Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program (HRSA)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31361
• Date: 22 October 2020
• Published date: 22 October 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

over the course of disease and treatment; identifying

host and/or bacterial factors that determine formation

of granulomas in protective or permissive states; and

analyzing the role of the granuloma in persistence and

latency; among others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# RFA-AI-20-057

Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health

Study Biospecimen Access (NIDA)

Scope: The National Institute on Drug Abuse seeks

(X01) resource access award applications for the

Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH)

Study Biospecimen Access announcement to provide

the scientic community with biospecimens (urine,

plasma, serum and genomic DNA) and related research

data on behaviors, attitudes, biomarkers and health

outcomes associated with tobacco use in the United

States.

Deadline: April 30, 2021; Oct. 29, 2021; and April 29,

2022.

Funds: The total number of projects granted access

to biospecimens depends on the number of quality

applications and the availability of biospecimens. The

maximum project period is ve years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments; among others.

Areas: NIDA said investigators proposing meritorious

and feasible studies consistent with PATH Study

objectives and/or research priorities for tobacco

regulatory science will be given highest priority for

access to PATH Study biospecimens. Studies that

address other objectives that expand the knowledge of

tobacco use and/or tobacco-related health outcomes will

also be considered but will be a lower priority.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# PAR-21-044

School absenteeism—Estimating inuenza

and SARS-CoV-2 transmission (CDC)

Scope: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

seeks applications for the Monitoring Cause-specic

School Absenteeism for Estimating Community-wide

Inuenza and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission announcement

to support a research project that implements an

inuenza-like-illness (ILI)–specic student absentee

monitoring system in kindergarten through 12th-

grade (K–12) schools and assesses its usability for

early detection of inuenza, SARS-CoV-2 and other

respiratory pathogen transmission in schools and

surrounding communities.

Deadline: Dec. 18, 2020.

Funds: $3 million total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; and independent school

districts; among others.

Areas: CDC said the project team will: (1) rapidly

determine the causes of school absenteeism in students

across selected school district(s) over a three-year

period, (2) detect within-household transmission of

inuenza and SARS-CoV-2 in a subset of households

from which a student has been absent from school due

to ILI and (3) assess comparability between inuenza-

specic and SARS-CoV-2-specic student absenteeism

data from the participating schools and multiple layers of

complementary inuenza and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance

data routinely collected in the health care facilities

serving the general population of the school district.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# RFA-CK-21-003

Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program

(HRSA)

Scope: The Health Resources and Services

Administration seeks applications for the Rural Health

Care Services Outreach Program announcement, a

program aimed toward promoting rural health care

services by enhancing health care delivery to rural

underserved populations in the local community or

region.

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2020.

Funds: $12.75 million for up to 60 awards.

Eligibility: Nonprot organizations.

Areas: HRSA said through consortia of local health

care and social service providers, communities

can develop innovative approaches to challenges

related to the specic health needs in rural areas

that expand clinical and service capacity in rural

communities. The overarching goals for the program

are to: expand the delivery of health care services to

include new and enhanced services exclusively in rural

communities; deliver health care services through a

strong consortium, in which every consortium member

organization is actively involved and engaged in the

planning and delivery of services; utilize community

engagement and evidence-based or innovative,

evidence-informed model(s) in the delivery of health

care services; and improve population health and

demonstrate health outcomes and sustainability.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# HRSA-21-027

Health Services Research on Minority Health

and Health Disparities (NIH)

Scope: The National Institutes of Health seeks (R01)

research project grant applications for the Health Services

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