This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) establishes an accelerated review/award process to support research to understand health outcomes related to an unexpected and/or time-sensitive event (e.g., emergent environmental threat; pandemic; change in local, state, or national policy; natural disaster).
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Deadline: 11/01/2023
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Applications in response to this FOA must demonstrate that the research proposed is time-sensitive and must be initiated with minimum delay due to a limited window of opportunity to collect baseline data, answer key research questions, and/or prospectively evaluate a new policy or program that will likely impact health-related behavior or health outcomes in a given population. In other words, the urgency of the public health problem being studied will not, on its own, be sufficient justification for time sensitivity.
Research Scope
This FOA is intended to support research and data collection for unanticipated real-world events (i.e., those that occur outside of a laboratory or other controlled setting for research purposes). These “events” inherently have limited windows of opportunity for planning and conducting rigorous research and data collection. It is critical that researchers maximize these learning opportunities to better inform health care and public health efforts, as well as policymakers.
Key Definitions for this FOA:
- An event is a unique and often unanticipated issue that arises in a particular community/population, due to emerging environmental threats, other public health threats, disaster events, or policy changes.
- Policy is broadly defined to include both formal public policies at local, state, and federal levels of government, and organizational level policies, such as those implemented by large organizations, worksites, or school districts.
- Program is defined as a set of activities such as implementation of system-level interventions, tools, or guidelines initiated by governmental or other organizational bodies, within public or private entities in local, state, or federal jurisdictions.
- Infrastructure changes are alterations to the built environment such as housing, roads and other aspects of transportation systems, retail environments, and building of parks or green spaces.
Grant Period
The maximum period of the combined R61 and R33 phases is 5 years, with up to 1 year for the R61 phase and up to 4 years for the R33 phase.
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.
