Federal Funding for EMSC Program-Related Activities
AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY
Grant Title: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research -- Dissemination by Health Professionals Associations (PCOR-DHPA)
Application Deadline: April 25, 2012
Grant Details: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) grant applications from health professionals associations to disseminate patient-centered outcomes research using innovative educational methods. This FOA supports innovative educational methods to disseminate patient-centered outcomes research and will use the AHRQ Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) grant mechanism.
Grant Title: Partnerships for Sustainable Research and Dissemination of Evidence-based Medicine
Application Deadline: May 22, 2012
Grant Details: This AHRQ funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Resource-Related Research Project (R24) applications from applicant organizations that propose to build new and/or enhance existing capacity in research and dissemination infrastructure that will bridge the gap between clinical and health services research and everyday practice by building a knowledge base about how to improve the translation and dissemination of evidence-based health information, interventions, and clinical practices to populations not traditionally reached by such information or practice. In addition, AHRQ is aiming through this FOA to seed a sustainable infrastructure that would continue to disseminate appropriate evidence-based health information to such a population independent of research grant support. Applicants are invited to use collaborative expertise to propose innovative approaches to customizations of content and delivery mechanisms of existing evidence-based health information and/or tools for their use in the target audience(s) (as defined in this FOA under Part II Section I.1, Research Objectives section) so as to increase their use, implementation, and impact. Innovations should aim to increase the impact and effective use of evidence-based health information and/or tools by developing, implementing, and evaluating customizations that target important audiences, stakeholders, systems, or settings; these customizations should engage multiple user-stakeholders, including the target audience, and be grounded by the original evidence-based information/tools’ contents.
Grant Title: Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety II
Application Deadline: January 7, 2013
Grant Details: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity (FOA) is to support Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) grant applications from organizations that will implement safe practice interventions that demonstrate evidence of reducing or eliminating medical errors, risks, hazards, and harms associated with the process of health care. These 24 month implementation projects will inform AHRQ, providers, patients, payers, policy makers, and the public about how safe practice interventions can be successfully implemented in diverse health care settings and lead to safer and better health care for all Americans. This FOA follows the release of an earlier FOA in 2005 that resulted in the release of successful implementation projects and toolkits available to the public. Background information on the earlier FOA can be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-022.html. Examples of and Information on projects from the initial Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety FOA can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/pips/. This FOA will utilize the AHRQ Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) award mechanism. The individual researcher sponsored by each organizational grantee will be solely responsible for planning, directing, and executing his or her proposed projects. Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the number, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received.
Grant Title: Advances in Patient Safety through Simulation Research
Application Deadline: Standard dates apply, please see submission schedule.
Grant Details: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is interested in funding a diverse set of projects that develop, test and evaluate various simulation approaches for the purpose of improving the safe delivery of health care. Simulation in health care predominately is a training technique that exposes individuals and teams to realistic clinical challenges through the use of mannequins, task trainers, virtual reality, standardized patients or other forms, and allows participants to experience in real-time the consequences of their decisions and actions. The principal advantage of simulation is that it provides a safe environment for health care practitioners to acquire valuable experience without putting patients at risk. Simulation also can be used as a test-bed to improve clinical processes and to identify failure modes or other areas of concern in new procedures and technologies that might otherwise be unanticipated and serve as threats to patient safety. Applications that address a variety of simulation techniques, clinical settings, provider groups, priority populations, patient conditions, and threats to safety are welcomed.
Grant Title: AHRQ Small Research Grant Program
Application Deadline: Standard dates apply, please see schedule.
Grant Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications, and expresses AHRQ portfolio priority areas of interest for ongoing small research projects. The R03 grant mechanism 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.
Grant Title: Understanding User Needs and Context to Inform Consumer Health Information Technology (IT) Design
Application Deadline: Standard dates apply, please see submission schedule.
Grant Details: This is a Large Research Project (R01) FOA to express AHRQ’s interest in funding research projects that will build a knowledge base of individuals’ personal health information management (PHIM) needs and practices and the design principles related to these activities. The increased interest in and availability of consumer health information technology (IT) applications meant to assist consumers in managing their personal health information has rapidly increased over the past decade. Many other industries have greatly benefited from design principles that take into account user needs and context, which help designers improve the utility of information management tools among a heterogeneous population of users. Individuals are the end users of consumer health IT; however, there is still a lack of basic research around these end users’ PHIM practices and needs and how these methods are influenced by a multitude of other contextual factors (e.g., care settings, demographics, motivations, user capabilities and limitations, informal caregiving networks, technology sophistication, and access to Internet) that, typically, represent a mixture of facilitators or barriers to adequate PHIM. This FOA looks to bridge the chasm that currently exists between consumer health IT designers and the users themselves, by bolstering basic research to better understand users’ PHIM practices, needs, and goals as they are intrinsically shaped by an array of contextual factors.
Grant Title: Understanding Clinical Information Needs and Health Care Decision Making Process in the Context of Health Information Technology (IT)
Application Deadline: July 6, 2014
Grant Details: This is a Large Research Project (R01) FOA to express AHRQ’s interest in funding research aimed at elucidating the nature of cognition, task distribution, and clinical work in various health care delivery settings. Research projects funded under this FOA will address current knowledge gaps regarding our understanding of health care providers’ information needs and health care decision making processes, both individually and collectively, and as a health care team (composed of doctors, nurses, therapists, and administrative staff).
Grant Title: AHRQ Mentored Career Enhancement Award in Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) for Mid-Career and Senior Investigators
Application Deadline: May 2, 2012, December 18, 2012, December 18, 2013, December 18, 2014
Grant Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by AHRQ, invites applications for Mentored Career Enhancement grant awards (K18) in Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR). The program targets established mid-career and senior investigators who are interested in developing new skills in comparative effectiveness research methodology and applying these methods to patient-centered outcome research (PCOR); it will utilize the short-term Mentored Career Enhancement Award Mechanism (K18). The total amount to be awarded by AHRQ and the number of awards will depend upon the quality and merit of applications received and the availability of funds.
Grant Title: Infrastructure Development Program in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Application Deadline: June 19, 2012, December 19, 2012, December 19, 2013, December 19, 2014
Grant Details: This FOA solicits Resource-Related Research Projects (R24) grant applications from organizations that propose to improve health outcomes by developing and disseminating evidence-based information to patients, clinicians, policy makers, and health care administrators, responding to their expressed needs about which clinical and health system design interventions are most effective for which patients under specific circumstances. This FOA will use the AHRQ Resource-Related Research Projects (R24) grant mechanism. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
Grant Title: Surveillance of Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) Focusing on Adolescents and Adults
Application Deadline: June 6, 2012
Grant Details: The purpose of this program is to provide support through CDC cooperative agreements for non-research activities to develop robust, population-based estimates of the prevalence of CHDs focusing on adolescents and adults, and better understand the survival, healthcare utilization, and longer term outcomes of adolescents and adults affected by CHDs.
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Grant Title: Advanced Nursing Education Program
Application Deadline: May 18, 2012
Grant Details: This announcement solicits applications for the Advanced Nursing Education (ANE) program from eligible entities that provide advanced nursing education specialty programs that educate registered nurses to become nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators, nurse administrators, public health nurses and other advanced nurse specialists.
Grant Title: Rural Health System Analysis and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Application Deadline: June 1, 2012
Grant Details: TThis announcement solicits applications for the Rural Health System Analysis and Technical Assistance (RHSATA) Cooperative Agreement. The purpose of the RHSATA Cooperative Agreement Program is to inform policy makers and rural health care providers about how changes in the health care delivery system may affect them, and to provide technical assistance to rural providers in identifying potential new approaches to health care delivery in their communities.
The health care delivery system is undergoing dramatic change, with an emphasis on finding new approaches and organizational frameworks to improve health outcomes, control costs, and improve population health. Financial incentives are changing from a focus on volume-based services to value-based services. There is a concurrent need to better measure and account for quality of care in all settings and improve transitions of care as patients move from one care setting to another. Advances in technology and new approaches to organizing care delivery are occurring quickly, with examples like the patient-centered medical home, accountable care organizations, and patient-safety organizations. Most early adopters have been large, urban-based integrated delivery systems. Less is known about how these changes and environmental factors will affect rural health care delivery systems. Early pilots and demonstrations supported by private foundations or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) focused largely on providers paid under traditional administered pricing systems and for whom quality indicators are well established. Because rural health care providers are often paid outside of the traditional prospective payment systems and fee schedules, there is less known about how new and emerging models might function in rural communities. As a result, policy makers and rural providers need to better understand the implications of new and emerging models for low-volume rural settings. Also, rural providers need to be supplied with the technical assistance and information necessary to take part in new and emerging pilots and demonstrations.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Grant Title: NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory – Coordinating Center
Application Deadline: April 27, 2012
Grant Details: The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications for a Coordinating Center to provide national leadership for the NIH Health Care Systems (HCS) Research Collaboratory program. The Coordinating Center will 1) develop, adapt, and adopt technical and policy guidelines and best practices for the effective conduct of research studies in partnership with health care systems; 2) work collaboratively with each Demonstration Project team, including their partnering health care systems, to develop and test an implementation plan for the proposed Demonstration Projects while providing technical, design, and coordination support; and 3) disseminate widely Collaboratory endorsed policies and practices and lessons learned in the Demonstration Projects to inform best practices for broad participation of health care systems and their patients, practitioners, and staff in research studies to improve health and care delivery. The Coordinating Center will also serve as the central resource for the activities of the HCS Research Collaboratory program, including providing administrative support for the Steering Committee and its subcommittees.
Grant Title: Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform Policy
Application Deadline: May 7, 2012
Grant Details: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the NICHD 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. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will use the NIH Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-09-140, that encourages applications under the NIH Small Research Grant (RO3) award mechanism. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the mechanism, numbers, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received. Budget and Project Period. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed two years. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over an R21 two-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. The R21 is not renewable.
Grant Title: Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform Policy
Application Deadline: May 7, 2012
Grant Details: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the NICHD 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. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. The R03 is intended to support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-09-141, that encourages applications under the NIH Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21). Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the mechanism numbers, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received. Budget and Project Period. Budgets for direct costs of up to $50,000 per year and a project duration of up to two years may be requested for a maximum of $100,000 direct costs over a two-year project period.
Grant Title: Development of Appropriate Pediatric Formulations and Drug Delivery Systems SBIR
Application Deadline: Cycle I - April 5, 2012; Cycle II - August 5, 2012; Cycle III - December 5, 2012
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) to address different and complementary research needs for the development appropriate pediatric drug formulations in different age groups. This FOA also encourages the development and testing of novel drug delivery systems in the pediatric population.
The goal of this FOA is not to duplicate or compete with the private sector but to complement and accelerate the development of appropriate pediatric drugs formulations and drug delivery systems.
Grant Title: Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety II
Application Deadline: January 7, 2013
Grant Details: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity (FOA) is to support Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) grant applications from organizations that will implement safe practice interventions that demonstrate evidence of reducing or eliminating medical errors, risks, hazards, and harms associated with the process of health care. These 24 month implementation projects will inform AHRQ, providers, patients, payers, policy makers, and the public about how safe practice interventions can be successfully implemented in diverse health care settings and lead to safer and better health care for all Americans. This FOA follows the release of an earlier FOA in 2005 that resulted in the release of successful implementation projects and toolkits available to the public. Background information on the earlier FOA can be found at http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/FOA-files/FOA-HS-05-012.html. Examples of and Information on projects from the initial Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety FOA can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/pips/. This FOA will utilize the AHRQ Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) award mechanism. The individual researcher sponsored by each organizational grantee will be solely responsible for planning, directing, and executing his or her proposed projects. Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the number, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received.
Grant Title: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
Application Deadline: January 7, 2013
Grant Details: 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. This FOA will use the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and runs in parallel with FOAs of identical scientific scope, PAR-10-038 and PAR-10-040, which solicit applications under the Research Project Grant (R01) and the Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) award mechanisms. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the mechanism, numbers, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received.
Grant Title: Development of Appropriate Pediatric Formulations and Drug Delivery Systems SBIR
Application Deadline: Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Grant Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) to address different and complementary research needs for the development appropriate pediatric drug formulations in different age groups. This FOA also encourages the development and testing of novel drug delivery systems in the pediatric population. The goal of this FOA is not to duplicate or compete with the private sector but to complement and accelerate the development of appropriate pediatric drugs formulations and drug delivery systems.
Grant Title: Research Project Grant
Application Deadline: September 7, 2014
Grant Details: The Research Project Grant (R01) is an award made to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in areas representing the specific interests and competencies of the investigator(s). The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the stated program interests of one or more of the NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) based on descriptions of their programs.
Grant Title: mHealth Tools to Promote Effective Patient-Provider Communication, Adherence to Treatment and Self Management of Chronic Diseases in Underserved Populations
Application Deadline: September 7, 2014
Grant Details: The purpose of this initiative issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) is to stimulate research utilizing Mobile Health (mHealth) tools aimed at the improvement of effective patient-provider communication, adherence to treatment and self-management of chronic diseases in underserved populations. With the rapid expansion of cellular networks and substantial advancements in Smartphone technologies, it is now possible - and affordable - to transmit patient data digitally from remote areas to specialists in urban areas, receive real-time feedback, and capture that consultation in a database. mHealth tools, therefore, may facilitate more timely and effective patient-provider communication through education communication around goal setting, treatment reminders, feedback on patient progress and may improve health outcomes. This announcement encourages the development, testing and comparative effective analysis of interventions utilizing mHealth technologies in underserved populations.
Grant Title: Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award
Application Deadline: July 6, 2014
Grant Details: The purpose of the NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) is to support the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research. Individuals with a clinical degree who are interested in further career development in biomedical research that is not patient-oriented should refer to the Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development (Parent K08) Award. Prospective candidates are encouraged to contact the relevant NIH staff for IC-specific programmatic and budgetary information: Table of IC-Specific Information, Requirements and Staff Contacts.
Grant Title: Research on Emergency Medical Services for Children (R01)
Application Deadline: May 7, 2015
Grant Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to improve the quality and quantity of research related to emergency medical services for children (EMSC), with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality in children through improved care delivery. This FOA invites the submission of applications dealing with the following areas of research included under the term EMSC: prevention research to reduce the need for emergency care; clinical research to ensure that children receive high-quality and appropriate medical, nursing and mental health care in an emergency; health systems research, from pre-hospital care, to the emergency department, to in-patient care and return to the community; models to improve service and cost efficiency in pediatric emergency care; and methodological studies to improve the quality of research conducted.
Grant Title: Research on Emergency Medical Services for Children (R21)
Application Deadline: May 7, 2015
Grant Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to improve the quality and quantity of research related to emergency medical services for children (EMSC), with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality in children through improved care delivery. This FOA invites the submission of innovative R21 applications dealing with exploratory and developmental aspects of research included under the term EMSC: prevention research to reduce the need for emergency care; clinical research to ensure that children receive high-quality and appropriate medical, nursing and mental health care in an emergency; health systems research, from pre-hospital care, to the emergency department, to in-patient care and return to the community; models to improve service and cost efficiency in pediatric emergency care; and methodological studies to improve the quality of research conducted.