Components of Participating Organizations:

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Institute for Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR)
• National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Announcement Type:
New

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number(s):
93.393, 93.394, 93.395, 93.399 (NCI); 93.847, 93.848 (NIDDK); 93.233, 93.837,93.838, 93.839 (NHLBI); 93.286 (NIBIB); 93.279 (NIDA)

Key Dates
Application Receipt Dates: Submission Schedule
Peer Review Dates: June-July, October-November, February-March Council Review Dates: September-October, January-February, May-June Earliest Anticipated Start Dates: December, April, July Expiration Date January 3, 2008, unless reissued.

Due Dates for E.O. 12372
Not Applicable

Executive Summary

The purposes of this Program Announcement (PA) are: (1) to improve the measurement of racial /ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection and statistical/analytical techniques; (2) to enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery and its association with disparities in disease incidence, treatment and outcomes among disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups; and (3) to reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic health disparities through the development of interventions to reduce the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination on health care delivery systems in the United States.

This funding opportunity will use the NIH Research Project Grant (R01), the Exploratory/Development (R21) and the Small Grant (R03) award mechanisms .

Applications using the R01 award mechanism must have extensive preliminary data and build on previous pilot work or existing research in the proposed research area. Applicants without extensive preliminary data or who wish to develop research methodology or instruments to address a specific research question are urged to submit applications using the R21 mechanism.

Applications using the R21 mechanism should be novel, exploratory or developmental. The R03 mechanism is for pilot work and is appropriate for funding for short periods of time for research projects that have limited costs, that are narrow in scope and that involve the use of widely accepted approaches and methods.

You may submit (an) application(s) if your organization has any of the following characteristics:

• For-profit organizations
• Non-profit organizations
• Public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories
• Units of State government
• Units of local government
• Eligible agencies of the Federal government
• Foreign Institutions
• Faith-based or community-based organizations.

Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research is invited to work with their institution to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH programs.

Applications must be prepared using the PHS 398 research grant application instructions and forms (rev. 5/2001). The PHS 398 application instructions are available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html in an interactive format. For further assistance, contact GrantsInfo, Telephone (301) 435-0714, Email: GrantsInfo@nih.gov. Each applicant may submit only one application in response to this PA.