NIMHD: Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training Program

Deadline: 11 October 2018

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites applications for the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training (MHRT) awards to support research training activities in minority health and health disparities research for individuals who are from diverse groups underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research, at domestic institutions and/or at specified foreign low and middle income (LMIC) locations.

The training program should provide:

The enhancement of the trainees’ ability to conceptualize and think through research problems with increasing independence;
Experience conducting research using state-of-the-art methods as well as presenting and publishing their research findings;
The opportunity to interact with members of the scientific community at appropriate scientific meetings and workshops;
The enhancement of the trainees’ understanding of minority health and health disparities research; and
The enhancement of the trainees’ understanding of the health-related sciences and the relationship of their research training to minority health, health disparities science and global health.

Funding Information

Application budgets are limited to $250,000 direct costs and must reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

Areas of Research Interest

Areas of specific interest include but are not limited to the following:

Development of preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic healthcare interventions that can contribute to reducing health disparities;
Research in clinical settings that addresses access to health care, improvement of patient safety, reduction of medical errors and healthcare delivery costs, coordination of care, impact of health -information technology on coordination and quality of care, shared decision making on patient satisfaction and health outcomes, patient-clinician communication and quality of health care;
Genomic and epigenomic risk and protective factors;
Effects of chronic stress on physiological functioning (allostatic load) across the life course;
Mechanisms through which behavioral risk and protective factors influence the development of adverse health conditions;
Individual-level strategies and interpersonal relationships for coping with adversity and chronic stress;
Impact of racism and discrimination on health behavior and strategies to ameliorate their effects;
Mechanisms underlying health literacy and health numeracy and their influence on health-seeking or health-harming behaviors;
Epidemiologic studies that identify and describe disease burden and risk factors in disparity populations;
Population-level gene-environment interaction studies;
Behavioral, sociocultural, and environmental influences on disease risks and outcomes;
Epidemiological, behavioral, social applied and surveillance research to understand the impact of social determinants on community health and population wellbeing;
Research integrating the multiple determinants of health at the biologic, behavioral, and contextual levels and their interactions; and
Research informing and establishing community- and population-level and public health practices that improve population health and reduce health disparities.

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)
Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.