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Opportunities for fellowships, grants and other awards, including awards from members of the Partners project.

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Funding Opportunities

Administration for Children and Families, HHS (ACF)

ACF Funding Opportunity Announcements Details
Funding opportunities for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

AHRQ Funding Opportunities Details
AHRQ supports a broad base of scientific research to promote improvements in clinical and health system practices, including the prevention of diseases and other health conditions.

Grants On-Line Database Details
Searchable database of grants funded by AHRQ.

American Medical Association Foundation

American Medical Association Foundation Healthy Living Grants Details
The Healthy Living Grant Program supports health education programs to develop school and community-based solutions to behavioral health challenges.

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)

Funding and Fellowships Sponsored by ASTMH Details
Research awards and fellowships to promote world health by the prevention and control of tropical diseases.

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

AAMC Grants and Awards

Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)

ASPPH Funding Opportunities Details
Funding opportunities from Federal agencies and other partners.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)

Building State/Territorial Health Department Capacity in Innovative Approaches to Provision and Payment for STD Services Details
ASTHO is seeking interested state/territorial health departments to advance innovative approaches to provision and payment for STD services.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Details
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to reduce inequities and improve lives around the world. Grant programs include the Global Development Program to reduce hunger and poverty in the developing world, the Global Health Program to encourage the development of lifesaving medical advances, and the United States Program to reduce inequities by improving access to educational and other opportunities.

BUILD Health Challenge

The BUILD Health Challenge Details
Provides funding for cross-collaboration between health systems, health departments, and non-profit community organizations to improve health in their communities.

Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS)

Health and Health Care in Schools Grant Alerts Details
Funding opportunities to assist in promoting the health of children through school-connected programs.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC Cooperative Agreement Funding Opportunities Details
Funding opportunities from CDC that are available to members of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). AAMC, ASPH and APTR each have a cooperative agreement with CDC that supports extramural projects including research and non-research activities. Members of their respective associations are eligible to participate in the cooperative agreement funding cycle.

CDC Genomics Funding Details
In 2008, CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics (OPHG) started funding five new projects in state health departments and academic and research institutions and to translate human-genome information and applications into education, surveillance, and policy interventions.

CDC Grant Funding by State Details
CDC's Grant Funding Profiles tool provides access to information about CDC funding to address issues of public health importance in states, territories, and the District of Columbia.

CDC Grants Details
CDC Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), application forms, and information on CDC's grants process.

CDC Injury Center Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) Details
Funding opportunities to work with the CDC Injury Center to develop, implement, and promote effective injury and violence prevention and control practices.

CDC Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) Funding Opportunity Announcements Details
Funding opportunities related to tobacco prevention and control.

CDC's Procurement and Grants Office Details
Information on grants and business opportunities with the CDC.

Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Funding Opportunities Details
Funding opportunities to prevent and control chronic diseases.

Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Details
The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant provides all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 2 American Indian tribes, and 8 US territories with funding to address their unique public health needs in innovative and locally defined ways. This program gives grantees the flexibility to use funds to respond rapidly to emerging health issues and to fill funding gaps in programs that deal with leading causes of death and disability.

Community of Science Inc.

COS Funding Information Portal Details
Database of research funding opportunities.

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

Roadmaps to Health Community Grants Details
The Roadmaps to Health Community Grants support two-year state and local efforts among policymakers, business, education, health care, public health, and community organizations.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S.

HHS Grants &Contracts Details
Information on HHS grant programs, grant application processes, grant management, and contracts.

Prevention and Public Health Fund Reporting Database Details
This database includes funding opportunity announcements, requests for proposals, and other funding solicitations for activities funded from the Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.

Understanding, Managing, and Applying for EPA Grant Details
Information on the Environmental Protection Agency's funding opportunities and grant application procedures.

Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation Details
Doctoral and faculty grants to fund studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or studies that have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about such problems.

Fogarty International Center, NIH (FIC)

Fogarty International Center Funding Opportunities Details
Funding opportunities to support the field of global health research.

Food and Nutrition Service, USDA (FNS)

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Grants Details
FNS discretionary grant opportunities.

Foundation Center

Foundation Center Details
The Center provides information for grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.

Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund

Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund Details
Funding for medical and health care librarians and information specialists. The fund focuses in two major areas, learning partnerships with health science organizations and stipends to attend national professional meetings.

Grants.gov

Grants.gov Details
Searchable information from all Federal grant-making agencies.

Health Effects Institute (HEI)

Health Effects Institute Funding Opportunities Details
Requests for Applications (RFAs) from the Health Effects Institute, an independent organization that conducts research on the health effects of air pollution.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce Details
Scholarship, Loan and Loan Repayment Programs for Health Professionals

HRSA Div of Facilities Compliance/Recovery Details
Administers the Health Care and Other Facilities grant program that provides construction assistance to health facilities across the nation. The Division also manages the Hill-Burton program to assure that obligated health facilities provide free or reduced cost medical services to those persons who are uninsured and underinsured and meet eligibility criteria

HRSA Funding Opportunities Details
Provides a searchable database of all Health Resources and Services Administration grant opportunities by key program area e.g., health professions training and services for people living with HIV/AIDS.

HRSA State Health Access Program Details
The State Health Access Program provides one-year grants to States to develop plans for providing access to affordable health insurance coverage to all their citizens.

Public Health Workforce Development Details
Provides funding to support schools of public health and other programs that provide graduate or specialized training in public health to expand and enhance training opportunities that focus on technical, scientific, managerial and leadership competencies and capabilities of the public health workforce.

National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD)

Chronic Disease Funding Opportunities

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Funding Priorities from NACCHO Details
Funding opportunities for local public health.

NACCHO's Medical Reserve Corps Awards Details
Funding opportunities to address a community's local needs and interests in public health activities and/or emergency response.

National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI)

Cancer Control & Population Sciences Funding Opportunities Details
Cancer control funding opportunities including research involving surveillance, epidemiology, health services, behavioral science and cancer survivorship.

National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH)

National Center for Farmworker Health Scholarships Details
Scholarships to assist health center staff to pursue their educational goals in health care and to contribute to the development of the Community Health Center workforce. Selection of recipients is based on demonstrated commitment to working in the agricultural worker community, choice of career path, and personal experience, with special recognition to those who have a family history as agricultural workers.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Addressing Suicide Research Gaps: Understanding Mortality Outcomes (R01) Details
Funding to support efforts focused on linking pertinent data from healthcare system records (e.g., suicide attempt events) to mortality data so that a more accurate understanding of the risk factors for, and the burden of, suicide among those seen in structured healthcare settings can be discerned.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Grants and Funding Opportunities

U.S. Tobacco Control Policies to Reduce Health Disparities (R01) Details
Funding to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco control policies.

U.S. Tobacco Control Policies to Reduce Health Disparities (R21) Details
Funding to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco control policies.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.

AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects Details
Funding opportunities for outreach efforts to community-based AIDS organizations and patient advocacy groups. The primary purpose of these outreach projects is to design local programs for improving information access for AIDS patients and the affected community as well as their caregivers.

NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Bioinformatics Details
Support for rigorous scientific research in biomedical informatics and bioinformatics.

NLM Extramural Programs: Career Development and Training Support Details
Links to NLM extramural grant programs, including career development and training support.

Outreach Funding Opportunities Details
Funding opportunities on AIDS Community Information Outreach and other funding opportunities from the National Library of Medicine.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

NN/LM Funding Details
Regional funding opportunities for health information outreach projects and other awards.

Public Health Funded Projects Details
A list of public health projects funded through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI)

Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR) Funding Opportunities Details
Funding to support public health services and systems research (PHSSR).

Pew Charitable Trusts USA

Health Impact Project - Opportunity for Health Impact Assessments Details
Funding to support the use of health impact assessment to improve community health and build the capacity of organizations to conduct HIA to bring health evidence and community voice to decisions made outside of healthcare.

Public Health Partners (PHPartners)

Public Health Fellowships and Internships Details
Links to selected public health fellowship and internship opportunities from government agencies and professional and research organizations.

Public Health Services and Systems Research and the Practice-Based Research Networks (PHSSR/PBRN)

Funding Opportunities: National Coordinating Center for PHSSR Details
Check here for new research funding opportunities managed through the National Coordinating Center for PHSSR and Public Health PBRNs. Other websites with potential funds are also listed.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Consumer Advocacy for Transformation Details
This program will fund state-based or local consumer health advocacy projects that aim to develop and insert an organized, influential and permanent consumer voice in state and local health system changes. These health system changes should increase health care value by preserving efforts to increase access to care, improving health outcomes, and lowering costs, especially for populations with disproportionately poor health outcomes.

Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health Details
The program will fund innovative studies to address the gaps in knowledge on health and well-being, with a particular focus health equity.

Funding Opportunities: RWJF Details
The latest funding opportunities from RWJF.

Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Details
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research supports researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving health and health care policy. The program provides one of the few funding opportunities in the United States for investigator-initiated projects that are broad in scope, innovative in approach, and have national policy relevance.

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming Details
A career development program for early career researchers, providing support to grantees and other individuals who are part of a network of eligible researchers. The researchers in this program come from multiple disciplines (health, social sciences, business, urban planning, architecture and engineering); work to build the case for a Culture of Health with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills; and produce and translate timely research results.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grants Database Details
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grants for projects that advance their mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans. The database lists currently awarded grants, and links to a database of past grants.

Rural Health Information Hub

Rural Funding Opportunities Details
Summaries of funding programs provided by RAC.

Rural Information Center, National Agricultural Library (RIC)

Funding Resources Details
Links to funding opportunities compiled by the National Agricultural Library.

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

SAMHSA Grants Details
Grants that focus on building resilience and facilitating recovery for people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders.

The Kresge Foundation USA

Emerging Leaders in Public Health Details
The Emerging Leaders in Public Health is an 18-month leadership development initiative launched in 2014 as a way to equip local public health officers with knowledge and skills to lead in today's changing health care environment.

U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) US

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Details
Government-wide compendium of all federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. Users can contact the office that administers a program for application instructions.

Challenge.gov Details
Challenge.gov is a listing of challenge and prize competitions, all of which are run by more than 100 agencies (and more than 170 congressional offices) across federal government. These include technical, scientific, ideation, and creative competitions where the U.S. government seeks innovative solutions from the public, bringing the best ideas and talent together to solve mission-centric problems.

FedBizOpps.gov (FBO.gov) Details
Database of active federal opportunities. Users can search by location, agency, and type of opportunity.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program Details
Funding for community-based, outreach education programs that provides individuals and families with: Information as to the value of good health at any age; Information to increase individual or family's motivation to take more responsibility for their own health; Information regarding rural environmental health issues that directly impact on human health; Information about and access to health promotion and educational activities; and Training for volunteers and health services providers concerning health promotion and health care services for individuals and families in cooperation with state, local and community partners.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) U.S.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Healthy Kids Details
The Foundation supports efforts to improve the health of mothers and families; to increase breastfeeding rates; to provide innovative, community-based oral health care and to transform food systems so children and families have healthier foods in child care settings, in schools and in their communities.

Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust Details
Global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health by supporting bright minds in science, the humanities and social sciences, and public engagement. Funding is focused on addressing some of the most pressing and fundamental problems that confront human and animal health.

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Resources Related to Proposal-Writing

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.

Tips On Writing a Competitive Grant Proposal & Preparing a Budget Details
Instructional material from the Environmental Protection Agency to help communities and non-profit organizations identify financial assistance opportunities for their environmentally oriented programs.

Foundation Center

Proposal Writing Details
Training courses, both online and in the classroom at various levels, to learn how to write grant proposals.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

"Vision, Design, and Capacity" Grant Writing Workshop Details
July 12-14, 2017 Kearney, NE.

Debunk the Myths: Grant Application Video Series Details
This video explains the grant application process.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

8 Ways to Successfully Navigate NIH Peer Review and Get an R01 Grant Details
This briefing covers the key things applicants need to know about the submission and review of their R01 NIH grant applications. An R01 grant is a key mechanism by which the National Institutes funds investigator-initiated biomedical research. A Q&A session that follows the presentation answers many common applicant questions.

HHS Grant Application Guide Details
Use the application instructions found on this page along with the guidance in the funding opportunity announcement 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.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

Proposal Writing Support Details
Grant proposal writing tips, tutorials, resources, and classes.

Office of Extramural Research, NIH (OER)

NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration Details
Semiannual NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants. These seminars are intended to help demystify the application and review process, clarify Federal regulations and policies, and highlight current areas of special interest or concern.

Office of Minority Health (OMH)

University Vision, Design and Capacity (U-VDC) Technical Grant Writing Workshops Details
The University Vision, Design and Capacity (U-VDC) technical grant writing workshops, part of the HETAP initiative, provide university and health professionals with strategies to make grant proposals more competitive. This hands-on, two-day workshop is for junior faculty, staff and college/university health professionals who are interested in community-based participatory research; who are committed to working with underserved populations; and who want to build their institution's capacity to compete and receive competitive grant awards.

University of Colorado Denver Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health

Grants Management 101 Toolkit Details
3 self-paced learning modules to enhance grant writing skills; provide guidance on developing goals, objectives, and activities; and manage budgets, methods, and outcomes to fulfill post-award reporting requirements.

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