United States: Coordinating Center for HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Cohorts Program

Deadline: 17-Feb-22

The Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health has announced this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to support a coordinating center (CC), which will coordinate research efforts across the NIDA funded longitudinal cohorts that address emerging and high priority research on HIV/AIDS in the context of substance use and substance use disorders (SUD).

The Coordinating Center will serve as:

a national data and specimen resource that harmonizes and collects data and biological samples from the NIDA cohorts and affiliated studies, and enables additional research efforts through virtual repositories;
a facilitator of current and future research at the intersection of HIV and substance use and SUD; and
the central hub for organizing and enabling communication within and outside the NIDA cohort studies program, including annual meetings, advisory and scientific oversight committees.

The purpose of the CC is to coordinate research efforts across the NIDA funded longitudinal cohort programs that address emerging and high priority research on HIV/AIDS in the context of substance use and SUD and infectious diseases that are strongly syndemic with these problems. The CC is charged with the tasks of providing the organizational framework for the management, direction, and overall coordination of the NIDA’s HIV and SUD cohort programs; supporting progress of the scientific agenda of the NIDA cohort programs; and fostering collaborations across the cohort sites and the wider scientific community engaged in the HIV and addiction research.

The CC will facilitate collaborations with other major HIV cohort studies that are supported by other ICs in partnership with NIDA including the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study/Women’s Interagency HIV Study Combined Cohort Study (MACS/WIHS-CCS), the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS), The Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN), and The IeDEA Cohort Consortium in all applicable NIDA/NIH HIV research priority areas.

Funding Informaion

Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards: NIDA intends to commit $1,000,000 in FY22 to fund one award.
Award Budget: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Award Project Period: The project period is limited to 5 years.

Eligibility Criteria

Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
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