Deadline: 7-May-25
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications for its National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Areas of Emphasis for Research to Optimize Health and Advance Health Equity (R21 Clinical Trial Optional).
Purpose
This funding announcement solicits R21 grant applications that propose exploratory/developmental research projects that are consistent with the research framework detailed in the 2022-2026 NINR Strategic Plan. This research will be rooted in nursing's holistic, contextualized approach to understanding people and their health, address the nation's most pressing and persistent health challenges with a solutions orientation, and employ innovative and rigorous study designs to inform practice and policy.
Guiding Principles
NINR’s guiding principles describe the qualities that investigators should emphasize in all NINR-supported research. The extent to which studies reflect these principles will factor into funding decisions. NINR will prioritize research that:
- Tackles today’s pressing health challenges and stimulates discoveries to prepare for, prevent, or address tomorrow’s challenges;
- Discovers solutions across clinical, community, and policy settings to optimize health for individuals, families, communities, and populations;
- Advances equity by removing structural barriers from research, cultivating diversity in perspectives and ideas, and fostering inclusion and accessibility in designing, conducting, and participating in research; and;
- Is innovative, develops or applies the most rigorous methods, and has the potential for the greatest impact on health.
Research Lenses
NINR identified five complementary and synergistic research lenses that best leverage the strengths of nursing research and promote multilevel approaches, cross-disciplinary and -sectoral collaboration, and community engagement in research. It is important to note that the lenses are not research topics, but rather perspectives through which to consider the full spectrum of nursing research topics that encompass health and illness within the context of people’s lived experiences. These lenses allow nursing research to examine new topics while also allowing scientists to take a different look at long-standing areas of interest. The research lenses are:
- Health Equity: Reduce and ultimately eliminate the systemic and structural inequities that place some at an unfair, unjust, and avoidable disadvantage in attaining their full health potential
- Social Determinants of Heath: Identify effective approaches to improve health and quality of life by addressing the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age
- Population and Community Health: Address critical health challenges at a macro level that persistently affect groups of people with shared characteristics
- Prevention and Health Promotion: Prevent disease and promote health through the continuum of prevention – from primordial to tertiary
- Systems and Models of Care: Address clinical, organizational, and policy challenges through new systems and models of care.
Funding Information
- Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year project period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year.
Eligibility Criteria
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Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
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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)
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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)
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For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
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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)
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Federal Government
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
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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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343420