Federal Funding for EMSC Program-Related Activities
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AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY
Grant Title: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Program- Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Application Deadline: January 25, 2013
Grant Details: The Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) program provides grant support for projects designed to strengthen the nursing workforce, increase nurse retention, promote coordinated care, improve the quality of patient care, and provide nurses with the skills needed to practice in existing and emerging organized health care systems.
Grant Title: Advances in Patient Safety through Simulation Research
Application Deadline: Standard dates apply, please see submission schedule.
Grant Details: 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: Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety II
Application Deadline: January 7, 2014
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/. Mechanism of Support. 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. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. 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: 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: 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(s): 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.
Grant Title: AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36)
Application Deadline: August 8, 2015
Grant Details: The overall goal of the AHRQ Health Services Research Dissertation Grant Program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained health services researchers is available in adequate numbers and appropriate research areas to address the research mission and priorities of AHRQ. This program is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 299a(b), which provides that AHRQ may provide training grants in the field of health services research. The mission of AHRQ is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans in the United States.
Grant Title: AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)
Application Deadline: September 25, 2015 (Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of the applicant organization.)
Grant Details: The Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The project will be performed by the named investigator and study team. The R18 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ.
Grant Title: AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)
Application Deadline: November 5, 2015
Grant Details: The Research Project Grant (R01) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The project will be performed by the named investigator and study team. The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ.
Grant Title: AHRQ Individual Awards for Postdoctoral Fellows (F32) National Research Service Awards (NRSA)
Application Deadline: December 8, 2015
Grant Details: The purpose of this individual postdoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support to promising fellows with the potential to become productive, independent investigators in health services research, with a research interest in areas and priorities relevant to the mission of AHRQ. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will use the Individual Postdoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) grant mechanism (F32). Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. The total amount to be awarded and the number of F32 fellowships awarded will depend on the quality and scientific merit of the applications received, their relevance to the program priorities of AHRQ and the availability of funds.
Grant Title: AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08)
Application Deadline: February 13, 2016
Grant Details: The primary purpose of the AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Awards (K08) program is to prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. This program represents the continuation of an AHRQ program that provides support and “protected time” to individuals with a clinical doctoral degree for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in health services research. The award can be used both by individuals who propose to newly embark in health services research training and those who had a hiatus in their research careers because of illness or family circumstances. The award is also available to promote research workforce diversity by providing enhanced research career development opportunities.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
Grant Title: PPHF 2013 OSTLTS Partnerships Building Capacity of the Public Health System to Improve Population Health through National, Nonprofit Organizations Financed in Part by 2013 Prevention and Public Health Funds
Application Deadline: March 7, 2013
Grant Details: The purpose of this program is to ensure the provision of CBA for governmental and nongovernmental components of the public health system to optimize the quality and performance of public health systems, the public health workforce, public health data and information systems, public health practice and services, public health partnerships, and public health resources.
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Grant Title: Medical Home Implementation for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Application Deadline: January 28, 2013
Grant Details: This announcement solicits applications for a National Center for Medical Home Implementation. The purpose of this activity is to: 1) support a national resource and technical assistance effort to implement and spread the medical home model to all children and youth, particularly children with special health care needs (CSHCN), children who are vulnerable and/or medically underserved, and pediatric populations served by state public health programs, MCHB and HRSA; and 2) support activities of the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) grantees to improve children’s health through innovative community-based efforts, and community and statewide partnerships among professionals in health, education, social services, government, and business.
Grant Title: National Center on Health Care Transition for Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Application Deadline: January 28, 2013
Grant Details: This announcement solicits applications for the National Center on Health Care Transition for Youth with Special Health Care Needs initiative. The purpose of this activity is to fund a national resource for health care professionals, families, youth, and state policy makers focusing on the transition of youth and young adults from pediatric to adult system of health care services. This center will build upon and expand current efforts to improve the transition from pediatric to adult-oriented health care for youth and young adults, particularly those with special health care needs, in part by increasing the number of clinicians with the knowledge and skills to care for this population in the adult system of care.
Grant Title: Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant Program
Application Deadline: January 30, 2013
Grant Details: This announcement solicits applications for the Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant Program. The purpose of the Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant (Rural Quality) Program is to provide support to rural primary care providers for implementation of quality improvement activities. Quality health care is the provision of appropriate services to individuals and populations that are consistent with current professional knowledge, in a technically competent manner, with good communication, shared decision-making and cultural sensitivity. The ultimate goal of the program is to promote the development of an evidence-based culture and delivery of coordinated care in the primary care setting.
Grant Title: National Center for Health Insurance and Financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Application Deadline: February 8, 2013
Grant Details: This announcement solicits applications for a cooperative agreement to support a National Center for Health Insurance and Financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. The National Center will collaborate with national, state and community stakeholders to develop and spread innovative strategies and policies to facilitate access to health insurance and other financing to pay for needed health and health-related services for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). National leadership for ensuring the health of CYSHCN needs is provided by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). A key strategy for achieving optimal health for these children is providing and promoting family-centered, community-based, coordinated care for CSHCN and their families. Progress toward achieving this goal is measured by six core outcome measures including the health insurance core outcome: “access to adequate private and/or public insurance and financing to pay for needed health and health-related services for CYSHCN.” The MCHB measures achievement of the health insurance core outcome using data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN), which has been administered in 2001, 2005/2005 and 2009/2010.
Grant Title: Telehealth Network Grant Program
Application Deadline: February 13, 2013
Grant Details: The primary objective of the TNGP as noted in Section 330I(D)(1) is to demonstrate how telehealth programs and networks can improve access to quality health care services in rural, frontier, and underserved communities. TNGP networks are used to: (a) expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of health care services; (b) improve and expand the training of health care providers; and/or (c) expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers, and patients and their families, for decision-making. To further elaborate on the program’s statutory requirements noted above, applicants are encouraged to develop innovative applications that meet new and emerging needs in a changing health care delivery system with a focus on value and improved health care outcomes.
Grant Title: R40 MCH Autism Intervention Research
Application Deadline: February 19, 2013
Grant Details: MCH Autism Intervention Research The current competition for R40 MCH Autism Intervention Research supports research on evidence-based practices for interventions to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. Consistent with HRSA’s mission as the access agency to provide services to underserved populations, applicants are encouraged to propose research studies that address the unique and very important needs of underserved populations included in current research on children and adolescents with ASD and other developmental disabilities. Examples of research topics of interest to MCHB include but are not limited to the following: Health care access and continuity of care, including transition into adulthood (e.g., employment and health care); Family engagement and family partnerships; Family well-being, coping, resilience, and social networks; Variations in access to services affecting family functioning in diverse populations; Service systems and infrastructure including: characterizing the current ASD diagnostic and service utilization patterns in community settings, examining the relationship between diagnosis and services availability for ASD, and evaluating services and intervention outcomes; Increasing identification of ASD including Aspergers in diverse populations, including ethnic minorities and girls; Safety issues including wandering from residential and educational settings. The current competition for R40 MCH Autism Intervention Secondary Data Analysis Studies supports research on evidence-based practices for interventions to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents with ASD and other developmental disabilities, exclusively utilizing the analysis of existing secondary data. Innovative use of secondary datasets from a variety of sources is encouraged when applying for the SDAS competition.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Grant Title: International Traumatic Brain Injury Research Initiative: NIH Cooperative Program for Comparative Effectiveness of Clinical Tools and Therapies (U01)
Application Deadline: April 1, 2013
Grant Details: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to provide a competitive opportunity for a multicenter team in the USA to participate in the International Traumatic Brain Injury (InTBIR) Initiative. InTBIR is a collaboration between the NIH, the US Department of Defense (DOD), the European Commons Research Directorate (EC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to create a large, open source international patient registry in which the variation in diagnosing and treating patients can be explored to identify those practices associated with better outcomes in otherwise similar patients.
Grant Title: NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13)
Application Deadline: February 21, 2013, February 20, 2014, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Grant Details: NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health are awarded for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other scholarly works of value to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers and historians of the health sciences.
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.
Grant Title: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03)
Application Deadline: January 7, 2016
Grant Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigators to submit research grant applications that will identify, develop, evaluate and refine effective and efficient methods, systems, infrastructures, and strategies to disseminate and implement research-tested health behavior change interventions, evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and management, and quality of life improvement services, and data monitoring and surveillance reporting tools into public health and clinical practice settings that focus on patient outcomes.
Grant Title: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21)
Application Deadline: January 7, 2016
Grant Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigators to submit research grant applications that will identify, develop, evaluate and refine effective and efficient methods, systems, infrastructures, and strategies to disseminate and implement research-tested health behavior change interventions, evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and management, and quality of life improvement services, and data monitoring and surveillance reporting tools into public health and clinical practice settings that focus on patient outcomes.
Grant Title: Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) [R21]
Application Deadline: January 7, 2016
Grant Details: The purpose of this FOA is to encourage Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) applications which establish the feasibility of technologies, techniques or methods that: 1) explore a unique multidisciplinary approach to a biomedical challenge; 2) are high-risk but have a considerable pay-off; and 3) develop data which can lead to significant future research. An EBRG application may propose hypothesis-driven, discovery-driven, developmental, or design-directed research and is appropriate for evaluating unproven approaches for which there is minimal or no preliminary data.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Grant Title: Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research
Application Deadline: January 23, 2013
The Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) competition promotes the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is placed on support for research that involves researchers from multiple disciplinary fields, that integrates scientific theoretical approaches and methodologies from multiple disciplinary fields, and that is likely to yield generalizable insights and information that will advance basic knowledge and capabilities across multiple disciplinary fields.