NIH RFA-OD-09-010

Recovery Act Limited Competition: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4)

Application Due Date(s): December 11, 2009

The NIH has established a new program entitled Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research, hereafter called the “Community Infrastructure” grants program. This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), supported by funds provided to the NIH under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, solicits applications from domestic (United States) institutions/organizations proposing to support the development, expansion, or reconfiguration of infrastructures needed to facilitate collaboration between academic health centers and community-based organizations for health science research. Such collaboration should transform the way in which health science research is conducted in communities, and accelerate the pace, productivity, dissemination, and implementation of health research; applications that build upon extant collaborative infrastructures supported by other Federal agencies are strongly encouraged.

Budget requests should be commensurate with project needs. However, the requested duration may not exceed three years. (Research & Related Budget required for all applications; No modular budgets will be accepted.) The total cost for individual awards is expected to vary, depending on the scope of the project, but is limited to a maximum of $1 million for the full project period.

The research plan may not exceed 12 pages, including tables, graphs, figures, diagrams, and charts.

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