Grants to Support the Hispanic Health Services Research Grant Program | CMS 1H0 17 001

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced this discretionary grant opportunity, titled "Grants to Support the Hispanic Health Services Research Grant Program" (Funding Opportunity Number CMS-1H0-17-001; CFDA 93.779), to strengthen health services and health disparities research capacity connected to Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and related Hispanic health research stakeholders. The central aim is to fund research activities that can directly inform how to reduce health disparities affecting diverse CMS beneficiary populations, with particular emphasis on issues impacting Hispanic and Latino communities. CMS frames this work as part of its broader Equity Plan and highlights the scale of the problem by citing an estimated 1.24 trillion dollar economic burden associated with health disparities in the United States. In practical terms, the program is meant to generate evidence and actionable approaches that CMS and the wider health system can use to improve quality and equity in care for minority beneficiaries.

The grant program lays out four main objectives. First, it is designed to support researchers affiliated with HSIs in pursuing topics that meaningfully affect Hispanic and Latino populations, encouraging research agendas that are directly relevant to community needs and outcomes. Second, it seeks to fund research that examines the nature of health disparities and tests or identifies strategies to reduce them, positioning health services research as a tool for understanding how care is delivered, accessed, financed, and experienced by beneficiaries. Third, CMS OMH emphasizes dissemination: the program is structured to foster sharing of best practices and innovations not only among the funded grantees, but also within CMS and beyond, so that findings can influence policy discussions, operational improvements, and replication in other settings. Fourth, the initiative is explicitly tied to improving health care quality for CMS minority beneficiaries, linking the research investment to real-world improvements in outcomes and care experiences for populations served by Medicare, Medicaid, and related CMS programs.

Eligibility is framed around who is carrying out the research and how they are connected to Hispanic health services research. Applicants must meet at least one of three qualifying pathways. One pathway is being a health services or disparities researcher at a university or college that offers a Ph.D. or Masters degree program in a relevant field. The listed disciplines include Allied Health, Gerontology, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Pharmacology, Public Health, and Social Work, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of health services research and the range of professional training programs that can support it. A second pathway allows applicants from community-based health organizations, provided the organization includes a Hispanic health services research component, which signals CMS interest in research grounded in community settings and potentially informed by local service delivery realities. The third pathway includes members of professional associations that focus on Hispanic health services and health disparities issues, recognizing that professional networks and associations can also serve as platforms for research, standards development, and dissemination of evidence-based practices.

From the funding details provided, the opportunity is a grant (Funding Instrument Type: Grant) in the health activity category. The award ceiling is listed as 325,000 dollars. The opportunity was created on June 9, 2017, with an original closing date of July 10, 2017. While the expected number of awards is not specified in the source data excerpt, the structure and goals indicate CMS OMH intended to support multiple research efforts that collectively build knowledge about disparities and identify practical interventions and promising approaches that can be shared across systems. Overall, this program can be understood as a targeted federal investment to expand Hispanic-focused health services research, produce usable findings on disparities reduction, and accelerate the spread of effective practices that improve equity and quality for CMS beneficiaries.

• The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Grants to Support the Hispanic Health Services Research Grant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.779.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-06-09.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-07-10. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $325,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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