Deadline: 29 March 2017
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking applications for a program entitled “Area Health Education Centers Program” with an aim to develop and enhance education and training networks within communities, academic institutions, and community-based organizations.
These networks support BHW’s strategic priorities to increase diversity among health professionals, broaden the distribution of the health workforce, enhance health care quality, and improve health care delivery to rural and underserved areas and populations.
Funding Information: The estimated total program funding is $28,400,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities eligible to apply are public or nonprofit private accredited schools of allopathic medicine and osteopathic medicine and incorporated consortia made up of such schools or the parent institutions of such schools.
- In states and territories in which no AHEC Program is in operation, an accredited school of nursing is an eligible applicant.
- Applicants seeking a waiver must submit their request with their grant application. Decisions regarding the waiver requests are contingent upon extension of the Secretary’s waiver authority for Fiscal Year 2017 and HRSA administrative review of each waiver request.
- Foreign entities are not eligible for these awards.
- Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) requires that each Area Health Education Center “is a public or private organization whose structure, governance, and operation is independent from the awardee and the parent institution of the awardee.”
- PHS Act sec. 751(d)(2)(B) requires that each Area Health Education Center “is not a school of medicine or osteopathic medicine, the parent institution of such a school, or a branch campus or other subunit of a school of medicine or osteopathic medicine or its parent institution, or a consortium of such entities.”
How to Apply
Interested applicants can download the application packages via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Area Health Education Centers Program.