Funding Opportunities

NOSI: HEAL Initiative: Workforce Interventions to Improve Addiction Care Quality and Patient Outcomes 

Through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) initiative seeks studies that identify, develop, and/or evaluate strategies to address challenges with recruiting, training, and retaining a robust and highly qualified behavioral health workforce. Strategies explored through this initiative should focus on increasing recruitment and retention, improving provider training, reducing stigma among providers, increasing access to care and number of patients served, improving quality of care, and/or improving patient outcomes. 

Deadline: September 8, 2025

This FOA allows for applications that propose large-scale, complex research projects with multiple highly integrated components focused on a common research question relevant to aging. Such projects will likely involve an integrated multidisciplinary team of investigators within a single institution or a consortium of institutions.

Deadline: September 25, 2025; expires September 26, 2025

NOSI: Research on Addressing Violence to Improve Health Outcomes

The purpose of this NOSI is to highlight interest in addressing the role of violence in health outcomes and integrating violence-related screening and interventions into health care settings. This Notice is to encourage intervention research focused on addressing exposure to violence—including, but not limited to, child maltreatment, intimate partner violence/teen dating violence, elder mistreatment, peer violence/bullying, and community violence—to improve individual-level health processes and outcomes. This Notice encourages novel intervention research aimed at developing, refining, adapting, and testing interventions focused on preventing violence or addressing acute and chronic effects of violence on physical and behavioral health. Interventions for the treatment and prevention of violence victimization and perpetration across different populations in settings where other health conditions are treated are encouraged. In addition, interventions that seek to translate basic behavioral and social science research findings into innovative treatment approaches are encouraged. Implementation research can elucidate effective strategies for moving evidence-based prevention and treatment approaches into practice. As such, effectiveness, implementation, and hybrid effectiveness-implementation designs are encouraged, as appropriate to the research questions proposed.

Deadline: Standard dates apply; expires October 5, 2025

NIH places a high priority on research with individuals and populations at increased risk for adverse health outcomes, and especially those who have received insufficient attention from the scientific research enterprise. To this end, and in response to Executive Order 14075 on Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals, this notice announces an interest in research on the impact and consequences of family support and family rejection on the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority (SGM, defined for NIH purposes in NOT-OD-19-139) individuals across the life course. Research proposed under this NOSI may include behavioral, social, clinical, implementation, basic, complementary, integrative, and any other relevant research approaches that probe the influences of family rejection, acceptance, affirmation, support, and belonging on the immediate and long-term health and health outcomes of SGM individuals at any life stage. Studies may also include prevention, intervention, and service delivery research that seeks to prevent, reduce, or treat adverse effects associated with family rejection and/or improve or maintain SGM people’s health.

Deadline: See the full notice for more details; expires May 8, 2026

The NIAAA will solicit applications to support the secondary analyses of existing data sets with the goal of enhancing our understanding of the following: 1) the patterns and trajectories of alcohol consumption, 2) the epidemiology and etiology, including genetics, of alcohol-related problems and disorders, and 3) alcohol-related health services and health systems, including access, quality, and efficiency. This Notice encourages applications proposing innovative analyses of existing alcohol research data, answering novel research hypotheses and questions, and developing and testing advanced analytical methodologies applicable to alcohol related epidemiological, behavioral and genetics research.

Deadline: See the full notice for more details; expires September 6, 2026

NOSI: Advancing mHealth Interventions for Understanding and Preventing Alcohol-Related Domestic Violence

In light of the documented increases in both alcohol misuse (among some individuals) and domestic violence (DV) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and array of mandated restrictions enacted to mitigate the spread of the virus, the purpose of this solicitation is to announce NIAAA’s interest in addressing the need for research related to developing, testing, and intervening proximal to drinking occasions, when risk of DV is elevated, to decrease the likelihood of alcohol consumption at levels sufficient to trigger DV and to provide skills shown to reduce risk of DV perpetration and victimization. In particular, this solicitation seeks to advance the development, feasibility, acceptability, pilot testing, potential efficacy, and implementation of scalable, low resource, and remotely delivered interventions via mobile devices (mHealth) that rely on communication technologies for reducing and preventing alcohol consumption and DV. For this FOA, the term “domestic violence” extends to child maltreatment (abuse and neglect) and elder abuse, in addition to intimate partner violence (IPV). 

Deadline: See the full notice for more details; expires September 8, 2026

NOSI: Data Informed, Place-Based Community-Engaged Research to Advance Health Equity

As we continue to personalize health interventions and move towards precision medicine, location-based metrics have emerged as pivotal tools. These metrics, derived from geospatial data, can provide critical insights into how different aspects of our environments—from air quality to access to healthcare facilities—contribute to our health. Such a geographical lens can highlight the hidden patterns and variations in disease prevalence and health outcomes across different regions or communities. This can enable more targeted and efficient interventions and allow for the tailoring of prevention and treatment strategies to the unique contexts of specific locations or populations, thereby improving health outcomes and advancing precision medicine, as well as health equity. Given the nature of this research, the NIH encourages the formation of interdisciplinary research teams.

Deadline: See the full notice for more details; expires January 8, 2027

Other Funding Opportunities:

RWJF's Exploring Equitable Futures

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) offers this opportunity to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come. RWJF is particularly interested in projects that propose work within the Health Science Knowledge System—or that reimagine this system completely. RWJF aims to fund projects that:

Deadline: October 15, 2025