Funding news for global health researchers March 15, 2021

On behalf of the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the following funding opportunities, notices and announcements may be of interest to those working in the field of global health research. Updates are typically distributed once a week.

Funding Opportunities

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign organizations, foreign components of U.S. organizations and/or other foreign components may apply.

• BRAIN Initiative Data:
  Secondary Analysis and Archiving (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-MH-21-130)
  Integration and Analysis (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-MH-21-135)
  Application Receipt Dates: Multiple dates, see announcement.
• HEAL Initiative Initial Translational Efforts [Small Molecules and Biologics]:
  Analgesic Development (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-NS-21-015)
  Planning Studies (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-NS-21-016)
  Application Receipt Dates: April 27, 2021
• Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE):
  Neurotherapeutic Agent Characterization and In vivo Efficacy Studies (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-21-122)
  Development and Validation of Model Systems to Facilitate Neurotherapeutic Discovery (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-21-123)
  Assay Development and Neurotherapeutic Agent Identification (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-21-124)
  Application Receipt Dates: Multiple dates, see announcement.
• Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Biologic-based Drug Discovery and Development for Disorders of the Nervous System (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-21-163)
  Application Receipt Dates: Multiple dates, see announcement.
• Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-21-190)
  Application Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
• AHRQ/PCORI Learning Health System Small Grant Pilot Program (PA-21-202)
  Application Receipt Date: June 16, 2022
  Note: Foreign institutions may participate in projects as members of consortia or as subcontractors only.

NIH funding opportunities for which United States small business concerns (SBCs) may collaborate with a foreign business entity.

• Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities:
  Technologies (R41/R42- Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-MD-21-005)
  Innovations for Healthy Living (R43/R44 - Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-MD-21-006)
  Application Receipt Dates: May 3, 2021

NIH Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs) that may be of interest to global health researchers.

• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Using Systems Science Methodologies to Protect and Improve Child and Reproductive Population Health (NOT-HD-20-032)

Information related to opportunities from other organizations focusing on global health and foreign collaboration.

• The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for Ancestry Networks for the Human Cell Atlas, a three-year collaborative projects for the generation of healthy, single-cell reference data from ancestrally diverse tissue samples for the Human Cell Atlas (HCA). Researchers from the Global South and low-to-middle income countries are strongly encouraged to apply and to be included as members of international collaborative networks.
  Application deadline: May 25, 2021

Funding News

NIH funding news that may be relevant to global health researchers.

• Request for Information (RFI): Improving the Mental Health of Rural People (NOT-MH-21-190)
• Upcoming Changes to the Biographical Sketch and Other Support Format Page for Due Dates on or after May 25, 2021 (NOT-OD-21-073)

Upcoming Deadlines

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowships
  Application deadline: March 31, 2021

• Global Trauma and Injury Research Training Program
  Application deadline: April 16, 2021

• International Bioethics Training
  Application deadline: June 4, 2021

• Global Infectious Disease Research Training
  Application deadline, D43 only: August 3, 2021

• HIV Research Training
  Application deadline: August 20, 2021

• Upcoming deadlines for all Fogarty funding opportunities