County Health Ranking is excited to announce a call for proposals for up to $400,000 in new research grants.
Donor Name: County Health Ranking
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This CFP, “The CHR&R Research Grants,” plays an important role in strengthening and enhancing data and evidence-informed efforts to advance health and equity. The goal of these research grants is to provide scholarly inquiry from outside the program to identify potential improvements to the CHR&R data platform and tools that will increase their strategic use and impact.
Areas for Research
The 2024 CFP will focus on the conceptualization and measurement of structural determinants of health and community power. By focusing on these areas for research, they encourage scholarship that can recognize and clarify historical influence and how structural mechanisms have present day relevance. They also encourage scholarship that questions assumptions and critically reflects on widely held theories that undergird the production of health and equity. They have provided several specific research questions and priority topics below that are most relevant to strengthening CHR&R data and tools to improve data accessibility, communication, or usability that can enhance learning and impact. However, investigators are encouraged to submit innovative proposals for other research topics that fit within the focus areas of research.
Conceptualization and measurement of structural determinants of health and community power that evolve CHR&R data sources, methods, tools, and narratives and support understanding of the past and present context and patterning of health and racial inequity.
- Exploring structural drivers of health inequities and the contemporary mechanisms through which power imbalances operate, including policies, laws, budgets, practices, and norms relevant to:
- Democracy, civic participation, and representation (e.g., census and voter participation, gerrymandering, civic education, polling places)
- Environment and climate change (e.g., regional climate events, place-based risks and mitigation strategies)
- Wealth building and community financial health (e.g., banking access, community development investments, cost of living)
- Family and social support (e.g., systems that address child abuse and neglect, community allostatic load, social connectedness) and health-related quality of life (e.g., wellbeing, self-rated health, spirituality, happiness, loneliness)
- Enumerating policy design and implementation or historical data relevant to structural determinants of health for integration into CHR&R data and tools
- Exploring methods for the analysis of evidence related to health equity impacts of policies and interventions, including approaches to incorporation of historical contex
- Exploring new data repositories and collection efforts such as data sources to allow access to more timely and inclusive information (e.g., electronic health records, social media) and allow for the measurement of within-county disparities (e.g., sub-county data)
- Developing measures of place-based assets and resource allocation that might complement or replace people-oriented measures (e.g., number of local job opportunities vs unemployment rate)
- Exploring the responsible measurement of disparities within and among counties (e.g., intersectionality of racial, spatial, and other axes of inequity), with particular attention to the underlying theory and ethics of disparity measurement
- Exploring adjustments to variables included and appropriate weighting schemes for summary measures of population health (also referred to as composite measures or indices)
- Developing approaches to set benchmarks for measures of population health and equity with transparency around underlying values to define progress and improvement at the county level
- Exploring methods to highlight positive deviance (aka bright spots, resilience, places with conflicting factors and outcomes) and understanding the determinants of this deviance.
Funding Information
Up to $400,000 will be available for research under this CFP, with a combination of:
- Targeted studies—up to $50,000 for a maximum of 12 months.
- Complex/comprehensive studies—up to $100,000 for a maximum of 12 months. Applicants seeking funding amounts higher than this will need to clearly specify the data collection or analysis steps requiring the higher amount.
Funding Period
Earliest start date is January 1st, 2024 and latest end date is December 31st, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, an applicant organization must be located in the United States or its territories.
- Applications must be submitted by tax exempt educational institutions, government agencies, or nonprofit organizations that are tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3).
- County Health Rankings welcomes applications from investigators in a wide range of disciplines, including: health, social and behavioral sciences, biostatistics, environmental science, political science, demography, spatial data science, community psychology, history, economics, and/or informatics, and other relevant fields.
For more information, visit County Health Rankings.
