Community Partnership Building Proposals
Application Deadline: January 7, 2022 at 5pm EST
Funding Agency: Cornell Center for Health Equity
Description: The Cornell Center for Health Equity is pleased to request applications for 6-12 month community partnership building grants. We are able to support up to four project teams that aim to establish or strengthen collaborative partnerships that will enable meaningful involvement of community stakeholders in health equity research. Meaningful involvement may include activities such as identifying unanswered research questions or that are of importance to marginalized and minoritized community members; ensuring equitable selection of participants; and sharing research findings with past study participants and the community at-large.
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to form teams comprised of scientists, scholars, and community partners from across our Ithaca and New York City campuses with the overall goal of enhancing collaboration. It seeks to enhance capacity to develop innovative research practice partnerships broadly related to health equity. This year we are particularly interested in proposals that look at health equity from a public health perspective, including research related to systems and process improvements, and proposals that explore the role of racial justice in achieving health equity. Any topic that seeks to understand the sources of health disparities and how to overcome them is appropriate.
Application Deadline: March 2, 2022
Funding Agency: NIH Department of Health and Human Services
Description: In April 2018, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Helping to End Addiction Long-termSMInitiative or HEAL InitiativeSM, an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis. Through this initiative the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in partnership with other NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, requests applications for studies designed to develop and test multi-level interventions to prevent opioid misuse, opioid use disorder, and co-occurring conditions by intervening on social determinants of health (SDOH).This initiative aims to build an evidence base for multi-level interventions that target malleable factors and conditions affecting the social context. Applications must seek to reduce health inequities in a U.S. population or population subgroup affected by the opioid crisis by studying the effects of a theory driven, multi-level intervention on the prevention of opioid misuse/opioid use disorder and co-occurring conditions. Such conditions could include mental health conditions and/or suicide and may also include other substance use and substance use-related outcomes. The research project must examine the mechanisms by which the interventions exert their effects and conduct economic analyses to inform decisions about adoption of strategies. Investigators should study interventions that are sustainable and easily taken to scale if effective.
Understanding Place-Based Health Inequalities in Mid-Life (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: March 3, 2022
Funding Agency: NIH Department of Health and Human Services
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) RFA supports secondary data analyses and/or data collection/enhancements to existing datasets to address the role of place (e.g., countries, U.S. Census regions, states, counties, neighborhoods, and locations across the urban-rural continuum) in health in order to uncover actionable knowledge to address disparities by geography and other factors such as race and ethnicity. Secondary data analyses appropriate to this FOA include those that: 1) clarify social, economic, behavioral, and ?institutional (e.g., federal to local government policies/programs, firm/industry practices, etc.) explanations for place-based health disparities (levels and trends) and/or 2) examine intersections between place and sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, etc.) to better understand and address processes driving other ?health disparities. Analytic approaches that utilize quasi-experimental and other methods that yield causal estimates are preferred, though mixed methods projects that inform mechanistic insights and/or data enhancements are also appropriate. Multilevel analyses that enable the joint and synergistic examination of macro-, meso-, and individual-level factors are also encouraged.
Promoting Equitable Language Access in Healthcare Utilization – Demonstration Sites
Application Deadline: April 17, 2022
Funding Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Description: The Promoting Equitable Language Access in Healthcare Utilization – Demonstration Sites initiative supports the implementation of effective policies, programs, and processes to increase the use of prevention services through enhanced language access resources for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP). The Demonstration Sites will work collaboratively with the coordinating center (funded under MP-CPI-22-004) and are expected to implement innovative strategies to enhance language access services through: (1) policy development and implementation; (2) technology utilization; (3) education for individuals with LEP; (4) education for providers, including medical support staff; and (5) partnerships with nonprofit community-based organizations to support language access for LEP populations.
Community Health Worker and Paraprofessional Training Program
Application Deadline: April 18, 2022
Funding Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Description: The Community Health Worker and Paraprofessional Training Program (CHWPTP) will expand the public health workforce through the training of new Community Health Workers (CHWs) and paraprofessionals and extend the knowledge and skills of current CHWs and paraprofessionals. The CHWPTP aims to increase access to care, improve public health emergency response, and address the public health needs of underserved communities.
Pilot Projects to Address Factors Contributing to Structural Racism in Public Health
Application Deadline: May 14, 2022
Funding Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Description: The Pilot Projects to Address Factors Contributing to Structural Racism in Public Health (Pilot Projects Initiative) initiative is intended to support community-led coalitions in developing and implementing new and innovative practices to address policies that might create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism. The pilot projects will: (1) assess policies that might create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism; (2) develop new policies or modify existing policies to reduce health disparities by mitigating factors contributing to structural racism; and (3) modify or develop and implement innovative practices to reduce health disparities by improving access to public health services in ways that mitigate the factors contributing to structural racism.
Past Opportunities
Minority Leaders Development Program
Application Deadline: August 17, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Description: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Office of Minority Health (OMH) announce the availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 300u-6 (Section 1707 of the Public Health Service Act). OMH is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities. Through its demonstration grants, OMH supports the identification of effective approaches for improving health outcomes with the ultimate goal of promoting dissemination of these approaches. This cooperative agreement aligns with the OASH priority on the elimination of health disparities and HHS Strategic Plan Objective 1.4: Strengthen and expand the healthcare workforce to meet America’s diverse needs.
Framework to Address Health Disparities through Collaborative Policy Efforts: Demonstration Projects
Application Deadline: August 23, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Description: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Office of Minority Health (OMH) announce the availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 300u-6 (Section 1707 of the Public Health Service Act). OMH is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities. Through its demonstration grants, OMH supports the identification of effective approaches for improving health outcomes with the ultimate goal of promoting dissemination and sustainability of these approaches. These particular cooperative agreements align with the OASH priority on the elimination of health disparities and the following HHS Strategic Plan goals: (1) Strategic Goal 1: Reform, Strengthen, and Modernize the Nation’s Healthcare System; (2) Strategic Goal 2: Protect the Health of Americans Where They Live, Learn, Work, and Play; and (3) Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen the Economic and Social Well-Being of Americans.
Framework to Address Health Disparities through Collaborative Policy Efforts: Coordinating Center
Application Deadline: August 23, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Description: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Office of Minority Health (OMH) announce the availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 300u-6 (Section 1707 of the Public Health Service Act). OMH is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities. Through its demonstration projects, OMH supports the identification of effective approaches for improving health outcomes with the ultimate goal of promoting dissemination and sustainability of these approaches. This particular cooperative agreement aligns with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health priority on the elimination of health disparities and HHS Strategic Goal 2, Objective 2: Prevent, treat and control communicable diseases and chronic conditions.
Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Structural Racism and Discrimination on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: August 24, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Description: This initiative will support observational or intervention research to understand and address the impact of SRD on minority health and health disparities.
Projects must address SRD in one or more NIH-designated populations with health disparities in the US and should address documented disparities in health outcomes. Applications are expected to provide a justification for why the specific types of SRD included constitute SRD, such as how the racism or discrimination is structural rather than reflecting individual-level behavior and how the SRD results in differential treatment or outcomes for less advantaged individuals, groups or populations. For example, with a project examining discriminatory school disciplinary practices, documentation of different overall rates of student suspensions or expulsions by race/ethnicity would not be sufficient to label this pattern as SRD. However, different rates of student suspensions or expulsions by race/ethnicity for the same type of student behavior or violation could be evidence of SRD. Applications are also expected to provide a conceptual model identifying hypothesized pathways between the SRD and health outcomes. Potential health outcomes may reflect health status; health condition-specific or all-cause disability, quality of life, mortality and morbidity; biological measures that reflect cumulative exposures to and effects of SRD; health behaviors; or access to, utilization of, or quality of health care.
It is also expected that projects will collect data on SRD beyond individual self-reported perceptions and experiences to include data at organizational, community or societal levels. Potential data sources for SRD may include but are not limited to U.S. Census data, birth and mortality records; health surveillance data; crime statistics; traditional and social media data, school-based or educational data; labor statistics; voting records; local, state, and Federal law and policies; home ownership covenants; and organizational/institutional mission statements, policy guidance, operating procedures, or other relevant documents.
Projects are expected to involve collaborations with relevant organizations or groups or stakeholders, such as academic institutions, health service providers and systems, state and local public health agencies or other governmental agencies such as housing and transportation, criminal justice systems, school systems, patient or consumer advocacy groups, community-based organizations, and faith-based organizations. Multidisciplinary research teams, including researchers from areas outside of the health sciences, such as economics, education, history, criminology, law, and political science, are encouraged.
Improving Postpartum Maternal Outcomes for Populations Experiencing Disparities
Application Deadline: August 31, 2021
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Description: This Targeted PCORI Funding Announcement (tPFA) seeks to fund large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and/or well-designed observational studies comparing multicomponent strategies to improve early detection of, and timely care for, complications up to six weeks postpartum for groups more often underserved or experiencing the greatest disparities in health outcomes, including Black, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN), Hispanic, rural, and low socioeconomic status (SES) populations.
Addressing Health Disparities among Immigrant Populations through Effective Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: October 5, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Description: The purpose of this initiative is to support research to design and implement effective interventions to enhance health advantages and reduce the health disparities among US immigrant populations.
Addressing the Etiology of Health Disparities and Health Advantages Among Immigrant Populations (R01 Clinical trial not allowed)
Application Deadline: October 5, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative research to understand factors uniquely associated with the immigration experience that contribute to health disparities or health advantages among U.S. immigrant populations.
Social Epigenomics Research Focused on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: November 8, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support and accelerate human epigenomic investigations focused on identifying and characterizing the mechanisms by which social experiences at various stages in life, both positive and negative, affect gene function and thereby influence health trajectories or modify disease risk in racial/ethnic minority and other health disparity populations.
Health Services Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01- Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: November 17, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the improvement of minority health and/or the reduction of health disparities at the health care system-level as well as within clinical settings.
Tobacco Control Policies to Promote Health Equity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: November 17, 2021
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing disparities in tobacco use and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in the U.S. Specifically, this FOA aims to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative state and local level tobacco prevention and control policies. The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce disparities in tobacco-related cancers, and in doing so, to promote health equity among all populations. Applicants submitting applications related to health economics are encouraged to consult NOT-OD-16-025 to ensure that the research projects align with NIH mission priorities in health economics research.
Leveraging Health Information Technology (Health IT) to Address Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: March 4, 2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Description: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to support research that examines how health information technology adoption impacts minority health and health disparity populations in access to care, quality of care, patient engagement, and health outcomes.
Mechanisms of Disparities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cancer (R01- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: April 1, 2021
Funding Agency: NIH Department of Health and Human Services
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support multidisciplinary research to understand the underlying social, cultural, clinical, environmental and biological factors responsible for the increase in chronic liver diseases and liver cancer and the mechanisms that explain documented liver cancer disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status in the U.S. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer and the most relevant in the U. S. for the purpose of this FOA.
The Role of Health Policy and Health Insurance in Improving Access to and Performance of Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Services
Application Deadline: April 1, 2021
Funding Agency: American Cancer Society
A call for research that evaluates the impact of the many changes now occurring in the healthcare system with a particular focus on cancer prevention, control, and treatment. Efforts focusing on improving access to care may also impact inequities that contribute to health disparities. New health public policy initiatives such as the new federal and state marketplaces that have expanded insurance coverage, as well as Medicaid expansion in some states, create natural experiments ripe for evaluation. Research to be funded by this RFA should focus on the changes in national, state, and/or local policy and the response to these changes by healthcare systems, insurers, payers, communities, practices, and patients.
Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program
Application Deadline: April 2, 2021
Funding Agency: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) | Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program (EB THNP). The two-fold purpose of this award is (1) to demonstrate how health networks can increase access to health care services utilizing telehealth technologies and (2) to conduct evaluations of those efforts to establish an evidence base for assessing the effectiveness of telehealth care for patients, providers, and payers.
2022 Pew Biomedical Scholars Program
Application Deadline: April 5, 2021
Funding Agency: Weill Cornell Medicine
The program provides funding to early-career investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health.
2022 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research
Application Deadline: April 5, 2021
Funding Agency: Weill Cornell Medicine
The Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research is a national initiative designed to support promising early career scientists whose research will accelerate discovery and advance progress to a cure for cancer. Candidates whose work is based on biomedical principles but brings in concepts and theories from more diverse fields related to cancer, are encouraged to apply. Proposed research for the award must be cancer focused.
Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health
Application Deadline: April 9, 2021
Funding Agency: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) | Maternal & Child Health Bureau
This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health Program. The purpose of this program is to strengthen the capacities of state- and/or local-level organizations to respond to emerging public health issues affecting maternal and child health (MCH) populations.
This funding opportunity is a mechanism to support capacity-strengthening activities that will improve state- and/or local-level organizations’ abilities to address emerging issues that threaten the health and well-being of MCH populations in an effective, timely manner. For the purposes of this NOFO, MCH populations include the following groups: women, children (birth to 21), children with special health care needs (CSHCN), adolescents, and families.
Developing and Disseminating Targeted Immunization Materials
Application Deadline: April 15, 2021
Funding Agency: Centers for Disease Control – NCIRD
The purpose of the Notice of Funding Opportunity is to provide support for the development and dissemination of immunization information through electronic formats to enhance the effectiveness of disease prevention programs that reduce the annual burden of vaccine-preventable diseases. The recipient will: (1) develop educational materials for providers to share with patients, parents, and the general public; (2) disseminate educational materials on current immunization recommendations and practices to providers and other partners; (3) develop training opportunities and provide technical assistance for coalitions; and (4) provide rapid-response communication on outbreaks, emergency response, or trending immunization priorities.
Autism Field-Initiated Innovative Research Studies Program (Autism-FIRST)
Application Deadline: April 15, 2021
Funding Agency: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) | Maternal & Child Health Bureau
Bureau (MCHB)’s Office of Epidemiology and Research is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 Autism Field-Initiated Innovative Research Studies (Autism-FIRST) Program. The purpose of this program is to support empirical research that advances the evidence base on interventions designed to improve the health of children, adolescents, and young adults with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities (ASD/DD) across the lifespan. Because racial and ethnic disparities exist in the early screening and diagnosis of ASD/DD, the Autism-FIRST Program has a special focus on addressing the needs of underserved populations, such as low-income, racial/ethnic minorities, individuals living in rural areas and, in the case of ASD/DD populations, girls and young women, who are often under identified with regard to ASD, particularly at the higher functioning end.1 The Autism-FIRST program supports research studies that address critical issues surrounding the health and well-being of underserved children, adolescents, and young adults with ASD/DD up to the age of 26, and their families, recognizing that the first 25 years of life help lay the foundation for health and well-being across the lifespan.
Request for Collaborative Pilot Project Proposals
Application Deadline: April 19, 2021
Funding Agency: Cornell Center for Health Equity
The Cornell Center for Health Equity is pleased to request applications for one-year pilot project grants. The primary goals of this opportunity are to:
- Support up to three pilot projects
- Support up to four community partnership building projects
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to advance the One Cornell strategic objective by forming teams comprised of scientists and scholars from across our Ithaca and New York City campuses with the overall goal of enhancing collaboration to take more complete advantage of Cornell University’s considerable talent pool.
The Center will host a Town Hall Meeting on March 8, 2021 at 4pm to brief applicants about the application process, eligibility criteria and address any inquiries. In efforts to coordinate meaningful breakout groups, please take a moment to email Grace Figuereo, Administrative Specialist for the Cornell Center for Health Equity, at grf7002@med.cornell.edu about research topics you may be interested in collaborating in and register for the Town Hall Meeting using the link below.
Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program (RHSE)
Application Deadline: April 29, 2021
Funding Agency: United States Department of Agriculture | National Institute of Food and Agriculture
NIFA requests applications for the Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE) Competitive Grant Program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 to address the needs of rural Americans by providing individual and family health education programs. The anticipated amount for awards in FY 2021 is approximately $4,000,000; approximately $1,000,000 of which will be for competitive external grants for eligible institutions to support the utilization of telehealth, telemedicine, and distance learning strategies for education and training in minority rural communities related to opioids or preventing spread of SARS-CoV-2 and in mitigating infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award
Application Deadline: May 3, 2021
Funding Agency: Weill Cornell Medicine
This funding opportunity is for projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings in a very short time frame. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high impact findings and result in major grant applications and significant publications in high impact journals.
Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: September 7, 2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health | Department of Health and Human Services
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide support for New Investigators from backgrounds nationally underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The R21 is intended to support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources and seeks to facilitate the transition to research independence of New Investigators from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The R21 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.
