Deadline: 5-Sep-22
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is inviting applications for Research to Action: Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages multidisciplinary projects to investigate the potential health risks of environmental exposures of concern to a community and to develop and implement an environmental public health action plan based on research findings. Projects supported under this program will employ community-engaged research methods to conduct research and to translate research findings into public health action.
Research to Action is building upon a long history of shared interests between the NIEHS and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to understand and reduce or eliminate environmental health disparities.
Protecting the public from environmental health risks requires the translation of hypothesis-driven, etiologic research characterizing environmental exposures and exposure-health relationships into action to prevent, reduce or eliminate exposure(s), and disease. To meet the needs of affected communities, authentic community participation in all aspects of the research process is essential. Developing trusted and equitable community-university partnerships in environmental public health research helps ensure that:
- Communities identify and define problems and risks related to environmental exposures and stressors that are of greatest importance to them.
- Communities receive the scientific and financial support necessary to conduct rigorous research in partnership with academic researchers that will accurately characterize the distributions and sources of environmental exposures and exposure-health relationships (if any) in their community and empower all involved to take action to reduce potential health risks.
- Communities co-develop training/education, communication, remediation, prevention and interventions with academic researchers and other project partners to reduce or eliminate such exposures and to improve health outcomes.
- Training/education, communication, remediation, prevention and interventions are equitably implemented and provided in accessible, culturally appropriate formats and developed at a literacy level and in language(s) appropriate for members of that community.
Objectives and Scope
This FOA strengthens and advances NIEHS’ commitment to community-engaged research projects that respond to the identified needs of community groups and make research actionable. The FOA will also expand the scope and reach of projects supported through the Research to Action program. The main objectives of this program remain the same as prior solicitations:
- promote community engagement in environmental health research,
- support multi-disciplinary research to collect and characterize information about environmental health concerns of significance to a community, and
- stimulate research translation and dissemination to community members, public health professionals and/or policymakers to inform an action that will ultimately promote the reduction of exposure(s) and reduce the health impact from environmental stressors.
Funding Information
- Award Budget: Application budgets are limited to $500K Direct Cost.
- Award Project Period: The maximum project period is 5 years.
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=342465