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Funding by Topic: Mortality

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

Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program
Grants for projects designed to prevent suicidal behavior and substance misuse, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian/Alaska Native young people up to the age of 24.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Mar 6, 2025
Sponsors: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research
Notice of Special Interest for research to improve understanding of the determinants of firearm injury; the identification of those at risk of firearm injury; the development, piloting, and testing of innovative interventions to prevent firearm injury and mortality; and the examination of approaches to improve the implementation of existing, evidence-based interventions to prevent firearm injury and mortality.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Application Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Sponsors: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Understanding the Impact of Healthcare System and Clinician Factors on Disparities in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding for multidisciplinary and innovative intervention research to understand and address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States. Populations of focus include racial and ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and underserved rural populations, with a focus on understudied healthcare factors.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Application Deadline: Jan 8, 2027
Sponsors: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health
Missouri Firearm Injury and Death Prevention Planning Grants
Grants to engage key individuals in Missouri in planning, preparing, and building support for firearm injury and death prevention efforts. One of the program priorities is addressing community violence in rural areas.
Geographic coverage: Missouri
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Missouri Foundation for Health
PCORI Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative Inactive
Funding to disseminate and 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.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Required): Sep 26, 2024
Application Deadline: Jan 13, 2025
Sponsor: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PCORI Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support Inactive
Funding for organizations and communities to hold multi-stakeholder convenings, meetings, and conferences.Convenings should focus on supporting collaboration around patient-centered outcomes research and clinical comparative effectiveness research.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Required): Sep 26, 2024
Application Deadline: Jan 13, 2025
Sponsor: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Funding for Recovery Equity and Expansion (FREE) Inactive
Funding to continue expanding services and programing for substance use recovery and mental health support to Kentucky's BIPOC and minoritized communities and/or to reduce the stigma around accessing such interventions.
Geographic coverage: Kentucky
Application Deadline: Sep 13, 2024
Sponsors: Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Cancer Patient Navigation Grants - Maine Inactive
Funding for projects in Maine that help patients navigate cancer care by connecting patients with support and resources, reducing any barriers patients may face, and ensuring all patients have access to quality cancer care.
Geographic coverage: Maine
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2024
Sponsor: Maine Cancer Foundation
Indiana Community Health Partnerships Trailblazer Award Inactive
Funding for collaborative, community-engaged research projects focused on topics that have potential to improve health, examine social determinants of health, or enhance health equity in Indiana. Priority is given to projects that are focused on rural health and projects with a sustainability plan.
Geographic coverage: Indiana
Application Deadline: Jun 3, 2024
Sponsor: Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
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.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Required): Apr 4, 2024
Application Deadline: Jul 10, 2024
Sponsor: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute