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Purpose |
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The goal of these funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disability disparities in the U.S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns.
Applications directed towards NLM should be relevant to both the overall objectives of the FOAs and to NLM's specific research interests, which is in supporting research in biomedical informatics where it intersects with behavioral and social science research on understanding and reducing health and disability disparities. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the application of basic informational and computing sciences to improving clinical medicine, basic biomedical research, clinical and translational research, public health, and other health-related areas. NLM is particularly interested in the role of informatics in helping those segments of the population experiencing health and disability disparities find, understand, and use information to help alleviate these disparities.
In the broad areas of action influencing health disparities, as set out in the FOAs, in the area of Public Policy, NLM is especially interested in research in informatics approaches to knowledge transfer in the context of policy formation and implementation.
In line with the Research Perspectives and Themes as set out in the FOAs, NLM is especially interested in research involving Systems Science Methodologies, including the listed examples of methodologies: agent based modeling; system dynamics simulation; network analysis, including social network analytic methods; discrete event simulation; Markov modeling; stochastic modeling; differential equation/compartmental modeling.
NLM would also be interested in research themes that reach into the information sciences (such as information seeking/information needs studies, human-computer interaction and information design, and decision support systems), as they are applied to behavioral and social science research on understanding and reducing health disparities.
These FOAs support fundamental research through the NIH Research Project Grant
(R01) award mechanism and exploratory/developmental research through the NIH
Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21) award mechanism.
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Deadlines (R01) |
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Deadlines for New and Revised Applications: September 19, 2007; September 19, 2008; September 18, 2009
Full listing of deadlines for competing applications: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/Deadlines.html |
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Deadlines (R21) |
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Deadlines for New and Revised Applications: September 19, 2007; September 19, 2008; September 18, 2009
Full listing of deadlines for competing applications: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/Deadlines.html |
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