Funding Road Map

Name of Funding Organization:
National Institutes of Health

Name of Grant/Scholarship/Program (if applicable): Global Research Initiative Program

Type of Funding: Grant

Description:
“The goal of this initiative is to provide funding opportunities for the increasing pool of foreign, biomedical and behavioural scientists, clinical investigators, nurses, and other health professionals with state-of-the-art knowledge of research methods to advance critical issues in global health upon their return to their home countries through behavioural and social sciences research.”

Eligibility:

• Your organization must be from a developing country and may be for-profit or not-for-profit, public or private, units of state and local governments of developing countries, faith-based or community-based.
• As a Principal Investigator you must be from an eligible institution and a) have at least two years of research training experience under an FIC-supported training grant; b) have one year of such D43 training experience coupled with one year of significant, well-documented mentored research experience; c) one year of the NIDA INVEST Fellowship plus one or more years of mentored research; OR d) at least two years of research training experience through the NIH intramural Visiting Fellows Program.

Specific focus on global health research?
Yes.

Application Process:
You are asked to first submit a Letter of Intent, describing the envisioned project to Dr. Aron Primack (see address below), after which you may submit a full application (please complete the Grant Application provided in the links below) to the Center for Scientific Review (address below). Please see the program website (below) for complete application information.

Deadline:
For the 2007 competition, the submission date for Letters of Intent is August 21st and the application receipt date is September 21st. Please consult with the program’s website to see if these dates change in the future.

Contact Information:
Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-082.html#SectionIV

SUBMISSION OF LETTER OF INTENT:
Aron Primack, M.D., M.A.
Division of International Training and Research
Fogarty International Center
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Building 31, Room B2C39
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: (301) 496-4596
FAX: (301) 402-0779
Email: primacka@mail.nih.gov

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION FORM:
Center for Scientific Review
National Institutes of Health
6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 1040, MSC 7710
Bethesda, MD 20892-7710 (U.S. Postal Service Express or regular mail)
Bethesda, MD 20817 (for express/courier service; non-USPS service)

Links to Valuable Websites and Documents:
2008 Announcement:  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-239.html
Grant Application: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html