The NIH Common Fund is accepting applications for the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Health Equity Research Hubs (Hubs). The Hubs will serve as a centralized research resource, providing tailored scientific, technical, and collaborative support for sustainable community engagement, research capacity building, and training to support ComPASS community-led health equity structural intervention (CHESI) projects in collaboration with the ComPASS Coordination Center (CCC).

The Hubs are one of three complementary initiatives under the ComPASS Program, which also include CHESI projects that intervene on structural factors that create and perpetuate health inequities and the CCC that provides administration, coordination, data, and research capacity-building and training support to the CHESI projects. 

Letters of intent are due September 30, 2023. The application due date is October 31, 2023.

Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows staff to estimate the potential review workload and plan the review.

For more details on how to apply, read the full Notice of Funding Opportunity: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-23-012.html

NIH staff will hold a technical assistance webinar on September 6, 2023, 2:00 PM ET to provide information about the funding opportunity and answer questions from potential applicants. Registration is required. Register for the webinar here: https://roseliassociates.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_a4-elnrJTbOtiQOwn-lXPw

 You can submit questions prior to the webinar by emailing CFComPASS@od.nih.gov.

Following this webinar, a link to the recording will be posted on the ComPASS meeting page: https://commonfund.nih.gov/compass/meetings

Visit the ComPASS website for more information about the NIH Common Fund’s ComPASS program, and please sign up for the ComPASS listserv to receive announcements about upcoming funding opportunities and additional program information.