Funding Opportunities
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program requests proposals for policy analysis, research, evaluation, and demonstration projects that provide public and private decision leaders with usable and timely information on health care policy and financing issues.
Academic Partners for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program is building a national integrated environmental and public health information system that supports national efforts to standardize and facilitate the electronic exchange of information. Linking environmental and health data will enable a timely response to potential public health problems related to the environment
AHRQ's priorities for research funding in FY 2005
With this notice, AHRQ provides information about the highest research priorities for unsolicited applications for fiscal year 2005. AHRQ will continue to provide regular updates of research priorities as research budget information becomes available.
Assistance Programs for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
To work with State health agencies and other public and private nonprofit organizations in planning, developing, integrating, coordinating, or evaluating programs to prevent and control chronic diseases; assist in monitoring the major behavioral risks associated with the 10 leading causes of premature death and disability in the United States including cardiovascular diseases and arthritis; and, establish new chronic disease prevention programs like Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Investigations and Technical Assistance
To assist State and local health authorities and other health related organizations in controlling communicable diseases, chronic diseases and disorders, and other preventable health conditions. Investigations and evaluation of all methods of controlling or preventing disease and disability are carried out by providing epidemic aid, surveillance, technical assistance, consultation, and program support; and by providing leadership and coordination of joint national, State, and local efforts. Priority areas for CMS's discretionary contracts, cooperative agreements or grants are as follows: (1) Monitoring and evaluating CMS's programs; (2) improving managed care payment and delivery; (3) improving fee-for-service payment and delivery; (4) future trends influencing our programs; (5) strengthening medicaid Medicaid (SCHIP), and State programs; (6) meeting the needs of vulnerable populations; (7) outcomes, quality, and performance; and (8) building research capacity.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Research, Demonstrations and Evaluations
To support analyses, experiments, demonstrations and pilot projects in efforts to resolve major health care financing issues and to develop innovative methods for the administration of Medicare and Medicaid. These
Community Access Program (CAP)
The purpose of this program is to assist communities and consortia of health care providers to develop the infrastructure necessary to fully develop or strengthen integrated health systems of care that coordinate health services for the uninsured and underinsured. Grants will vary in size, based on the scope of the project and the size of the service area. During the first year of funding for this program HRSA will support infrastructure development in communities that have already begun to reorganize and integrate their health care delivery systems. Up to 15 percent of grant funds may be used for: (1) alteration or renovation of facilities or (2) primary care site development. Grant funds may not be used for construction.
Development And Coordination Of Rural Health Services
To (1) Build infrastructure through workshops, conferences, etc., (2) develop and provide information to a wide audience, (3) increase awareness of Federal and State resources, and (4) build partnerships between Federal and State governments.
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant and Loan Program
This program was authorized in the 1996 farm bill to support projects that provide distance learning and telemedicine services to rural areas. It replaces the RUS (formerly known as REA) Distance Learning and Medical Link Grants program. Starting in fiscal year 1997, eligible applicants can apply for both grants and direct loans through this program. The program allows for capital equipment purchases (i.e., purchase of end-user telemedicine equipment), but not for building construction or renovation.
Food Safety And Security Monitoring Project
To complement, develop and improve State, Indian Tribal, and local food safety and security testing programs through the provision of supplies, personnel, facility upgrades, training in current food testing methodologies and participation in proficiency testing to establish additional reliable laboratory sample analysis capacity and analysis of surveillance samples.
Grants to Rural Providers
These grants are aimed at expanding access to, coordinating, restraining cost of, and improving the quality of essential health care in rural areas
Grants To States For Operation Of Offices Of Rural Health
This is a matching grant program with States to support the establishment and ongoing operation of Offices of Rural Health. While a wide range of activities can be conducted to address unique State needs, each State Office of Rural Health must (1) Establish an information clearinghouse, (2) coordinate State and Federal rural health programs throughout the State, (3) provide technical assistance that will improve participation in State and Federal programs, and (4) work to improve availability of health professionals in rural areas.
Health Care and Other Facilities
To construct, renovate, expand, equip, or modernize health care facilities and other health care related facilities.
Healthy Communities Access Program (Hcap) Demonstration Authority
To assist Historically Black Health Professions Schools (HBHPSs) to: 1) develop patient-based research infrastructure with any HCAP providers; 2) establish joint and collaborative programs of medical research and data collection between HBPHSs and such providers, whose goal is to improve the health status of medically underserved populations; or 3) support the research-related costs of patient care, data collection, and academic training resulting from affiliations with HCAP providers.
Improving EMS/Trauma Care in Rural Areas
To make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the purpose of carrying out research and demonstration projects with respect to improving the availability and quality of emergency medical services in rural areas.
Indian Health Service_Health Management Development Program
To improve the quality of the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives by providing a full range of curative, preventive and rehabilitative health services; and to improve the management capability of American Indians and Alaska Natives to assume operation of all or part of an existing Indian Health Service (IHS) direct-operated health care program.
InformationLinks: Connecting Public Health with Health Information Exchanges
A new program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will fund grants to support the participation of state and local public health agencies in health information exchanges.
Innovations In Applied Public Health Research
To develop the knowledge necessary to translate biomedical science into effective programs that directly affect the quality and length of life for the population.
Innovative Food Safety Projects
To assist state, local and tribal regulatory health agencies in the development, demonstration, education and dissemination of activities concerned with inspection, regulation, and compliance, information systems and education and health information in order to improve State, local and tribal food safety programs that would have applicability to food safety programs nationwide.
National Health Promotion
Assistance must be provided to satisfy program needs of the National Health Promotion Program, including but not limited to: (1) Identifying or developing materials for health promotion programs for use by schools, medical treatment sites, worksites, and community health promotion programs; (2) adding to the scientific data base, especially to fill gaps identified in the "Healthy People 2010: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives"; and (3) identifying the needs of special population groups, such as Blacks, Hispanics, Asian/Pacific Islanders, American Indians/Alaska Natives, those with disabilities or special health care needs, and elderly Americans.
Native Hawaiian Health Systems
To raise the health status of Native Hawaiians living in Hawaii to the highest possible level through the provision of comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention services, as well as primary health services, and to provide existing Native Hawaiian health care programs with all resources necessary to effectuate this policy
Pilot Program For National And State Background Checks—Direct Patient Access For Long-Term Care
To establish a pilot program to identify efficient, effective, and economical procedures for long-term care facilities or providers to conduct background checks on prospective direct patient access employees.
Primary Care Services Resource Coordination and Development
To coordinate local, State, and Federal resources contributing to primary care service delivery and workforce issues in the State to meet the needs of medically-underserved populations through health centers and other community-based providers of comprehensive primary care and the retention, recruitment, and oversight of health professions for medically underserved populations.
Public Health Traineeships
To support traineeships for students in graduate educational programs in accredited schools of public health and to other public or nonprofit private institutions accredited for the provision of graduate or specialized training in Public Health which offer graduate programs for training in Public Health fields with a severe shortage, e.g.: (1) Biostatistics; (2) epidemiology; (3) environmental health; (4) toxicology; (5) nutrition; and (6) maternal and child health.
Quentin N. Burdick Program For Rural Interdisciplinary Training
The goal of this program is to provide or improve access to health care in rural areas. Specifically, projects funded under this authority shall be designed to: (a) Use new and innovative methods to train health care practitioners to provide services in rural areas; (b) demonstrate and evaluate innovative interdisciplinary methods and models designed to provide access to cost-effective comprehensive health care; (c) deliver health care services to individuals residing in rural areas; (d) enhance the amount of relevant research conducted concerning health care issues in rural areas; and (e) increase the recruitment and retention of health care practitioners from rural areas and make rural practice a more attractive career choice for health care practitioners.
Research On Healthcare Costs, Quality And Outcomes
To support research and evaluations, demonstration projects, research networks, and multidisciplinary centers and to disseminate information on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care involving: (1) The quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and value of health care services; (2) quality measurement and improvement; (3) the outcomes, cost, cost-effectiveness, and use of health care services and access to such services; (4) clinical practice, including primary care and practice-oriented research; (5) health care technologies, facilities and equipment; (6) health care costs, productivity, organization, and market forces; (7) health promotion and disease prevention, including clinical preventive services; (8) health statistics, surveys, database development, and epidemiology; and (9) medical liability. In support of this research, the Agency has a special interest in health care and its delivery in the inner city, in rural areas, and for priority populations (low-income groups, minority groups, women, children, the elderly, and individuals with special health care needs).
Rural Health Outreach and Rural Network Development Program
To expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and improve the quality of essential health services, including preventive and emergency services, through the development of integrated health care delivery systems or networks in rural areas and regions.
Rural Health Research Centers
To support the operation of rural health research centers and 1 year research grants to new investigators to provide an information base and policy analysis capability on the full range of rural health services issues, including financing, recruitment and retention of health professionals, access to care, health disparities and rural delivery systems.
Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program
The Rural Hospital Flexibility Program is a Federal initiative that provides funding to State Governments to strengthen rural healt
Rural Telemedicine Grants
The purpose of this grant program is to expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and improve the quality of essential health care services, including preventive and emergency services, through the development of integrated health care delivery systems or networks in rural areas and regions. Specifically the purpose of the Rural Telemedicine Grant Program is to demonstrate how Telemedicine can be used as a tool in developing integrated systems of health care, improving access to health services for rural citizens and reducing the isolation of rural health care practitioners. The purpose is also to collect information for a systematic evaluation on the feasibility, costs, appropriateness and acceptability of rural Telemedicine.
Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program
To help hospitals: (1) pay for costs related to implementation of Medicare Prospective Payment System; (2) comply with provisions of HIPAA; and (3) reduce medical errors and support quality improvement.
State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
To help States work with rural communities and hospitals to develop and implement a rural health plan, designate critical access hospitals (CAHs), develop integrated networks of care, improve emergency medical services and improve quality, service and organizational performance.
State Survey and Certification of Health Care Providers and Suppliers
To provide financial assistance to any State which is able and willing to determine through its State health agency or other appropriate State agency that providers and suppliers of health care services are in compliance with Federal regulatory health and safety standards and conditions of participation.
Technical And Non-Financial Assistance To Health Centers
To provide assistance to health centers across the state or region in the following areas: (1) Collaborative activities on State, regional, or market area levels; (2) involvement of state agencies in assuring primary care to medically underserved populations; (3)development of shared services and joint purchasing arrangements; (4) provision of, or arrangement for, training, assessment of community health center needs, expertise in dealing with homeless, public housing, farm workers, children, rural health and other special populations, and management and maximization of nonfederal resources; and (5) expanding the health center network and ensuring high quality care in health centers.
Vital Statistics Re-Engineering Program
The purpose of this Program is to improve the timeliness, quality and sustainability of the de-centralized vital statistics system by adopting nationally-developed, consensus standards and guidelines and by actively working with states to re-engineer their state-owned and operated systems using these standards/guidelines.
