University Office of Global Partnerships and Sustainable Futures

FOAs: Implementation on Research on Noncommunicable Diseases

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) participating Institutes and Centers (ICs), in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD), intends to publish Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to invite applications for implementation research on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in World Bank-defined low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Tribal Nation populations in the United States.

The aim of this FOA is to invite applications for implementation research focused on addressing common NCD risk factors through interventions that improve health and/or enhance positive health and lifestyle behaviors at critical life stages (e.g., infancy,childhood, adolescence, pregnancy, older adults).

Objectives

Responsive applications will:

  • build on a life course approach and focus on one or more critical life stage(s), or transitions between life stages;
  • focus on common NCD risk factors – exploring interventions known to prevent, or delay the onset or progression of, more than one NCD;
  • justify the choice of intervention(s) to be delivered during the selected life stage(s) and provide evidence of the intervention’s effectiveness and feasibility;
  • specifically address health equity, defined by the WHO as the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other dimensions of inequality (e.g. sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation);
  • address social determinants of NCDs in the relevant populations and assess culturally-tailored intervention strategies, including, for instance, studes that integrate Traditional ways of healing in AI/AN communities;
  • conduct research on multisectoral interventions that cut across health, environmental, social, and other sectors;
  • have an appropriate strategy for measuring implementation research and effectiveness outcomes, including stakeholder-relevant outcomes (e.g., functioning, health services use, and others);
  • demonstrate a commitment to stakeholder and community engagement;
  • provide opportunities for implementation research capacity building within project teams; and
  • demonstrate equitable partnerships and shared leadership between high-income country (HIC)/LMIC and/or non-Tribal Nation/Tribal Nation members of the project team, and between the project team and external stakeholders, including written letters of support from these groups and associated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), as appropriate.
Funding Organisation: 
Government
Eligibility: 

NGOs, Academic Institutions

Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Budget Amount/Benefit: 
Budget: N/A
Deadline: 
Tuesday, August 9, 2022