Deadline: 20-Aug-20
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a call for applications for research training programs to strengthen the scientific capacity of institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to conduct HIV research relevant to the evolving HIV epidemic in their country.
Funding Information
- Application budgets are limited to $280,000 in direct costs per year exclusive of consortium indirect costs.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Research Areas
- basic, epidemiologic, clinical, behavioral, and social science research across HIV prevention, care, and treatment;
- pathophysiology and therapeutics research to address HIV infection, the effects of HIV on body systems, and HIV’s interaction with other co-morbidities and co-infections;
- implementation, operations, health services, and health systems research to improve the HIV prevention, care and treatment care continuum;
- research on integrated bio-behavioral HIV prevention, care, and treatment among high-risk populations, including polysubstance drug (injection and non-injection) and alcohol use;
- research on HIV co-infections, AIDs-defining and HIV-related cancers, neurological and neuro-psychiatric morbidities, and other co-morbidities and health conditions, both infectious and non-infectious, that contribute to HIV transmission or poor health in HIV-infected individuals, including HIV infected substance (drug and alcohol) users;
- community-based HIV research, HIV research on complex/multi-component interventions, structural interventions, and comparative effectiveness, and HIV research on impact evaluation or health economics;
- cross-disciplinary HIV research among vulnerable or under-researched LMIC populations, including women, substance (drug and alcohol) users, men who have sex with men, transgendered populations, aging populations, orphans, and children;
- clinical research for team members to support HIV clinical research and HIV clinical trials;
- bio-statistics and bioinformatics research methodologies for enhanced HIV research design, data analysis, data management, and data quality assurance and control to support HIV research;
- basic laboratory-based HIV research that will incorporate acquiring laboratory skills, bio-safety practices, and maintenance of laboratory quality assurance as components of research methodologies for conducting HIV clinical research.
- The beneficiary of the training supported through this FOA is LMIC institutions. When available and relevant to their objectives, the HIVRT program should optimally leverage in-country institutional research training capacity and leadership.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Other
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) in LMICs eligible for support under FIC International Training grants (See below for more information on country eligibility)
- An application may be submitted by a foreign institution in an eligible low- or middle-income country (LMIC) or by a domestic (U.S.) institution that demonstrates collaboration with an LMIC institution in eligible low- or middle-income country(ies). Collaboration should be documented by joint publications, grants, or previous research training activities.
For more information, visit https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-19-283.html