Deadline: 18-Oct-22
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) seeks to strengthen the evidence for effective interventions and implementation strategies that address SDoH for HIV, and ultimately improve HIV outcomes and reduce health inequities.
Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Institute of Mental Health, in partnership with other NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, aims to support implementation science research to strengthen the evidence for effective interventions and implementation strategies that target Social and Structural Determinants of Health (SSDoH) and ultimately improve HIV outcomes and reduce inequities.
This initiative will support applications that propose hybrid implementation-effectiveness studies that simultaneously test the effectiveness of interventions addressing SSDoH and implementation strategies to facilitate their uptake or adaptation. This initiative is closely aligned with the goals of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) in the U.S. initiative, coordinated by the Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health.
Specific Areas of Research Interest
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Studies testing implementation strategies carried out in partnership with pharmacies, faith-based organizations, or other sectors that address SSDoH and improve HIV outcomes to ensure equitable access to HIV treatment and prevention interventions
- Studies that test interventions and strategies for delivering evidence-based HIV treatment or prevention interventions for those who have access disruption from contact with the correctional system, especially upon re-entry to communities where existing SSDoH can be compounded by difficulty attaining employment and re-engaging with HIV treatment or prevention.
- Studies that test interventions and strategies that address homelessness (e.g. re-housing programs) among individuals from high-incidence populations or persons living with HIV
- Studies that test implementation of interventions that harness community empowerment to promote access, build capacity, mobilize community, and address SSDoH to reduce inequities in HIV prevention and treatment
- Studies that deploy telemedicine (or other digital approaches) as an implementation strategy designed to overcome SSDoH-related barriers for access to care and optimize outcomes for HIV prevention, treatment, and health equity
- Studies that test the implementation of evidence-based models of peer-delivered or caregiver-delivered support for PLHIV
- Develop and test multi-level interventions to address structural racism and discrimination as barriers to accessing evidence-based treatments for HIV treatment and/or prevention, while testing strategies to optimize their delivery
- Studies that test interventions to alleviate poverty, improve finances, or optimize benefit access simultaneously testing implementation strategies to facilitate delivery of those interventions
- Test implementation strategies for scaling medical-legal partnerships, which bring legal experts inside HIV clinics to advise PLWH on legal challenges that present structural barriers to care engagement while testing their effectiveness for reducing disparities in HIV viral suppression
- Studies that use implementation strategies to optimize health systems and healthcare coverage access to promote equitable and effective use of novel long-acting PrEP and ART regimens
Funding Information
- NIMH intends to commit $2,000,000 total costs in FY 2023 to fund 4 awards
- NIDA intends to commit $1,000,000 total costs in FY 2023 to fund 2 awards
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- City or township governments
- Independent school districts
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Others
- State governments
- Small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than Small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=342604