The Partnership Center Newsletter

May 12, 2010

Sincerely, Alexia Kelley, Director Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships US Department of Health & Human Services

Featured Update

In this update, we share below a concise summary of the immediate benefits of health reform, which are summarized at  http://healthreform.gov/reports/keyprovisions.html. For answers to frequently asked questions about how these benefits affect communities across the country, click here.

 Key Provisions of Health Reform that Take Effect Immediately

1) Small Business Tax Credits

Offers tax credits to small businesses to make employee coverage more affordable.  Tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums will be available to firms that choose to offer coverage.  Effective beginning calendar year 2010.  (Beginning in 2014, the small business tax credits will cover 50 percent of premiums.)

2) No Discrimination Against Children with Pre-Existing Conditions

Prohibits new health plans in all markets plus grandfathered group health plans from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.  Effective 6 months after enactment.  (Beginning in 2014, this prohibition would apply to all persons.)

3) Help for Uninsured American with Pre-Existing Conditions until Exchange is Available (Interim High-Risk Pool)

Provides access to affordable insurance for Americans who are uninsured because of a pre‐existing condition through a temporary subsidized high-risk pool.  Effective in 2010.

4) Ends Rescissions

Bans insurance companies from dropping people from coverage when they get sick.  Effective 6 months after enactment.

5) Begins to Close the Medicare Part D Donut Hole

Provides a $250 rebate to Medicare beneficiaries who hit the donut hole in 2010.  Effective for calendar year 2010.  (Beginning in 2011, institutes a 50 percent discount on prescription drugs in the donut hole; also completely closes the donut hole by 2020.)

6) Free Preventive Care under Medicare

Eliminates co-payments for preventive services and exempts preventive services from deductibles under the Medicare program.  Effective beginning January 1, 2011.

7) Extends Coverage for Young People up to 26th Birthday through Parents' Insurance

Requires new health plans and certain grandfathered plans to allow young people up to their 26th birthday to remain on their parents’ insurance policy, at the parents’ choice.  Effective 6 months after enactment.

8) Help for Early Retirees

Creates a temporary re-insurance program (until the Exchanges are available) to help offset the costs of expensive premiums for employers and retirees for health benefits for retirees age 55-64.  Effective in 2010.

9) Bans Lifetime Limits on Coverage

Prohibits health insurance companies from placing lifetime caps on coverage.  Effective 6 months after enactment.

10) Bans Restrictive Annual Limits on Coverage

Tightly restricts the use of annual limits to ensure access to needed care in all new plans and grandfathered group health plans.  These tight restrictions will be defined by HHS.  Effective 6 months after enactment.  (Beginning in 2014, the use of any annual limits would be prohibited for all new plans and grandfathered group health plans.)

11) Free Preventive Care under New Private Plans

Requires new private plans to cover preventive services with no co-payments and with preventive services being exempt from deductibles.  Effective 6 months after enactment.

12) New, Independent Appeals Process

Ensures consumers in new plans have access to an effective internal and external appeals process to appeal decisions by their health insurance plan.  Effective 6 months after enactment.

13) Ensures Value for Premium Payments

Requires plans in the individual and small group market to spend 80 percent of premium dollars on medical services, and plans in the large group market to spend 85 percent.  Insurers that do not meet these thresholds must provide rebates to policyholders.  Effective on January 1, 2011.

14) Community Health Centers

Increases funding for Community Health Centers to allow for nearly a doubling of the number of patients seen by the centers over the next 5 years.  Effective beginning in fiscal year 2011.

15) Increases the Number of Primary Care Practitioners

Provides new investments to increase the number of primary care practitioners, including doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.  Effective beginning in fiscal year 2011.

16) Prohibits Discrimination Based on Salary

Prohibits new group health plans from establishing any eligibility rules for health care coverage that have the effect of discriminating in favor of higher wage employees.  Effective 6 months after enactment.

17) Health Insurance Consumer Information

Provides aid to states in establishing offices of health insurance consumer assistance in order to help individuals with the filing of complaints and appeals.  Effective beginning in fiscal year 2010.

18) Holds Insurance Companies Accountable for Unreasonable Rate Hikes

Creates a grant program to support States in requiring health insurance companies to submit justification for all requested premium increases, and insurance companies with excessive or unjustified premium exchanges may not be able to participate in the new Health Insurance Exchanges.  Starting in plan year 2011.

Grant Opportunities

National Institutes of Health 

Title: Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved
Description: This funding opportunity will grant applications that propose research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers and targets medically underserved areas (MUAs) and medically underserved populations (MUPs).
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 14, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: NCMHD ADVANCES IN HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Description: The overarching goal of this funding opportunity is to encourage groundbreaking research addressing the social determinants of health and health disparities. Furthermore, the intent of this grant is to intensify investigator-initiated research, to attract new investigators to the field, and to encourage transdisciplinary research that will advance health disparities science.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Advancing Palliative Care Research for Children Facing Life-Limiting Conditions
Description: This funding opportunity is for institutions/organizations that propose to conduct biobehavioral research in palliative and end-of-life care for children, infants, and neonates. Designs and Methods aimed at the reduction of suffering and the improvement of quality of life for children facing life-limiting conditions and their parents, including the sequela of accidents are encouraged. Applications to help children cope with the loss or potential loss of a parent or significant other are also welcomed. Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: NCMHD Disparities Research and Education Advancing Mission (DREAM) Career Transition Award
Description: The purpose of this grant is to facilitate the transition of early stage investigators working in health disparities or areas that address health disparity conditions and populations from the mentored stage of career development to the independent stage of investigator-initiated health disparities research.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 24, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 5
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: NICHD MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE UNITS NETWORK
Description: This funding opportunity invites applications from investigators willing to participate with the NICHD under a cooperative agreement in an ongoing, multi-center clinical program that is designed to investigate problems in clinical obstetrics. Issues addressed will be those specifically related to prevention of low birth weight, prematurity, and medical problems of pregnancy.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 1, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 16
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: RESEARCH ONIMPROVING HEALTH CARE FOR OBESE PATIENTS
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is for organizations to conduct research to determine the barriers to optimal health care for obese patients, and to test innovations or modifications in care delivery to improve health outcomes for obese patients independent of weight loss.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 5, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 16
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program
Description: This funding opportunity will grant applications that propose a collaborative research training program that will strengthen the capacity of institutions in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC), defined by the World Bank classification system, to conduct human trauma and injury research.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 8, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 9
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: NUTRITION OBESITY RESEARCH CENTERS
Description: This grant is for organizations that propose to establish core centers that are part of an integrated program of nutrition and/or obesity research.  The purpose of this Centers program is to bring together, on a cooperative basis, basic science and clinical investigators to enhance the effectiveness of their research related to nutrition and/or obesity.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 22, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 5
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Improving Intervention Possibilities for Communication Disorders
Description: The goal of this funding opportunity is to identify and develop new methodologies and insights into the basic biology of the communication sciences that will have the future potential for clinical and translational application but which are still at the preliminary exploratory stage. The research design will be milestone-driven and basic science in nature but the research plan must be focused on some clinical or translational problem related to communication disorders.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 28, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: MODELING OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AGENT SYSTEMS
Description: The emphasis of this funding opportunity is for organizations to provide the U.S. scientific and public health communities with better resources, knowledge, and tools to improve their ability to identify and prevent the spread of diseases resulting from the emergence or intentional release of pathogens and their products. Research projects will become part of the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) Network.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: July 15, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: METHODS FOR PREVENTION PACKAGES PROGRAM
Description: This funding opportunity invites applications for multidisciplinary research programs that; (1) devise optimal HIV prevention packages (combination interventions) for specific populations; (2) perform pilot studies to demonstrate that the proposed prevention package is acceptable to the target population and the study design is appropriate and feasible; and (3) design clinical protocols to rigorously examine the safety and efficacy of these packages in the target population.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: July 15, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 4-6
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: MECHANISMS AND PREVENTION OF SEXUAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV/SIV
Description: The emphasis of this funding opportunity is for the discovery of research focused on acquiring new insights that may lead to the development of unconventional or outside-the-box approaches to vaccines and non-vaccine biomedical prevention strategies for optimizing mucosal protection against HIV/SIV.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: July 19, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 8-12
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Postdoctoral Research Training in Pediatric Clinical and Developmental Pharmacology
Description: The primary objective of the T32 program is to prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Aug 03, 2010
Number of Grants See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Research On Ethical Issues In Human Subjects Research
Description: The National Institutes of Health invites Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant applications to investigate ethical issues in human subjects research.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Network Infrastructure Support for Emerging Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aging
Description: The purpose of this program is to provide infrastructure support in specific emerging interdisciplinary areas of behavioral and social research in aging using the NIH Resource-Related Research Project mechanism. The infrastructure support will facilitate research networks through meetings, conferences, small scale pilots, training, and dissemination to encourage growth and development in specified emerging areas and resources.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Women and Sex/Gender Differences in Drug and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to promote research on women and sex/gender differences in drug/alcohol abuse and dependence.  
Link to Full Announcement: R01, R21,  R03
Last Day to Apply: Sep 07, 2010     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Providing a Comprehensive Continuum of HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo Under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Description: The purpose of this program is to ensure that a comprehensive continuum of HIV/AIDS services is available in Kinshasa and throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in order to contribute to the successful control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.  
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT1, LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT2
Last Day to Apply: Sep 29, 2010     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Award
Description: Special consideration will be given to proposed research that addresses significant global health problems, particularly those of high relevance to an LMIC country or region.  
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Sep 29, 2010     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: ACCESSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE HEARING HEALTH CARE
Description: This grant is intended to support research and/or infrastructure needs leading to accessible and affordable hearing health care.  This funding opportunity seeks milestone-driven research applications exploring new or innovative adaptations of approaches designed to increase access and affordability of hearing health care.  Applications should be focused on delivering better healthcare access and outcomes and should seek solutions that are effective, affordable and deliverable to those who need them.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: October 8, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 2
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Immune Defense Mechanisms at the Mucosa Cooperative Study Group
Description: The goal is to break new ground in the understanding of basic mucosal immune defense mechanisms by introducing new ideas, approaches and technologies that address the difficult questions remaining in mucosal immune defense. The knowledge gained would facilitate future development of vaccines and immunotherapies to protect mucosal surfaces from infection and related immunopathologies.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Oct 22, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Assay Development for High Throughput Molecular Screening
Description: This FOA will facilitate the discovery of new molecular probes for investigating biological function by funding the development and adaptation of biological assays for use in automated High-Throughput Screening (HTS) projects.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Oct 29, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 30
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Program for Extramural/Intramural Alcohol Research Collaborations
Description: The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to bring together the research expertise that, as a functioning collaborative unit, will address key alcohol-based research questions that would not otherwise be possible by the same individuals working towards similar goals in isolation. The goal of the research proposed by the collaborating investigators should address questions that advance the alcohol research field with respect to issues surrounding alcohol use disorders including dependence, and the effects of alcohol on health.  
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jan 07, 2011     

Title: Collaborative HIV/AIDS Studies in the Middle East and North Africa
Description: The aim of this grant is to invite applications for collaborations for exploratory and developmental work on HIV/AIDS in the low and middle income countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as defined by the World Bank: Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen. Specific areas of research include, but aren’t limited to, epidemiologic studies, prevention research from both biomedical and social/behavioral perspectives, studies of social factors affecting the spread of HIV in the region, and research on women and youth.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2011
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Transdisciplinary Research on Fatigue and Fatigability in Aging
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage submission of exploratory or developmental research applications on fatigue and fatigability in aging. This grant is intended to promote research studies employing transdisciplinary approaches that could lead to increased understanding of mechanisms contributing to, assessment of, or potential interventions for, increased fatigue or fatigability in older persons.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2011
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: THE EFFECT OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION/BIAS ON HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
Description: This funding opportunity encourages applications from organizations/institutions that propose to: 1) improve the measurement of racial /ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection, and statistical/analytical techniques; 2) to enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery and its association with disparities in disease incidence, treatment, and outcomes among disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups; and 3) to reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic health disparities through the development of interventions to reduce the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination on health care delivery systems in the United States.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2011
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Partnerships for Complementary Alternative Medicine  Clinical Translational Research
Description: The goal of the Partnerships in CAM Clinical Translational Research (PCCTR) initiative is to foster development of translational tools that will contribute to rigorous clinical CAM research and further development of clinical research expertise and leadership at CAM institutions and in the field in general.  
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 28, 2011     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Using Systems Science Methodologies to Protect and Improve Population Health
Description: This funding opportunity is accepting applications from institutions/organizations that propose to apply one or more specific system science methodologies to public health and health care systems problems and contribute knowledge that will enhance effective decision making around the development of and prioritization of policies, interventions, and programs to improve population health, especially where resources are limited and only a limited number of programs/policies/interventions can be implemented.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2011
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health 

Title: International Research Collaboration on Alcohol and Alcoholism
Description: The program is intended to facilitate, through international collaborations, advancements in the understanding of alcohol problems and the clinical and public health approaches to their solutions.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Sep 07, 2011     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Drug Abuse Prevention Intervention Research
Description: The purpose of this FOA is to encourage pilot/feasibility applications from institutions/organizations that propose to advance the science of drug abuse and drug-related HIV prevention through 1) the development of novel prevention approaches, 2) the testing of novel and adapted prevention intervention approaches 3) the elucidation of processes associated with the selection, adoption, adaptation, implementation, sustainability, and financing of empirically validated interventions, and 4) the development of new methodologies suitable for the design and analysis of prevention research studies. 
Link to Full Announcement:  R03, R21, R01
Last Day to Apply: Sep 07, 2011     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Reducing Risk Behaviors by Promoting Positive Youth Development
Description: This purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage Research Project Grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to enhance our understanding of effective positive youth development programs and the mechanisms responsible for positive health and developmental outcomes.  
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Sep 07, 2011     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Impact of Health Communication Strategies on Dietary Behaviors
Description: This FOA is designed to promote interdisciplinary research, conducted at multiple levels (e.g., individual, community/environment, and policy) and across diverse populations, to evaluate effective communication approaches for changing dietary behaviors.  
Link to Full Announcement:  R21, R01
Last Day to Apply: Sep 07, 2011     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity and Energy Balance
Description: The major focus of this grant is to solicit projects that enhance the state-of-the-science on the causes of obesity and to inform Federal decision making on effective public health interventions for reducing the rate of obesity in the United States. Especially, this grant aims to promote collaborative activities between researchers trained in economics and researchers specializing in public health, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other chronic diseases.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: November 5, 2011
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control
Description: This funding opportunity announcement, issued by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Nursing Research, at the National Institutes of Health, is intended to provide support for either new investigators in cancer-related behavioral research, or investigators who want to refocus their research interests toward behavioral research in cancer control.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Dec 20, 2011      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Cutting-Edge Basic Research Awards
Description: The proposed research should: (1) test a highly novel and significant hypothesis for which there is scant precedent or preliminary data and which, if confirmed, would have a substantial impact on current thinking; and/or (2) develop or adapt innovative techniques or methods for addiction research, or that have promising applicability to drug abuse research.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Dec 21, 2011      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits Large Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects, and expresses AHRQ portfolio priority areas of interest for these ongoing, extramural grants.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jan 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: AHRQ Health Services Research Projects
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits Large Research Projects, and expresses AHRQ portfolio priority areas of interest for ongoing extramural health services research, demonstration, dissemination, and evaluation grants.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jan 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages Research Project Grant applications on health services research to improve the quality of prevention and treatment services for drug and alcohol abuse.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jan 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications on health services research to improve the quality of prevention and treatment services for drug and alcohol abuse.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jan 15, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Translational Research for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes and Obesity
Description: This grant will be awarded to applicants who plan to test the effectiveness of interventions for the prevention and control of diabetes and obesity that have a high potential to be adopted, and sustained in applied health care settings. The approaches tested must be based on widely accepted interventions previously demonstrated to be efficacious in clinical trials. Research must target the prevention or reversal of obesity, prevention of type 2 diabetes, improved care of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, or the prevention or delay of the complications of these conditions.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: March 1, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide a rapid funding mechanism for research on the post-impact of disasters, in order to permit access to a disaster area in the immediate aftermath of the event.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT, 2
Last Day to Apply: Apr 22, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to enhance childhood obesity research by fostering the formation of local, state, or regional teams consisting of researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., community representatives, public health practitioners or officials, educators) in order to identify research questions and hypotheses, design and implement the relevant research, and translate the research into evidence relevant to potential policy efforts in this area.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to study women’s mental health and sex/gender differences in mental health.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Pilot Intervention and Services Research Grants
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research on 1) the development and/or pilot testing of new or adapted interventions, 2) the adaptation and/or pilot testing of interventions with demonstrated efficacy for use in broader scale effectiveness trials, or 3) innovative services research directions that require preliminary testing or development. The R34 award mechanism provides resources for evaluating the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability and safety of novel approaches to improving mental health and modifying health risk behavior, and for obtaining the preliminary data needed as a pre-requisite to a larger-scale (efficacy or effectiveness) intervention or services study.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Pilot and Feasibility Studies in Preparation for Drug Abuse Prevention Trials
Description: This FOA for R34 applications seeks to support: (a) pilot and/or feasibility testing of new, revised, or adapted preventive intervention approaches targeting the initiation of drug use, the progression to abuse or dependence, and the acquisition or transmission of HIV infection among diverse populations and settings; and (b) pre-trial feasibility testing for prevention services and systems research.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Pilot and Feasibility Clinical Research Studies in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Description: This FOA encourages pilot and feasibility clinical and epidemiological research studies of new therapies or means of health promotion and prevention of digestive and liver diseases and nutritional disorders associated with digestive and liver diseases, including cancer.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Exploratory/Developmental Clinical Research Grants in Obesity
Description: This FOA encourages research grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct exploratory/developmental clinical studies that will accelerate the development of effective interventions for prevention or treatment of overweight or obesity in adults and/or children. Exploratory epidemiological research with a goal of informing translational/clinical research will also be supported within this program.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 07, 2012      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Research on Teen Dating Violence
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigator-initiated research grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to conduct behavioral and/or biomedical research aimed at better understanding the etiologies and precursors for, reducing risk for, and incidence of, teen dating violence (TDV). Research is also sought that examines the linkages and gaps among perceptions of appropriate responses to teen dating violence from service providers, the criminal justice system, teens themselves, victims, perpetrators and bystanders.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Sep 07, 2012    
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Vulnerable Populations in the US
Description: Identify the role(s) that drug abuse plays in fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in vulnerable groups (racial/ethnic minorities, men who have sex with men, youth) in the United States and to develop effective interventions to prevent new infections and to improve the health and well-being of those living with HIV/AIDS.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Sep 07, 2012     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: TECHNOLOGY-BASED ADHERENCE INTERVENTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSING POPULATIONS WITH HIV
Description: This funding opportunity is for research on determining the efficacy of interventions that use technological tools in order to foster adherence to HIV treatment regimens for substance abusing populations.  Such tools can include: mobile enabling technologies, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), enhanced Medication Event Monitoring System, computer software, portable digital devices, cell phone and/or Digital Assistant Device, among others. Multidisciplinary collaboration between social scientists, medical (physician/nurse) researchers and technology experts is encouraged.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2012
Number of Grants Available: 6-9
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: HEALTH DISPARITIES IN NIDDK DISEASES
Description: The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seek research to understand and mitigate issues of health disparities in high priority diseases within their scope, including diabetes, obesity, nutrition-related disorders, hepatitis C, gallbladder disease, H. Pylori infection, sickle cell disease, kidney diseases, urologic diseases, hematologic diseases, metabolic, gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal complications from infection with HIV.NINR promotes and improves the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations, supports and conducts clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness across the lifespan.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Cooperative Research Projects
Description: The mission of the CounterACT U01 program is to develop new and improved therapeutics for chemical threats..
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Sep 14, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: AHRQ Small Grant Program for Conference Support
Description: The types of conferences eligible for support include: 1) Research development - conferences where issues or challenges in the practice and delivery of health care are defined and a research agenda or strategy for studying them is developed; 2) Research design and methodology - conferences where methodological and technical issues of major importance in the field of health services research are addressed or new designs and methodologies are developed; 3) Dissemination and implementation conferences - where research findings and evidence-based information and tools are summarized, communicated and used by organizations and individuals that have the capability to use the information to improve the outcomes, quality, access to, and cost and utilization of health care services; and/or, 4) Research training, infrastructure and career development -conferences where faculty, trainees and students are brought together with stakeholders to develop, share or disseminate research products, experiences, curricula, syllabi, training competencies. AHRQ is especially interested in supporting conferences that demonstrate strategies that include plans for disseminating complimentary conference materials and products beyond the participants attending the event. Such strategies might include, but are not limited to, submitting articles for publication, posting information on a Web site, and seeking formal opportunities to discuss conference information with others.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Oct 22, 2012     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: RESEARCH ONALCOHOL AND HIV/AIDS
Description: Applicants for this grant should be interested in conducting research on the relationship between excessive alcohol consumption and HIV/AIDS.  Research projects can include pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: January 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: DRUG ABUSE ASPECTS OF HIV/AIDS
Description: This funding opportunity is accepting applications to examine the drug abuse aspects of HIV/AIDS, including research on drug-related risk behaviors, addiction and HIV disease, and drug use/HIV-related comorbidities and consequences. Proposals are needed to identify and predict changes in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among injection and non-injection drug users and among their sexual partners.  This will be done in order to 1) develop and test primary and secondary drug abuse and HIV prevention and treatment interventions; 2) improve HIV testing, counseling, and treatment services for those living with HIV/AIDS; and 3) address basic mechanisms involved in HIV infection and AIDS pathogenesis in the context of drug abuse and addiction.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: January 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures
Description: This grant will be awarded to applicants who plan to: (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related natural experiments (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior, and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: January 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigators to submit research grant applications that will identify, develop, and refine effective and efficient methods, structures, and strategies 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.
Link to Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jan 07, 2013  
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING HEALTH LITERACY
Description: The ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage empirical research on health literacy concepts, theory, and interventions as these relate to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services public health priorities that are outlined in its Healthy People initiative. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: HOME AND FAMILY BASED APPROACHES FOR THE PREVENTION OR MANAGEMENT OF OVERWEIGHT OR OBESITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
Description: The direct goal of this initiative is to fund research that will advance knowledge for innovative approaches to the prevention or management of overweight in children less than 6 years of age, with potential for future translation to applications either in the home or linked to a community setting. Research should consider the familial mechanisms of behavior such as the role of families in the initiation, support, and reinforcement of fundamental food and beverage consumption, physical activity practices, and sedentary behaviors.  Applicants should propose clinical trials testing novel home- or family-based interventions for the prevention or management of overweight in infancy and early childhood. Tested interventions can use behavioral (including dietary and physical activity), environmental, or other relevant approaches.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health\

Title: BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON UNDERSTANDING AND REDUCING HEALTH DISPARITIES
Description: The purpose of this grant is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U.S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 11, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Title: PRELIMINARY CLINICAL STUDIES IN PREPARATION FOR LARGE INTERVENTIONAL TRIALS OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE THERAPIES
Description: The goal of this funding opportunity is to support early phase clinical research and development on high priority Complementary and Alternative Medicine interventions.  It is intended to support the development of methodology and the preliminary data needed for planning and design of subsequent, larger randomized clinical trials, cluster randomized trials or cohort studies.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health

Administration for Children and Families

Title: Creating Family-Centered Approaches to Improve Child Support Enforcement Outcomes
Description: This funding opportunity invites eligible applicants to submit competitive grant applications for Special Improvement Projects (SIP) to demonstrate strategies which 1) educate and involve both parents in child support enforcement (CSE) processes and 2) coordinate referral of both parents to needed non-CSE services (such as workforce development and employment).
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 4
Grant is administered by the: Administration for Children and Families

Title: Early Head Start Replacement
Description: This grant is soliciting applications from local public or private non-profit organizations, including faith-based organizations or local for-profit organizations that wish to compete for funds that are available to provide Head Start services to children and families residing in various cities.
Links to Full Announcements: Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis, & Woodruff Counties, AR - Riverside County, CA - Meriden, Berlin, Southington, & Wallingford, CT - Fulton County, GA - Hawaii County, HI - Jefferson Davis Parish, LA -  St. Louis City, MO -Mercer County, NJ -  Newark, NJ - Philadelphia, PA - San Sebastian, PR - Berkeley & Dorchester Counties, SC - Charleston, SC - Kendall County, TX - Calhoun, Doddridge, Pleasants, Tyler & Wirt Counties, WV - Big Horn, Hot Springs, & Washakie Counties, WY - Powell, WY - Dinwiddie, VA - Caroline County, VA
Last Day to Apply: May 24, 2010
Number of Grants Available: Multiple
Grant is administered by the: Administration for Children and Families

Title: CHILDCARE RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP GRANTS
Description: This funding opportunity will be provided for grants to support research that addresses issues of significance related to Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) services and programs and informs policy decisions and solutions, particularly for underserved populations.
Link To Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 4, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 4
Grant is administered by the: Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

Title: CHIPRA Pediatric Healthcare Quality Measures Program Centers of Excellence
Description: This funding opportunity will award grants to applications that propose to advance and improve measures of children’s healthcare quality.  The purpose of this grant is for the establishment of a pediatric quality measures program to: (1) improve and strengthen the initial core child health care quality measures; (2) expand on existing pediatric quality measures used by public and private health care purchasers and advance the development of such new and emerging quality measures; (3) and increase the portfolio of evidence-based, consensus pediatric quality measures available to public and private purchasers of children’s healthcare services, providers, and consumers.
Link To Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 30, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Agency for Health Care Research & Quality

Title: PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to gain practical knowledge for preventing and managing healthcare associated infections (HAIs).  Research priorities for this opportunity should include: 1) development, implementation and demonstration of the prevention and management of HAIs, along with the determination of the costs of such interventions; 2) determination of the efficacy, effectiveness, and costs of preventative interventions; 3) population-level studies on the patient risk factors, clinical presentation, sources, and disease genotypes of antibiotic-resistant organisms that can result in perceived HAIs.
Link To Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: January 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Agency for Health Care Research & Quality

Title: AHRQ SMALL RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
Description: This grant is for funding of ongoing small research projects. The grant supports different types of health services research 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.
Link To Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: March 16, 2014
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Agency for Health Care Research & Quality

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: NATIONALCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTHRESOURCECENTER
Description:  The purpose of this funding opportunity is to establish a National Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Resource Center that will promote collaborative relationships between individuals who have CMT and their health care providers through education, training, and dissemination of information to promote accurate diagnosis, optimal treatment, and well-being for individuals who have CMT.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 14, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Technical Assistance to Behavior Change Communication on Comprehensive Peer Education Program and the National AIDS Resource Center Programs
Description: The purpose of this program is to support a comprehensive Peer Education Program linked with services targeting uniformed services and Addis Ababa University (AAU) students and support the 15 established and 10 potential new AIDS Resource Centers (ARCs) throughout the country.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Title: Providing Quality Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment Services in the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Description: The purpose of this program is to continue the provision of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, & Support, and treatment services that have been indicated under PEPFAR, and to further promote transition of these programs to host country ownership for improved sustainability.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 4
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: HIV/AIDS Program Implementation Support Through Local Universities in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Description: The purpose of this program is to build and strengthen an indigenous, sustainable response to the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia through the support of innovative, culturally appropriate, high-quality HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, and treatment programs at the national, regional, health network, and facility levels. The program will build the administrative and technical capacity of the local university partner to plan and implement its own HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, and treatment program activities within the institution.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Strengthening Pre-Service and In-Service Training in the Context of Health System Strengthening in Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
Description: The purpose of this program is to strengthen, expand, and develop pre-service and in-service training programs in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 4
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Improving Health Care Practices in the Context of Infection Prevention and Control in Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan
Description: The purpose of this program is to provide technical assistance to Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to improve their safe-injection practices and related procedures in the context of infection prevention and control by: demonstrating successful implementation and adoption by host government of safe injection practices and other related procedures, including but not limited to phlebotomy, blood drawing, intravascular catheter use etc, at a pilot site; developing training materials for host government to incorporate in their training program for health care workers; and by developing and/or modifying host government's national injection safety and related procedures plan in the context of infection prevention and control.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Strengthening of Continuing Education for Field Epidemiology Training Programs
Description: The purpose of this announcement is to support the professional development of the public health workforce in South & Central America and the Caribbean through the design of appropriate continuing education and training materials for regional and national Field Epidemiology & Laboratory Training Programs.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 19, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: STRENGTHENING OF CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMS
Description: The purpose of this announcement is to support the professional development of the public health workforce in South & Central America and the Caribbean through the design of appropriate continuing education and training materials for regional and national Field Epidemiology & Laboratory Training Programs.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 19, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Improving Implementation of Programs for Care & Treatment of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Mozambique under Title: the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to develop and strengthen the direct implementation of HIV care and treatment services by the provincial level government.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 26, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Building Health Data Dissemination and Information Use Systems in the Republic of Zimbabwe Under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Description: The purpose of this program is to develop public health resources in-country to analyze health data for programmatic and policy development, improvement and development of methods and systems for information dissemination.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 01, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: National Organizations For Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Description: The purpose of the program is to plan, coordinate, and facilitate public health activities related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion (focusing on the National Center For Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s priority areas and goals), and environmental health areas (focusing on the National Center For Environmental Health’s priority areas and goals).
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 01, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Surveillance of Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) and Other Birth Defects in Low and Middle Income Countries
Description:  The purpose of the program is to support: (1) the development, implementation, expansion, and evaluation of population-based birth defects surveillance systems in low- or middle-income countries; and (2) planning for the development and implementation of population-based programs to prevent birth defects. This program addresses the “Healthy People 2010” focus area(s) of Maternal, Infant and Child Health. Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 1, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 3
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - Increasing Educational Support for CJD Families and the Nation
Description:  The purpose of this program is to enhance support to family members of patients with a suspected or diagnosed case of human prion disease as well as enhance support for national surveillance for CJD and its emerging variants by (1) providing family members of such patients with easy access to consultations with persons experienced and knowledgeable about practical issues related to this disease, (2) facilitating educational and other mutually beneficial interaction of researchers with family members of CJD patients, (3) increasing general awareness about CJD, and (4) increasing the number of autopsies of suspected CJD cases.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 4, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth through Violence Prevention (UNITY) II
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to build capacity within specified U.S. cities to collaborate, plan, implement and sustain evidence-based youth violence prevention concepts, strategies, practices, programs and policies. Relevant information can be found at http://www.preventioninstitute.org/UNITY.html. Collaborative efforts under this FOA include the following: (1)Refining and expanding a national consortium of key stakeholders representing the view points of United States cities that can inform and support reframing the public discourse about youth violence to include public health and prevention. (2)Developing tools, strategies, and messages to build public health infrastructure and a broad base of support for multi-sectoral youth violence prevention. (3)Enhancing efforts to develop an urban agenda to direct US Cities planning and action to prevent youth violence e.
Link To Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 11, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Increase Awareness of Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia (ACD) Among Health Care Providers
Description:  The purpose of the program is to develop and distribute awareness materials on alveolar capillary dysplasia (ACD) to neonatologists and intensive care pediatricians to assist in increased recognition and timely diagnosis of ACD. This program addresses the “Healthy People 2010” focus area(s) of Maternal, Infant and Child Health.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 14, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Jail-based Integration of HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)/Hepatitis Screening, Hepatitis B Vaccination, and Linkage to Care and TreatmenT
Description: The purpose of the program is to support the development and programmatic evaluation of a comprehensive, routine, opt-out HIV rapid testing, STI screening, and Hepatitis B vaccination initiative within a city or county jail facility. This program addresses the Healthy People 2010 focus areas of the following: access to quality health services, HIV, immunization and infectious diseases, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 23, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: Reducing Teen Pregnancy through Family Planning: Integrating Services, Programs, and Strategies through Community-wide Initiatives
Description: The purpose of this FOA is to demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative, multi-component, community-wide initiatives in preventing teen pregnancy and reducing teen births in communities with the highest rates, with a focus on reaching African American and Latino youth aged 15-19. All adolescents shall be eligible to participate in program services without regard to race, ethnicity or sexual identity.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 28, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANTS IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH RESEARCH
Description:  The goal of the career development program is to help ensure the availability of adequate numbers of highly trained scientists to address occupational health and safety and to provide new occupational health and safety scientists with appropriate mentoring. The purpose of the grant is to provide support and 75% “protected time” for an intensive, supervised career development experience in occupational health and safety research leading to research independence.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: January 8, 2011
Number of Grants Available: 50
Grant is administered by the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Health Resources and Services Administration

Title: FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Description: The funding opportunity will continue the coordination of services between the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and community health centers to improve the prevention, identification, and support of individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome. In addition, funds have been included to engage and include maternal child health sites in this program.
Link To Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 14, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources and Services Administration

Title: Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Infrastructure Development Awards
Description: The AHEC programs consist of interdisciplinary, community-based training programs wherein academic and community-based leaders work to improve the distribution, diversity, supply, and quality of health care personnel, particularly primary care personnel in the health care services delivery system and more specifically in delivery sites in rural and other underserved areas.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 26, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Title: Area Health Education Centers Point of Service Maintenance and Enhancement Awards
Description: The AHEC programs consist of interdisciplinary, community-based training programs wherein academic and community-based leaders work to improve the distribution, diversity, supply, and quality of health care personnel, particularly primary care personnel in the health care services delivery system and more specifically in delivery sites in rural and other underserved areas.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 26, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Title: Part C EIS: CATEGORICAL GRANT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE OUTPATIENT EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES WITH RESPECT TO HIV DISEASE
Description: The purpose of this funding is to provide, on an ongoing outpatient basis, high quality early intervention services/primary care to individuals with HIV infection. These services become part of a continuum of HIV prevention and care for individuals who are at risk for HIV infections or are HIV infected. All early intervention services (EIS) programs must provide: HIV counseling and testing; counseling and education on living with HIV; appropriate medical evaluation and clinical care; and other essential services such as oral health care, outpatient mental health services, outpatient substance abuse services and nutritional services, and appropriate referrals for specialty services. For the EIS Grants, a major focus is on increasing access to HIV primary care and support services for communities of color.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to May 28, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 1
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Title: Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students
Description: The program promotes diversity among health professions students and practitioners by providing scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.  
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 01, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Title: Health Careers Opportunity Program
Description: The goal of the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) is to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake education to enter a health profession. 
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 01, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Title: HEALTH CAREERS OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM
Description: The goal of this funding opportunity is to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake education to enter a health profession. The HCOP program works to build diversity in the health fields by providing students from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to develop the skills needed to successfully compete, enter and graduate from health professions schools.
Link To Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 1, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 3
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources and Services Administration 

Title: Flex Rural Veterans Health Access Program
Description: The purpose of this grant program is to provide mental health services and other services to veterans and other residents of rural areas.  
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 04, 2010      
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Title: Innovative Strategies for Serving Children and Youth with Epilepsy
Description: The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to support a national organization to provide national leadership on improving access to comprehensive, coordinated health care and other services through innovative strategies for serving children and youth with epilepsy. 
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 11, 2010       
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Title: Service Area Competition-Additional Areas
Description: The Service Area Competition-Additional Areas funding opportunity is a request for financial assistance to provide comprehensive primary health care services to an underserved area or population that has been competitively announced in Appendix F of the guidance and/or Grants.gov. There is only service area available as part of this announcement. The only service area available for funding under this announcement is Man, West Virginia.  
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 15, 2010    
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration

Office of Public Health and Science

Title: Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Research and Demonstration Programs
Description:  This funding opportunity provides grants to public and private entities to fund medically accurate and age appropriate programs that reduce teenage pregnancy and for the federal costs associated with administering and evaluating such contracts and grants.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 1, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 150
Grant is administered by the: Office of Public Health and Science

Title: Funds for Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects
Description:  This funding opportunity seeks proposals from public and private nonprofit entities to develop, implement and evaluate innovative interventions for pregnant adolescents ages 15 -18 and their families, as well as fathers of their children and/or male partners.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 22, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 10
Grant is administered by the: Office of Public Health and Science

Title: Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Research and Demonstration Programs (Tier 2) and Personal Responsibility Education Program
Description: The purpose of this FOA is to support research and demonstration programs that will develop, replicate, refine, and test additional models and innovative strategies for preventing teenage pregnancy under the TPP program, and to implement innovative strategies for preventing teenage pregnancy and target services to identified populations under PREP. These populations include high-risk, vulnerable, and culturally under-represented youth populations, including youth in foster care, homeless youth, youth with HIV/AIDS, pregnant women or mothers who are under 21 years of age and their partners, and youth residing in areas with high birth rates for youth.  
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Jun 08, 2010     
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: Office of  Public Health and Science

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Title: CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND HIV PREVENTION SERVICES FOR AT-RISK RACIAL/ETHNIC MINORITY YOUNG ADULTS
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support an initiative to provide substance abuse and HIV prevention services to at-risk minority populations in communities disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the CBI program is to support an array of activities to assist grantees in building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining quality and accessibility of substance abuse and HIV prevention services. Specifically, the program aims to engage colleges, universities and community-level domestic public and private non-profit entities to prevent and reduce the onset of SA and transmission of HIV/AIDS among at-risk racial/ethnic minority young adults, ages 18-24.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 27
Grant is administered by the: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Other Government-Funded Grants

Title: Recovery Act On the Job Training National Emergency Grants
Description:  The Employment and Training Administration announced the availability of up to $90 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act National Emergency Grant (NEG) funds to create on-the-job training experiences that will improve participants’ chances of securing permanent employment.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Rolling, Applications are being accepted now
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: U.S. Department of Labor 

Title: Attorney General’s Children Exposed to Violence Demonstration
Description:  This program will develop and support comprehensive community-based strategic planning to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in their homes, schools, and communities.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 1, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 8
Grant is administered by the: U.S. Department of Justice

Title: Increasing SNAP Participation among Medicare’s Extra Help population
Description:  This funding opportunity is intended to test the effectiveness of pilots designed to increase low-income elderly participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly the Food Stamp Program). These pilots will attempt to increase participation in SNAP among beneficiaries of the Medicare drug benefit’s Extra Help by using State Medicaid agency data from the Medicare Savings Programs determinations.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 30, 2010
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Private Sector Grants

Title: Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity (Round 5)
Description:  The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 13, 2010
Grant is administered by the: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Title: Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program
Description:  The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are offering new grants of $200,000 each to help prevent and reduce the impact of obesity in children.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: June 7, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 8
Grant is administered by the: Johnson & Johnson

Title: Healthy Communities Grant Program: Supporting a Culture of Wellness and Prevention
Description: Grants to improve the health of communities in South Dakota and Iowa.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Letter of Intent (Required): Aug 25, 2010
Last Day to Apply: Oct 19, 2010
Grant is administered by the: Wellmark Foundation

Title: Healthy Communities Grant Program: Supporting a Culture of Wellness and Prevention
Description: Grants to improve the health of communities in South Dakota and Iowa.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Letter of Intent (Required): Aug 25, 2010
Last Day to Apply: Oct 19, 2010
Grant is administered by the: Wellmark Foundation

Title: Sunflower Foundation Walking Trails Grants
Description: Funding for projects that bring together public and private support to construct walking trails as a means to increase physical activity among Kansans.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Oct 28, 2010
Grant is administered by the: The Sunflower Foundation

Title: The Rapides Foundation Healthy People Grants
Description: Provides grants to parishes in Central Louisiana for a variety of healthcare issues.
Geographic Coverage: Louisiana parishes in the Delta region: Allen, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, and Winn
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Rolling, Applications are being accepted now
Grant is administered by the: The Rapides Foundation

Title: FUND FOR BETTER HEALTH
Description:  The American Medical Association Foundation's Fund for Better Health is offering $5,000 seed grants for grassroots, public health projects that target healthy lifestyles.  Funding opportunities can cover a wide range of public health issues including substance abuse, disability, STDs, teen pregnancy, healthcare for women, youth, seniors and the uninsured.
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Rolling, Applications are being accepted now
Number of Grants Available: 20
Grant is administered by the: American Medical Association

Title: Regional Community Health Grants Program
Description:  This program provides funding focused on reducing disparities in health care among racial and ethnic populations in eligible geographic areas
Link To Full Announcement:  LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: Rolling, Applications are being accepted now
Grant is administered by the: Aetna Foundation