Federal Agency Updates
Posted April 13, 2021
Defense Health Program - Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s Research Program
Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21)
The FY21 Defense Appropriations Act is anticipated to provide funding to the Department of Defense PRARP to support research that addresses the long-term implications of military service as they pertain to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD) for Service members, Veterans, and the general public. As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency J9, Research and Development Directorate manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC).
FY21 PRARP Program Announcements and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanisms are posted on the Grants.gov website.
Applications submitted to the FY21 PRARP Program Announcements must address one of the following FY21 Overarching Challenges, which may be award mechanism-specific:
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PRARP FY21 Overarching Challenges |
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Foundational Research: Research to examine the interrelationship between military service-related risk factors and subsequent AD/ADRD |
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Paucity of Clinical Studies: The paucity of clinical studies to examine the interrelationship between military service-related risk factors and subsequent AD/ADRD |
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Diagnostics and Prognostics: The need for technologies, tests, surveys, questionnaires, devices, biomarkers, or analyses to detect the relationship between military service-related risk factors and AD/ADRD |
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Epidemiology: The need for epidemiological research to examine the interrelationship between military service, risk and resiliency factors, and subsequent AD/ADRD |
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Quality of Life: The need for technologies, assessments, interventions, or devices to benefit individuals, especially affected Service members and Veterans, living with the symptoms of AD/ADRD |
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Family and Care Support: The need for technologies, assessments, interventions, or devices that enhance the lives of those providing care to those living with the symptoms of AD/ADRD, especially affected Service members and Veterans |
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NIH – Notice of Special Interest : Developing and testing Multilevel Physical Activity Interventions to Improve Health and Well-Being
The Office of Disease Prevention and participating ICOs are issuing this Notice to highlight our interest in encouraging highly innovative and promising translational research to improve our understanding of how to increase and maintain health-enhancing physical activity using multi-level interventions in a wide range of population groups across the lifespan (e.g., including racial and ethnic minorities, children, older adults, persons with medical/behavioral health conditions, and persons with disabilities). This includes efficacy, effectiveness and dissemination and implementation studies. It also includes support for pilot, exploratory, or developmental work in preparation for full-scale, fully powered efficacy studies, preliminary feasibility studies, as well as expanded feasibility work for a discrete, specified, circumscribed project that is based on well-established theory, existing data and evidence-based interventions.
This NOSI seeks research for all developmental stages, across the lifespan, and in diverse populations, particularly those at high risk for sedentary behavior, those at high risk for disease conditions associated with inactivity, and those at risk for food insecurity. Populations of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Sedentary or inactive individuals or groups of all ages
- Persons or groups at high risk for conditions associated with inactivity (e.g., overweight, obesity, etc.)
- Person with a disease (e.g., malnutrition, cancer, age-related diseases, etc.) or condition (e.g., serious mental illness, nicotine dependence, etc.) that might be improved by physical activity
- NIH-designated populations who experience health disparities in the United States (which include racial and ethnic minority groups (Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders), less privileged socioeconomic status, sexual and gender minorities, and underserved rural populations
- Eligible participants of major food and nutrition assistance programs (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Child Nutrition Programs and Women Infants and Children Program, etc.) and other food distribution programs
- Eligible participants of social service or community programs, such as child welfare and justice programs
- Persons with physical, developmental, or intellectual disabilities
- Underserved populations at higher risk for conditions associated with inactivity
- Populations in communities with a high burden of health disparities (e.g., geographic regions like the Mississippi Delta or Appalachia, rural and urban neighborhoods, etc.) with low physical activity levels
