Telehealth Funding Opportunities
USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant
The US Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service is accepting applications under the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant program for fiscal year (FY) 2024, subject to the availability of funding. Based on FY 2023 appropriated funding, RUS estimates that approximately $60 million will be available for FY 2024. All applicants are responsible for any expenses incurred in developing their applications. Applications must be submitted through buff.ly/2E8nFqg and received no later than April 29, 2024 to be eligible.
RUS encourages applicants to consider projects that will advance the following key priorities:
- Assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities and through improved infrastructure.
- Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to USDA programs and benefits from USDA-funded projects; and
- Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities.
Funding Agency: US Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service
Application Dates: April 29, 2024
Funding will support innovative research to develop, test and evaluate multi-level/multi-component strategies (including models of health care) to effectively adapt and implement comprehensive clinical care for individuals with Type 2 diabetes mellitus from populations with health disparities concordant with recommended and evidence-based guidelines.
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Application Dates: October 5, 2021 – June 5, 2024
Funding will support innovative research that will inform and support the delivery of high-quality, continuously improving mental health services to benefit the greatest number of individuals with, or at risk for developing, a mental illness.
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Application Dates: October 5, 2021 – June 5, 2024
Funding will support innovative, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary research designed to study the effective adaptation, integration, and implementation of recommended guidelines of care of persons with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) from populations that experience health disparities. Projects would be expected to involve more than one component and/or more than one level of influence within existing or newly proposed health care models.
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Application Dates: March 18, 2022 – June 5, 2024
Funding will support studies that develop and test the effectiveness of strategies for implementation and sustainable delivery of evidence-based mental health treatments and services to improve mental health outcomes for underserved populations in low-resourced settings in the United States. Studies should identify and use innovative approaches to remediate barriers to provision, receipt, and/or benefit from evidence-based practices (EBPs) and generate new information about factors integral to achieving equity in mental health outcomes for underserved populations.
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Application Dates: October 5, 2021 - June 5, 2024
Funding is research projects that test promising digital healthcare interventions aimed at improving the quality of healthcare services delivery at the point of care. Research should be designed to test promising digital healthcare solutions that enable or facilitate technology-driven, point of care process solutions that use advanced analytics, patient-centered clinician and patient facing digital healthcare technologies, or clinical decision support systems to improve quality and health outcomes at the point of care. A theoretical framework should inform the research study and incorporate the use of care models when appropriate.
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Application Dates: February 9, 2021 - July 18, 2024
Funding is for research to explore and develop telehealth methods and strategies for diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and population analysis in individuals living with HIV and substance use disorder (SUD).
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Application Dates: February 9, 2021 - July 18, 2024
This funding opportunity supports health services research projects, including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Rural and frontier areas are priority populations.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Application Dates: October 10, 2026
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
The Hearst Foundations assist leading regional hospitals, medical centers and specialized medical institutions providing access to healthcare for high-need populations. In response to the shortage of healthcare professionals necessary to meet the country’s evolving healthcare demands, the Foundations also fund programs designed to enhance skills and increase the number of practitioners and educators across roles in healthcare. The Foundations also support medical research and the development of young investigators to help create a broad and enduring impact on the nation’s health. The board meets to approve grants in March, June, September and December. The average time from proposal submission to grant award is six months. Click Here to Apply.
Funding Agency: Hearst Foundations
Application Dates: Accepted year round.
Three recent enacted laws that, in whole or in part, address the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic provided both direct and indirect broadband funding for American Indian tribes, tribal colleges and universities, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education, and the Indian Health Service (collectively, “tribal entities”). They are
- the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, P.L. 116-136;
- Division N of Title IX of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA, 2021), P.L. 116-260; and
- the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), P.L. 117-2.
This In Focus lists major broadband programs funded by these three laws as well as potential additional funding in subsequently proposed legislation.
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