Researchers - The Office of Minority Health

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	Visionary and Weiss Project Grants One-year grants are available in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 each from the American Psychological Foundation. Grants are designed to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2009.
	Contextual Approaches to Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy (R21) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to strengthen and revitalize scientific research on the prevention of unintended pregnancies in the United States. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites R21 research grant applications that will inform interventions addressing the cultural and structural factors that produce high rates of unintended pregnancy across the reproductive age span, especially in low-income populations in the United States. These interventions can operate at a wide range of levels, from clinical interventions to interventions that influence cultural, economic, social, structural, and/or policy factors contributing to unintended pregnancy. Closing date for applications is January 7, 2012.
	Contextual Approaches to Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy (R01) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to strengthen and revitalize scientific research on the prevention of unintended pregnancies in the United States. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites R01 research grant applications that will inform interventions addressing the cultural and structural factors that produce high rates of unintended pregnancy across the reproductive age span, especially in low-income populations in the United States. These interventions can operate at a wide range of levels, from clinical interventions to interventions that influence cultural, economic, social, structural, and/or policy factors contributing to unintended pregnancy. Closing date for applications is January 7, 2012.
	Psychiatry Research Fellowships, American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE) The annual application deadline for research fellows is December 1 and for summer medical students is April 1. Announcement of fellowships, specifically for ethnic minority psychiatrists who have completed their psychiatry residency and are searching for research fellowship opportunities.
	Pre and Post Doctoral Training Program in Health of Older Minorities The Sealy Center on Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas has openings available for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral positions. Pre-doctoral fellows will earn a Ph.D. degree in Sociomedical Sciences or Health Services Research curricula in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, the Institute for Medical Humanities, or other relevant doctoral programs at UTMB. Funded by a training grant from the National Institute on Aging, these positions are for research focusing on the health of older minorities, with a particular emphasis on older Hispanics. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
	Association of Operating Room Nurses Foundation Research Grant Program Deadlines: June 1, November 1, and February 1 To support the development of nurse researchers and to contribute to the scientific knowledge of perioperative nursing practice... AORN offers a multi-level research grant program, that recognizes research skills are developed through education and experience... The AORN Research Grant Program also provides funding opportunities for chapters, specialty assemblies, state councils and others engaged in collaborative research projects. DEADLINE: June 1, November 1, and February 1.
	Joint American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation - AAFP Grant Awards To support research projects in family medicine / practice... The AAFP / F and American Academy of Family Physicians ( AAFP ) through the Joint Grant Awards Program ( JGAP ) does not seek proposals that grant support for such activities as educational programs or projects ( e... Educational and health-care institutions or organizations which will use the JGAP support exclusively for research projects directly involving and impacting on family medicine / practice. DEADLINE: July 1; January 5
	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to eligible institutions as the primary means of supporting graduate and postdoctoral research training to help ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to assume leadership roles related to the Nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research agenda. The expiration date is January 8, 2010.
	Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Institutional Training Programs in Health Services Research Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Institutional Training Programs in Health Services Research The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funds 24 educational institutions throughout the country, which in turn provide tuition and stipend support to train predoctoral and postdoctoral students in health services research...
	Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21) Various Deadlines Several of NIH's Institutes invite grant applications for research that will identify, develop, and refine effective and efficient methods, structures, and strategies that test models to disseminate and implement research-tested health behavior change interventions and evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment, and quality of life improvement services into public health and clinical practice settings.
	Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health Various Deadlines The purpose of this dissemination and implementation research program announcement (PAR) is to support innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and overcoming barriers to the adoption of evidence-based interventions that previous efficacy or effectiveness research has shown to be effective, but where adoption to date has been limited or significantly delayed.