Rural Health Research Center Cooperative Agreement

This announcement solicits applications for the Rural Health Research Center (RHRC) Cooperative Agreement Program. The purpose of the RHRC Cooperative Agreement Program is to increase the amount of high quality, impartial, policy-relevant research to assist decision-makers at the federal, state and local levels to better understand problems faced by rural communities, and provide information that will improve access to health care and population health. RHRC recipients will conduct policy-oriented health services research on rural issues and synthesize the results into reports easily understood...

Eligible applicants include domestic public, for-profit, and nonprofit entities. Institutions of higher education, faith-based and community-based organizations, Tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply. Applicants should have experience in analyzing rural health issues as defined by the following: Principal Investigators should have 5-10 years of work experience specific to rural health research and should have a doctoral degree. The principal investigator should have substantial expertise on the rural health topic of concentration as evidenced by authorship or co-authorship of a combined five rural-relevant policy briefs, peer-reviewed journal articles (at least two of the five must be articles in journals such as Journal of Rural Health, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Aging and Health), and other written materials and presentations at national, state, and regional conferences. Applicants should also be familiar and/or have used/manipulated appropriate and complex data sets pertinent to their proposals. Applicants should be able to demonstrate that the majority of their affiliated researchers have a track record in analyzing rural health services issues and each applicant organization should be able to clearly demonstrate that the topic and issue areas included in the application demonstrate a thorough understanding of policy relevant issues and their key impact on rural communities. Applications that fail to show such experience will not be competitive.

CallCenter@HRSA.GOV CallCenter@HRSA.GOV