The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant program aims to fund short-term exploratory or developmental research projects with the potential to make significant contributions to minority health and reduce health disparities. It encourages projects that either seek to break new ground in these fields or aim to extend previous research towards novel directions or applications that could have a direct impact on improving health outcomes for minorities and reducing health disparities across the United States.