Child Health and Human Development Research Training – Individual Awards

Objective

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s mission is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.

Who Can Apply

• U.S. Federal Government
• Nonprofit Organization
• Not-for-Profit Organization
• For-Profit Organization
• Foreign Non-Government Nonprofit Organization
• Foreign Non-Government Not-for-Profit Organization
• Foreign Non-Governmental For-Profit Organization
• International Organization
• Department or Agency of a U.S. Territorial Government
• U.S. Territory (or Possession) Government (including freely-associated states)

Universities, colleges, medical, dental, and nursing schools, schools of public health, laboratories, hospitals, State, and local health departments, other public or private institutions, both nonprofit and for-profit, and individuals. National Research Service Award: Support is provided for academic and research training only, in health and health-related areas that are periodically specified by the National Institutes of Health. Individuals with a professional or scientific degree are eligible (M.D., Ph.D., D.D.S., D.O., D.V.M., Sc.D., D.Eng., or equivalent domestic or foreign degree). Predoctoral research training grants to institutions are also supported. Proposed study must result in biomedical or behavioral research training in a specified shortage area, and which may offer opportunity to research health scientists, research clinicians, etc., to broaden their scientific background or to extend their potential for research in health-related areas. Applicants must be citizens of the United States or be admitted to the United States for permanent residency; they also must be nominated and sponsored by a public or private institution having staff and facilities suitable to the proposed research training. Domestic nonprofit organizations may apply for the institutional NRS grant. To be eligible for funding, a grant application must be approved for scientific merit and program relevance by a scientific review group, a national advisory council and reflect alignment with Administration Priorities.

Who Benefits

• Nonprofit Organization
• For-Profit Organization
• Not-for-Profit Organization

Any nonprofit or for-profit organization, company, or institution engaged in biomedical or biobehavioral research and reflect alignment with Administration Priorities.

Assistance Types

• Grant

Program Contact

rebekah.rasooly@nih.gov
3018272599