The National Institutes of Health is currently accepting applications for the Community Level Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/09/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
This initiative represents the next iteration of the NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) program that was established in 2005. As CBPR methodologies and other forms of community-engaged research approaches have become more common in NIH- and NIMHD-funded projects, the need to have an initiative focused on the CBPR approach rather than specific research questions or topic areas has decreased. Instead, this initiative will emphasize research priorities that can be addressed through community-engaged research approaches and that utilize the NIMHD Research Framework to assess and intervene on health determinants beyond the individual level, at the interpersonal, family, organizational, neighborhood, community, and societal levels. Recommendations generated from the NIMHD Science Visioning process indicated the need for a shift from individual-level and researcher-derived interventions to more community- – derived, structural, multi-level, and multi-sectoral interventions to improve minority health effectively and sustainably and reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. Community-level interventions, in which interventions target determinants associated with the overall community, such as physical, built, or sociocultural environments; resources; or functioning, address many of these identified priorities, and by necessity, require community engagement to develop and/or evaluate them.
Specific Areas of Research Interest
Community-level intervention targets of special interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Increasing affordable healthy food options and opportunities for physical activity outside the home.
- Changing community norms and reducing structural barriers related to health promoting behaviors, such as breastfeeding, vaccination, physical activity, and preventive health screening.
- Improving community attitudes (e.g., reducing prejudice, stigma, or discrimination) towards sociodemographic groups (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities) or towards individuals with certain health conditions (e.g., HIV, mental illness) that are detrimental to the health and well-being of these populations.
- Promoting screening, detection, help-seeking, and self-management related to acute or chronic illnesses (e.g., COVID-19, cancer, HIV, stroke, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression, substance use disorders).
- Enhancing the ability of community-dwelling older adults to age in place or individuals with disabilities to live independently and maintain health and well-being.
- Promoting community re-integration and health of individuals returning to the community after incarceration or institutionalization.
- Promoting healthy transition of individuals returning to the community after acute or chronic hospitalization.
- Preventing accidental injury, interpersonal violence, or suicide and suicide thoughts and behaviors especially with use of firearms.
NIMHD also encourages the use of standardized measures for conducting health disparities research such as the Phenx tool kit. Investigators involved in human-subject studies are strongly encouraged to employ a common set of tools and resources that will promote the collection of comparable data on SDOH across studies.
Funding Information
- NIMHD intends to commit an estimated total of $10,000,000 to fund approximately 6 awards.
- Application budgets are limited to $1,000,000 direct costs annually, not including Consortium F&A costs.
- Project Period: The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Independent school districts
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- County governments
- State governments
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Special district governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- 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
Additional Information on Eligibility
Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs); Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession; 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 not allowed.
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