Interventions that Address Structural Racism to Reduce Kidney Health Disparities Research Coordinating Center (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | RFA DK 23 003

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced this discretionary funding opportunity, RFA-DK-23-003, to establish a single Research Coordinating Center (RCC) for the "Interventions that Address Structural Racism to Reduce Kidney Health Disparities" Consortium. The overarching goal of the Consortium is to support community-engaged intervention research that directly confronts structural racism as a root cause of kidney health disparities. Rather than focusing only on individual behavior or clinical care in isolation, the program is designed to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions that dismantle or reduce the harmful effects of structural racism that shape kidney disease risk, progression, and outcomes in affected communities.

This award uses the U24 cooperative agreement mechanism (clinical trial not allowed), meaning NIH will have substantial involvement in the project and expects the RCC to work in close partnership with NIH staff and the funded Intervention Sites. The RCC is intended to serve as the operational and scientific backbone of the Consortium, coordinating activities across multiple independently funded intervention teams (the Intervention Sites are funded under a related announcement, RFA-DK-22-014). In practical terms, the RCC is responsible for making sure the Consortium functions as a unified program rather than a collection of disconnected projects, with shared processes, aligned milestones, and comparable approaches to measurement and evaluation.

The RCC has three major areas of responsibility. First, it must provide overall organization, management, and administrative support for Consortium activities. That includes planning and running meetings, supporting governance and decision-making structures, facilitating communication across sites, tracking progress toward goals, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. Second, it must provide research coordination along with data management and data analysis for Consortium studies. This typically involves developing common data elements where appropriate, harmonizing measures across sites, establishing data workflows and quality controls, maintaining secure data systems, and producing cross-site analyses that help determine whether interventions are effective, scalable, and sustainable across settings. Third, the RCC must foster collaboration and help build a community of investigators with the skills needed to create, test, and spread interventions that address structural drivers of kidney health disparities. This capacity-building emphasis signals that NIH wants the Consortium to strengthen the field by developing shared expertise, encouraging multidisciplinary partnerships, and supporting dissemination of lessons learned so successful approaches can be adopted more broadly.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of U.S.-based organizations: state, county, city, township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; tribal organizations other than federally recognized governments; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status; for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. The announcement also highlights additional eligible applicant types that are often central to equity-focused and community-engaged work, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, and eligible federal agencies. At the same time, the FOA makes clear that foreign entities are not eligible to apply, non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations are not eligible, and foreign components as defined by the NIH Grants Policy Statement are not allowed.

The opportunity is categorized under the broad activity area of education, food and nutrition, and health, and is associated with CFDA numbers 93.307, 93.361, and 93.847. The original closing date listed for applications was January 12, 2023, and the FOA was created on November 18, 2022. Award ceiling and expected number of awards are not specified in the provided source information, but the structure of the program indicates NIH intended to fund one RCC that would coordinate multiple separately funded Intervention Sites.

• The National Institutes of Health in the education, food and nutrition, health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Interventions that Address Structural Racism to Reduce Kidney Health Disparities Research Coordinating Center (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.307, 93.361, 93.847.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2022-11-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-01-12. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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