Funding Opportunities

NIH-funded research has led to breakthroughs and the development of new treatments, helping people live longer, healthier lives and building the research foundation that drives discovery. ORWH publishes and participates in various NIH funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) that seek to advance the science on the health of women. This page includes a curated selection of funding opportunities supporting maternal health research at both the NIH and broader U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This list of FOAs is not exhaustive but is updated on a regular basis to include funding opportunities from the sources mentioned above. For additional NIH-related funding opportunity information, you may visit the NIH Funding Opportunities page.

The following funding opportunities can be sorted across each column header. Click the specific column heading in the table to modify how the information is listed.

Title Announcement Number Issuing Organization Opening Date Closing Date
Healthy Start Supplement: Community-Based Doulas HRSA-22-148 HRSA 4/1/2022 5/31/2022
Statewide Perinatal Quality Collaboratives CDC-RFA-DP22-2207 CDC 4/6/2022 6/6/2022
State Maternal Health Innovation & Data Capacity Program HRSA-22-149 HSRA 4/13/2022 6/13/2022
Research to Practice Center Grants for Adolescent Health Promotion in Order to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy PA-PHE-22-001 HHS-OPHS 4/5/2022 6/14/2022
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Evaluation and Research Grants PA-PHE-22-002 HHS-OPHS 4/6/2022 6/14/2022
Preventing Maternal Mortality: Supporting Maternal Mortality Review Committees CDC-RFA-DP22-2211 CDC 4/21/2022 6/20/2022
Maternity Group Home Program HHS-2022-ACF-ACYF-YZ-0063 ACF 4/27/20222 6/27/2022
Improving Maternal Health through Addressing Endometriosis, Fibroids, and/or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome WH-AST-22-001 HHS-OPHS 4/29/2022 7/7/2022
Closing the Gap with Social Determinants of Health Accelerator Plans CDC-RFA-DP22-2210 HHS-CDC-NCCDPHP 5/9/2022 7/8/2022
Reducing Maternal Deaths Due To Substance Use Disorder WH-AST-22-003 HHS-OPHS 5/5/2022 7/11/2022
Violence Against Women and Substance Use Prevention Initiative WH-AST-22-004 HHS-OPHS 5/11/2022 7/13/2022
Research to Practice Center Grants for Adolescent Health Promotion in Order to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy PA-PHE-22-001 HHS-OPHS 4/6/2022 7/14/2022
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): IMPROVE Initiative: Implementation Science to Advance Maternal Health and Maternal Health Equity NOT-OD-22-125 OD 6/5/2022 7/17/2022
NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network: Clinical Centers (UG1 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-HD-23-016 NICHD 7/12/2022 8/12/2022
NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network: Data Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-HD-23-017 NICHD 7/12/2022 8/12/2022
Notice of Special Interest: Advancing the Understanding, Prevention, and Management of Infections Transmitted from Women to their Infants NOT-HD-19-021 NICHD 9/20/2019 9/8/2022
Notice of Special Interest: Research to Improve Pre-Pregnancy Care and Enhance Healthy Birth Intervals NOT-HD-19-019 NICHD 9/4/2019 9/8/2022
NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PAR-20-240 NINDS 12/25/2020 9/27/2022
NLM Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities (G08 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PAR-20-283 NLM 9/23/2020 10/22/2022
Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics (MPRINT) Translational Research Resource Platform (TRRP) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) NOT-HD-22-013 NICHD 7/1/2022 11/1/2022
Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries (R21/R33 - Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-21-303 FIC 10/15/2021 12/10/2022
Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-20-300 NICHD 11/10/2020 12/10/2022
Urgent Award: COVID-19 Mental Health Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-22-112 NIMH 3/25/2022 12/24/2022
Urgent Award: COVID-19 Mental Health Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-22-113 NIMH 3/25/2022 12/24/2022
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research on the Health of Women of Understudied, Underrepresented and Underreported (U3) Populations (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional) NOT-OD-22-031 ORWH 1/31/2022 2/1/2023
Pilot Practice-based Research for Primary Care Suicide Prevention (R34 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-MH-22-120 NIMH 5/20/2022 2/22/2023
Health Services Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-20-310 NIMHD 10/27/2020 3/28/2023
Dyadic Interpersonal Processes and Biopsychosocial Outcomes (R01 - Basic Experimental Studies with Humans) PAR-21-280 OPPNET 7/9/2021 5/8/2023
Dyadic Interpersonal Processes and Biopsychosocial Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) PAR-21-281 OPPNET 7/9/2021 5/8/2023
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Small Business Initiatives for Innovative Diagnostic Technology for Improving Outcomes for Maternal Health NOT-EB-21-001 NIBIB 2/22/2021 4/6/2023
Special Emphasis Notice (SEN): AHRQ Announces Interest in Health Services Research to Advance Health Equity NOT-HS-21-014 AHRQ 4/29/2021 4/27/2023
Fertility Status as a Marker for Overall Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-20-281 NICHD 9/19/2020 6/20/2023
Fertility Status as a Marker for Overall Health (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PAR-20-282 NICHD 9/19/2020 6/20/2023
Research to Improve Native American Health (R21 Clinical Trials Optional) PAR-20-214 NIDA 4/17/2021 9/8/2023
Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-20-238 NIDA 4/17/2021 9/8/2023
Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan (R01 Clinical Trials Optional) PAR-21-311 FIC 11/9/2021 12/12/2023
Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-21-319 FIC 11/9/2021 12/12/2023
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Promoting Vaccine Access, Acceptance and Uptake among Children, Adolescents, Pregnant and Lactating Women, and Persons with Disabilities NOT-HD-21-038 NICHD 9/8/2021 5/8/2024
Reproductive Health, Pregnancy, and Parenting among Women with Disabilities NOT-HD-21-025 NICHD 4/27/2021 5/31/2024
The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. (R01 Clinical Trials Optional) PAR-21-275 NIMHD 6/25/2021 9/8/2024
Notice of Special Interest: Public Policy Effects on Alcohol-, Cannabis-, Tobacco-, and Other Drug-Related Behaviors and Outcomes NOT-AA-21-028 NIAAA 7/5/2021 9/8/2024
Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-21-358 NIMHD 5/5/2022 5/8/2025