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Funding by Topic: Health disparities

Summaries of funding programs are provided by RHIhub for your convenience. Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current information.

Minnesota Health Disparities Pilot Grants Inactive
Grants to encourage community-initiated research and foster sustainable long-term collaboration between community-based organizations and academic researchers on research projects focused on reducing and eliminating health disparities in Minnesota.
Geographic coverage: Minnesota
Letter of Intent (Required): Jan 27, 2023
Application Deadline: Apr 7, 2023
Sponsor: University of Minnesota
Health Equity Research Network (HERN) on Improving Access to Care and other Health Inequities in Rural America Inactive
Funding for a Health Equity Research Network that consists of a Coordinating Center and 5 projects at distinct institutions. Network projects should have a common fundamental theme that will assess interventions and/or approaches that address rural health disparities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Required): Jan 26, 2023
Application Deadline: Apr 4, 2023
Sponsor: American Heart Association
Emergency Medicine Foundation Health Disparities Research Grant Inactive
Grants for research to improve healthcare access, delivery, utilization, quality, and outcomes of those affected by health disparities. Proposals are encouraged to propose or lay the groundwork for emergency department-based interventions that produce actionable evidence and/or reproducible findings to improve health outcomes for disparities groups.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Jan 20, 2023
Sponsor: Emergency Medicine Foundation
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Training Program Inactive
Funding to train healthcare professionals to use valid and reliable screening and diagnostic tools, in addition to providing evidence-based interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental and behavioral concerns.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Jan 19, 2023
Sponsors: Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rural Communities Opioid Response Program - Overdose Response Inactive
Grants to support immediate responses to the overdose crisis in rural areas through improving access to, capacity for, and sustainability of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for substance use disorder.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Jan 19, 2023
Sponsors: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
RADx-UP CDCC Rapid Research Pilot Program Inactive
Grants to evaluate the feasibility of implementing emerging COVID-19 testing technologies in rural and other underserved communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Optional): Dec 23, 2022
Application Deadline: Jan 13, 2023
Sponsors: Duke Clinical Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, UNC Center for Health Equity Research
Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors - Cumulative Health Impacts for Children in Underserved Rural Agricultural Communities in the United States Inactive
Grant to support a single entity to serve as a transdisciplinary research center to investigate the cumulative health impacts of early lifestage exposures to pollutants in conjunction with other relevant non-chemical stressors among children in underserved, rural agricultural communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Application Deadline: Jan 11, 2023
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Effectiveness of Implementing Sustainable Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices in Low-Resource Settings to Achieve Mental Health Equity for Traditionally Underserved Populations (R01) Inactive
Grants for research to develop and test the effectiveness of strategies for implementation and sustainable delivery of evidence-based mental health treatments and services to improve mental health outcomes for underserved populations in under-resourced settings. Under-resourced settings and populations include members of minority groups, other individuals experiencing disparities in mental health outcomes, and people living in a geographic area with a shortage of healthcare services.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. territories
Application Deadline: Jan 6, 2023
Sponsors: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Pilot Projects to Advance Harm Reduction and Public Safety Partnerships to Prevent Overdose Inactive
Funding, technical assistance, and training to implement evidence-based or promising strategies through collaborative partnerships with public safety agencies to reduce risk of overdose and other drug-related harms for people who use drugs and people with substance use disorders who are or may become justice-involved. Funding priorities include rural, frontier, and tribal communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Dec 23, 2022
Sponsors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Minnesota Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative (EHDI) Grant Program Inactive
Funding for projects focused on improving the health and well-being of American Indians and people of color in Minnesota.
Geographic coverage: Minnesota
Application Deadline: Dec 19, 2022
Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health