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Funding by Topic: Infectious diseases

Summaries of funding programs are provided by RHIhub for your convenience. Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current information.

Indiana Health Issues and Challenges Grants Inactive
Grants for programs focused on addressing health issues and challenges within Indiana. Funds must be used for improving health outcomes in one or more priority areas including tobacco use, food insecurity/obesity, lead exposure, hepatitis C, chronic disease, and public health prevention programs.
Geographic coverage: Indiana
Application Deadline: Mar 31, 2022
Sponsor: Indiana Department of Health
Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network Program Inactive
Funding to support rural health networks to address the need for more trained health professionals, which has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall program goal is to expand public health capacity by supporting healthcare job development, training, and placement in rural communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Mar 18, 2022
Sponsors: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Indian Community Development Block Grant Imminent Threat Funding (ICDBG-IT) under the American Rescue Plan Act Inactive
Grants for tribes and tribal organizations to be used for emergencies that constitute imminent threats to health and safety and that are designed to prevent, prepare for, or respond to coronavirus.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Mar 1, 2022
Sponsors: HUD Office of Native American Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Maryland Promoting Community Health Resources Grants Inactive
Grants for community health projects serving Maryland residents for the purpose of building capacity, expanding access, promoting health equity, and improving population health.
Geographic coverage: Maryland
Letter of Intent (Required): Feb 28, 2022
Application Deadline: Mar 22, 2022
Sponsor: Maryland Department of Health
National Indian Health Board Infectious Disease Learning Community Facilitation Inactive
Funding and technical assistance to develop a learning community designed to build tribal public health capacity to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2022
Sponsors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Indian Health Board
Tennessee COVID-19 Community Health Worker Initiative Inactive
Funding to hire, train, and deploy Community Health Workers (CHWs) to address COVID-19 in Tennessee populations that have been disproportionately impacted by long-standing health disparities.
Geographic coverage: Tennessee
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2022
Sponsor: Tennessee Department of Health
NIHB Project Firstline: Building Capacity for Tribal Infection Control Inactive
Funding to eligible entities to assist tribes with developing and implementing an infection control peer learning community that will raise the capacity of Indian health infection control professionals and health providers and strengthen tribal infection prevention and control efforts.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Feb 24, 2022
Sponsor: National Indian Health Board
Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Mobile Health Training Program (NEPQR-MHTP) Inactive
Funding to expand experiential training opportunities for nurses through nurse-led mobile health training sites, with the goal of strengthening nursing workforce to provide quality culturally aligned care in rural and underserved areas.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. territories
Application Deadline: Feb 22, 2022
Sponsors: Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Harm Reduction Program Grant Inactive
Grants to support community-based, trauma-informed overdose prevention programs, syringe services programs, and other harm reduction services. Priority populations include rural communities, LGBTQ+, and/or racial and ethnic minorities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Application Deadline: Feb 7, 2022
Sponsors: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Clinical Workforce Development Training, Technical Assistance, and Learning Collaboratives for FQHCs Inactive
Training, technical assistance, and learning collaboratives for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and FQHC look-alikes in the areas of comprehensive primary clinical care teams, HIV prevention, sustainable training models, and postgraduate residency and fellowship programs.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2022
Sponsors: Community Health Center, Inc., Weitzman Institute