Apply for a Grant

The Fogarty International Center, a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), funds research and research training to build sustainable research capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

The Fogarty International Center (FIC) does NOT:

• Accept unsolicited grant applications,
  
• Provide grants specifically for foreign travel to meetings or conferences, or
• Provide training grants directly to students; we do provide training grants to institutions who select trainees.

If interested in these types of training grants, please see the Non-NIH Funding Opportunities Directory for information about other agencies and organizations that may meet your needs.

Grants Information | How to Apply | FAQs

NIH Grants Information

• Information for New Grantee Organizations: Welcome page created by the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER).
• Grants Policy Statement: The technical handbook for grants at NIH. (Revised December 2021)
  
• Glossary of Commonly Used Terms: Also includes acronyms and abbreviations used throughout NIH.
  
• Grant Process Overview: Learn about the steps required for an application to proceed from planning and submission through to award and closeout.
  • Podcast: All About Grants: Conversations with NIH staff members designed for investigators, fellows, students, research administrators, and others interested in grant topics. In .mp3 format and updated monthly.
  • Video: NIH Grant Review Process: An inside look at how scientists from across the country review NIH grant applications for scientific and technical merit. Produced by the Center for Scientific Review (CSR).
    

How to Apply

• Find NIH Funding (NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts): All Fogarty grants are in response to program announcements posted on Grants.gov, and are searchable using the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. To find program announcements, search using keywords from your proposed research. 
• Fogarty Programs: Listing of current grant programs. (Note: At this time, Fogarty International Center does not accept unsolicited grant applications.)
  
• NIH ASSIST (Application Submission System and Interface for Submission Tracking), a system for the preparation, submission and tracking of grant applications through Grants.gov to NIH, is available to streamline and simplify training and career development applications.
  
• NIH ASSIST training resources
• How to Apply - Application Guide: Use the application guide to submit grant applications to NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
  

Frequently Asked Questions

• Fogarty's FAQs: A general list of our most popular questions. This includes many questions applicable to foreign institutions.
• NIH Biosketch Format: NIH requires a new biosketch format for grant applications and progress reports submitted on or after May 25, 2021
  
• NIH Policy on Foreign Travel for NIH Grants
• Cost Considerations for Foreign Grantees
• Consortium Agreement Information for NIH Grants: This specifically relates to grants involving institutions or agencies other than that of the principal investigator.
• Information on NIH Modular Grants: If your funding opportunity announcement states that the budget should be in Modular format, this page from the Office of Extramural Research may help.
• NIH Grants Policy on Foreign and International Institutions: This includes excerpts from the NIH Grants Policy Statement pertaining to awards directly to foreign institutions, international organizations, domestic grants with foreign components, and the allowance of F&A costs for foreign and international organizations.
• NIH Extramural Response to Natural Disasters and Other Emergencies: Information for NIH applicants and grantees about accommodations and changes resulting from natural disasters and other emergencies, such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
• Enhancing Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency: Resources to help the extramural community address rigor and transparency in NIH grant applications and progress reports.

Human Subjects Research

Find useful information about proposing and conducting NIH extramural research involving human subjects, including policies, regulations, training and resources. 

For Current Grantees

View information on how to Manage an Existing Grant.

Resources

• Grant Writing for Success: Preparing a NIH Grant Application, a recorded webcast from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
• SAM.gov instructions from GSA:
  • Domestic entities
  • International entities
• Some Fogarty applicants tripped up by NIH appendix policy
  Nov/Dec 2017 Global Health Matters
• Transcript and Recorded Webinar: eSubmission of Grant Apps for Foreign Institutions
  Sept. 2012
• Misused and misunderstood [NIH funding & grant] terms
  Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers, Sept. 18, 2013

Contacts

Inquiries are encouraged. The opportunity to clarify any comments, issues, or questions is welcome. If you have any Fogarty-specific questions, please call our main line:

• 301-496-1653
  

Updated September 18, 2023