HSR Information Central

Grants, Funding and Fellowships

Fellowships

• Applied Research Fellowships & Collaborative Research - (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))  - Lists some of the mechanisms by which NCI has brought students and scientists in to work with them, including NIH research and training opportunities, the Division of Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, and NIH Guest Researcher/Special Volunteer Programs

• The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy - (Commonwealth Fund)  - Designed to prepare physicians, particularly minority physicians, for leadership roles in formulating and implementing public health policy and practice on a national, state, and/or local level.

• Fellowship Opportunities - (Commonwealth Fund)  - Fellowship programs in health and public policy.

• Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice - (Commonwealth Fund)  - provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts.

• Health Policy Fellowships - (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF))  - Compilation of fellowships available to students, researchers, journalists and other professionals.

• Kellogg Health Scholars Program - (W.K. Kellogg Foundation (wkkf) U.S.)  - The Program supports the development of a cadre of new leaders in the effort to reduce and eliminate health disparities and to secure equal access to the conditions and services essential for achieving healthy communities.

• NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship - (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research)  - Trains primary care physicians for academic careers with an emphasis on research.

• Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))  - provide opportunities for experienced health professionals and behavioral and social scientists from academic faculties and nonprofit healthcare organizations to receive a comprehensive orientation with the nation's preeminent health policy leaders followed by a full-time work assignment on Capital Hill.

• Triangle Clinical Research Fellowship in Reproductive Health - (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research)  - Designed for obstetricians and gynecologists to learn clinical research and advanced epidemiologic methods.

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Funding Opportunities

Federal

• AHRQ Funding Opportunities - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - AHRQ supports a broad base of scientific research to promote improvements in clinical and health system practices, including the prevention of diseases and other health conditions.

• Applied Research Funding Opportunities - (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))  - Lists funding opportunities within ARP that are directed towards the extramural research community focus on building capacity for cancer surveillance research to evaluate patterns and trends in cancer-related risk factors, health behaviors and health services.

• Cancer Control & Population Sciences Funding Opportunities - (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))  - Lists links to cancer control funding opportunities and NIH resources

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) - (General Services Administration (GSA) U.S.)  - Government-wide compendium of all federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. Users can contact the office that administers a program for application instructions.

• CDC's Procurement and Grants Office - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - CDC Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), application forms, and information on CDC's grants process.

• Department of Veterans Affairs HSR&D Funding Opportunities - (Health Services Research and Development Service, Veterans Administration (HSR&D))  - This page provides information on Veterans Administration HSR&D funding programs and research solicitations.

• Grants and Funding: NLM Extramural Programs - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.) 

• Grants.gov - (Grants.gov)  - Searchable information from all Federal grant-making agencies.

• HRSA Rural Health Policy Funding - (Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA))  - Grants aimed at expanding access to, coordinating, restraining cost of, and improving the quality of essential health care in rural areas.

• Indian Health Services (IHS) Divisions of Grants Operations and Grants Policy - (Indian Health Service, HHS (IHS))  - Grant opportunities.

• National Institutes of Health Grants and Funding Opportunities - Extensive information about grants, research funding, and policies. Please scroll to bottom of Grants and Funding page for additional information on NIH HSR Funding Opportunities, PAs and RFAs.

• NCCOR Funding Opportunities - NIH, CDC and RWJF are collaborating on an initiative to reduce youth obesity. The funding opportunities are listed on this Web page.

• NIH grant funding opportunities supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) - (National Institutes of Health (NIH)) 

• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts - Link to the NIH Guide for grants and contracts.

• NIH Office of Extramural Research - Provides links to funding opportunities as well as grant application basics.

• NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13 and U13) - The NIH recognizes the value of supporting scientific meetings that are relevant to its scientific mission and to the public health. A scientific meeting is defined as a gathering, symposium, seminar, conference, workshop, or any other organized, formal meeting where persons assemble to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information or to explore or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge.

• Rural Network Development Grant Program, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy - Part of HRSA, Network Development Grants provide funding to help rural communities strengthen their health care systems.

Foundations

• Alliance for Healthcare Foundation Funding - Promotes quality healthcare with special emphasis on the medically underserved.

• Commonwealth Fund Grants and Programs - (Commonwealth Fund)  - The Fund supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.

• Commonwealth Fund Information for Grant Seekers - Funding opportunities in three areas: Health Care Quality, International Health Care Policy and Practice, and Health Care Coverage and Access

• David and Lucile Packard Foundation - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation located in California that invests in and takes smart risks with innovative people and organizations to improve the lives of children, enable the creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth's natural systems.

• Pew Charitable Trusts Program Investments - Pew invests in programmatic work to solve today's most challenging problems including improving policy, informing the public and stimulating civic life.

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Funding Information - Funds projects across health services research topics.

• W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grantseeking Information - Health programming focuses explicitly on improving individual and community health, and improving access to and the quality of health care.

• William T. Grant Foundation Funding Opportunities - supports work to improve the settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. It funds research, and service improvements that emphasize understanding and improving youth's everyday settings such as families, peer groups, schools, youth-serving organizations, and neighborhoods.

Other

• California Endowment Grant Application Guide - one of two foundations established in 1996 as a result of the conversion of Blue Cross of California from a non-profit health plan to WellPoint Health Networks, a for-profit corporation

• California HealthCare Foundation Grants and RFPs - (California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF))  - This resource is designed to assist applicants and grantees by providing guidelines, answers to frequently asked questions, and related forms.

• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Funding Opportunities - The foundation funds applied health services research through research grants and capacity development.

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Funding Overview - CIHR provides funding opportunities for four themes of health research including health systems services, social, cultural, environmental and population health.

• Colorado Trust - The Trust issues requests for proposals (RFP) and welcomes responses from nonprofit organizations and governmental entities across Colorado.

• Health Workforce Information Center Funding - High level Web site collects listings from government and private organizations.

• Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))  - Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research supports researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving health and health care policy. The program provides one of the few funding opportunities in the United States for investigator-initiated projects that are broad in scope, innovative in approach, and have national policy relevance.

• New York State Department of Health Grants and Funding Opportunities - (New York State Department of Health)  - listing of opportunities offered by the Department

• Public Health Systems and Services Research - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))  - PHSSR is a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to build awareness of this new field focused on the organization, financing, delivery and impact of public health services.

• United Hospital Fund Grants Center - the Fund supports the development of model projects, sponsors research to analyze systemic problems, and fosters innovative solutions. Beneficiaries of the Fund's grants include not-for-profit and public hospitals, nursing homes, and health care, academic, and public interest organizations.

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Health Philanthropy

• Association for Healthcare Philanthropy - Dedicated exclusively to advancing and promoting the health care development profession. Provides fundraising education and information.

• Finding Funders - (The Foundation Center)  - Provides grantseekers with several ways to find funders.

• Foundation Center - (Foundation Center)  - The Center provides information for grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.

• Grantmakers in Health - Nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to helping foundations and corporate giving programs improve the health of all people. Its mission is to foster communication and collaboration among grantmakers and others, and to help strengthen the grantmaking community's knowledge, skills, and effectiveness.

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NIH HSR Funding Notices and Requests for Application

• Global Research Training in Population Health

• International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Award (ICOHRTA) [D43]

• International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program (R01)

• Planning Grants for International Malaria Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Programs (D71)

• Research area emphases added: stigma, implementation and health economics research for FIRCA-BSS (PAR-06-437)

• Health Research with Diverse Populations (R01)

• Application of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (SBIR/STTR)

• Cancer Surveillance Using Health Claims-Based Data (R01)

• Cancer Surveillance Using Health Claims-Based Data System

• Cancer Surveillance Using Health Claims-based Data System (R01)

• Decision Making in Cancer: Single-Event Decisions

• Decision Making in Health: Behavior Maintenance

• Decision Making in Health: Behavior Maintenance (R01)

• The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery

• The Effect Of Racial And Ethnic Discrimination/Bias On Health Care Delivery (R03)

• The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Healthcare Delivery (R01)

• Exploratory Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R21)

• Exploratory Grants for Increasing the Utilization and Impact of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service (R21)

• Impact of Health Communication Strategies on Dietary Behaviors (R01)

• Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)

• Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award to Promote Diversity (K23)

• Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

• NCI Limited Competition Supplements for Pilot Projects for Community Networks Program to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (U01)

• NCI Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01)

• Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance

• Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance (R01)

• Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R03)

• Small Grants Program for Cancer Epidemiology (R03)

• Studies of the Economics of Cancer Prevention, Screening, and Care

• CAM at Minority or Health Disparities Research Centers

• Collaborative CAM Research Development Capability Enhancement Grant at Minority-Serving Institutions (R03)

• Collaborative CAM Research Development Capability Enhancement Grant at Minority-Serving Institutions [reissue] (R03)

• Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness Studies of CAM Using Existing Practice-based Research Networks (R21)[PAR-07-291] - Change of Receipt Date

• Medical Technologies for Reducing Disparities in Healthcare Access and Health Outcomes - Request for Information (RFI)

• NCMHD Endowment for Increasing Research, Training Capacity – Due April 10, 2007

• Amendment to NHLBI-HC-06-01 and NHLBI-HC-06-02, Hispanic Community Health Study – Field Centers

• Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (SBIR [R43/R44])

• Community-Responsive Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in American Indians and Alaska Natives

• NHLBI issues notice of intent to issue a RFA to test the effectiveness of interventions delivered in routine clinical practice on achieving weight loss in obese patients

• Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) IV, Limited Competition (U01)

• Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform Policy (R03)

• Enhancing Carbohydrate Quality in Diabetes Management and Prevention

• Global Partnerships for Social Science AIDS Research (R24)

• The Influence of Religiosity and Spirituality on Health Risk Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01)

• Innovative Computational and Statistical Methodologies for the Design and Analysis of Multilevel Studies on Childhood Obesity (R01)

• Innovative Therapies and Clinical Studies for Screenable Disorders (R21)

• Integration of Food and Nutrition into Prevention, Care, and Treatment of HIV Infection and AIDS (R03)

• Men's Heterosexual Behavior And HIV Infection (R21)

• Research on Emergency Medical Services for Children (R01)

• Clinical Trials: Oral Complications of Cancer Therapy (R21)

• International Collaborative Oral Health Research Planning Grant (R21)

• Oral Health Promotion Research across the Lifespan (R01)

• Planning Grant for Oral Health Promotion across the Life Span (R21)

• Amendments and Corrections to RFA-ES-05-004 "Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research"

• Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research

• Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grants

• SBIR E-learning for HAZMAT and Emergency Response (SBIR [R43/R44])

• Antidepressant Treatment and Suicidality

• Community-Based Participatory Research at NIMH (R21)

• Developing Centers for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research (DCISIR)

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03)

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21)

• Information Technologies and the Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R01)

• Information Technologies and the Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R03)

• Information Technologies and the Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R21)

• Intervention and Practice Research for Combat Related Mental Disorders and Stress Reactions

• Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities

• NIMH Research on Mental Health in Criminal Justice at NIDA CJ-DATS Sites (MH-CJ) (R34)

• Refining and Testing Mental Health Interventions and Services for Youth with Mental Illness who are Transitioning to Adulthood (R01)

• Refining and Testing Mental Health Interventions and Services for Youth with Mental Illness who are Transitioning to Adulthood (R34)

• Research on Interventions for Child Abuse and Neglect (R01)

• Research on Mental Health Economics (R01)

• Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R21)

• Research on Clinical Decision Making in Life-Threatening Illness (R01)

• Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36)

• Archiving and Development of Socialbehavioral Datasets in Aging Related Studies (R03)

• Change in Status of Program Announcement PA-05-036 - Retirement Economics

• Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAICs)

• Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging

• Retirement Economics (R03)

• Retirement Economics (R21)

• Alcohol Education Project Grants (R25)

• Alcohol Use Disorders: Treatment, Services Research, and Recovery (R01)

• Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (R01)

• Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (R03)

• Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (R21)

• Secondary Analysis of Existing Alcohol Epidemiology Data (R21)

• Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (R03)

• Epidemiological Research on Disorders of Hearing, Balance, Smell, Taste, Voice, Speech, and Language (R01)

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Substance and Alcohol Related Disorders (R03)

• Economics of Prevention and Treatment Services for Drug and Alcohol Abuse

• Enhancing Practice Improvement in Community-Based Care for Prevention and Treatment of Drug Abuse or Co-occurring Drug Abuse and Mental Disorders

• Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

• International Research Collaboration on Drug Addiction (R01)

• International Research Collaborations to Study HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (R21)

• NIDA Research Education Grants in Drug Abuse and Addiction (R25)

• Non-injection Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS (R01)

• Notice of Intent to Publish a Request for Applications for the Study of Drug Abuse, Risky Decision Making and HIV/AIDS

• Notice of Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities: PAR-05-150, Expansion to Include Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Pertaining to Hurricane Katrina

• Prescription Opioid Use and Abuse in the Treatment of Pain (R01, R03, R21, R25)

• Notice of Limited Competition for Competing Applications: Continuation of the Look AHEAD Study

• Brain Disorders in the Developing World: Research Across the Lifespan (R21)

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health

• Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21)

• Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R01)

• NIH Announces the Posting of a Web-based Tutorial on Financial Conflict of Interest Requirements for All NIH-Supported Institutions

• NIH Financial Policy for Grant Awards – FY 2006

• NIH issues RFA for Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01)

• NIH Response to Hurricane Katrina Disaster - Information for Investigators and Institutions

• NIH/NIOSH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Expiration Dates will be adjusted to Accommodate Recent Changes to Standing Submission Deadlines

• Notice of Legislative Mandates Contained in the FY 2006 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act P.L. 109-149; Signed December 30, 2005

• Research On Ethical Issues In Human Subjects Research (R01)

• Technology and Methods Development for Genomics, Population Genomics and ELSI (R01)

• Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics (T15)

• NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics (R01)

• NLM Knowledge Management & Applied Informatics Grants

• Notice of Intent to Publish a Request for Applications for Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics

• Community Participation in Research (R01)

• Methodology And Measurement In The Behavioral And Social Sciences (R21)

• Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health (R03)

• Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health (R21)

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