Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program Phase 1
Funding to invest in distressed communities to create and connect workers to good jobs in places that need them most. Underserved communities are the program priority, which includes rural, communities of color, women, and other groups facing labor force barriers. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Economic Development Administration (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - August 8, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Supporting Recovery-Oriented, Family-Centered Care for Pregnant, Postpartum, and Parenting Women with Opioid Use Disorder
Notice NOT-DA-24-008 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - August 1, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Final Career Stage Analyses of Applications Submitted During the Pandemic (Part 7)
The HHS-declared public health emergency for COVID-19 ended on May 11, 2023 (NOT-OD-23-095). With this milestone, we are also closing out our series of blogs on the distributions of gender and race of designated principal investigators (PIs) of R01 and RPG applications submitted before and after the onset of the pandemic. This final post builds on previous career stage analyses, specifically focusing on applications received between September 8 and May 7 over several consecutive years. Our first four analyses (from April 2022, October 2021, June 2021, and July 2020) did not show any marked changes in...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike applications career stage COVID-19 Funding data Source Type: funding

NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAR-23-178 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce (R25) is a flexible and specialized program designed to foster the development of neuroscience researchers from diverse backgrounds, including from underrepresented groups across career stages. Thus, it encourages applications from applicant organizations that propose innovative mentoring and professional development activities in the mission area(s) of the NINDS and/or NIMH. This Neuroscience Diversity R25 initiative will focus on factors that have been ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - June 12, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Specialized Centers for Research on Health Disparities in Uterine Leiomyoma (SCHDUL) (P50 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-HD-24-005 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to establish new Specialized Centers for Research on Health Disparities in Uterine Leiomyoma (SCHDULs). These centers will provide a platform to support novel, synergistic research programs involving multiple, high-quality projects spanning basic, clinical, translational, social sciences research to address health disparities (especially racial/ethnic disparities) in uterine fibroids.The established centers will aim to improve womens reproductive health and address modifiable aspec...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 17, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplement to Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Womens Health (BIRCWH)
Notice NOT-OD-23-114 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 4, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Update on Improving Fellowship Review: A Request for Information
This blog has been co-authored with Noni Byrnes, Director, Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Originally posted on the Review Matters blog. Mike Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH Noni Byrnes, Ph.D., Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review NIH is recommending changes to the peer review of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowship applications by restructuring the review criteria and modifying some sections of the PHS Fellowship Supplemental Form that are specific to NRSAs. The goal of this effort is to facilitate the mission of NRSA fellowship peer review – to iden...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 25, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike fellowship NRSA request for information Request For Information (RFI) Review Source Type: funding

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Encouraging Womens Health Research within the NIDCD Mission Areas
Notice NOT-DC-23-006 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 28, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Analyses of Demographic-Specific Funding Rates for Type 1 Research Project Grant and R01-Equivalent Applications
Marie A. Bernard, M.D., Chief Officer forScientific Workforce Diversity In this post, we analyze funding rates for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 to FY 2022 Type 1 Research Project Grant (RPG) and Type 1 R01-Equivalent applicants according to the race-ethnicity of designated Principal Investigators (PIs). We used data from frozen, official, NIH success rate files. We obtained data on the race and ethnicity of PIs from their entries into the eRA Commons Personal Profile. As noted by NIH, PIs provide these data on a strictly voluntary basis, and these data are not used for making funding decisions. If individuals described themselves...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Diversity Funding data scientific workforce diversity Source Type: funding

Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-23-013 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite R21 applications on chronic conditions understudied among women and/or that disproportionately affect populations of women who are understudied, underrepresented, and underreported in biomedical Research should align with Goal 1 of the 2019-2023 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research "Advancing Science for the Health of Women." The awards under this FOA will be administered by NIH ICs using funds that have been made available through the Office of Research o...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 9, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-OD-23-014 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite R01 applications on chronic conditions understudied among women and/or that disproportionately affect populations of women who are understudied, underrepresented, and underreported in biomedical Research should align with Goal 1 of the 2019-2023 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research "Advancing Science for the Health of Women." The awards under this FOA will be administered by NIH ICs using funds that have been made available through the Office of Research o...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 8, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program
Grants for projects designed to address and prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice (Source: Children funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Children funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center - February 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: funding

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative Supplements to Leverage Network Infrastructure to Advance Multisite Research for Women, Children, Pregnant and Lactating Individuals and/or Persons with Disabilities
Notice NOT-HD-23-005 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 27, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Advancing Integrated Models (AIM) of Care to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes among Women Who Experience Persistent Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NR-23-002 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Disparities in maternal health outcomes is a public health crisis that requires new insights and solutions. The purpose of this initiativeadvancing integrated models (AIM) of careis to stimulate research to develop or evaluate supportive care models that address healthcare access or healthcare quality together with structural or social inequities in order to prevent adverse maternal health outcomes among racial and ethnic minority women. This includes original intervention research and research evaluating the impact of federal, tribal, state,...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 27, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction: Targeted Support for Alaska Native Tribes Special Initiative
This program provides grant support and technical assistance for Alaska Native tribal governments for planning, developing, and implementing changes in tribal criminal justice systems necessary to exercise Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) for covered crimes, which are assault of tribal justice personnel; child violence; dating violence; domestic violence; obstruction of justice; sexual violence; sex trafficking; stalking; and violation of a protection order. Geographic coverage: Alaska -- Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - February 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: funding