Specialized Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research [P50 Clinical Trial Optional]
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Application: Nov 22, 2019
A list of program contacts is available in the application instructions.
This program provides grants for eligible institutions of higher education to support multidisciplinary research, research capacity building, and community-engaged research activities focused on understanding and reducing or eliminating environmental health disparities, defined as inequities in population health mediated by disproportionate adverse exposures associated with the physical, chemical, social and built environments.
A detailed list of research objectives and expected outputs and outcomes is available in the application instructions.
Health disparity populations include:
- Blacks/African Americans
- Hispanics/Latinos
- American Indians/Alaska Natives
- Asian Americans
- Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders
- Socioeconomically disadvantaged populations
- Underserved rural populations
- Sexual and gender minorities
Eligible applicants are public/state controlled and private institutions of higher education.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Have a significant number of members of health disparity populations enrolled as students in the institution
- Have been effective in assisting such students of the institution to complete the program of education or training and receive the degree involved
- Have made significant efforts to recruit minority students to enroll in and graduate from the institution
- Have made significant recruitment efforts to increase the number of minority or other members of health disparity populations serving in full-time faculty or administrative positions at the institution
Award budgets are limited to $950,000 in annual direct costs. The project period is up to 5 years.
Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov.
While not required, potential applicants are encouraged to email a letter of intent to Thomas Vollberg, PhD by October 22, 2019.
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Organizations (4)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, view details
- National Institutes of Health, view details
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, view details
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, view details
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