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Funding by Topic: Oral health

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

Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program Inactive
Planning and development grants to establish new accredited or expanded community-based primary care residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and/or geriatrics. The program is designed to support the expansion of the primary care physician and dental workforce in rural and underserved communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Dec 12, 2022
Sponsors: Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Geriatrics Academic Career Award Program Inactive
Funding to support the career development of junior faculty in geriatrics as academic geriatricians or academic geriatrics specialists. The overall goals of the program are to develop the necessary skills to lead healthcare transformation in a variety of settings, including rural and/or medically underserved settings, to be age-friendly and to provide training in clinical geriatrics, including the training of interprofessional teams of healthcare professionals to provide healthcare for older adults.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Nov 3, 2022
Sponsors: Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program Inactive
Funding to support the training of residents in new or expanded primary care residency training programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Oct 18, 2022
Sponsors: Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program Inactive
Grants to support community-based child health projects that improve the health of mothers, infants, children, adolescents, and families in rural and other underserved communities by increasing their access to health services.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Oct 12, 2022
Sponsors: Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Tennessee Safety Net Dental Grant Inactive
Funding to provide adult emergency dental extraction, preventive hygienic dental services, and general oral healthcare for uninsured adults in Tennessee 19-64 years of age. Preference will be given to applicants that propose to provide dental services to meet the needs of a Medically Underserved Area (MUA), Medically Underserved Population (MUP), or a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) where current safety net services are limited.
Geographic coverage: Tennessee
Application Deadline: Oct 7, 2022
Sponsor: Tennessee Department of Health
AAPD Foundation Access to Care Grants Inactive
Grants to support community-based initiatives that provide dental homes to children who are underserved and/or have limited access to oral healthcare.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Application Deadline: Oct 3, 2022
Sponsor: American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Minnesota Dental Safety Net Grant Program Inactive
Grants for nonprofit Critical Access Dental providers in Minnesota to provide services for low-income and uninsured patients under the age of 21.
Geographic coverage: Minnesota
Letter of Intent (Required): Sep 23, 2022
Application Deadline: Nov 11, 2022
Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Maine School Based Health Center Services Grant Inactive
Grants to establish School Based Health Centers to deliver or expand access to integrated medical and behavioral health services to students in middle and/or high schools in Maine, with an emphasis on establishing centers in rural and medically underserved areas of the state, improving equity in healthcare access for students of color, and providing preventive oral health services.
Geographic coverage: Maine
Application Deadline: Aug 17, 2022
Sponsors: Maine Department of Education, Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Louisiana Community Health Grants Inactive
Grants for programs across the state of Louisiana that are designed to increase preventive care, create health equity, and improve health outcomes.
Geographic coverage: Louisiana
Application Deadline: Jul 8, 2022
Sponsor: Louisiana Healthcare Connections
Healthcare Safety Net Federally Qualified Health Centers for Uninsured Adult Tennesseans Ages 19-64 Years of Age Inactive
Grants for Federally Qualified Health Centers and Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alikes in Tennessee to offer a sliding fee scale and provide comprehensive, preventive, dental, behavioral health services to an underserved area of population to uninsured adult Tennesseans 19-64 years of age.
Geographic coverage: Tennessee
Application Deadline: Jun 9, 2022
Sponsor: Tennessee Department of Health