Rural Health
Funding by Topic: COVID-19

Sustainable, Healthy Learning Environments in Rural and Tribal Schools in Montana Inactive
Assessment, education, and training opportunities for rural and tribal schools in Montana to reduce childhood exposures to environmental contaminants and increase the number of schools establishing lung-friendly policies and practices.

PCORI Engagement Award: Capacity Building Inactive
Funds projects that encourage the integration of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other stakeholders as members of the patient-centered clinical effectiveness research process.

Building Rural and Frontier Local Health Department Capacity to Address Disparities and Advance Health Equity Inactive
Training and technical assistance support for local health departments in rural and frontier areas to build capacity to prevent and control infection and transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program Replacement and Expansion Opportunity Inactive
Program that engages adults age 55 and over to provide mentorship for children and youth with special or exceptional needs, or who would benefit from the one-one-one attention. AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve in schools, Head Starts, drug treatment centers, correctional institutions, and childcare centers. Priority states and territories are listed in Appendix A of the application instructions.

CDC Fellowship for Evaluation of Rural Funding Impact Inactive
CDC evaluation research fellowship focused on addressing COVID-19 related health disparities among populations at high-risk and underserved, including racial and ethnic minority populations and rural communities.

PCORI Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative Inactive
Funding to plan for dissemination or actively communicate pertinent PCORI-funded research findings to relevant stakeholders in ways that will command their attention and interest and encourage use of information in their healthcare decision making.

PCORI Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support Inactive
Funding for organizations and communities to hold convenings that include patients, researchers, clinicians, purchasers, payers, health system leaders, and other stakeholders. Convenings should focus on supporting collaboration around patient-centered outcomes research and clinical comparative effectiveness research.

APhA Foundation Incentive Grants Inactive
Offers pharmacists seed money to implement or support an innovative patient care service within their pharmacy practice. Pharmacists in rural areas have received funding in previous rounds.

Healthcare Disparities Funding for Community Paramedicine in Maine Inactive
Funding to support EMS agencies in Maine initiating and/or expanding community paramedicine services, with a focus on rural areas of the state.

Partnering for Vaccine Equity Inactive
Funding and technical assistance to increase the capacity of local health departments to increase vaccination uptake and address inequities in influenza and COVID-19 vaccination coverage among racial and ethnic minority adults.