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01-TW-101* Novel strategies to improve health care access for stigma-related conditions

This challenge grant on stigma is to support applied research to design, test and develop interventions that reduce stigma, and subsequently improve access to needed health care services.

This program is announced based on the prior work through Fogarty’s program titled Stigma and Global Health Research Program.

Purpose:

In the same manner that the effects of stigma magnify the personal and societal problems related to diseases and disorders (e.g., mental health conditions, addiction, HIV), preventing or mitigating stigma and its effects can profoundly improve the lives of individuals, their families and the larger society. There is a critical need to translate existing knowledge related to the causes and consequences of stigma through the design and implementation of scalable pilot interventions that can measure stigma and prevent or mitigate its negative effects on health. While this research may be conducted in the US, Fogarty is particularly interested in its adaptation and adoption in low resource settings globally.

Priority topics:

Topics developed by applicants should allow for significant advances in the two years of funding available under this mechanism. Priority topics include, but are not limited to:

• Based on the findings of a systematic, comprehensive and culturally relevant review of literature and other analyses, applicants are encouraged to design potential interventions and model/simulate the effect of these interventions on access to health care services and on health outcomes under various realistic assumptions.



• Based on existing research findings/evidence, applicants are encouraged to design and test scalable interventions via either experimental or quasi-experimental studies. This type of study should measure the effectiveness (or efficacy where possible) of interventions on access to specified health care services and on health outcomes (where possible). It should also address the feasibility and scalability of tested interventions.

Contact:

Xingzhu Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of International Training and Research
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room B2C39, 31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220 USA
Phone: 301-496-1653
Fax: 301-402-0779
liuxing@mail.nih.gov

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