Deadline: 8-Dec-21
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC, Injury Center) is soliciting investigator-initiated research to understand and prevent firearm-related injuries, deaths, and crime.
For the purposes of this announcement, firearm-related injuries, deaths, and crime include mass shooting incidents, other firearm homicides/assaults, firearm suicides/self-harm, unintentional firearm deaths and injuries, and firearm-related crime. The intent of this announcement is to support research to improve understanding of firearm injury, inform the development of innovative and promising prevention strategies, and rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to keep individuals, families, schools, and communities safe from firearm-related injuries, deaths, and crime.
Objectives
Research funded under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is intended to directly improve understanding of firearm-related violence and promising prevention approaches by supporting activities under one or both of the following two Research Objectives:
- Research to improve understanding of firearm injury and inform the development of innovative and promising prevention strategies.
- Research to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of innovative and promising strategies to keep individuals, families, schools, and communities safe from firearm-related injuries, deaths, and crime.
Funding Information
- Funding Option A will support research projects that rely on existing data and do not support implementation of prevention activities. These projects will be funded up to $350,000 per year (direct and indirect costs) for a period of performance for up to 2 years.
- Funding Option B will support research projects that require support for new data collection activities and/or the implementation of prevention activities. These projects will be funded up to $650,000 per year (direct and indirect costs) for a period of performance for up to 3 years.
- Estimated Total Funding: $33,000,000
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 25
- Total Period of Performance Length: 3 year(s)
Outcomes
- Objective 1
- Improve their understanding of what contributes to the lethality of firearm injury and crime, including across different types of firearm violence, population groups (e.g., gender, age, ethnic/sexual minority, rural/tribal, active duty military/Veteran), and settings such as schools/campuses and neighborhoods;
- Improve their understanding of the scope of and motivations for gun ownership, possession, acquisition, and use, including defensive gun use among youth and adults, and how these motivations and behaviors are distributed across populations and communities at greatest risk for perpetration and victimization;
- Identify modifiable risk and protective factors for firearm-related interpersonal, selfdirected, unintentional, and mass shooting incidents, including individual, peer/family, community and societal factors; and
- Identify modifiable risk and protective factors for firearm-related perpetration and victimization in vulnerable populations (e.g., children, youth, active duty military/Veterans, rural/tribal populations, persons at risk for experiencing intimate partner violence, persons at risk of harming themselves or others).
- Objective 2
- Effective strategies to prevent interpersonal and self-directed acts of firearm violence, mass shooting incidents, unintentional firearm deaths and injuries, and crime;
- Effective strategies for different population groups (e.g., children, youth, active duty military/Veterans, rural/tribal, those at risk of harming themselves or others);
- Effective strategies for different settings (e.g., rural/urban, school, neighborhood, community) that can be leveraged to prevent firearm-related injuries and crime; and
- Effective strategies addressing a range of individual, peer/family, community and societal risk and protective factors, including strategies that address social and structural conditions that contribute to racial/ethnic inequities in risk for firearm violence.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Others
- State governments
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity),
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335599
