Grant Opportunities

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: October 29, 2024

Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – ERA

Amount: The estimated total program funding is $4,000,000, and they expect to grant 8 awards.

Description: This WTC Health Program R21 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is intended to encourage exploratory/developmental research by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of project development, which assess the feasibility of new areas of investigation with the potential to enhance treatment effectiveness and diagnostic practices. These studies may lead to breakthroughs in a particular area or to the development of new interventions, techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or approaches with major clinical impacts. These studies are expected to break new ground or extend prior discoveries toward new directions or uses. Applicants are expected to propose research for which there is likely to be minimal or no preliminary data. The WTC Health Program Research webpage provides comprehensive information and tools for researchers. The research agenda, publication library, and other resources, including the Funding Dashboard, can also be found there (e.g., awarded project details such as publications, topics, populations, funding awarded, and the principal investigators and their institutions).

Applicant Information: Contact James Yiin, PhD at 513-841-4271 or JYiin@cdc.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce, or infrastructure

Application Due Date: Oct 29, 2024

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Total program funding is $270,164,000, they expect to grant 81 awards. 

Description: 

• This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Center Program’s Service Area Competition (SAC). 
• The purpose of this funding is to ensure continuity of care in the communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.  

Additional Information: Contact Ashley Vigil & Julia Tillman at (301)594-4300 or email BPHCSAC@hrsa.gov. 

Due: An optional applicant information session will be held September 24, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. ET. Letters of inquiry will be accepted online beginning September 30, 2024, and are due October 29, 2024. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due February 3, 2025.

Amount: $100,000

Location: Nonprofits that operate within the five boroughs of New York City.

Description: 

• The organization invites applications that propose an innovative new project or a significant expansion of an existing, proven program. Projects must benefit New York City residents and communities; be an innovative new project or one that significantly expands an existing program; have a total project budget of at least $100,000; use the full amount of the grant within 24 months; and target underserved populations or promote social change.
• Preference will be given to organizations that have limited access to large grants or the resources typically available to larger nonprofits, operate exclusively within the five boroughs of New York City, and are not affiliated with a larger national or regional parent organization.

Due: October 31, 2024

Amount: In 2025, the total amount available for grants is $45,000, and requests may range from $1,000 to $45,000.

Location: National 

Description: 

• NASN invites applications for its research grants program, which was established to encourage and support research regarding school nursing and the health of school-age children and to advance and fund quality school nursing practice and school-affiliated healthcare delivery.

Tag(s): Innovation, Health Equity

Application Due Date: November 1, 2024 (estimated)

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: Not listed yet.

Description: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to invite applications for a Data Coordinating Center to support the work of the research projects funded under the Stillbirth Research Consortium described in the companion announcement NOT-HD-24-009. This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants additional time to develop meaningful collaborations, interdisciplinary teams, and prepare responsive applications.

Applicant Information: The NOFO is expected to be published in Summer 2024 with an expected application due date in Fall 2024. This NOFO will utilize the UM2 activity code.

Application Due Date: Concept papers are due by November 1, 2024, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.

Location: National

Amount: Grants awarded through the program typically range between $10,000 and $35,000, with an average grant size of between $15,000 and $25,000.  

Description:

• Through its Anna Lalor Burdick Program, the Lalor Foundation funds initiatives that bring women information and access to reproductive health care, contraception, and pregnancy termination to help broaden and enhance their options in life. 
• The program supports programs that offer sexual and reproductive health education to women, and the foundation is interested in programs serving women who are disadvantaged by poverty, discrimination, geographic isolation, lack of comprehensive sex education, hostile public policy, or other factors leading to inadequate sexual and reproductive health.

Tag(s): Innovation, or health equity 

Application Due Date: Nov 21, 2024

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency

Amount: They expect to grant 170 awards up to $20,000,000. 

Description: 

• The Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant program (Community Change Grants), created by the Inflation Reduction Act, offers an unprecedented $2 billion in grants under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The Community Change Grants will fund community-driven projects that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation.
• There will be two tracks of funding under this opportunity. 
  • Track I will fund approximately 150 large, transformational community-driven investment grants of $10 million – $20 million. 
  • Track II will fund approximately 20 meaningful engagement grants of $1 million – $3 million.  

Applicant Eligibility: More information can be found here.

Tag(s): Innovation, or health equity 

Application Due Date: Dec 02, 2024

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: They expect to grant 5 awards up to $ 500,000. 

Description: 

• The purpose of this notice is to inform the research community that the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), with other NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) listed above, intends to publish a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), Advancing Health Equity through Interventions to Prevent and Address Housing Instability (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). 
• This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects.

Applicant Eligibility: N/A

Application Due Date: December 3, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. CT

Location: National

Amount: Total program funding is $250 million. Awardees will receive flexible funding between $1 million and $5 million.

Description: 

• This open call envisions a future in which health-related barriers no longer prevent women from exercising their full power in society. Organizations best suited for this opportunity are those that serve women and are dedicated to improving women’s mental and/or physical health. 
• The focus of each organization may range from improving women’s daily health, their longevity, their access to care, their ability to engage in daily life, and/or their opportunity to form and support a family. 
• The open call is focused on improving the health of people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, and races who identify as women, including those within the LGBTQ+ community. Organizations that serve non-binary and gender-nonconforming people are also eligible.

Tag(s): Innovation, or health equity 

Application Due Date: Dec 06, 2024, LOI due 30 days prior to the application due date

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: NCI intends to commit $2,400,000 to fund up to 3 awards in FY 2025. Application budgets may not exceed $500,000 in direct costs per year for the UG3 phase and may not exceed $850,000 in direct costs per year for the UH3 phase.

Description: 

• This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites proposals for Research Projects to advance the science of scale-up and sustainment of tobacco use treatment (TUT) for cancer survivors. 
• Each Research Project will propose a trial to test implementation strategies to equitably and effectively scale-up and sustain the delivery of TUT to a large number of diverse clinical care delivery settings and cancer survivor populations, with an emphasis on cancer survivor populations experiencing health inequities.

Applicant Eligibility: See more information here.

Tag(s): Innovation, or health equity 

Application Due Date: Dec 09, 2024

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Total program funding is $ 950,000 and they expect to grant 1 award. 

Description: 

• The purpose of the State Offices of Rural Health Coordination and Development Program (SORHCDP) is to develop and maintain activities that will build the capacity of the 50 SORH and rural stakeholders nationwide by strengthening leadership, increasing opportunities for collaboration, offering education on policy and emerging health issues, and supporting the core functions of the SORH.
• This is a cooperative agreement. 

Applicant Eligibility: Please contact SNdiangui@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce, health equity 

Application Due Date: Dec 12, 2024

Agency: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

Amount: Not listed. 

Description: 

• This NOFO invites applications to establish and support State-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives (referred to as Cooperatives) to conduct an initiative that is based on PCOR evidence to improve care for medically underserved people; the initiative’s focus must be on behavioral healthcare.
• To support this initiative, the Cooperative will:
  • (1) engage key stakeholders including Medicaid agencies, managed care organizations, and other organizations that address the health needs of people who are medically underserved in identifying and addressing barriers and facilitators to implementing patient-centered healthcare delivery improvements that are based on PCOR evidence
  • (2) work with healthcare policy, payment, community, care delivery, and research organizations that serve people who are medically underserved to build their capacity to implement patient-centered healthcare delivery improvements based on PCOR evidence, and to support ongoing learning
  • (3) conduct evaluations of the Cooperative’s activities
  • (4) provide the support structure to ensure these activities are integrated and aligned

Additional Information: Email: Grant_Queries@ahrq.hhs.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Jan 03, 2025

Agency: Centers for Disease Control-GHC

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $75,000,000, they expect to grant 3 awards. 

Description: 

• The purpose of NOFOs is to address public health workforce (PHW) development needs and strengthen capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to diseases and address public health priorities including outbreaks by strengthening epidemiologic workforce and programs capacity at the regional and country levels.  
• Awardees will work and collaborate with CDC and other partners to assess PHW needs at region and country levels and develop plans to fill gaps and strengthen existing programs such as the FETP. 
• Focus will be on Ministries of Health and public health institutions at regional, and country levels. The common goal is to improve surveillance systems, outbreak investigations, disease prevention and response, networking, communication, evaluation, and reporting. There will continue to be strong focus on Field Epidemiology Training Programs as important instruments to strengthen PHW. assist countries in sustaining workforce development programs.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Shana Eatman at 770.488.3933 or DGHPNOFOs@cdc.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity 

Application Due Date: Jan 10, 2025

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: They expect to grant 4 awards up to $ 500,000.

Description: 

• The National Cancer Institute (NCI) intends to publish a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to solicit applications seeking to better understand the role of social determinants of health (SDoH) in contributing to or exacerbating cancer disparities and inequalities for people with HIV (PWH) across the cancer care continuum. 
• The solicited applications may propose research investigating health disparities that span cancer control and health care delivery, spanning screening, diagnosis, treatment, quality of life, and survivorship. 
• For this NOFO, observational, interventional, and translational research studies are within scope. This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants time to develop responsive projects and meaningful collaborations.  

Applicant Eligibility: The NOFO is expected to be published in fall 2024 with expected application due dates in winter 2025, 2026, and 2027. 

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Jan 16, 2025 (estimated) 

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $22,800,000, they expect to grant 41 awards. 

Description: 

• The purpose of this initiative is to advance the science and implementation of innovative multi-level health care research for older adults from populations that experience health disparities. 
• The initiative will support research designed to (1) gain a better understanding of appropriate screening, diagnostic, and clinical care guidelines in a primary care setting, (2) explore shared decision-making that is needed to enhance care planning and patient agency between clinicians and care teams with the older adult and their caregiver(s), and (3) identify effective strategies for care coordination.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Courtney Labitzky at 301-443-6752 or GPE25@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce
Application Due Date: (estimated) Jan 21, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $59,600,000, they expect to grant 101 awards.
Description: The purpose of the BHWET Program for Professionals is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce and thereby increasing access to behavioral health services.
A special focus is placed on the knowledge and understanding of children, adolescents,
and transitional-aged youth at risk for behavioral health disorders.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Miryam Gerdine at 301-443-6752 or BHWETPro25@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity 

Application Due Date: Jan 22, 2025

Agency: Centers for Disease Control – NCCDPHP

Amount: They expect to grant 38 awards up to $900,000. 

Description: 

• This announcement funds recipients who will partner with health systems and primary care clinics with low colorectal cancer (CRC) screening prevalence. Recipients will work with their partners to use evidence-based interventions (EBIs) to increase screening in people aged 45 to 75 years old. 
• The focus is on populations that have low screening prevalence and experience barriers to screening. Partner clinics must have screening prevalence below the national, regional, or local average. Programs should emphasize identifying populations that have lower screening prevalence or clinic sub-populations who may need more support to complete the screening process.  

Applicant Eligibility: Contact April Vance at 404-632-2561 or abv8@cdc.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity 

Application Due Date: Jan 23, 2025

Agency: AmeriCorps

Amount: Award amounts will be different depending on the scope of the projects. AmeriCorps expects a highly competitive AmeriCorps grant competition. Given limited funding, AmeriCorps may prioritize funding existing grantees instead of making new awards. The actual level of funding depends on annual appropriations.

Description: 

• AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is a person who does community service through AmeriCorps. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits. After successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.
• This is a funding opportunity for Institutions of higher education; local governments, school districts; nonprofit organizations; State Service Commissions; States and US Territories; Indian Tribes; and public health departments to apply for AmeriCorps members to strengthen communities through service.
• For this funding opportunity, AmeriCorps will prioritize consideration from organizations that: 
  • Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals
  • Implement programs for or expand access to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services and prepare AmeriCorps members to enter behavioral health careers
  • Focus on improving the quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces
  • Promote environmental stewardship to help communities to be more resilient
  • Support civic bridgebuilding programs and projects to reduce polarization and community divisions
• All applications must include at least one aligned performance measure, output and outcome, that corresponds to the proposed primary intervention. This may be a National Performance Measure or an applicant-determined measure. For more information, refer to the National Performance Measure Instructions. 

Applicant Eligibility: Contact americorpsgrants@americorps.gov with questions. 

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Jan 24, 2025 (estimated) 

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $23,467,500, they expect to grant 29 awards. 

Description: 

• The purpose of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship (AMF) Program is to expand the number of fellows at accredited AMF and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorders and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services the fellowship must include training in prevention and treatment services in rural areas that do not have access or have limited access to substance use disorder treatment. 
• The AMF Program encompasses both psychiatry and an addiction subspecialty for primary care doctors.

Additional Information: Contact Anthony Schlaff, M.D. at 301-443-6752 with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce, Innovation
Application Due Date: Jan 24, 2025

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 750,000. They expect to grant 1 award.
Description: The purpose of this program is to develop and maintain activities that will build the capacity of the 50 State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) and rural stakeholders
nationwide through strengthening leadership, increasing opportunities for
collaboration, offering education on policy and emerging health issues, and supporting
the core functions of the SORH to better coordinate and improve rural health services.
Applicant Eligibility: Contact Sarah Ndiang’ui at (301)443-0876 or SNdiangui@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Jan 31, 2025 (estimated) 

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $13,500,000, they expect to grant 27 awards. 

Description: 

• The purpose of the Postdoctoral Training in General Dentistry, Pediatric Dentistry, and Dental Public Health program is to improve access to, and the delivery of, oral health care services for underserved and vulnerable populations. 
• Grants under this Notice of Funding Opportunity will prepare general, pediatric, and public health dentists to practice in, and lead, new models of oral health care delivery by supporting innovative postdoctoral dental residency and fellowship training programs at community-based organizations.   

Additional Information: Contact Jennifer Holtzman at 301-443-6752 or jholtzman@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health Equity

Application Due Date: February 19, 2025

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: Up to 3 awards at up to $600K per award.

Description: The purpose of this FOA is to support the planning phase of the Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved Communities. MCCI is a multi-ICO dissemination and implementation science initiative to advance health equity and end health disparities in racial/ethnic minority women and girls of reproductive age. This concept proposes a continuum of care approach that integrates preventive health services, primary care, behavioral health, integrative care, and cardiopulmonary and endocrine specialties to fully address health care needs in each of these domains and to have maximum impact on the overall health and well-being of racial and ethnic minority and other underserved women and girls. Special emphasis will be placed on using stakeholder partnerships, provider training, and infrastructure changes to improve access for subgroups of racial/ethnic minority women and girls who currently have the least access to high-quality health care (e.g., racial/ethnic minority women and girls living in low resource settings).

Applicant information: Contact NIH Grants Information at grantsinfo@nih.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Feb 19, 2025 (estimated) 

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $9,500,000, they expect to grant 19 awards. 

Description: 

• The purpose of the Primary Care Training and Enhancement-Residency Training in Street Medicine (PCTE-RTSM) is to increase the number of primary care residents trained in street medicine. Primary care residencies include family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and combined general internal medicine-general pediatrics (combined med-peds).

Additional Information: Contact Dr. Steven Coulter at 301-443-6752 or Scoulter@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce, innovation

Application Due Date: Feb 21, 2025

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 2,000,000. They expect to grant 5 awards.
Description: The purpose of the Delta Health Systems Implementation Program (DSIP) is to improve
healthcare delivery in rural areas by implementing projects that will improve the
financial sustainability of hospitals and allow for increased access to care in rural
communities. These projects focus on financial and operational improvement, quality improvement,
telehealth, and workforce development in hospitals located in the rural counties and
parishes of the Delta region.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Suzanne Snyder at (301)443-0178 or ssnyder1@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Health equity
Application Due Date: (estimated) Feb 28, 2025
Agency: Administration for Community Living

Amount: They expect to grant 3 awards up to $2,047,000.
Description: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to develop and implement multi-faceted strategies that support the delivery and sustainability of evidence-based chronic disease self-management education (CDSME) programs for older adults with one or more behavioral health conditions.
The two primary goals are:
o Develop capacity to increase the number of older adults with one or more
behavioral health conditions who participate in evidence-based self-
management education and support programs.
o Develop and disseminate resources that will enhance the participation of older
adults with behavioral health conditions in evidence-based self-management
education and support programs.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Laura Plunkett at 202-795-7450 with questions.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: Feb 28, 2025 Complete applications may be submitted in paper or electronic format and must be received by 4:30 p.m. local time on February 28, 2025, in the USDA Rural Development State Office for the State where the Project will be located. Late submissions will not be considered.

Agency: Department of Agriculture

Amount: There is no maximum grant amount; however, smaller requests are given higher priority. There is no cost sharing requirement. There are two types of RBDG projects, Opportunity grants and Enterprise grants. Opportunity type grants are limited to up to 10 percent of the total Rural Business Development Grant annual funding. Enterprise type grants must be used on projects to benefit small and emerging businesses in rural areas as specified in the grant application. 

Description: 

• The purpose of the program is to promote economic development and job creation projects through the awarding of grant funds to eligible entities.
• Applications will compete in two separate categories, business opportunity grants and business enterprise grants, for use in funding various business and community projects that serve rural areas.

Applicant Eligibility: More information can be found here.

Tag(s): Health equity
Application Due Date: Mar 19, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: They expect to grant 55 awards of $ 500,000
Description: The purpose of this program is to improve access to coordinated and comprehensive prevention, treatment, and recovery services for stimulant use disorder in rural areas. Ultimately, this program aims to reduce the prevalence and impact of stimulant use disorder.
Applicant Eligibility: Contact Sarah O’ Donnell at 301-443-0298 or
ruralopioidresponse@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce
Application Due Date: (estimated) Mar 20, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Program funding is $2,500,000, they expect to grant ONE award.
Description: The purpose of the BHWD TA program is to provide tailored technical assistance to current and future HRSA-funded programs authorized by Section 756 of the Public Health Service Act from Fiscal Year 2025 to Fiscal Year 2029, including the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Programs (Pro, Para), and the Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) Program.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Crystal Harris at 301-443-6752 with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Mar 20, 2025 (estimated) 

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $10,900,000, they expect to grant 31 awards.

Description: 

• The purpose of the BHWET Program for Paraprofessionals is to develop and expand community-based experiential training such as field placements and internships to increase the supply of students preparing to become peer support specialists and other behavioral health-related paraprofessionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce. 
• A special focus is placed on the knowledge and understanding of the specific concerns of children, adolescents, and young adults in high need and high demand areas at risk for behavioral health disorders

Additional Information: Contact Nicole Wilkerson at 301-443-6752 or BHWETPara25@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Innovation
Application Due Date: (estimated) Apr 01, 2025
Agency: Administration for Community Living
Amount: They intend to fund 1 program up to $810,438
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support a project for behavioral health-focused innovations in the senior nutrition program setting with intentions to:
1) learn of existing barriers and facilitators to serving seniors living with
behavioral health conditions in the congregate and home delivered setting

2) develop and implement person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally
appropriate best practices to meet the needs of seniors living with behavioral
health conditions in the senior nutrition setting

3) develop and disseminate resources from tested findings and already existing
practices; all resources must be 508 compliant.

Projects proposed under this grant program must have the potential for broad
implementation throughout the aging services network and have demonstrated value.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Patricia (Patty) Keane at 202-795-7783 with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce
Application Due Date: Apr 07, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 800,000. They expect to grant 1 award.
Description: The purpose of this program is to provide technical assistance to assist small rural hospitals and rural health clinics (RHCs) in strengthening key elements of value-based
care, including, but not limited to quality, efficiency, patient experience, and safety of
care.
Applicant Eligibility: Contact Jeanene Meyers at (301)443-2482 or JMeyers@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Innovation
Application Due Date: (estimated) Apr 24, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Total program funding is $4,550,000, they expect to grant 14 awards.
Description: The purpose of this program is to support 12 Regional Telehealth Resource Centers (RTRCs) and two National Telehealth Resource Centers (NTRCs). The RTRCs will provide expert and customized telehealth technical assistance across the country. The NTRCs will provide telehealth technical assistance by regional Telehealth
Resource Centers with a focus on policy and technology.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Louise Nott at (301)443-0614 or lnott@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce, health equity
Application Due Date: May 13, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 2,000,000. They expect to grant 2 awards.
Description: The purpose of the RMOMS program is to establish or continue collaborative improvement and innovation networks to improve access to and delivery of maternity and obstetrics care in rural areas.
Applicants are encouraged to propose novel ways to achieve program goals through the
establishment or continuation of collaborative improvement and innovation networks.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Carey Zhuang at (301)287-0059 or RMOMS@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: Estimated due date is Jun 03, 2025 no later than 6:00 pm ET.

Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

Amount: They intend to award the project using 2 cooperative agreements (one funded under Title X and one funded under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program). Together the two
cooperative agreements together will constitute the National Training Center. Up to $3.5 M is available to address Title X key priority areas (CFDA 93.260) and up to $1.5 M is available to
address TPP key priority areas (CFDA 93.297).

Description: We anticipate offering this opportunity in combination with AH-TPS-25-001 to operate a National Training Center that will provide training and technical assistance to all OPA-funded Title X family planning service delivery grantees and all OPA-funded Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program recipients. The goal of the funded training center is to ensure that personnel working on TPP-funded projects have the knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy necessary to effectively run a TPP funded project and delivery high quality, youth and community-driven
programming to make the greatest impact on communities.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Iris Wong at (301) 284-6839 or Iris.Wong@hhs.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity

Application Due Date: May 7, 2027

Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Amount: Award ceiling is $500,000

Description: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support collaborative research focused on understanding the long-term effects of natural and/or human-made disasters on health care systems serving populations that experience health disparities living in the U.S. and its territories. For the purposes of this NOFO, “disasters” encompass presidentially declared emergencies or major disasters under the Stafford Act, a public health emergency declared by the Secretary of the HHS, or other local, regional, or national disaster(s). Disasters may be natural and/or human made. Natural disasters refer to severe weather or natural events including hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, floods, mudslides, tornadoes, volcano eruptions, earthquakes, snowstorms, wildfires and others., Human-made disasters include incidents involving hazardous materials (e.g., oil and chemical spills/contamination, nuclear contamination), mass violence, terrorism, human-made disruption of the infrastructure (e.g., cyber attacks, interruption of electricity and water supply, transportation or other basic services) and their long-term consequences in the infrastructure (e.g., extended power outages, extended disruptions in the water systems, food supply, communications, transportation and housing).

Applicant Information: LOI is due 30 days prior to application due date.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: May 07, 2027

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: Not listed. 

Description: 

• The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) and participating National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) are issuing this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) seeking applications to test innovative approaches to implementing SBIRT/P for alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) use and misuse in adult populations that experience health disparities. 
• SBIRT/P, (a term used for purposes of this funding announcement), involves screening individuals for risk of ATOD use and misuse, briefly intervening with a conversation about harmful substance use, and referring individuals for treatment or preventive services, as needed. Proposed research should include prospective tests of SBIRT/P and should leverage collaborations with healthcare and community partners. Specific research interests of participating NIH ICOs are detailed within.

Applicant Eligibility: Email grantsinfo@nih.gov with any questions.

Tag(s): Innovation, or health equity 

Application Due Date: Jan 07, 2028

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: Not listed. 

Description: 

• The purpose of this initiative is to advance the science and implementation of innovative multi-level health care research for older adults from populations that experience health disparities. 
• The initiative will support research designed to (1) gain a better understanding of appropriate screening, diagnostic, and clinical care guidelines in a primary care setting, (2) explore shared decision-making that is needed to enhance care planning and patient agency between clinicians and care teams with the older adult and their caregiver(s), and (3) identify effective strategies for care coordination.

Additional Information: Email grantsinfo@nih.gov with questions. 

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: November 05, 2029

Agency: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

Amount: Award ceiling is $500,000.

Description: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to build evidence about the characteristics and value of primary care that influence patient outcomes and advance health equity, such as care coordination, continuity of care, and comprehensiveness of care, person-centered, whole healthcare, and trust, and how these can be improved and effectively delivered to strengthen primary healthcare.

Applicant Information: Contact Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Receipt and Referral Officer Email: Grant_Queries@ahrq.hhs.gov. Please be sure to reference the opportunity number in your email.