Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA AG 20 031
This funding opportunity, titled "Research Education: Short Courses on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" (RFA-AG-20-031), is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research education grant designed to build workforce capacity in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) within the behavioral and social sciences. The core idea is to fund the development and delivery of short, intensive courses that help established aging researchers expand into AD/ADRD by giving them practical disease-specific knowledge and hands-on familiarity with key research resources, datasets, and methods. Rather than supporting clinical trials, this FOA focuses on education and research skill-building that can accelerate high-quality, non-trial research contributions in dementia.
The intended audience is behavioral and social scientists who already have a foundation in aging research and are positioned to pivot or broaden their work toward AD/ADRD with targeted training. The FOA highlights a wide range of relevant disciplines, including health economics and labor economics, health services research, healthcare policy and broader public policy, demography, sociology, social epidemiology, psychology, and social neuroscience. In practice, the short-course format is meant to reduce barriers to entry for researchers who are capable of contributing but may not yet have detailed knowledge about dementia etiology, progression, measurement, caregiving contexts, or specialized AD/ADRD research infrastructure. A successful course under this FOA would typically translate complex AD/ADRD concepts into accessible, research-ready content for scholars whose primary toolkits come from population, social, behavioral, economic, and policy research traditions.
The FOA emphasizes several priority areas where behavioral and social science perspectives are especially valuable. These include dementia care research, dementia caregiver research, and cognitive and dementia epidemiology, all of which depend heavily on real-world settings, longitudinal observation, and accurate characterization of functional and cognitive change. It also prioritizes work on behavioral and social pathways that may influence AD/ADRD risk and outcomes, such as lifestyle patterns, stress and mental health, social engagement, education, work and retirement dynamics, and access to care. Another major theme is the role of social, contextual, environmental, and institutional factors, which can include neighborhood conditions, housing stability, social services, long-term care systems, healthcare delivery models, and policy environments that shape diagnosis, treatment, caregiving burden, and quality of life.
The opportunity also calls attention to early psychological changes that may precede AD/ADRD onset, reflecting the growing interest in prodromal stages and early indicators that can be studied using behavioral measures and longitudinal designs. Prevention of AD/ADRD is another explicit focus, including prevention strategies that can be evaluated through social and behavioral research lenses (for example, interventions that modify risk-related behaviors, improve cardiovascular health management through systems-level changes, or address social isolation). Disparities are highlighted as well, with the FOA encouraging training and methods that strengthen research on unequal dementia-related outcomes across populations and the structural factors that drive those gaps, including differences by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geography, and access to supportive services. Finally, the FOA explicitly values training on research resources and methods for studying determinants and impacts of AD/ADRD, which can include guidance on measurement of cognition and function, linkage of survey and administrative data, use of cohort studies and harmonized datasets, quasi-experimental and causal inference approaches, and ethical and practical considerations when working with cognitively impaired populations and caregivers.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary grant in the health category, offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through NIH, with assistance listing under CFDA 93.866. The award ceiling is listed as $150,000, and the agency anticipated making about three awards under this announcement. The FOA was originally created on August 14, 2019, with an original closing date of January 21, 2020, indicating it was a time-bound solicitation for that cycle. Even so, the structure and priorities provide a clear template for what NIH sought: targeted, high-impact educational programming that quickly equips behavioral and social scientists to produce stronger, more informed AD/ADRD research.
Eligibility is broad and reflects the educational nature of the program. Eligible applicants include various levels of government (state, county, city/township, and special districts), public and private institutions of higher education, independent school districts, federally recognized tribal governments and certain tribal organizations, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, nonprofits (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)), for-profit organizations (excluding small businesses and also including small businesses as eligible), and other entities as described in NIH eligibility language. This broad eligibility is consistent with the goal of supporting training programs that might be housed at universities, research institutes, policy organizations, or other entities with the capacity to convene expert faculty and recruit appropriate trainees.
Overall, the grant opportunity is best understood as an effort to speed up the flow of behavioral and social science expertise into the AD/ADRD research ecosystem. By funding short courses rather than long training programs, NIH aimed to create practical, scalable educational experiences that help experienced aging researchers quickly gain the dementia-specific literacy, methods, and resource awareness needed to launch or strengthen research projects in caregiving, epidemiology, prevention, disparities, and the social and policy contexts that shape dementia risk and lived experience.Apply for RFA AG 20 031
- The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Research Education: Short Courses on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.866.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 14, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 21, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $150,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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