Funding Op: NIH Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)

Call for UM Pre-proposals & Reviewers
NIH Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)

Applications sought to conduct meetings, workshops, and symposia to bring together academic institutions/organizations and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).

Meeting objectives should be to:

  1. establish and/or enhance academic-community partnerships
  2. identify community-driven research priorities, and
  3. develop long-term collaborative CBPR research agendas.

Areas of research focus:

  • infant mortality
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
  • fibroid tumors
  • childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity
  • health literacy
  • techniques for outreach and information dissemination
  • pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; and
  • violence prevention.

Key Dates (2012):

March 5:         Notify jghale@olemiss.edu of intent to develop a UM proposal or interest in reviewing internal proposals
March 6:         ORSP will announce requirements for internal competition
March 10:       ORSP will obtain a permission-to-submit letter from the sponsor
March 19:       Internal competition proposals due to jghale@olemiss.edu.
March 26:       ORSP will announce which proposal to move forward
March 27:       PI can begin making improvements based on internal reviewer comments
April 3:           Final proposal due to ORSP (Program Development Specialist)
April 10:         Proposal due to NIH

Funding:          Awards of up to $30,000 direct costs per year for up to 3 years

F&A Costs:       Not allowed
Cost Sharing:   Not required
Limitations:      UM may submit up to 1 proposal
Future:               Future funding windows have due dates of 10/17/2012 and 10/17/2013

Full Solicitation: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-102.html
UM Limited Submissions Procedure: www.research.olemiss.edu/resources/limitedsubmissions