The Steering Committee of the National Institutes of Health Climate Change and Human Health Working Group invites feedback on the approaches NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices can take to enhance research on the health implications of climate change in the United States and globally.

Responses will be accepted through August 30, 2021.

For more information:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-ES-21-009.html

Data from TransPop, the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States, is now available through Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR).

A primary goal of the TransPop study is to provide researchers with a representative sample of transgender people in the United States. The study examines a variety of health-relevant domains including health outcomes and health behaviors, experiences with interpersonal and institutional discrimination, identity history, transition-related experiences, and basic demographic characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, religion, political party affiliation, marital status, employment, income, location, sex, gender, and education). In addition to being the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States, TransPop also includes a comparative cisgender sample.

TransPop is funded by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD R01HD090468). The study is also supported by the National Institute of Health, Office of Social and Behavioral Science, the Office of Research on Women’s Health, and NICHD as part of a supplemental grant for a larger five-year study, “Generations.”

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NIH launched an effort to end structural racism in biomedical research through a new initiative called UNITE. NIH Director Francis Collins issued a statement committing NIH to instituting new ways to support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and identifying and dismantling any policies and practices that may harm our workforce and our science.

NIH has also issued a Request for Information seeking input on practical and effective approaches to improve and strengthen racial equity, diversity, and inclusion across all facets of the biomedical research enterprise, both within NIH and the external community, and expand research to eliminate or lessen health disparities and inequities.

Comments can be submitted through the submission website and must be received by April 23, 2021.

NICHD has published funding opportunity announcements for P2C and R24 applications:

• Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program FY 2022 (P2C Clinical Trial Not Allowed) : RFA-HD-22-013
• Coordinating Center for the NICHD Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program FY 2022 (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) : RFA-HD-22-014

Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed)

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-21-021.html

The Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity initiative is soliciting applications to support collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in developing, implementing, or disseminating innovative and effective interventions to prevent, reduce, or eliminate health disparities and advance health equity. No preliminary data are required. Projects must clearly demonstrate, based on the strength of the logic, a compelling potential to produce a major impact in addressing health disparities and inequities.

 

Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed)

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-21-022.html

The Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions initiative is soliciting applications to support collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in developing, implementing, or disseminating innovative and effective interventions to prevent, reduce, or eliminate health disparities and advance health equity. No preliminary data are required. Projects must clearly demonstrate, based on the strength of the logic, a compelling potential to produce a major impact in addressing health disparities and advancing health equity.