Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) (S06)

Scientific/Research Contact:
Crystal Richards, Ph.D.
crystal.richards@nih.gov

Peer Review Contact:
FOAReviewContact@csr.nih.gov

Financial/Grants Management Contact:
Christy Leake
Christy.leake@nih.gov

Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) (S06) grants provide funding for new or continued centers that support health-related research, research career enhancement, and research infrastructure enhancement activities to meet the health needs of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities.

A NARCH must support an Administrative Core responsible for managing the award and coordinate the Center's activities. The NARCH must also support one or more of the following components:

• Research Projects: Support health-related research focusing on issues related to tribal health including strengths and resiliency factors contributing to and conditions hindering tribal health, mechanisms underlying diseases or conditions that are prevalent in federally-recognized tribal communities, and/or the development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions that address health challenges faced by the tribal communities
• Pilot Project Program: Supports exploratory and/or preparatory research
• Career Enhancement Projects: Supports career development programs to enhance knowledge and research skills of current or next generation participating health researchers
• Research Infrastructure Enhancement Projects: Addresses a specific research infrastructural need such as technological or methodological cores that develop or strengthen technical capacity needed for health-related research; research resources such as a bio- or data-repository; or research administration infrastructure such as tribal Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

Eligible applicants include:

• A federally recognized AI/AN Tribe
• A Tribal organization, including Tribal colleges or health boards meeting this definition
• A consortium of two or more of those tribes or tribal organizations.

All projects proposed in the application should have the approval of the tribal governments with jurisdiction over each federally-recognized tribe involved in the Center.

Award ceiling: $1,300,000 in direct costs
Project period: 5 years

Links to the full announcement and online application procedures are available through grants.gov. This program has multiple CFDA numbers based on research area.

While not required, it is recommended that a letter of intent be submitted to crystal.richards@nih.gov at least 30 days prior to submission.

Please note that there are different deadlines for AIDS related applications.