Public Venue-Approved Concepts

Approved Concepts for Requests for Applications (RFAs), Program Announcements (PAs), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Specific information on each initiative, including receipt date, will be available once the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) has been published. This page provides links to cleared concepts for solicitations and presents key information about the basic purpose, scope, and objectives of the concepts.

This listing of concepts is meant to provide the earliest possible alert to potential applicants in order to maximize application preparation time. While NIMH plans to proceed with these initiatives, their publication and timing is not certain and depends on sufficient funds being available. The resultant FOA may differ from the concepts.

For more information, see the NIH Guide’s list of published RFAs and PAs and NIMH Contracts.

Please send questions regarding specific concepts to the program contacts listed in the concept description. Please address other comments to Jean Noronha at jnoronha@mail.nih.gov.

Concepts

Implementation Science for the Mental Health Gap Action Program: January 15, 2010
To conduct comparative research on the implementation and scale-up of evidence-based mental health interventions in low- and middle-income settings.
Study of Health Outcomes in Autistic Children and Their Families: January 15, 2010
The goal of this initiative is to describe the health and health care trajectories of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families, and to evaluate the feasibility of using a large population-based database for research on risk factors for ASD.
Development of a Clinically Useful Classification of Mental Disorders for Global Primary Care: January 15, 2010
The goal of this initiative is to develop a clinically useful classification of mental disorders to identify people in need of mental health services in primary care settings, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Blueprint Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Training Initiative: Increasing Diversity: July 31, 2009
The goal of this initiative is to support the development of collaborative undergraduate research education/training programs with the purpose of increasing the pool of students who are well-prepared and motivated to enter Ph.D. programs in the neurosciences. This initiative will target undergraduate students who are from diverse backgrounds (i.e., students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the biomedical sciences). This initiative will be supported through the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, consisting of 16 NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices that collectively support neuroscience research.
Seeding National Mentoring Networks to Enhance Diversity of the Mental Health Research Workforce: July 31, 2009
The goal of this initiative is to enable the conceptualization, planning, and piloting of prototypes for national infrastructures to mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds who are conducting research relevant to the mission of the NIMH.
Identifying Modifiable Risk Factors for Suicidality: October 14, 2008
This initiative will evaluate selected samples of soldiers across all phases of United States Army Service, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, to identify modifiable risk factors, mediators, and moderators of suicide-related behaviors, as well as protective factors. The goal of this research is to evaluate multiple determinants of suicide related-events, for the purpose of developing effective strategies for mitigating suicide risk and preventing suicide behaviors.
Development of Innovative Interventions for Adult Anorexia Nervosa: March 12, 2007
This initiative would encourage pilot intervention studies to develop novel, innovative treatments for Anorexia Nervosa (AN) in older adolescents and adults.

Related Information

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