National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Centers of Excellence

Posted by on May 11, 2009

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) Fund for New Centers of Excellence
Deadline: June 19, 2009

The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), National Institutes of Health solicits grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to establish an Exploratory NCMHD Center of Excellence (COE) to support infrastructure and capacity building, building and sustaining novel partnerships, training, innovative basic biomedical and behavioral clinical, or population-based research and intervention and prevention studies contributing to either the improvement of minority health, the elimination of health disparities or both. To be eligible for the COE, applicant institutions must have existing federal research support and/or research infrastructure as reflected in a level of NIH institutional funding of less than $80 million for the year 2008. Each NCMHD Exploratory COE (P20) must contain an administrative core, a research core, a research training/education core and a community engagement/ outreach core. At least one research project must be proposed. NCMHD will support no more than three research projects during the 5 year project period.

For more information, visit: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=46774