Friday, July 22, 2016

Funding Opportunity: National Institutes of Health--Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series

Colleagues, this is a limited submission program, so please follow the notification of interest link if you are interested in applying or if you firmly plan to do so, and please inform my office as well. 

NIH: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Conference Grant (R13) applications to conduct health disparities-related meetings, workshops, and symposia. The purpose of this series to bring together academic institutions and community organizations to identify opportunities for reducing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). The objectives of meetings conducted as part of this award will be to: (1) establish and/or enhance existing academic-community partnerships; (2) identify community-driven research priorities; and (3) develop long-term collaborative CBPR research agendas. Thus, it is expected these partnerships will lead to grant applications for the support of CBPR projects designed to meet identified community needs.


Internal due date:  Notification of interest: 9/22/16  Agency due date: Application: 11/17/16