Limited Submission Opportunity: American Heart Association Community-Driven Research Approaches: Community Engagement Resource Center
OBJECTIVES:
To support a collaborative network of researchers whose collective efforts will lead to breakthroughs in methodological approaches to community-driven research. Awards will support a Community Engagement Resource Center (CERC) that incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to provide capacity building, training, evaluation, and the management of a Community of Practice for the full Network.
The CERC will develop training resources and career development opportunities while working closely with Partner Hub Directors, Project PIs, Trainees, and other project staff to optimize their success. The CERC will include five “cores”: (i) administrative, (ii) evaluation/outcomes, (iii) statistics/methods, (iv) training/capacity building, and (v) communications. All work must be done in an equity-first, community-guided way. The CERC will make key findings, recommendations, and resources from the network available to the broader scientific community and other stakeholders.
The funder welcomes submissions for research focused on cardiovascular, stroke and brain health conditions; however, because the goal of this funding mechanism is broad understanding of innovative approaches to community-driven research, submissions proposing studies that do not focus on cardiovascular disease, stroke or brain health are also welcome.
FUNDING INFORMATION:
Up to $3.5 million over 5 years, including 10% IDC.
AHA anticipates awarding 1 CERC grant.
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
U.S.-based non-profit institutions, including medical, osteopathic and dental schools, veterinary schools, schools of public health, pharmacy schools, nursing schools, universities and colleges, public and voluntary hospitals and others that can demonstrate the ability to conduct the proposed research. Submissions will not be accepted for work with funding to be administered through any federal institution or work to be performed by a federal employee, except for VA employees.
An institution may submit only one Partner Hub proposal or one Community Engagement Resource Center proposal.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by DATE: 3/6/24
- Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application;
- A one-page description of the proposed work, documenting successful past work with academic-community partnerships, including experience around equity-focused community-driven research projects, training/capacity building, and proven ability to assess effectiveness of community research and/or policies through formative and summative evaluation approaches;
- If the CERC submission includes a partnering organization, demonstration of established collaborative relationship between the two organizations (one-page PDF upload);
- A brief budget outline for the proposed project;
- Up-to-date CV or biosketch.
A faculty committee will review internal proposals and select nominees.
DEADLINES:
Internal Materials Due: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Sponsor Deadline:
Pre-Proposal: Thursday, March 28, 2024
Full Application (if invited): Thursday, May 16, 2024
Award Notification: June 2024