The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The broad goals of this grant program are to support research on interventions aimed at improving health among Native American populations. Specifically, it seeks to fund etiologic research to fill significant knowledge gaps that will inform intervention development or adaptations; the development, adaptation, or testing of the efficacy or effectiveness of health promotion and disease prevention interventions; the testing of culturally informed treatment or recovery interventions; and research on dissemination and implementation to overcome barriers to the adoption, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of effective interventions. The initiative emphasizes the need for science-based, culturally appropriate solutions to reduce morbidity and mortality by addressing disease precursors and through culturally informed treatment. Interventions should be sustainable, adaptable, disseminable, and capable of being scaled up to other communities where culturally appropriate. Target populations for this funding opportunity include Alaska Natives, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians.