Healthcare: NIMHD Science Education Initiative Northwest PA Grants

The NIH recognizes a unique and compelling need to promote diversity in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research workforce. The NIH expects efforts to diversify the workforce to lead to the recruitment of the most talented researchers from all groups; to improve the quality of the educational and training environment; to balance and broaden the perspective in setting research priorities; to improve the ability to recruit subjects from diverse backgrounds into clinical research protocols; and to improve the Nation's capacity to address and eliminate health disparities.

The intent of the FOA is to support educational, mentoring, and/or career development programs for individuals from health disparity populations that are underrepresented in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences to facilitate the development of a nationwide cohort of scientists and a multi-disciplinary national pool of health disparities investigators with necessary skills to conduct health disparities research in a diverse range of settings. Fundamental to achieving the goal of this R25 program are targeted research education programs that provide research career awareness opportunities, mentoring experiences and information dissemination to increase the number of highly trained scientists in various scientific areas to address the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs that are relevant to the mission of the NIMHD. Expanding curriculum driven educational opportunities and developing capacity are essential to assure success in alleviating health disparities. Public education and outreach efforts are also appropriate science education activities to achieve the goals of this FOA. An applicant's submission must focus on only one of the following research education program core areas listed below:

a) K-12 Science Education Initiative.

b) National High School Youth Summer Initiative.

c) Mentoring and Career Development Initiative.

d) Health Professions Research Capacity-Building Initiative.

e) Outreach and Information Dissemination Initiative.