The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications for Maintaining and Enriching Environmental Epidemiology Cohorts to Support Scientific and Workforce Diversity.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $250,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit grant applications that propose to: (1) support the maintenance and resource infrastructure enrichment for existing Environmental Epidemiology Cohorts (EECs) and to (2) enrich data management and data sharing activities to promote widespread data sharing and scientific collaborations to be inclusive of under-resourced minority-serving institutions and under-represented minority researchers. The ultimate goal is to maintain and maximize NIEHS cohort investments within the environmental epidemiology community by improving data collection on under-represented populations in environmental health studies, strengthening workforce diversity and promoting greater scientific collaboration.
Activities to support the maintenance and enrichment of EECs are categorized as : (1) cohort maintenance and resource infrastructure enrichment for existing EECs and (2) enrichment of EEC data management and broad sharing of cohort resources. Each resource application must propose at least one of these two activity categories and additionally include elements that emphasize the inclusion of understudied populations in epidemiology cohorts, collaboration with researchers from various academic disciplines, and diverse backgrounds, such as those from groups underrepresented in the scientific workforce, and researchers at any career level from institutions with a demonstrated or historical commitment to or track record of training students from underrepresented groups or under-resourced institutions, in scientific collaborations. Examples of these elements could include, but are not limited to:
- Infrastructure support to retain personnel, including community partnerships, essential to continue and expand cohort enrollment of understudied populations (where relevant).
- Infrastructure support to add or retain personnel essential to the collection or development of additional measures necessary to advance environmental health equity and environmental justice.
- Infrastructure support and personnel essential to data preparation to facilitate and ensure broader data sharing activities that include, but are not limited to, outreach to promote diversity in scientific collaborations.
- Enhanced outreach activities to bring greater awareness to the research community of opportunities to pursue new and possibly unlikely collaborations and interdisciplinary partnerships.
- Enhanced outreach activities to strengthen and sustain community engagement and partnerships.
Applications will be considered non-responsive if they do not include activities to improve the participation of understudied populations in epidemiological research or activities to enhance diversity in the research workforce, such as outreach or recruiting efforts.
Funding Information
- Application budgets are limited to $250,000 direct costs and need must reflect the actual costs of the proposed project.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
