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 funding opportunity mentioned, Understanding the Intersection of Social Inequities to Optimize Health and Reduce Health Disparities: The Axes Initiative, focuses on exploring the complex ways in which social inequities impact health outcomes and contribute to health disparities. Its broad goals include fostering meaningful collaborations among researchers to develop projects that effectively address and aim to diminish these disparities. The initiative supports research under the R01 activity code, which includes studies that can be either clinical trials or observational studies, thereby allowing for a wide range of research approaches to understand and tackle the specified issues.