Minority Research Grant Program

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.779

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Letter of Intent (Optional): Mar 6, 2025
Application: Apr 1, 2025

For program and eligibility questions:
Brian Young
OMHGrants@cms.hhs.gov

For financial and budget questions:
Sharron Jernigan
OMHGrants@cms.hhs.gov

For review process and application status questions:
Brian Young
OMHGrants@cms.hhs.gov

The Minority Research Grant Program provides grants to encourage innovative health services research that can directly contribute to the improvement of health outcomes for people from all minority populations, including people from rural communities.

Applicants are encouraged to study more than one priority area; to be innovative; and to evaluate multisector and multilevel programs, policies, or practices that address social determinants of health (SDOH) factors, and how changes in SDOH affect health disparities among CMS enrollees.

The programs, policies, or practices evaluated should:

• Exist already or be available soon, such as a policy with an imminent effective compliance date
• Affect health disparities related to enrollee outcomes, either explicitly (by design) or implicitly (as a more secondary, passive health impact)
• Address at least one of the priority areas:
  • Built environment and housing instability
  • Community-clinical linkages
  • Food and nutrition security
  • Social connectedness
  • Transportation needs

Eligibility is limited to private, public, and state-controlled institutions of higher education that are Minority Serving Institution (MSIs), including:

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
• Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs)
• Asian American and Native American 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)
• Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs)

Nationwide

Award ceiling: $212,500
Project period: 2 years
Estimated number of awards: 6
Estimated total program funding: $1,275,000

CMS requires that applicants provide a match equal to at least the grant request divided by 99.

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.

While not required, potential applicants are encouraged to email a letter of intent to OMHGrants@cms.hhs.gov by March 6, 2025.

Access · American Indian or Alaska Native · Asian · Black or African American · Culture and cultural competency · Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Healthcare quality · Hispanic or Latino · Housing and homelessness · LGB · Limited English proficient · Medicaid · Medicare · Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander · People with disabilities · Poverty · Public health · Racial and ethnic groups · Research methods and resources · Social determinants of health · Transportation · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention