The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) is announcing the availability of funds under the Minority Research Grant Program (MRGP) to test promising solutions in existing CMS programs, policies, or practices that affect social determinants of health (SDOH) and how changes in SDOH achieve health equity.
Donor Name: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the improvement of health outcomes for people from all minority populations, including:
- racial and ethnic minority groups,
- people with disabilities,
- members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community,
- individuals with limited English proficiency,
- individuals residing in rural areas, and
- individuals adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.
This program also encourages research that focuses on the reduction of health disparities at the health care system-level. Such research will stimulate interest in the characterization and inferential analysis of determining factors associated with health-related social needs, and provide funding in this area.
CMS seeks to achieve health equity by improving quality and making care more person-centered, affordable, and accessible. The purpose of this NOFO is to encourage health services research that can directly contribute to the improvement of the health of people from all minority populations and/or the reduction of health disparities, while taking into consideration the interaction between system-level healthcare, individual clinical care and social determinants of health, including the role of structural systemic factors, place and neighborhood factors. In this way, the MRGP is consistent with CMS’s goals of achieving health equity and improving healthcare quality.
Funding Information
The total amount of federal funds available is $1,000,000.
Project Period
The anticipated Period of Performance is 9/30/2023 – 9/29/2025.
Eligibility Criteria
Government Organizations
- State governments County governments
- City of Township governments
- Special District governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
Education Organizations
- Independent School Districts
- Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private institutions of higher education
Public Housing Organizations
- Public housing authorities
- Indian housing authorities
Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For-profit Businesses (organizations other than small businesses)
- Small Businesses
- Individuals
Unrestricted
This funding opportunity is open to the following eligible entities:
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs),
- Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs),
- Asian American and Native American and Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs),
- Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs),
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNHs),
- Native American-Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTIs), or
- Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
