The purpose of this funding is to encourage interdisciplinary research aimed at promoting health, limiting symptoms and disease, and reducing health disparities in children and older adults living or spending time in non-traditional settings. These settings result in exposure to environmental pollutants and toxins that result in health risks, symptoms, and other health conditions/diseases including lower respiratory diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular diseases. [Funding]
Funding Opportunities
Environmental Exposures and Health: Exploration of Non-Traditional Settings, (R21) - National Institutes of Health
Application deadline:
01/07/2016 Community Health Partnerships – Kresge Foundation
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 Funding seeks to improve community health by encouraging cross-sector collaboration and the integration of community-health strategies into health care, especially the primary-care safety-net. Community health partnerships -- putting the emphasis on health, rather than on health care or sickness; on community, rather than on discrete individuals; and on the collaborations or partnerships they believe are best able to address the multiple factors that determine health. [Application accepted on an ongoing basis] [Funding]
Seize The Moment Grants - Institute for Rural America
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The small grants are designed for groups needing to take quick action on issues that arise. These issues may call for immediate organizing or action that cannot be predicted and are not budgeted. In some cases it is crucial to act immediately to address the issue and take advantage of an organizing or teaching opportunity. The grants are for organizing in response to an unanticipated challenge or threat to an organization’s work and/or undertaking urgent action in response to extraordinary conditions. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis. [Funding]
Goodman-Goodell Scholarship - Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation
Application deadline:
02/01/2014 Established through an estate gift from Maurice Goodman, Jr., awards from this fund are limited to students currently in their second year of attending medical school in Wisconsin who are from the Portage, Wisconsin area and who express an interest in specializing in pulmonary medicine or in general family practice. Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. [Funding]
Development and Translation of Medical Technologies to Reduce Health Disparities (SBIR) - National Institutes of Health
Application deadline:
01/14/2014 The funding encourages Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) that propose to develop and translate medical technologies aimed at reducing disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes. Appropriate medical technologies should be effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and deliverable to those who need them. [Funding]
Occupational Safety and Health Research (R01) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Application deadline:
06/05/2013 The purpose of this grant program is to develop an understanding of the risks and conditions associated with occupational diseases and injuries, to explore methods for reducing risks and for preventing or minimizing exposure to hazardous conditions in the workplace, and to translate significant scientific findings into prevention practices and products that will effectively reduce work-related illnesses and injuries. [Funding]
Campus Suicide Prevention Grant - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
Application deadline:
06/10/2013 The purpose of this program is to facilitate a comprehensive approach to preventing suicide in institutions of higher education. This program is designed to assist colleges and universities build a foundation for their efforts to prevent suicide attempts and completions and to enhance services for students with mental and substance use disorders that put them at risk for suicide and suicide attempts. [Funding]
Community HealthCorps Fellowships
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The national AmeriCorps program that promotes health care for America's underserved, while developing tomorrow's health care workforce. [Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis] [Funding]
