age.
National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
NIDCR is interested in community-based research that leverages cross-sector collaborations to reduce oral and oropharyngeal cancer disparities and inequities. Areas of specific interest to NIDCR include but are not limited to the following:
- Community participatory research to identify and test system- or community- level interventions to reduce exposures to social and commercial determinants contributing to disparities and inequities in oral and oropharyngeal cancer morbidity and mortality
- Examining the feasibility and acceptability of prospective dental provider-based oral and oropharyngeal cancer interventions (e.g., screening and delivery and or coordination of HPV vaccination, tobacco/alcohol cessation) to reduce oral and oropharyngeal cancer disparities and inequities among underserved communities/populations
National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Areas of specific interest to NIMHD include but are not limited to interventions that:
- Measurably reduce or eliminate existing disparities in cancer screening and appropriate follow-up care within healthcare settings that serve diverse populations.
- Promote cancer screening and appropriate follow-up care in populations with other chronic conditions (e.g., people with type 2 diabetes, people living with HIV).
- Combine cancer screening with other types of screening (e.g., for depression, high blood pressure, or substance use) or health promotion activities (e.g., nutrition interventions, flu vaccinations).
- Promote cancer screening and appropriate follow-up care by addressing structural racism and discrimination within healthcare settings and communities
- Promote cancer screening in community-based settings (e.g., schools, workplaces, faith-based organizations, community centers) and facilitate linkage to appropriate follow-up care.
Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)
The ODP is the lead office at the NIH responsible for assessing, facilitating, and stimulating research in disease prevention. In partnership with the 27 NIH Institutes and Centers, the ODP strives to increase the scope, quality, dissemination, and impact of NIH-supported prevention research. The ODP is interested in providing co-funding support for research that has strong implications for disease and injury prevention and health equity and that include innovative and appropriate research design, measurement, and analysis methods. Information on resources for designing studies using the best available methods is available. For this NOFO, ODP is interested in multi-level or multi-sectoral interventions to promote screening and preventive services by addressing social determinants of health for populations that experience health disparities. ODP does not award grants. Please contact one of the IC program contacts listed for questions related to funding.
Office of Research in Women’s Health (ORWH)
ORWH works with the 27 NIH Institutes and Centers to advance rigorous research of relevance to the health of women. For this funding opportunity, ORWH is interested in supporting research to improve preventive or screening interventions to reduce cancer disparities in female-specific malignancies and cancers which have higher incidence or morbidity in women. Interventions focused on overcoming barriers related to the multiple domains of gender (roles and norms, relations, power dynamics and structural sexism) that influence access to and receipt of preventative services in populations of women historically understudied, underrepresented and underreported in biomedical research are of particular interest. Projects must align with at least one of the strategic goals and objectives outlined in the 2019-2023 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women’s Health Research.
ORWH does not award grants but co-funds women’s health-related applications and research projects that have received an award from one of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) listed in the announcement.
Project Period
The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligible Organizations
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:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
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
- 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
Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
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