Deadline:

Sep 18, 2008 - Closed

Program Area:

Quality/Equality

Purpose:

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change seeks to improve the quality of health care provided to patients from racial and ethnic backgrounds likely to experience disparities.
Finding Answers will:

• grant funds to discover and evaluate practical and replicable solutions designed to reduce and eliminate disease-specific racial and ethnic health care disparities;
• focus on interventions aimed at health care delivery for one or more of the following health concerns: cardiovascular disease, depression and/or diabetes;
• conduct systematic reviews of the literature regarding racial and ethnic health care disparities interventions; and
• disseminate results from these research efforts and systematic reviews to encourage
  health care systems to address racial and ethnic gaps in care.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals


• Overview (PDF)

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Only organizations that administer and directly provide an intervention to the target population are eligible to apply. All interventions proposed for evaluation must occur within the direct context of a consistent source of health care or delivery.

The following types of organizations are eligible as primary/lead applicants:

• Provider organizations (e.g., medical groups, hospitals, community health centers).
• Health plans and employers.
• Other organizations directly involved in health care provision or administration (e.g., a network or consortium of provider groups).

Applicants must be located in the United States and preference will be given to applicants that are public agencies or are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a).

Selection Criteria

Applicants must demonstrate the ability to produce clear, systematic analyses or program evaluations that will inform decision-makers about promising interventions to address racial and ethnic health care disparities and how these interventions can be replicated in other settings. Applicants may define a specific population group or subgroups to be targeted. At a minimum, proposals must:

• involve health care delivery for one or more of the following health concerns: cardiovascular disease; depression and/or diabetes; and
• include the collection and reporting of patient-level data by race and ethnicity.
• Characterization of ethnic subgroups is encouraged where the study population and sample size justifies this sub-division, for instance, breaking out Hispanic patient populations with Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage or by stating whether an Asian-American population is Chinese or Korean in origin.

Additional selection criteria are outlined in the full call for proposals.

Key Dates:

• July 30, 2008 (3 p.m. CT) and August 1, 2008 (10 a.m. CT)—Optional applicant Web conference calls. Participation in a Web conference is not mandatory, but is highly encouraged. Registration is required. Learn more about the Web conferences and register.
• September 18, 2008 (2 p.m. CT)—Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
• December 11, 2008—Applicants notified if selected to submit a full proposal.
• February 5, 2009 (2 p.m. CT)—Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• June 26, 2009—Notification of awards.

Total Award:

• Approximately $8 million will be awarded overall in Rounds 1, 2 and 3 of funding.
• Our plan is to award approximately 6–8 grants totaling approximately $1.7 million in this round of funding.
• Grant awards will range between $100,000 and $275,000 for projects of 24 months or less, including start-up, data collection and analyses.

Contact:

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
info@solvingdisparities.org
Office: (866) 344-9800
http://www.solvingdisparities.org

Related Materials:

• View National Program Office


• View Program FAQs