Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed)

Scientific/research contact:
Stephanie Courchesne-Schlink
301.451.6387
CFHealthDisparities@nih.gov

Peer review contact:
Aruna Behera, PhD
301.435.6809
beheraak@mail.nih.gov

Financial and grants management contact:
Dede Rutberg, MBA
301.594.4798
rutbergd@mail.nih.gov

This program provides funding to support collaborative teams and individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which if successful, would have a major impact on preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity.

Applicants may propose projects addressing any disease, condition, or health-related topic with demonstrated health disparities/inequities, including but not limited to:

• Chronic disease related outcomes
• COVID-19
• Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
• Cancer
• Maternal morbidity and mortality
• Mental health, substance misuse, and stigma around seeking treatment
• Multimorbidity/comorbidity

This opportunity is open to all public, private, and state controlled institutions of higher education that:

• Award undergraduate and/or graduate degrees in biomedical sciences
• At the time of the application, have received no more than $6,000,000 per year from NIH Research Project Grants in each of the preceding 2 fiscal years
• Enroll at least 25% of undergraduate students supported by Pell grants or are an accredited medical/health professional school with a historical mission statement that explicitly states that it was founded to educate students from nationally underrepresented backgrounds

Applications from the following types of institutions are encouraged:

• Hispanic-serving institutions
• Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
• Tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs)
• Alaska native and native Hawaiian serving institutions
• Asian American native American pacific islander serving institutions (AANAPISIs)

Application budgets are not limited, but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 5 years.

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

While not required, potential applicants are encouraged to email a letter of intent to CFHealthDisparities@nih.gov by April 28, 2021.