[hdr-ucr] Funding opportunity: Center for Health Disparities Research

[Katheryn Rodriguez]

Greetings Colleagues and Affiliated Community Researchers

The Center for Health Disparities Research at UCR is requesting research proposals for its health disparities pilot project funding opportunity. Applications are due November 19, 2021.

This year’s call is open for any health disparities research project. All proposals will be reviewed; however, we are particularly interested in projects that might fall into one of the following relationships 1) wellbeing and health inequities related to environment and climate change, 2) arts (e.g., creative arts) and health, and 3) wellbeing and refugee communities. These opportunities will be supported as long as funding is available. Each grant award may provide as much as $50,000, to be spent up to 18 months after award. We anticipate that at least three to four awards may be made.

Funding is available to support individuals or Interdisciplinary groups of researchers. The proposal must be problem-focused, relevant to the health disparities as defined by this center and it must include a community engagement component.

Proposed projects may be from a single applicant (especially an emerging researcher for a mentored FIRST award, i.e., senior level postdoc or junior faculty), Continuity Collaboratory Fellowships (CCF), or a cohort of applicants (Pilot Interdisciplinary Collaborative, or PIC awards); the contact PI must have a full-time appointment at UCR or a full-time faculty appointment. Preference will be given for interdisciplinary applications, or applications from a cohort of co-investigators representing distinctly different disciplines. The theme of the research proposal must be problem focused, relevant to the health disparities as defined by this center and include a community engagement component. Other issues to consider include:


  1.  How will the interdisciplinary nature of the proposal lead to understanding and innovating potential multifaceted solutions to the proposed health disparity problem, and;

  1.  The impact of the final expected outcomes; i.e., a publication of a perspective, concept and/or critical review paper in a peer reviewed journal, publication of a collaborative project, or submission of a proposal for extramural funding.

If Community-Based Organizations or Community Researchers have a project they are interested in proposing in partnership with a UCR researcher, please contact David Lo or Juliet McMullin and we will search for an appropriate UCR Researcher.

For full application details see our website at (https://healthdisparities.ucr.edu/funding-opportunities), especially for information specific to FIRST or PIC awards (https://healthdisparities.ucr.edu/first-pic-proposal-instructions) and CCF (https://healthdisparities.ucr.edu/ccf-facultysenior-postdoctoral-award) .

FAQ’s are in the attached PDF.

If you have questions about HDR or the proposal process please contact
David Lo at david.lo at medsch.ucr.edu<mailto:david.lo at medsch.ucr.edu> or
Juliet McMullin at julietm at ucr.edu<mailto:julietm at ucr.edu>

For administrative questions please contact Cristina Gonzalez at cristina.gonzalez at medsch.ucr.edu<mailto:cristina.gonzalez at medsch.ucr.edu>

With gratitude and respect,
Juliet and David

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