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Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Healthcare needs and services

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

Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative Training and Technical Assistance Provider Inactive
Funding for a single entity to serve as a training and technical assistance provider to support site-based grantees working to reduce violent crime in rural areas. Applicants should demonstrate how they have worked closely with law enforcement agencies and allied public safety and health providers in the past in addressing violent crime problems.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Jul 6, 2021
Sponsors: Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice
CHCF Health Equity Fellowship Inactive
A 2-year fellowship program to support Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) professionals seeking to become leaders on the issue of health equity in California.
Geographic coverage: California
Application Deadline: Jun 28, 2021
Sponsor: California Health Care Foundation
Telehealth Technology-Enabled Learning Program Inactive
Funding to connect specialists at academic medical centers with primary care providers of rural, frontier, and underserved populations, providing evidence-based training and support to help them treat patients with complex conditions in their communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Application Deadline: Jun 25, 2021
Sponsors: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Primary Care First Model Cohort 2 Inactive
Voluntary 5-year payment options that reward value and quality by offering an innovative payment structure to support delivery of advanced primary care. Participating practices will generally include primary care practitioners, as well as other clinicians that are managing complex, chronically ill, and seriously ill populations.
Geographic coverage: Available in 26 regions.
Application Deadline: Jun 18, 2021
Sponsor: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Native Graduate Health Fellowship Inactive
Fellowships for American Indian and Alaska Native students pursuing graduate or professional degrees in health-related fields, with a focus on tribal health policy and practices to address Native health disparities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Jun 11, 2021
Sponsor: National Congress of American Indians
Tennessee Nursing Home Civil Monetary Penalty Reinvestment Program Inactive
Funding to support evidence-based initiatives that improve the quality of life and quality of care for individuals currently living in nursing home facilities in Tennessee. The 2021 application cycle has a focus on customer service and elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Geographic coverage: Tennessee
Application Deadline: May 28, 2021
Sponsor: Tennessee Department of Health
Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed) Inactive
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. A focus is on applications from minority serving institutions.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Letter of Intent (Optional): Apr 28, 2021
Application Deadline: May 28, 2021
Sponsors: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Program Inactive
Grant for a single entity to serve as a Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center to support the career development of junior primary care dental faculty through training, development activities, and sub-awards. The program's goals are to support the development of future clinical educators and leaders in primary care dentistry with skills in providing community-based clinical primary care in rural and medically underserved settings, integrated primary and oral healthcare, and oral healthcare across the life span.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: May 21, 2021
Sponsors: Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rural Residency Planning and Development Technical Assistance Program Inactive
A cooperative agreement with a single entity to provide technical assistance for HRSA Rural Residency Planning and Development Program awardees that are working to expand the number of rural residency training programs and subsequently increase the number of physicians choosing to practice in rural areas.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: May 21, 2021
Sponsors: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of Blood Lead Levels in Children Inactive
Funding for childhood lead poisoning prevention, surveillance, and the development of targeted population-based policy interventions focused on primary prevention of lead exposure. A major program focus is reducing disparities in blood lead levels and associated health outcomes among populations at greatest risk, which includes Tribal populations and people living in rural areas and other geographically underserved communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: May 14, 2021
Sponsors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services