Grants to Support the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Health Services Research Grant Program

Funding Opportunity Number: CMS-1I0-13-001 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.779Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-CMSClosing Date: Jul 08, 2013Award Ceiling: $200,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Jun 07, 2013Funding Opportunity Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing the availability of funds under this grant program to assist Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in conducting health services and health disparities research for 2013. The purpose of the grant program is to support researchers in implementing health services research activities to meet the needs of diverse CMS beneficiary populations. The goals of the grant program are to: 1) encourage HBCU health services researchers to pursue research issues which impact the Medicare, Medicaid, and Children Health Insurance Programs (CHIP), 2) assist CMS in implementing its mission focusing on health care quality and improvement for its beneficiaries, 3) assist HBCU researchers by supporting extramural research in health care capacity development activities for the African American communities, 4) increase the pool of HBCU researchers capable of implementing the research, demons tration, and evaluation activities of CMS, 5) promote research th...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding