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Please Note: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is converting to an all-electronic system for submitting applications (SF424). You may submit paper copies of applications until the transition date comes due for your program's mechanism. The mechanism for each program is listed next to the program name. For example, the AITRP Program uses the D43 mechanism. Here are specific deadlines arranged by NIH grant mechanism. If the mechanism is not listed, then it has yet to be assigned a transition date and you may continue to submit paper copies of your application. All NIH Program Announcements and Request for Applications are being modified to reflect this transition. Here is more information on the transition process.
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AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) (D43)

This program supports HIV/AIDS-related research training to strengthen the capacity of institutions in low and middle income countries to conduct multi-disciplinary biomedical and behavioral research capacity to address the AIDS epidemic in the collaborating country. Grants are awarded to US and developed country institutions with strong HIV-related research training experience and with HIV-related research collaborations with institutions in low and middle income countries. These institutions, in partnership with their foreign collaborating institutions, identify foreign health scientists, clinicians, and allied health workers from the foreign countries to participate in their joint research training programs. Individuals from foreign nations who wish to become trainees must apply to the project director of an awarded grant.

NIH/Fogarty Clinical Research Training Scholars Program

The Fogarty International Center in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Institute of Child Health and Child Development (NICHD) is offering a one-year clinical research training experience for graduate level U.S. students in the health professions.

Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (TRAUMA) (D43)

This new program addresses the growing burden of morbidity and mortality in the developing world due to trauma and injury. The program is supported by FIC, seven NIH partners, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the Pan American Health Organization, and the World Health Organization (WHO). It addresses training across the range of basic to applied science, the epidemiology of risk factors, acute care and survival, rehabilitation, and long-term mental health consequences.

Framework Programs for Global Health (R25)

This new initiative builds global health research capacity in the United States and abroad. Through the "Framework Programs for Global Health," institutions create administrative frameworks to bring multiple schools (such as engineering, business, chemistry, biology, communication, public health, medicine and environmental studies) together on the topic of Global Health and develop multidisciplinary Global Health curricula for undergraduates, graduates and professional school students. Each program leverages and enhances currently funded Global Health projects at the institution supported by NIH and other sponsors as well as encourages new training opportunities, collaborations and research.

Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program (GID) (D43)

This program enables institutions in the United States or in developing foreign countries to support current and future collaborative research related training on infectious diseases that are predominately endemic in or impact upon people living in developing countries.

Career Award - International Research Scientist Development Award for U.S. Postdoctoral Scientists (IRSDA) (K01)

This program supports basic research, behavioral and clinical scientists at the postdoctoral level who are committed to a career in international health research and would benefit from an additional period of mentored research as part of a strong, established collaboration between a U.S. sponsor and leading scientists at a developing country center of scientific excellence.

Informatics Training for Global Health (D43)

This RFA is intended to encourage the development of informatics training programs that will contribute to global health research and informatics capacity in low- to middle-income countries in partnership with U.S. institutions.

Int'l Research Ethics Education And Curriculum Development Award (R25)

This program allows nonprofit, private or public, domestic or international, educational and research institutions to develop or expand on current graduate curricula in international bioethics related to performing research in low- and middle-income nations. Applications are accepted in response to a Request for Applications (RFA).

International Clinical, Operational, and Health Services Research and Training Award (ICOHRTA) (D43)

This program supports training to facilitate collaborative, multidisciplinary, international clinical, operational, health services and prevention science research between U.S. institutions and those in developing countries, as well as emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Newly Independent States (NIS). Information about current ICOHRTA programs and instructions for prospective trainees hoping to participate in this program are available at this website.

International Clinical, Operational, and Health Services Research and Training Award for AIDS and Tuberculosis (ICOHRTA-AIDS/TB) (D71/U2R)

This program supports research to strengthen the capacity of institutions in low and middle income countries where AIDS, TB, or both are significant problems to conduct training integrated clinical, operational and health services. In Phase I, one-year planning grants to support the development of full research training applications in Phase II are awarded to institutions in low and middle income countries with strong HIV- or TB-related research experience. In Phase II, grants to support a research training program are awarded to Phase I awardees and to their US or other developed country institutions partners with which they have strong HIV- or TB-related research collaborations. The primary goal of this program is to build integrated clinical, operational, and health services research across the full range of conditions and issues that relate to care of adult and pediatric patients with HIV/AIDS or TB. Individuals from foreign nations who wish to become trainees must apply to the project director of an awarded grant.

International Collaborative Genetics Research Training Program (D43)

This program will enhance and promote equitable international collaborations between investigators in the developed world and those in developing countries where a base level of institutional infrastructure for the advancement of sustainable genetic science is already established. Applications are being solicited to create innovative research training programs within existing scientific collaborations between developed and developing country researchers to begin to build a critical mass of scientists, health professionals and academics with human genetics expertise and a sustainable research environment at the collaborating developing country institution.

International Training and Research Program in Environmental and Occupational Health (D43)

This program enables U.S. universities and non-profit research institutions to support international training and research programs for foreign scientists from developing nations in general environmental health and occupational health. This is an institutional training grant. Applications are accepted from U.S. institutions in response to a specific request for applications which is published once every five years; the first awards were made in 1995. Individuals from foreign countries who wish to become trainees must apply to the project director of an awarded grant.

Global Research Training in Population Health (D43)

This program enables U.S. universities and non-profit research institutions to support international training and research programs for foreign scientists from developing nations in population-related sciences. This is an institutional training grant. Applications are accepted from U.S. institutions who are current NIH grant recipients in response to a specific request for applications which is published once every five years. Individuals from foreign countries who wish to become trainees must apply to the project director of an awarded grant.

International Training Program in Medical Informatics (ITMI) (D43)

This program enables U.S. non-profit or public institutions to support international training in order to build the capacity of biomedical scientists, clinicians, librarians and other health professionals in developing countries to access, utilize and construct computer-based tools that may best advance biomedical research and public health in those countries. This is an institutional training grant. Applications are accepted from U.S. institutions in response to a specific request for applications. Individuals from foreign nations who wish to become trainees must apply to the project director of an awarded grant.

Minority International Research Training Grant (MIRT) (T37)

The former MIRT program, now named the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Grant Program, is under new management at the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.These grants support innovative programs that offer international research training opportunities to qualified undergraduate, graduate, and health professions students who are from health disparities populations and/or are underrepresented in basic science, biomedical, clinical, or behavioral health research career fields.