Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:38:31 -0400 From: "David Radune" Subject: Funding Opportunities (09/25/96) NEW/UPDATED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The Clearinghouse's Funding Databases describe more than 950 current and archival funding opportunities. These descriptions primarily are intended to serve as a starting point for individuals and organizations seeking support for HIV/AIDS education, prevention, service provision, behavioral research, and information dissemination. The funding agency should be contacted for further information and application procedures. The Clearinghouse makes these databases available to the public through its electronic bulletin board service, NAC ONLINE. Information and assistance about the Clearinghouse and NAC ONLINE can be obtained by calling a Reference Specialist at (800) 458-5231 or (800) 243-7012 (deaf access/TDD). If you know of opportunities that are not contained in our databases, please contact us at aidsinfo@cdcnac.aspensys.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Health Policy Fellowships (1997) 2) The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Tuberculosis Academic Award ----------------------------------------------------------------- ***************FUND INFORMATION*************** FUND TITLE Health Policy Fellowships (1997) DESCRIPTION (FUND) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in collaboration with the Institute of Medicine (IOM), announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1997 funds for fellowships designed to develop the capacity of mid-career health professionals in academic and community-based settings to assume leadership roles in health policy and management. This program provides opportunities for these professionals to gain an understanding of the health policy process and to contribute to the formulation of new policies and programs. TARGET AUDIENCE Health Professionals, Allied Health Professionals, Educators, Health Services Providers SUBJECT AREAS Advocacy, Health policies, Legislation, Policy development, Research FUND TOTAL NOTE Annual stipend equal to regular salary up to $50,000. AMOUNT OF FUND - MAXIMUM $50,000 FUND DURATION 1 year. INTENDED AWARD DATE February, 1997. APPLICANTS AND/OR PROJECTS MUST BE LOCATED IN: APPLICANT LOCATION: Location unrestricted, United States. PROJECT LOCATION: Washington, D.C. ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS Community Based Organization, Educational Organization, Institution, Medical Center, Public Health, Social Services Department, Professional Organization, Association, Research Institution TYPE OF SUPPORT Stipend. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The September-to-August program begins with an 8-week orientation period arranged by the IOM. Fellows meet with key White House advisors, including officials of the Office of Management and Budget; top administrators of agencies responsible for health activities; congressional committee staff members; and representatives of health interest groups. All of these groups influence and help formulate national health policy. Also included in this period are seminars on health economics, the congressional budget process, and the politics and process of federal decision making. In subsequent weeks, the Health Policy Fellows join with the American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellows for sessions with senators, representatives, and other experts on the national political and governmental process. During this period, Fellows contact congressional offices that have an active interest in health issues and, in consultation with the program director, negotiate their working assignments. Assignments in the Executive Branch also are possible. The work assignments begin in December and end in August. During these assignments, Fellows help develop legislative proposals, arrange hearings, brief legislators for committee sessions and floor debates, and participate with staff in House and Senate conferences. They take part in all areas of the policy process, not as onlookers, but as full-time, working participants. These assignments are supplemented throughout the year by seminars and group discussions on developing health policy, and on the general policy and governmental process. Health Policy Fellows are invited to attend forums and meetings of the IOM and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as the many cultural and social functions they schedule. As part of the Fellowship year, each Fellow is asked to prepare a formal presentation on a policy-oriented research issue in which he/she has become involved. Each Fellow also is required to submit an evaluation report on the program at the end of the Fellowship year. Fellows are paid annual stipends equal to their salaries prior to entering the program, up to $50,000 per year. In addition, the Fellows' existing fringe benefits are maintained at levels corresponding to the stipends. Sponsoring institutions may supplement both sums. Fellows are reimbursed for relocation expenses to and from Washington, DC, with certain specified limits. OTHER LIMITATIONS Fellows are selected from: 1) academic faculties in medicine, dentistry, the biomedical sciences, nursing, public health, health services administration, the allied health professions, economics, and other social sciences; and 2) organized delivery systems such as HMOs and other community-based providers and institutions. Nominations for Health Policy Fellowships are to be made by the chief executive officers (CEOs) of eligible institutions. CEOs at academic health centers and other institutions having multiple health professions schools may submit one nomination for each health professions school; those at independent medical schools may submit only one nomination. CEOs at other health care institutions or agencies may submit only one nomination. APPLICATION DEADLINE November, 15, 1996 APPLICATION PROCEDURE CONTACT PERSON Marion Ein Lewin Institute of Medicine, FO 3116 2101 Constitution Ave., NW Washington, DC 20418 (202) 334-1506 FAX: (202) 334-3862 FUNDER NAME Robert Wood Johnson Foundation FUNDER'S DESCRIPTION The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. Its grantmaking is concentrated in four areas: assuring access to basic health services, improving the way services are organized and provided for people with chronic health conditions, reducing the harm caused by substance abuse, and helping the nation address the problem of rising health care costs. Since 1988, the Foundation has invested substantial funds to stimulate innovative responses to the AIDS epidemic, including two large national grant programs: AIDS Health Services Program and Building Health Care Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses. In addition, the Foundation has funded a number of smaller programs that provide nutritious meals, legal assistance, dental care, and other services to people with AIDS. **************FUND INFORMATION*************** FUND TITLE Tuberculosis Academic Award DESCRIPTION (FUND) The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1997 funds for the Tuberculosis Academic Award Program. The primary objective of this program is to stimulate the development and/or improvement of the quality of medical curricula, physician/patient/nurse/and community education, and clinical practice for the prevention, management, and control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the United States. TARGET AUDIENCE Health Professionals, Educators SUBJECT AREAS Curriculum, Professional networks, Program development AMOUNT AVAILABLE - TOTAL $300,000 FUND TOTAL NOTE Maximum of $62,000 for salary and $20,000 for tech. support. AMOUNT OF FUND - MAXIMUM $82,000 FUND DURATION Not to exceed 5 years. INTENDED AWARD DATE Support will begin July 1, 1997. APPLICANTS AND/OR PROJECTS MUST BE LOCATED IN: Location unrestricted, United States. ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS Educational Organization, Institution, Hospital TYPE OF SUPPORT Salary support. Technical support. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The objectives of the Tuberculosis Academic Award are to: encourage the development of high quality curricula in schools of medicine or osteopathy that will significantly increase the opportunities for students, house staff, and others, including practicing physicians and nurses, to learn the principles and practice of preventing, managing, and controlling TB; develop and implement interdepartmental programs with common goals and standardized diagnostic and therapeutic approaches; provide for outreach programs from medical centers to health practitioners in the community; coordinate and collaborate with other community organizations to control TB in areas with a high incidence of TB; and enhance tuberculosis education programs in minority medical schools and promote TB education in the communities served by these institutions. OTHER LIMITATIONS A candidate for an award must: (1) be an established physician and a medical faculty member in an accredited school of medicine or osteopathy in the United States, its territories, or possessions; 2) have the unqualified support of the Dean and the educational leadership at the institution and demonstrate knowledge and commitment to medical education for medical students, physicians, patients, nurses, and the public; 3) have sufficient clinical training and practical experience in the control of TB to develop and implement a high quality curriculum in TB; 4) be aware of the training and education needs of health care professionals at all levels who are working in the area of TB control and be a leader in providing the appropriate instructional programs for these individuals; and commit 30-50 percent effort for a 5 year period. APPLICATION DEADLINE November 1, 1996 LETTER OF INTENT DEADLINE October 4, 1996 APPLICATION PROCEDURE CONTACT PERSON Melonie Shine Division of Lung Diseases 5333 Westbard Ave. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 6701 Rockledge Drive Suite 10018, MSC-7952 Bethesda, MD 20892-2089 (301) 435-0222 FAX: (301) 480-3557 E-mail: ShineM@nih.gov OTHER CONTACT Mary S Reilly (301) 480-3557 E-mail: ReillyM@nih.gov FUNDER NAME US Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:24:06 -0400 From: "David Radune" Subject: Funding Opportunities (09/25/96) NEW/UPDATED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The Clearinghouse's Funding Databases describe more than 950 current and archival funding opportunities. These descriptions primarily are intended to serve as a starting point for individuals and organizations seeking support for HIV/AIDS education, prevention, service provision, behavioral research, and information dissemination. The funding agency should be contacted for further information and application procedures. The Clearinghouse makes these databases available to the public through its electronic bulletin board service, NAC ONLINE. Information and assistance about the Clearinghouse and NAC ONLINE can be obtained by calling a Reference Specialist at (800) 458-5231 or (800) 243-7012 (deaf access/TDD). If you know of opportunities that are not contained in our databases, please contact us at aidsinfo@cdcnac.aspensys.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network 2) The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Women's Mental Health Research ----------------------------------------------------------------- ***************FUND INFORMATION*************** FUND TITLE Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network DESCRIPTION (FUND) The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) invite applications for cooperative agreements to expand the clinical science component of an existing adolescent health research network, the Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network. This Network is conducting basic and clinical research on the medical, behavioral, and psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS in adolescents infected with HIV through sexual or drug taking behaviors. Additional funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has been provided to the Network to fund the infrastructure to support research in clinical sites including outreach efforts and to develop and disseminate treatment and policy guidelines specific to HIV-infected adolescents. TARGET AUDIENCE Adolescents SUBJECT AREAS Behavioral research, Clinical research, Information exchange, Mental health, Morbidity and Mortality, Research, Sexual behavior, Sexually transmitted diseases AMOUNT AVAILABLE - TOTAL $1,044,000 FUND DURATION 1 year. INTENDED AWARD DATE February 1, 1997. APPLICANTS AND/OR PROJECTS MUST BE LOCATED IN: Location unrestricted, United States. ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS Clinic, Educational Organization, Institution, Hospital, Medical Center, Public Health, Social Services Department, Research Institution TYPE OF SUPPORT Cooperative agreement. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network initiative calls for a descriptive examination of the full spectrum of HIV disease and its behavioral manifestation in adolescents who have become infected with HIV through sex and drug-taking behaviors in order to identify and persue an HIV/AIDS-specific research agenda in the adolescent population between the ages of 12 and 19 years of age. The ultimate goal of this project is to achieve a better understanding of HIV disease progression and co-morbidity in adolescents and thus improve health care management. This goal is being addressed through enrollment of HIV-infected adolescents in a standardized base protocol to characterize a population-based spectrum of disease, disease progression, and the effect of co-morbidity with drug abuse, other sexually-transmitted diseases, and pregnancy in the adolescent population. A secondary goal involves the resolution of remaining questions related to HIV infection in adolescents through the development of special studies to be undertaken in the assembled cohort enrolled in the base protocol. These unresolved questions include but are not limited to the susceptibility, infectivity, and transmissibility of HIV in adolescents, particularly related to developing genital mucosa; the characterization of the variation in adolescent immune function; the identification of useful adolescent-specific clinical markers of HIV disease progression; the effect of HIV on adolescent neuropsychologic function and development; and the influence and effect of specific adolescent behavioral patterns on risk-taking and health-seeking activities. This solicitation seeks cooperative agreements with investigators to augment the subject accrual capacity of the Clinical Science Group in order to establish a subject cohort of sufficient size to address more completely the research objectives outlined above and thus permit the conduct of a wide-ranging, multi-stage series of investigations that examine specific facets of HIV infection in adolescents. This RFA is intended to recruit additional members of the Clinical Science Group with responsibility for the (1) implementation of the base protocol and secondary protocols where feasible and the recruitment and monitoring of study participants, associated data collection, and quality control; (2) participation in the production of the supplemental research agenda through review and evaluation at regularly scheduled interactive Network meetings; (3) clinical management guidelines for the standardization of health care delivery across network sites that address the unique biological, biobehavioral, and psychosocial issues of adolescence including pharmacologic prophylaxis, the scope and frequency of medical monitoring, and service organization, overcoming barriers to care, among others; and (4) the convening of consensus panels on the dissemination of clinical management guidelines and the definition of adolescent-specific HIV policy among other tasks consistent with functioning as a national resource body. OTHER LIMITATIONS Applications to become members of the Clinical Science Group must submit evidence of clinical experience, comprehensiveness of health care and support services, and availability of subjects. Prospective applicants are asked to submit, by October 15, 1996, a letter of intent that includes a descriptive title of the proposed research; the name, address, and telephone number of the Principal Investigator; and the number and title of the RFA in response to which the application may be submitted. APPLICATION DEADLINE November 19, 1996 LETTER OF INTENT DEADLINE October 15, 1996 APPLICATION PROCEDURE CONTACT PERSON Audrey Smith Rogers Center for Research for Mothers and Children National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 6100 Executive Boulevard Room 4B11, MSC 7510 Bethesda, MD 20892-2089 (301) 496-7339 FAX: (301) 496-8678 OTHER CONTACT Mary Daley Tozzolo (301) 496-1303 FUNDER NAME US Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Pediatric, Adolescent and Maternal AIDS Branch FUNDER'S DESCRIPTION The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development conducts and supports laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, social, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families, and populations. ***************FUND INFORMATION*************** FUND TITLE Women's Mental Health Research DESCRIPTION (FUND) The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites grant applications from investigators for research on mental disorders; symptoms; and behavioral, cognitive, and social concerns in women throughout their lifespan. The NIMH encourages research on underserved populations: minority, rural, and homeless women; and women who are at risk for HIV, who are HIV positive, or who have AIDS. The NIMH has identified the following research areas related to women as needing attention: basic research; epidemiology and psychopathology; mood, anxiety, and personality disorders; psychiatric disorders and reproductive health; eating disorders; Alzheimer's Disease and related dementia; schizophrenia; sleep; co-morbidity with physical illness; violence and abuse of women and girls; prevention research; treatment efficacy; treatment effectiveness and service use; and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Studies on the subject are needed on: 1) the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to better describe women at risk or seropositive for HIV infection in order to develop successful, cost-effective prevention and treatment efforts; 2) relation of the stigma of HIV among women to coping, their potential familial roles as health educators and health caretakers, family consequences, and use of services; 3) individual and family factors contributing to high-risk sexual behavior in adolescent girls; 4) acceptance and implementation of effective female-controlled methods of reducing or preventing STDs or HIV; 5) prevalence of comorbid STDs with chronic mental illness, personality disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, and past sexual abuse; and 6) ways that infected women make decisions about reproductive options, place children in caretaking contexts, and prepare for their own and/or their children's deaths. TARGET AUDIENCE Women, Women With HIV/AIDS SUBJECT AREAS Mental health, Research, Women FUND DURATION Not specified. INTENDED AWARD DATE Unspecified. APPLICANTS AND/OR PROJECTS MUST BE LOCATED IN: Location unrestricted. ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS Unrestricted TYPE OF SUPPORT Research grants. (R01, R03, R29, P01) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AIDS-specific applications are due on 5/1/95, 9/1/95, and 1/2/96. All other applications are due 6/1/95, 10/1/95, and 2/1/95. FIRST (R29) applications must include at least three sealed letters of reference attached to the face page of the original application. Applications may obtained from and submitted to: Office of Grants Information, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Dr., Rm. 1040-MSC 7710, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7710. Tel: 301-594-7248. OTHER LIMITATIONS Foreign institutions are not eligible for small grants (R03s), First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST, R29s) awards, and program project (P01) grants. APPLICATION DEADLINE October 1, 1996 APPLICATION PROCEDURE CONTACT PERSON Delores Parron, Ph.D. Associate Director for Special Populations National Institute of Mental Health 5600 Fishers Ln., Rm 17C-14 Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-2847 FAX: (301) 443-8552 E-mail: delores_parron@nih.gov OTHER CONTACT Diana S Trunnell (301) 443-3065 FUNDER NAME US Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service National Institutes of Health National Institute of Mental Health FUNDER'S DESCRIPTION Under the direction of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) AIDS Coordinator, the NIMH has established three policy groups: the NIMH AIDS Working Group, the AIDS Concept Review Committee, and the AIDS Policy Consultants to the National Mental Health Advisory Council. The NIMH AIDS Working Group was established to promote program coordination and maintains a liaison with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the Office of Minority Health (OMH). A subgroup of this working group focuses on issues related to behavior change research and includes representatives from the CDC, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and other agencies concerned with behavioral aspects of the HIV epidemic. The AIDS Concept Review Committee is composed of outside experts from a broad range of scientific and policy perspectives. It advises the National Mental Health Advisory Council and the NIMH on research gaps, priorities, and opportunities; on the needs of institutions, organizations, and communities for education or information; and on the appropriate role of the NIMH in relation to the AIDS activities of other federal agencies. The NIMH also supports behavioral research activities through grants and research scientist awards. In conjunction with NICHD, it sponsors research on behavioral aspects of AIDS prevention in children and adolescents.