Deadline: 22-May-22
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications for Integrating Mental Health Care into Health Care Systems in LMICs.
This FOA aims to support innovative implementation research to develop, optimize, and test innovative strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and financially sustaining integrated mental health care models to ultimately increase demand and utilization, quality, access, and availability of mental health care. This FOA is also expected to contribute to the long-term goals of strengthening the sustainable research capacity in LMICs and enhancing the potential for multidirectional knowledge and research advancements exchange.
All applicants will be expected to substantially involve key personnel in the setting where the study will be conducted. For applications proposing a single PD/PI, the PD/PI will be required to have a primary academic appointment in an LMIC institution. Applications proposing MPIs will be required to include at least one PD/PI who has a primary academic appointment in an LMIC institution where the projects occur. The other PI(s) on the project can have an appointment at an LMIC-based institution or at a HIC-based institution. Research projects must be conducted in the LMIC in which the single PD/PI or at least one PD/PI has a primary appointment.
Scope
- Identify and implement an optimal integration model to ensure scalability and sustainability.
- Identify the necessary core elements of integrated mental health care models (e.g., routine screening, training/hiring case manager and consulting, disease registry)to enable the model’s implementation, scale-up, and sustainability.
- Develop and test implementation strategies and innovative health technologies to improve health system-, patient-, and family-level outcomes and ensure the quality of integration.
- Develop and test models and strategies for training, supervising, and supporting providers, including identifying the optimal functions, roles, and composition of integrated care teams to deliver integrated care with fidelity and high quality.
- Test mechanisms of actions/ target mediators of implementation strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of integrated care models.
- Develop and test models and strategies for linking integrated care with other community-based services.
- Develop and test behavioral economic strategies, financing models (payment mechanisms), and health policies that influence the success of scaling up and sustaining the provision of integrated care; by including an integrated care model on the universal health system and a cost-effective bundle of service.
- Determine how an integrated care model can best engage local communities to enhance service user participation (e.g., demand and utilization).
- Examine the independent and complementary or synergistic effects on the mental and physical health outcome of integrated care models with multilevel interventions targeting modifiable conditions (e.g., the structure of the health system, health policies, and other social drivers of mental illness).
- Test strategies that target health system arrangements, such as incentives, regulations, and policies, which may facilitate or deter the availability (supply), accessibility, scalability, and sustainability of integrated care model and test relevant approaches to measure and extract existing data regarding these arrangements.
Funding Information
- NIMH and NCI intend to commit $3M in FY 2023 to fund 6-7 awards.
- The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years.
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)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Federal Government
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions)
- Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337940