Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

This opportunity is Institutionally Coordinated to prevent overlapping topic area submissions.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Health Workforce Research Center (HWRC) Cooperative Agreement Program. The purpose of this program is to support and disseminate rigorous research that strengthens evidence-based policy and enhances understanding of issues and trends in the health workforce.

Limited submission language in the solicitation:

NOTE: Multiple applications from an organization with the same DUNS number or Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) are allowable if the applications propose separate and distinct projects and the applicants meet the two following conditions:

1. Each campus of the applicant organization is allowed to submit one application per HWRC topic area (from Section I.1 of this notice). A campus is defined as a division of a university that has the same name yet is separate with its own grounds, buildings (e.g., school of nursing) and faculty; a single department or agency of a state or local government. For example, the University of ABC – Springfield and the University of ABC – Goldboro can each submit an application for the same HWRC topic area under this program.
2. You can submit only one application per campus for each of the eight (8) HWRC topic areas identified in Section I.1. For example, the University of ABC – Springfield can submit one application for the Health Equity in the Health Workforce topic area AND one application for the Behavioral Health Workforce topic area. Alternatively, the University of ABC – Springfield can submit one application for the Health Equity in the Health Workforce topic area, and the University of ABC – Goldboro can submit one application for the Behavioral Health Workforce topic area.

UArizona may submit one application.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems (ECDHS): Evidence to Impact program. The purpose of this program is to advance statewide systems of comprehensive early childhood developmental promotion, screenings, and interventions that improve outcomes and reduce disparities in early developmental health and family well-being for communities with high levels of childhood poverty. These systems will be referred to as early childhood development (ECD) systems throughout this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO).

One award will be made, in the form of a cooperative agreement, to establish an Early Childhood Evidence to Impact Center, hereby referred to as the Center. The goals of the Center are to: 1) increase the implementation and evaluation of evidence-informed, equity-focused strategies among states by providing national technical assistance (TA) and supporting the implementation and evaluation of ECD systems-building efforts; and 2) strengthen the evidence base in support of ECD systems-building.

D. Derksen

UArizona may submit one application.

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program. The purpose of the AHEC Program is to develop and enhance education and training networks within communities, academic institutions, and community-based organizations. In turn, these networks seek to increase diversity among health professionals, broaden the distribution of the health workforce, enhance health care quality, and improve health care delivery to rural and underserved areas and populations.

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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Mobile Health Training Program (NEPQR-MHTP). The purpose of this program is to strengthen the nursing workforce through education and training to provide culturally aligned quality care in rural and underserved areas and training of diverse nursing students to address and manage Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) factors and improve health equity and health literacy of vulnerable populations in rural and underserved communities through nurse-led mobile health training sites. The NEPQR-MHTP will create and expand experiential learning opportunities for nursing students, including: the provision of high-quality culturally sensitive care, identify and understand SDOH in local communities, engagement in critical thinking, and clinical practice highlighting a collaborative team approach to care.

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The Regional PHTC Program seeks to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce, enhance the quality of such workforce, and improve the ability of this workforce to meet national, state, and local health care needs. Specifically, this program aims to strengthen the public health workforce through tailored training and technical assistance (TA)1 through collaborative community-based projects. Training curricula will provide skill-based, interactive instruction and quality education using multiple modalities (e.g., synchronous, asynchronous, distance-based, bi-directional video, and in-person), underscoring the current eight cross-cutting core public health competency domains in the primary areas of (1) analytical/assessment, (2) policy development/ program planning, (3) communication skills, (4) cultural competency, (5) community dimension of practice, (6) public health sciences, (7) financial planning and management and, (8) leadership and systems thinking.2 Each Regional PHTC must develop training in at least three primary areas listed above and may develop trainings in the sub competencies3 and beyond based on local health needs assessments. Regional PHTCs seek to develop current and future public health leaders though Leadership Institutes. Moreover, the program aims to establish and enhance collaborative partnerships among state and local health departments, primary care providers, and related organizations (to include non-traditional partners) as they work together to address critical local public health needs.

K. Reynolds

UArizona may submit one application per campus. A campus is defined as a division of a university that has its own grounds, buildings (e.g., school of nursing) and faculty.

K. Insel and S. Gephart

UArizona may submit more than one application. This opportunity is Institutionally Coordinated due to a solicitation requirement that applications not overlap: Multiple applications from an organization are allowable for different designations of COE programs (e.g., Hispanic and Native Americans, or Hispanic and other).

Please contact Bekah Coşkun, DrPH, Associate, Biomedical Sciences, Research Development Services if interested in applying or for questions about this opportunity.

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The purpose of this program is to provide support to entities providing health care, health care providers associations, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), taking into consideration the needs of rural and medically underserved communities, to establish, enhance, or expand evidence informed or evidenced-based programs or protocols to promote resilience, mental health, and wellness among their providers, other personnel, and members, collectively known as the “Health Workforce.”

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The purpose of this grant program is to support the development of new accredited primary care residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and geriatrics to address the physician workforce shortages and challenges faced by rural and underserved communities.

No applicants.

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The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to provide technical assistance (TA) to HRSA’s THCPD Program award recipients, as funded through HRSA-22-107. The THCPD Program supports the development of new community-based programs in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and geriatrics to address the physician and dental workforce shortages and challenges faced by underserved communities.

No applicants.