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

This webpage provides information on applying for support from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under RFA-OD-09-010: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4). For full details on this NIH funding opportunity, please view the full announcement: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-010.html. Summary The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), supported by ARRA, is 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. This initiative is one of several being offered by NIH and NINR to help fulfill the goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act or ARRA) to help stimulate the economy through support of biomedical and behavioral research. For more information on NINR ARRA-related activities, please visit: http://www.ninr.nih.gov/Recovery. For additional information on NINR's mission, strategic plan, and priority science areas, please see http://www.ninr.nih.gov/. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact program staff to explore the mission-relevance of their proposed work. Additional information about the Recovery Act and related NIH opportunities is available through the NIH Office of Extramural Research (http://grants.nih.gov/recovery). NINR Areas of Scientific Priority for Community-Linked Infrastructure Grants Broad topic areas include: --Health Promotion and Disease Prevention --Symptom Management, Self-management, and Caregiving --End-of-life and Palliative Care --Integrating Technology into Clinical Practice --Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities Key Date Applications must be submitted by December 11, 2009. NINR Contact Information For further information, please contact the NINR Program Director or Grants Management Specialist listed below. Program Contact: Paul A. Cotton, PhD, RD Program Director, Office of Extramural Programs National Institute of Nursing Research National Institutes of Health 6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 710 One Democracy Plaza Bethesda, MD 20892-4870 Telephone: 301-402-6423 Fax: 301-451-5647 Email: cottonp@mail.nih.gov Office of Grants Management Contact: Randi Freundlich, RD Grants Management Specialist Office of Grants and Contracts Management National Institute of Nursing Research National Institutes of Health 6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 710 One Democracy Plaza Bethesda, MD 20892-4870 (Courier use 20817) Telephone: 301-594-5974 Fax: 301-402-4502 Email: freundlichr@mail.nih.gov  Note: Organizations must register in both Grants.gov and ERA Commons to apply for most NIH Grants. Registration can take approximately four weeks to complete. Start now!