The Lalor Foundation postdoctoral fellowship program supports promising new researchers in establishing scientific and teaching careers. The program’s mission is to support these researchers early in their work so that they can become independently funded in the field of mammalian reproductive biology as related to the regulation of fertility.

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Center for Maternal and Child Health Medicaid Partnerships program. The purpose of the Center for Maternal and Child Health Medicaid Partnerships is to strengthen collaboration between state Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (Title V) programs and advance innovative financing strategies that improve outcomes and reduce health disparities for maternal and child health (MCH) populations.

The award recipient will build knowledge and shared priorities between state Medicaid, CHIP, and Title V programs and provide one-to-one, state-specific tailored capacity-building assistance directly to state Medicaid, CHIP, and Title V programs to support MCH.

Support will include:
(1) engaging state Title V, Medicaid, and CHIP programs to identify shared priorities and foster a common understanding of needs, opportunities, and best practices;
(2) one-to-one, state-specific, tailored assistance to advance MCH financing;
(3) support the development of innovative collaborative models leveraging HRSA, CHIP, and Medicaid funding, and (4) one-to-one capacity-building assistance to advance interagency agreements required by statute.

The purpose of the Maternal and Child Health Policy Innovation Program (MCH PIP) is to support innovative city, county, or state-level policy initiatives that improve outcomes and reduce associated health disparities for maternal and child health populations. Successful award recipients will provide technical assistance (TA) to stakeholders, including governors’ offices, state legislatures, state and local health officials, and other state and local officials to help them develop and implement policy initiatives that improve outcomes and reduce related health disparities.

Technical assistance will include:
(1) convening learning communities (LCs) that engage stakeholders (listed above) in addition to community members and people with lived experience and
(2) developing and disseminating informational resources such as (but not limited to) policy briefs, webinars, and/or legislation trackers. Technical assistance for policy initiatives that address social determinants of health (SDOH), such as improving access to quality affordable housing, healthy foods, or transportation, is especially encouraged.

Award recipients will also support TA for cities, counties, and/or states on Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) priority topics such as maternal and infant mortality and readiness for obstetric emergencies, and emerging MCH issues (recent examples of which include congenital syphilis, environmental health threats, Medicaid redetermination, and vaccine promotion).

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit research designed to capacitate, transform, and scale the delivery of HIV testing, prevention, and care services through pharmacists and pharmacies in US and/or global settings. This includes the advancement of training curricula to enable pharmacy students, pharmacists, pharmacies, and pharmacy systems to deliver the spectrum of needed HIV services with ease, equity, and effectiveness.

Research applications that respond to this NOFO can include, but are not limited to, the following topics. Further Institute-specific research priorities follow below:

- Research that uses pharmacists and pharmacies as a vector for engaging youth, pregnant persons, or minoritized populations in HIV testing, prevention, or care.
- Research to advance pharmacy-based health screenings for HIV alongside screenings for multiple chronic illnesses and common comorbid conditions.
- Studies designed to create and scale models of pharmacy-based HIV PrEP delivery and adherence support.

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Rural Maternal Health Data Support and Analysis Program. This program will fund one entity to provide data support to rural maternal health care networks to assist them in their efforts to improve maternal health care at the community- and regional-levels. This program will also fund the use of data to inform the improvement of rural maternal health care nationwide.

IEHP Foundation is excited to announce that we are accepting applications for our Champions for Vibrant Health Leadership Network! This two-year leadership development program could provide up to $150,000 in general operating support funds for Inland Empire community-based organizations that address the social determinants of health.

The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice. Since their founding in 1992, the Impact Fund has made more than 700 recoverable grants totaling more than $9 million for impact litigation.

The American Association for Cancer Research invites applications for the AACR-AstraZeneca Endometrial Cancer Research Fellowship, which represents a joint effort to encourage and support postdoctoral or clinical research fellows to conduct endometrial cancer research and establish a successful career path in this field.

Each fellowship provides a two-year grant to support the salary and benefits of the fellow while working on a mentored endometrial cancer research project. The research proposed for funding must have direct applicability to endometrial cancer and may involve basic, translational, clinical, or population sciences research. A partial amount of funds may be designated for non-personnel expenses, such as research/laboratory supplies, equipment, publication charges for manuscripts that pertain directly to the funded project, and other research expenses. However, grant funds cannot be used to compensate for clinical practice with patients or for indirect costs.

The Robert Carr Fund (RCF) is a unique international pooled funding mechanism that invests in global and regional community-led and civil society networks to sustain and expand the role of inadequately served populations (ISPs) in the context of HIV.

RCF has issued its 2024 request for proposals, inviting global and regional civil society networks and consortia of networks led by, and/or serving inadequately served populations (ISPs) to apply for support of their core funding and activity needs for a three-year period (2025-27). RCF aims to further the objectives of the Fund’s Strategic Plan 2025-2030 and recognizes that programming to strengthen social enablers, human rights and gender equality, as well as responses led by communities of ISPs, are complex and require longer-term investments. Therefore, the fund intends in this funding cycle to support continuity, so well-performing existing partners can build on their achievements. At the same time, the fund wishes to encourage applications from new, emerging networks, especially those representing populations and regions that are currently underserved in the fund portfolio.

RCF will prioritize applications by global and/or regional networks and consortia of networks that are aligned with the fund’s Theory of Change and Strategy, which includes the areas of network strength and influence, human rights, access to services, and resource accountability as well as applicants that address underfunded populations and regions.

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to utilize archived HIV/AIDS data and biospecimen collections to generate new research questions and findings related to epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment, prevention, clinical manifestations, and HIV-associated co-infections in maternal, pediatric, and adolescent populations.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems.

The purpose of the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention (NEPQR) - Workforce Expansion Program (WEP) is to increase the nursing workforce in rural (non-metro) and underserved areas to address the critical shortage of nurses, specifically in acute and long-term care settings.

The National Eczema Association (NEA) is the driving force for an eczema community fueled by knowledge, strengthened through collective action, and propelled by the promise of a better future.

The organization invites applications for its Childhood Eczema Challenge Grant, a collaboration between NEA and the Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance (PeDRA). Through the program, a grant will be awarded in support of targeted clinical research investigations focused on pediatric eczema.

Research proposals should address at least one of the following priorities:
- Projects aimed at advancing understanding of the underlying factors contributing to the diversity of pediatric eczema clinical presentation, treatment response, and comorbidities;
- Studies addressing approaches to facilitate optimal identification and treatment of pediatric eczema and associated comorbidities in all healthcare settings to enhance patient/caregiver-reported and patient/caregiver-centric outcomes;
- Insightful proposals that identify, quantify, or aim to reduce aspects of pediatric eczema burden that negatively affect patient or family/caregiver quality of life (including lifestyle, academic, occupational, or economic impacts) based on patient population, treatment approach, etc.;
- Novel investigations into the potential risk factors and strategies of primary eczema prevention in the pediatric population.

The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) aims to convene and support partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions impacting people experiencing opioid use disorder (OUD), their families, and their communities.

FORE has released a request for proposals for its Opioid Crisis Innovation Challenge 2024, through which the organization will provide grant support for specific projects that bring an innovative approach to long-standing and complex issues related to all aspects of stemming the tide of the nation’s opioid crisis. The RFP targets projects that can explore and/or evaluate new “outside- the-box” ideas, bring together approaches from several diverse fields, and engage multi- disciplinary, cross-sector teams to solve some of the crisis’ most intractable problems.

FORE prioritizes work that incorporates a focus on patient-centered solutions and on health equity, and that reaches diverse high-risk populations, including adolescents and older populations, pregnant, parenting and postpartum people, and those with justice involvement. FORE also assesses projects within a framework of meeting one or more of its overarching objectives of supporting: policy initiatives, professional education, payer and provider strategies, and public awareness.

National Institutes of Health (NIH): The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and participating organizations and institutes seek applications for Specialized Centers of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences. The Centers of Excellence will support interdisciplinary approaches to advance translational research on sex differences. Each SCORE institution should develop a research agenda bridging basic and clinical research underlying a health issue that is pertinent to improving the health of women.

The purpose of this program is to improve access to evidence-based, timely, and culturally relevant maternal mental health and substance use (behavioral health) intervention and treatment by strengthening community referral pathways. Recipients will be expected to collaborate with pregnancy and postpartum healthcare organizations, refer individuals in need of behavioral health care to the appropriate entities, and provide short-term mental health and substance use services to individuals who cannot access care.

The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to encourage research on the processes that facilitate or hinder the achievement of healthy interbirth intervals and promote healthy birth outcomes. Because short interbirth intervals are associated with a range of risk factors and poor maternal and child health outcomes, reducing the proportion of pregnancies conceived within 18 months of a previous pregnancy is a Healthy People 2030 objective.

These negative outcomes include a lack of preconception health care, delayed prenatal care, preeclampsia, prematurity, low birth weight, infant mortality, and maternal morbidity and mortality. Short interbirth intervals may also reduce the duration of breastfeeding; conversely, the continuation of breastfeeding can contribute to the lengthening of interbirth intervals. This NOSI is intended to encourage collaboration among researchers across the social, behavioral, biomedical, and public health sciences to elucidate understanding of the modifiable factors behind barriers to enhancing birth intervals.

This Annual Program Statement (APS) publicizes the intention of the United States Government (USG), as represented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Global Health (GH), to fund one or multiple awards to address the overarching APS program purpose. The purpose is to accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity in high-burden, USAID-supported countries by increasing the capacity of host country institutions and local organizations to introduce, deliver, scale up, and sustain the use of evidence-based, quality maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services, voluntary family planning, (FP) and reproductive health (RH) care.

The purpose of this initiative is to advance the science of minority health and health disparities by supporting research on family health and well-being and resilience. The NIMHD Research Framework recognizes family health, family well-being, and family resilience as critically important areas of research.

Some Areas of Research Interest:

- Family health and well-being during sexual and/or gender developmental periods or coming out processes of SGM populations.
- Studies to understand the influence of family health on health pregnancies, maternal morbidity and mortality, postpartum health, and neonatal/infant mortality.

The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice. Since their founding in 1992, the Impact Fund has made more than 700 recoverable grants totaling more than $9 million for impact litigation.

The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for research targeted at elucidating the effect of HIV and/or anti-retroviral therapy on the growth, development and functioning of the placenta in pregnant individuals with substance use/misuse, the impact of placental abnormalities on maternal outcomes, and the underlying mechanisms.

This FOA encourages research relevant to the development of novel screening approaches and/or therapeutic interventions for potentially fatal or disabling conditions that have been identified through newborn screening, as well as for "high priority" genetic conditions where screening may be possible in the near future. Having an accurate screening test, as well as demonstrating the benefits of early intervention or treatment, are important criteria for including a condition on a newborn screening panel. This FOA defines a "high priority" condition as one where screening is not currently recommended, but infants with the condition would significantly benefit from early identification and treatment.

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits research applications that propose implementation science methodology to embed existing evidence-based coordinated pain care models into a variety of public and private health care systems (HCS) where this type of care does not exist.

This NOFO is intended to embed the coordinated care model under study into the health care delivery system of applicant institutions. Coordinated pain care approaches proposed for study are expected to include interventions from multiple disciplines as described below and should aim to improve pain management based on the biopsychosocial model of pain. Emphasis should be on reaching populations of patients with greatest need.

Models of coordinated care proposed by the study team should be aligned with health care resources of the participating HCS and should be informed through engagement of stakeholders including patients, providers, healthcare system executives, policymakers, and payors. The study teams are expected to include health care providers from multiple disciplines and implementation scientists.

Trials will be supported by the Coordinating Center (CC) of the HEAL Pragmatic and Implementation Studies to Improve the Management of Pain and Reduce Opioid Prescribing (PRISM) Program. The Coordinating Center will provide technical expertise in all aspects of research and coordination across studies awarded through this NOFO. Recipients will work with the CC to facilitate planning and refinement of proposed studies in partnership with health care delivery systems.

The philanthropic wing of Centene Corporation, the Centene Foundation aims to transform the health of communities through three distinct drivers of health: healthcare access, social services, and education.

Projects or programs must align with one or more of Centene Corporation’s focus areas of:
- Education,
- Healthcare Access (including Social Determinants of Health), and
- Social Services.

The foundation supports local partnerships and initiatives focused on inclusion, the whole person, and community development. The foundation recognizes that transforming the health of communities requires more than one-time contributions and seeks partnerships that can grow over time and position communities to thrive.