Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers: RFA-DP-24-004

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will provide funding to academic research centers to participate in the network of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers (PRC Network) to:Establish and maintain a multi-disciplinary prevention research center (Center) that conducts high-quality applied health promotion and disease prevention public health research (hereafter referred to as prevention research); Conduct one (1) dissemination and implementation (D&I) core research project that utilizes (a) an evidence-based public health intervention (EBI) and (b) an equitable and evidence-based community engaged approach – e.g., community-based participatory research (CBPR), to address a leading cause of chronic disease morbidity or mortality in a population experiencing high levels of health disparities or health inequities;Collaborate with partners that can help translate research findings into practice within the research community (hereafter referred to as partners that translate), promote sustainability beyond the core research project, and facilitate dissemination;Disseminate research findings to community, practice, and academic audiences; Serve as a resource to other PRCs, as part of the PRC Network, for adapting, implementing, evaluating, disseminating, and translating evidence-based public health interventions at local, state, tribal, or national levels; andParticipate in the PRC Network to (a) leverage the expertise of the network members to inform individual core research project and center activities (as needed) and (b) advance the network’s collective impact in public health prevention research, policy, and practice.

Under Section 1706 of the Public Health Service Act (42 USC 300u-5) Congress mandated that applicants be limited to "academic health centers" defined as accredited public or nonprofit private school, to include school of medicine, school of osteopathy, and/or school of public health. Further information on applicant eligibility is as follows::1. Schools of Public Health, accredited by the Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH), or Schools of Public Health in the process of obtaining accreditation from CEPH. Programs of Public Health are NOT eligible to apply for funding under this NOFO.Schools of Public Health in the process of obtaining CEPH accreditation must include a copy of the official notification from CEPH that states their Initial Application Submission (IAS) has been accepted in their application in the appendices. 2. Accredited schools of medicine (or osteopathy) that offer an accredited preventive medicine residency program or accredited schools of medicine (or osteopathy) that are in the process of obtaining accreditation for a preventive medicine residency program. Accreditation must be from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).Applicants in the process of obtaining accreditation from ACGME for a preventive medicine residency must include a copy of Section A. Accreditation Information and Section B. Participating Sites of the Preventive Medicine New Application Program Information Form in their application in the appendices.