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Native American Research Centers for Health, 6th Round (NARCH VI)Judgement and Scoring of ApplicationsYour applications will be judged and scored by a special group of reviewers who come from, and/or have conducted research in Indian Country. The review follows a standard group process. A very helpful video of this process is "Inside the NIH Grant Review Process". The applications reviewed by the group in the video can also be found on that page. On August 18, 2008, a letter from the IHS Acting Director was sent to Tribal leaders and Tribal Health Directors. This letter announced the expected availability of funds starting in FY 2010 for the 6th round of competitive grants to fund new or continuing Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) and was also disseminated widely around the Native research community. Applications will be by hard copy (rather than electronic) and are due on May 14, 2008. A full announcement was published in the Federal Register on December 22, 2008.
What is a NARCH?Federally-recognized Tribes, Tribal Organizations (including Tribal Colleges) and Tribally authorized Indian Health Boards are eligible to form partnerships with research institutions and apply for funding to create a Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH). The NARCH initiative, now in its eighth year and sixth funding cycle, provides funding to AI/AN Tribes or Tribally based organizations to create partnerships with research institutions and conduct high quality biomedical, behavioral and health services research that will be relevant to the needs of the Tribes. In FY 2008, almost 8 million went to NARCH grantees in grants ranging from about $100,000 to over $1,000,000. If you are a university-based (or other non-Tribal) researcher: You are not directly eligible to apply for a NARCH grant. To be eligible to participate in the NARCH program, you will have to become a subcontractor for an eligible Tribe or Tribal organization (or consortium of such eligible applicants). The Tribe(s) or Tribal organization(s) must determine the Tribal priorities for health research projects and research training. The university role is then to provide technical and educational expertise and assist in the development of the NARCH application to be submitted by the Tribe(s) or Tribal organization(s). At least 30% of the budget submitted with the application must remain within the Tribal organization(s) involved in the NARCH. No more than 70% of the application total can be budgeted for academic subcontractors ineligible to be direct grantees. Contact information for the federally recognized Tribes can be found at: http://www.ncai.org/Tribal_Directory.3.0.html. Information for the Indian Health Boards can be found at: http://www.nihb.org/staticpages/index.php?page=200403301344375598. And information for the Tribal colleges can be found at: http://www.aihec.org/tribal_college_roster.cfml. If you represent a Tribe or Tribal organization considering a NARCH application: Please send an email to narch@ihs.gov with a subject heading “Technical Assistance” and your full contact information, including your email address in the body of the email. You will be added to a listserve that receives all the information on additional technical assistance we will be offering, as it develops. Archives of that listserve (all previous email sendings about NARCH technical assistance) can be found at: You can also join the list directly from that page. Technical Assistance for NARCH VIIn addition to the technical assistance resources below, we will be offering several web-based (Webex) training sessions and teleconferences. Timing and specific content of those sessions will be based on responses sent to narch@ihs.gov and on availability of presenters. The IHS main Webex training page can be found at: http://ihs-hhs.webex.com/. However, more specific instructions to access the NARCH technical assistance training sessions will be emailed to the TECHASSISTANCE-NARCH@LIST.NIH.GOV listserve as they become available. Unlike most current federal grant applications, the NARCH-6 application will be paper-based and must be delivered by May 14, 2009 to both:
Applications will be submitted using the PHS 398 Fillable Forms - 11/07 Revision ( http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html), following the standard instructions (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/instructions2/phs398instructions.htm), except where those may conflict with the NARCH VI Funding Announcement in the Federal Register (pdf or text) or the NARCH VI Supplementary Instructions. If you are new to the research process, there is a nice overview of it at: http://www.statpac.com/research-papers/research-process.htm. It will be especially important for you to select and engage with university/researcher partners as early as possible. Before you begin to plan your grant application, you will find it very useful to review the NIAID grants tutorials at: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/default.htm. There is a more interactive grant writing tutorial from NIDA at: http://www.theresearchassistant.com/tutorial/index.asp, which includes an outlining assistant and other useful tools for grant writing. A review of “fatal flaws” to avoid in grant applications can be found at: http://www.bielawski.com/spirit/phs398air.htm. There are very helpful, annotated sections from a successful grant application at: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/app/default.htm, for you to consider as a model for research projects. However, in any specifics on which that advice may conflict with the Supplementary Instructions for Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH V) Applications in 2008 or the NARCH V Announcement in the Federal Register, these specific NARCH instructions take precedence and should be followed. There is also helpful guidance on grant writing from the NIH Office of Extramural Research at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/writing_application.htm and a list of grant writing tip sheets at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grant_tips.htm. Glossaries and lists of Acronyms at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/glossary.htm or at: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/glossary/default.htm will help you understand terminology that may be unfamiliar to you. An excellent and comprehensive presentation on “Grant Writing for Success” by Sesma & Sorensen can be found at: http://www.ncbiotech.org/services_and_programs/intellectual_exchange/documents/nih_writing_three.pdf. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has a new “NIH RO1 toolkit” at: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2007_07_27/caredit_a0700106. This is particularly relevant to the research project proposals that are an important part of the NARCH application. One important objective of the NARCH program is to build research infrastructure in Indian Country, including the development of researcher careers for American Indians and Alaska natives. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has a booklet on developing a research career. This may be helpful to applicants in developing NARCH student and/or faculty development projects. If you are considering a clinical research project, a very helpful article can be found at: http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/142/4/274.pdf. (Inouye SK, Fiellin DA: An Evidence-Based Guide to Writing Grant Proposals for Clinical Research. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142:274-282.) Judgement and Scoring of ApplicationsResearch Project Proposal Content Review (courtesy of UW) Does the abstract:
Do the specific aims:
Does the background:
Does the preliminary data section:
Does the experimental design/methods section:
Inouye SK, Fiellin DA: An Evidence-Based Guide to Writing Grant Proposals for Clinical Research. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142:274-282. Common Problems Identified During Peer Review
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