Learn More Breathe Better® Community Subcontract Program

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

Letter of Intent (Required): Jan 21, 2025
Application: Feb 11, 2025

Greta Gorman
GretaGorman@Westat.com

Maria Sanchez
MariaSanchez@Westat.com

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is seeking initiatives and programs designed to increase awareness about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a serious lung disease and a leading cause of death and disability in the United States.

The primary program goal is to increase capacity to develop and execute activities that support the COPD National Action Plan.

Relevant COPD National Action Plan goals:

1. Empower people with COPD, their families, and caregivers to recognize and reduce the burden of COPD
2. Improve the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and management of COPD by improving the quality of care delivered across the healthcare continuum

Proposed projects must:

• Demonstrate relevance and alignment to the COPD National Action Plan
• Address needs not currently being met by current resources, infrastructure, and/or tools
• Leverage existing program materials
• Measure and evaluate impact
• Address human subjects protection

Target audience:

• Healthcare providers (HCPs)
  • Primary HCP audiences: primary care providers and associated allied health professionals
  • Secondary HCP audiences: relevant specialty providers (such as pulmonology) and respiratory therapists
• Men and women over age 35 at higher risk such as:
  • Current and former smokers
  • People at higher risk based on genetics or environmental/occupational exposures
• People who have been diagnosed with COPD and their family and loved ones

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or state, county, or municipal government agencies. When a task force, working group, consortium, or coalition is involved, one organization must be the lead, with a single point of contact.

Special consideration will be given to organizations that:

• Serve U.S. populations and communities with a demonstrated need for COPD intervention and education, including women, people in rural communities, individuals with a smoking history, and/or adults ages 75 and older
• Intend to integrate Learn More Breathe Better materials in their programming
• Have not previously received funds through the Community Subcontract Program
• Have project plans that include new ideas, new approaches, or the adoption of evidence-based strategies for COPD education

Nationwide

NHLBI expects to award up to 3 organizations, with each award up to $50,000.

Participants will also receive technical assistance, as needed, in the form of counsel on strategic planning, including target audience data, communications, media relations, event planning, and reporting.

The project period is March 25, 2025 - February 27, 2026.

Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the application appendices are available on the program website.

Applicants are requested to email a letter of intent to Greta Gorman and Maria Sanchez by January 21, 2025 and a full proposal by February 11, 2025.

Allied health · Chronic respiratory conditions · Evaluation methods and resources · Health workforce · Health workforce education and training · Healthcare quality · Occupational health and safety · Physicians · Population health · Primary care · Specialty care · Tobacco use · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention