United States: Racial Equity Visionary Award Program

Deadline: 14-Oct-22

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the applications for NIDA REI: Racial Equity Visionary Award Program for Research at Minority Serving Institutions on Substance Use and Racial Equity.

Purpose

The Racial Equity Visionary Award Program embraces transformative science by supporting independent investigators proposing highly innovative research that 1) challenges scientific paradigms that perpetuate inequities, and 2) lays groundwork for large scale efforts to impact substance use-related disparities that affect underserved U.S. racial and/or ethnic minority populations. PIs are expected to self-identify as health equity, health disparities, or social determinants of health researchers and have prior experience conducting collaborative research projects with one or more underserved racial and/or ethnic minority population groups. The application should reflect an exceptionally creative approach to problem solving and a long-term commitment to solution-oriented research with underserved racial and/or ethnic minority communities.
This FOA solicits applications from minority serving institutions. NIDA recognizes the important role these institutions have played in supporting scientific research, particularly on diseases or conditions that disproportionately impact racial and/or ethnic minorities and other U.S. populations that experience health disparities. As these institutions are uniquely positioned to engage minority populations in research and in the translation of research advances into culturally competent, measurable and sustained improvements in health outcomes, this announcement seeks to support exceptional projects that will contribute to capacity building within these institutions.