*No deadline to submit. Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Awards do not have an explicit funding range. 2019 awards averaged $315,031 and were 1-3 years in length.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

We want to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes we seek require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector.

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Stipend payments are for ten consecutive weeks. Research experiences must be scheduled between May - August:
- Faculty: $1,200 per week
- Graduate students: $700 per week
- Undergraduate students - $600 per week

At the end of the ten week summer appointment/team research project, faculty are encouraged to apply for up to $50,000 in follow-on funding to continue research during the 2021-2022 academic year at the faculty’s home academic institution.

Faculty applications due January 11, 2021.

Invited facutly build a research project application due February 22, 2021.

The purpose of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Summer Research Team (SRT) Program is to increase and enhance the scientific leadership at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in research areas that support the mission and goals of DHS. This program provides faculty and student research teams with the opportunity to conduct research a university-based DHS Centers of Excellence (DHS Centers). The program requires teams to be composed of one faculty member and up to two students (undergraduate and/or graduate level). SRT strives to address current capability gaps while preparing for future challenges. Projects are organized into primary focus areas that directly support DHS components, as well as federal, state, and local first responders:

2020 research areas include:

• Critical Infrastructure and Resilience: Improving the nation’s preparedness for natural and man-made catastrophes.
• Cybersecurity: Contributing to a safe, secure and resilient cyber environment.
• Explosives: Protecting citizens and infrastructure from the devastating effects of explosives.
• First Responders: Expanding first responder capabilities and improving their effectiveness, efficiency and safety.

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Standard Research Grant awards have no stated dollar amount limit or maximum project duration.

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) awards are up to $20,000 for one (1) year.

Application due dates are twice a year on January 15th and August 1st. Upcoming due dates: January 15, 2021; August 1, 2021; January 15, 2022; August 1, 2022.

Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of law and basic sciences, including biology, computer and information sciences, STEM education, engineering, geosciences, and math and physical sciences. Fields of study include many disciplines, and often address problems including, through not limited to: Crime, Violence, and Policing; Cyberspace; Economic Issues; Environmental Science; Evidentiary Issues; Forensic Science; Governance and Courts; Human Rights and Comparative Law; Information Technology; Legal and Ethical issues related to Science; Legal Decision Making; Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice; Litigation and the Legal Procession; Punishment and Corrections; Use of Science in the Legal Processes.

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Award amounts and duration vary.

Deadlines are January 19, 2021 and August 17, 2021 and then the third Tuesday in January and August annually thereafter.

The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects about a broad range of topics may be appropriate for support if they enhance fundamental geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated geographical research.

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Awards are a maximum of $400,000 direct costs per year for up to five (5) years.

Deadlines are January 25th, May 25th, and September 25th through September 25, 2022.

The Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The R18 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ. The AHRQ mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more ac­cessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. Within the mission, AHRQ’s specific priority areas of focus are:

• Research to improve health care patient safety.
• Harnessing data and technology to improve health care quality and patient outcomes and to provide a 360-degree view of the patient.
• Research to increase accessibility and affordability of health care by examining innovative market approaches to care delivery and financing.

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R01 awards are up to $500K per year for five (5) years.

Deadlines are: January 26, 2021; May 26, 2021; September 28, 2021; January 26, 2022; May 26, 2022; September 27, 2022; January 26, 2023; May 26, 2023; September 26, 2023

Participating NIH ICs of note for HPS: NICHD, NIDCD, NINDS, NIMH, NIA, NIMHD

The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist. Applications submitted to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) must not include preliminary data. Applications must include a separate attachment describing the change in research direction. Preliminary data are defined as data not yet published. 

An ESI is a Program Director / Principal Investigator (PD/PI) who has completed their terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award. 

This Funding Opportunity Announcement does not accept applications proposing clinical trials. Need help determining whether you are doing a clinical trial?

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Awards are up to $45,000 for one (1) year.

The Center for Retirement Research sponsors the annual Steven H. Sandell Grant Program for scholars in the field of retirement or disability research and policy. The program is funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration to provide opportunities for junior or non-tenured scholars (within seven years of receiving their Ph.D.) from all academic disciplines to pursue cutting-edge projects on retirement or disability issues. Research focal areas include: Trends in disability; Determining disability; Requirements of work in the modern economy; Informing long-term projections and models; Improving communication and outreach; State and local pensions for non-covered workers; Modernizing totalization agreements; Economic security of SSA beneficiaries; Work-activity retention of disabled beneficiaries with overpayments; and Improving service delivery.

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Submit R01, R03, or R21applications for this initiative using one of the following funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) or any reissues of these announcement through the expiration date of this notice.

This notice applies to due dates on or after October 5, 2019 and subsequent receipt dates through September 8, 2022.

The purpose of this Notice is to inform potential applications to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of special interest in grant applications to conduct rigorous health services and economic research to maximize the availability and delivery of efficient, effective drug, alcohol, and tobacco treatment and recovery support services. Examples of such research include: (1) clinical quality improvement; (2) quality improvement in services organization and management; (3) implementation science; (4) availability, demand, access, and financing; (5) effectiveness; and (6) development or improvement of research methodology, analytic approaches, and measurement instrumentation. This NOSI encourages, but is not limited to, applications in the following areas:

• Quality improvement studies in services organization and management studies that address organizational contexts and service delivery models, the interaction of providers and programs within and across systems, and at multiple levels (e.g., program, practice network, state), and their collective impact on the quality of service delivery.
• Studies examining the effects of practice and policy changes on service quality and outcomes, including unintended consequences.
• Studies developing or applying new methods, analytic techniques or approaches (e.g., modeling), technologies or other innovative tools to improve the rigor and reach of health services research.

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This notice applies to due dates on or after June 16, 2020 and subsequent receipt dates through January 10 2022. Specific deadlines vary.

Submit R01 or R21 applications for this initiative using one of the following funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) or any reissues of these announcement through the expiration date of this notice.

The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to improve health outcomes for individuals with deafness or communication disorders through effectiveness and health services research in the NIDCD mission areas of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. This NOSI seeks to encourage effectiveness and health services research for improved outcomes in the prevention and treatment of disorders of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. Applicants are encouraged to create collaborative teams which may include clinical experts not only in the traditional NIDCD mission areas, but also in other medical specialties and health care professions as well as experts in sociology, health services, health outcomes, economics, biostatistics, public health, health care financing and organization, survey research, psychometrics, epidemiology, and evaluation.

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Applies to due dates on or after May 7, 2020 and subsequent receipt dates through May 8, 2023. Specific deadlines vary.

Submit R01, R03, R15, R21, R34, F31, K23, or K99/R00 applications for this initiative using one of the listed parent funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) listed in this NOSI.

The National Institute of Mental Health is issuing this Notice to highlight interest in receiving grant applications focused on understanding and addressing the impact of mental health comorbidities, including mental health disorders as well as violence and trauma, on the HIV prevention and treatment continua.

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Awards are $200,000 per year up to five (5) years.

The purpose of the Field Initiated (FI) Projects program is to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities. The purpose of this competition is to improve the capacity of minority entities to conduct high-quality disability and rehabilitation research. NIDILRR will accomplish this by limiting eligibility for this competition to minority entities and Indian tribes. UNT is eligible as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). FI development proposals should be in the stages of proof of concept, proof of product, and proof of adoption.

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This notice applies to due dates on or after February 5, 2021 through May 8, 2023. Specific deadlines vary based on R01, R03, and R21 standard deadlines.

Submit R01, R03, or R21 applications for this initiative using one of the following funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) or any reissues of these announcement through the expiration date of this notice.

This NOSI invites research applications on the rehabilitation needs of COVID-19 survivors. At present, the best acute rehabilitation plan for people who have recovered from severe cases of COVID- 19 is unknown. Similarly, the long-term rehabilitation needs and sequalae of people who recover from COVID-19 are not well understood. Furthermore, the interplay of existing physical disabilities and recovery from COVID-19 is also unknown. Research applications are also sought to understand the impact of disruptions to rehabilitation services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation actions. Applications that measure the impact of delayed treatment for common disabling conditions, such as stroke, are also sought.

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This notice applies to due dates on or after February 5, 2021 and subsequent receipt dates through May 8, 2023. Specific deadlines vary.

Submit R01, R03, or R21 applications for this initiative using one of the following funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) or any reissues of these announcement through the expiration date of this notice.

The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest is to encourage applications in three areas related to the intersection of COVID-19, the associated mitigation actions, and rehabilitation:

1. Encourage research to address the rehabilitation needs of survivors of COVID-19
2. Understand the impact of disruptions to rehabilitation services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation actions
3. Understand the social, behavioral, economic, and health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated mitigation actions on people with physical disabilities

Research applications addressing these topics are considered responsive; not all topics are expected within the same application. Applications will be directed to the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) at NICHD.

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R03 awards are up to $50,000 per year for two (2) years.

Deadlines are February 16, June 16, and October 16 each year through October 2023. Apply under parent R03 announcement PA-20-200.

This initiative encourages secondary analysis on scientific topics within the scientific scope of NICHD overall and the research priorities of the NICHD Extramural Scientific Branches and NCMRR. Research involving linking existing data to complementary data sources such as administrative records, vital statistics, or spatial data is encouraged. The types of data available for analysis by researchers outside the original research team include data from clinical trials, panel studies and other longitudinal research, cross-sectional studies, observational studies, multi-method studies, and other types of basic biomedical, clinical, behavioral, demographic, and epidemiological research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Physiological factors affecting change (e.g., endocrine, musculoskeletal health, reproductive health) at different points in the life span, including factors contributing to health status across the life course

- Differences in risk factors related to health and developmental outcomes at different ages, at different stages of disease progression, and in the presence or absence of co-existing conditions

- Methodological development using one or more data sets to develop and test new analytic approaches within the scientific mission of NICHD and within the scientific scope of NICHD or NCMRR priorities

- Development of common data elements (CDEs) or ontologies across existing data resources

Examples of NICHD datasets and research resources include: the NICHD Data and Specimen Hub (DASH), Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR), the Child Language Development Exchange (CHILDES), the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), and Xenbase.

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R03 awards are up to $50,000 a year for two (2) years.

Deadlines are February 16, June 16, and October 16 each year through 2023.

The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to promote and facilitate the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community. The highest priority is to archive data collected with NICHD support. This includes collecting data and biological samples on a wide array of relevant inputs including measures related to psychosocial and sociodemographic factors, cognition, genetics and biomarkers, pregnancy, reproductive health, behavioral medicine, and well-being over the life course. Examples of activities encouraged by this FOA include, but are not limited to:

Archiving and developing population health, socio-behavioral, and/or demographic data sets that conform to international standards for data documentation, including adequate descriptions of metadata and searchable instruments for public use

Harmonizing data and measures across multiple data sets

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Awards are up to $45,000 for eleven (11) months.

A synthesis study documents current practice and experience for specific highway topics. The following factors are considered in the selection process for synthesis topics:

• The objective of the scope of work is to document current highway practice in state departments of transportation (DOTs);

• The synthesis documents current practice, not best practice; it is not a research project or a guidebook;

• The topic addresses an area of practice that is widespread and of general interest to state DOTs;

• The topic should be timely and critical for expediting delivery, improving the quality, or lowering the cost of highway programs; and

• The scope of work aligns with a $45,000 budget and an 11-month turnaround.

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Track 1 awards are $1.5M- $2.5M for up to four (4) years; Track 2 awards are up to $1.5M for up to three (3) years; Planning Grants are up to $150,000 for one (1) year.

The goal of this solicitation is to accelerate the creation of the scientific and engineering foundations that will enable smart and connected communities to bring about new levels of economic opportunity and growth, safety and security, health and wellness, and overall quality of life. For the purposes of this solicitation, communities are defined as having geographically-delineated boundaries—such as towns, cities, counties, neighborhoods,community districts, rural areas, and tribal regions—consisting of various populations, with the structure and ability to engage in meaningful ways with the proposed research activities. A “smart and connected community” is, in turn, defined as a community that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. The S&CC program encourages researchers to work with community stakeholders to identify and define challenges they are facing, enabling those challenges to motivate use-inspired research questions. For this solicitation, community stakeholders may include some or all of the following: residents, neighborhood or community groups, nonprofit or philanthropic organizations, businesses; as well as municipal organizations such as libraries, museums, educational institutions,public works departments, and health and social services agencies.

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Awards are a maximum $50,000 for up to five (5) years.

Applications open January 4, 2021 and are due March 1, 2021.

The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. The Spencer Foundation recognizes that learning occurs across the life course as well as across settings—from the classroom to the workplace, to family and community contexts and even onto the playing field—any of which may, in the right circumstance, provide the basis for rewarding study that makes significant contributions to the field. To this end, the sponsor supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives from scholars at various stages in their career. Proposals span a wide range of topics and disciplines that innovatively investigate questions central to education, including for example education, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, law, economics,history, or neuroscience, amongst others.

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Awards are up to $2.5M, the recent median NIJ grant award amount is approximately $600,000, and for up to five (5) years.

NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects to support the development of objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women (VAW) (including violence against elderly women and American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls), promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses. For that reason, this solicitation seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics, including the crimes of domestic and family violence, homicide, intimate partner and dating violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking, along with the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies.

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Awards are up to $45,000 for ten (10) months.

A synthesis study documents current practice and experience for specific public transportation topics.  The following factors are considered in the selection process for new topics.

• The objective of the scope of work is to document current practices in public transportation and/or public transit agencies
• The synthesis documents current practice, not best practice; it is not a research project or a guidebook
• The topic addresses an area of practice that is widespread and of general interest to public transit and/ or public transportation
• The topic should be timely and critical for expediting delivery, improving the quality, or lowering the cost of programs

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Awards are up to $150,000 for Type 1 projects and up to $100,000 for Type 2 projects.

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) administers three programs that invest in the potential of innovations: Innovations Deserving of Exploratory Analysis (IDEA).

• Through the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), state departments of transportation fund the Highway IDEA program in search of advances in design, construction, safety, maintenance, operations, and manage-ment of highway systems.
• The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) funds the Rail Safety IDEA pro-gram, which looks for innovative approaches to improve railroad safety or performance.
• Through the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds the Transit IDEA program to support innovations to improve the efficiency, safety, security, and ridership of transit systems.

Type 1 projects are concept explorations and demonstrate the validity of unproven concepts. Type 2 projects develop and test prototypes of proven concepts and requires 25% cost sharing.

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