AETNA Regional Community Health Grants Program
Aetna is committed to enhancing the quality of health care, with a special emphasis on reducing racial and ethnic health disparities through our business practices and charitable giving.
Through the 2008 Healthy Community Grants Program and the Healthy Community Outreach Program, Aetna and the Aetna Foundation will award up to $4 million for philanthropic initiatives focused on health care issues in the designated communities listed at the link below.
http://www.aetna-foundation.org/foundation/community-involvement/index.html
Disability Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPs), U.S. Department of Education
Deadline: April 1, 2008
The purpose of DRRP programs is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of independent living and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.
For more information, click the links below or contact Julius Cotton at 202-245-7462 or julius.cotton@ed.gov.
- Health Care Coordination for Individuals with Physical Disabilities Grant
- Health and Health Care Disparities Among Individuals with Disabilities
- Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) Centers Collaborative Research Projects
- Research and Knowledge Translation Center for Individuals with Disabilities and Their Families
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers (PRCs): FY08 Special Interest Project (SIP) Competitive Supplements Grant, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Deadline: April 1, 2008
This FOA builds upon the infrastructure of the PRC program and solicits applications to support supplemental health promotion and disease prevention research projects that: 1) focus on the major causes of death and disability; 2) improve public health practice within communities; and 3) cultivate effective state and local public health programs. The SIP mechanism is to provide supplemental funding to PRCs to design, test, and disseminate effective prevention research strategies in the areas of epilepsy and aging, and in the built environment to promote public health.
For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov or contact 770-488-2700.
Health Behavior Change in People with Mental Disorders (R01) Grant, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH)
Deadline: May 7, 2011
The NIMH encourages studies on health behavior change related to function, disability, morbidity, and mortality in people with mental disorders in order to identify potent, modifiable risk and protective health behavior factors amenable to intervention, and to translate the results into initial tests of prevention and early intervention strategies aimed at improving function and decreasing disability, morbidity, and mortality among people with mental disorders.
For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov.