Government/Federal Funding Sources

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/

The National Institutes of Health is the lead federal agency in supporting biomedical research. This link will direct you to a portal for National Institute of Health funding opportunities, including NIH grant and fellowship programs; Requests for Proposals; and resources for those preparing proposals. The site also includes information about intramural and extramural training opportunities of the 21 NIH Institutes and Centers. You can also access "The Guide", which is the official document for announcing the availability of NIH funds for biomedical and behavioral research and research training and for disseminating policy and administrative information. Finally, the site contains links to Web sites for each major component (Institutes and Centers) of the NIH. Each of these Web sites includes information regarding research priorities and funding opportunities for the respective Institute or Center.

http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/grantmain.htm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) performs many of the administrative functions for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a sister agency of CDC, and one of eight federal public health agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Director of CDC also serves as the Administrator of ATSDR.

In Fiscal Year 1998, the Office of Grants and Procurements obligated approximately 2.2 billion dollars in contracts (including purchase orders), grants, and cooperative agreements.

http://www.hrsa.gov/grants.htm

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) directs national health programs which improve the health of the Nation by assuring quality health care to underserved, vulnerable and special-need populations and by promoting appropriate health professions workforce capacity and practice, particularly in primary care and public health.

Information about grants available from HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care, the Bureau of Health Professions, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, and the HIV/AIDS Bureau.

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/priorities/grants.asp

Heath Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs.

Grants programs are designed to stimulate the involvement of new health service researchers in the study of health care financing and delivery issues. This grant program provides financial support to graduate students while they complete their doctoral dissertations in various social science disciplines investigating health care financing and delivery issues. Grant support is designed to aid the career development of new health services researchers and to encourage individuals to study issues impacting the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

http://www.ahcpr.gov/fund/index.html

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) focuses primarily on opportunities for investigator-initiated research grants; however, brief information is also included on contracts.

The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) supports predoctoral and postdoctoral training through the National Research Service Award (NRSA) program. AHCPR awards NRSA training grants to institutions for predoctoral and postdoctoral training (the AHCPR Institutional Training Awards) and individual NRSA fellowships to applicants who have completed their doctoral degrees (the AHCPR Fellowship Awards). AHCPR also supports dissertation grants for doctoral candidates (select Grants for Health Services Dissertation Research) and is interested in fostering Opportunities for Minority Students in all training activities. Recently AHCPR expanded its research education activities to include support of career development of promising new investigators (Independent Scientist Awards).