As part of the NIH HEAL Initiative, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has announced a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to create the HEAL Data2Action (HD2A) Program, a coordinated effort to promote the synthesis and real-world application of existing data to improve epidemiology and guide and monitor improvements in service delivery to prevent or treat opioid use disorder (OUD) and pain.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/22/2022
Size of the Grant: $750,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The HD2A Program includes Support Centers that will provide technical assistance and other support to participating HD2A Projects. For Acceleration Projects, the resource centers are intended to assist Projects, for example, in informing benefits and tradeoffs of different data tools, applying simulation modeling in support of forecasting and decision-making, and understanding evidence-based practices that could serve as use cases. Each Acceleration Project will be expected to participate in a baseline needs assessment meeting with the Support Centers to identify opportunities and options for their proposed projects. Acceleration Projects will have an opportunity to access ongoing and on-demand support from each of these resource centers, as relevant and appropriate, throughout the course of the project.
Some examples of projects considered responsive to the Acceleration priority include but are not limited to the following:
- Enhance or develop methods for forecasting or nowcasting small-area or local estimates to inform public health officials where to allocate public health resources or develop data visualization and dissemination tools for small area estimation or local estimates (e.g., including a feature to implement ‘outbreak’ detection or spatial outlier detection methods to identify counties or small areas)
- Improve prediction or assessment tools to identify individuals at increased risk for developing substance use disorders using near real-time or real-time data (e.g., social media, EHR)
- Enhance methods to identify and include individuals who misuse opioids or have OUD who are outside the formal medical treatment system (e.g., syringe service programs (SSPs) data) in the existing data ecosystem
- Enhance quality, timeliness, and usefulness of data to monitor the use, safety, and effectiveness of prescription opioids in acute or chronic pain management in the context of other evidence-based pain management strategies, and assess the benefits and risks of long-term opioid prescribing for chronic pain
- Develop methods that can efficiently link data from diverse systems for trackable datasets aggregation or evaluate optimal linkage of data from multiple sources (e.g., incorporation of the drug market data with near or real-time data to understand emerging drug problems) and generate data sources or public health data warehouses that can assemble a bigger picture for opioids misuse to address fundamental issues in prevention, treatment, management, and harm reduction
- Develop methods to capture data on illicit opioid usage on a near or real-time basis
- Enhance existing tools, algorithms, or methodologies through additional data, automation, or increased interoperability (e.g., methods to track and categorize emerging illicit drugs, increasing interoperability and automation for data from laboratories and medical examiner/coroner’s office to increase the timeliness of incorporating the information in an existing surveillance system, improve technologies or algorithms to mine or automatically extract unstructured data)
- Explore methods to model the contribution of illicit opioid drug use on other causes of death, especially for deaths not explicitly recorded as drug overdose or drug-related.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $750,000
- 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 Government
- 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.
