NIEHS Funding Opportunities

• Research Innovations using Sensor Technology in Environmental Justice Communities (RISE Communities) Training Program
  RISE Communities is a NIEHS-supported training program with the objective to foster successful community-academic partnerships and equip research teams with skills and knowledge to successfully utilize low-cost air sensors in environmental justice (EJ) communities. The program is now accepting applications for their next in-person program to occur in Cincinnati, Ohio August 7 – 9, 2024, for teams comprised of one academic researcher and one community member ideally active in a community organization that addresses environmental justice. The program covers the cost of travel, meals, and hotel for community-academic partners to attend the in-person trainings.
  Open Date: February 15, 2024
  Expiration Date: April 01, 2024
• RFA-NR-24-004: Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
  This call for applications is to support innovative intervention research addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), aiming to have a major impact on preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity. Projects should clearly demonstrate a compelling potential to produce a major impact on advancing NIH’s commitment to addressing SDOH to accelerate progress in improving health for all.
  Open Date: January 23, 2024
  Expiration Date: March 23, 2024
• NOT-ES-22-006: Notice of Special Interest: Climate Change and Health
  This NOSI will encourage research applications that address the impact of climate change on health and well-being over the life course, including the health implications of climate change in the United States and globally.
  Open Date: July 08, 2022
  Expiration Date: May 08, 2025
• RFA-ES-23-011: Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
  Supports novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data. The program aims to understand the consequences of natural and human-caused disasters or emerging public health threats in the U.S. and abroad.
  Open Date: July 8, 2023 (Applications accepted on the 1st, every other month)
  Expiration Date: December 2, 2025
• PAR-24-109: Long-Term Effects of Disasters on Healthcare Systems in Populations With Health Disparities (R01- Clinical Trial Optional)
  The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support collaborative research focused on understanding the long-term effects of natural and/or human-made disasters on healthcare systems serving populations that experience health disparities living in the U.S. and its territories.
  Open Date: May 05, 2024
  Expiration Date: May 08, 2027

NIH Funding Opportunities

• Special Call for Health Outcomes and Climate-Related Disaster Research
  The Natural Hazards Center—with support from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation—is issuing a special call for quick response research focused on health outcomes among groups disproportionately affected by climate-related disasters. This special call of the Quick Response Research Award program is designed to address gaps in knowledge by encouraging the ethical collection of perishable data and the rapid return of results through the publication of Quick Response Reports. Proposals for this special call will be accepted on a rolling basis until funds are exhausted.
• NIH Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Research Centers of Excellence (U54 – Clinical Trial Optional)
  The mission of the NIH CounterACT program is to support research and development of new therapeutics for chemical threats. Chemical threats are toxic chemicals that could be used in a terrorist attack or accidentally released from industrial production, storage, or shipping. They include traditional chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals, pharmaceutical-based agents, pesticides, and others.

Special Topic: COVID-19

• Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations (RADx-UP)
  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) aims to understand and alleviate the barriers to COVID-19 testing to ensure that all Americans have access, with a focus on communities most affected by the pandemic. The RADx-UP Coordination and Data Collection Center is managed through a partnership of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Health Equity Research, and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.

Related Funding Opportunities

National Science Foundation (NSF)

• NSF Disaster Resilience Research Grants
• NSF Humans, Disasters, and Built Environment Program
• NSF Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Research Program