Key Dates

Related Announcements

• March 6, 2024 - Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved Communities (U34 Clinical Trials Required). See NOFO RFA-AA-24-006. 

Issued by

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Purpose

This Notice informs potential applicants of the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) participation, effective June 19, 2024, in the notice of funding opportunity RFA-AA-24-006 "Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved Communities (U34 Clinical Trials Required)".

The following text has been added to reflect the NCCIH's participation in this NOFO:

Part 1. Overview Information

Components of Participating Organizations

National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Assistance Listing Number(s)

93.213  

Part 2. Section I. Funding Opportunity Description

Specific Areas of Research Interest for Participating Organizations:

NCCIH Areas of Interest: 

The mission of NCCIH is to determine, through rigorous scientific investigation, the fundamental science, usefulness, and safety of complementary and integrative health approaches and their roles in improving health and health care. Examples of complementary and integrative health approaches include those with physical and/or psychological therapeutic inputs, often called mind and body interventions (e.g., acupuncture, yoga, tai chi, qi gong, meditation/mindfulness, hypnosis, music therapy, art therapy, and massage), and approaches with dietary or nutritional therapeutic inputs (e.g., special diets). Applications will not be considered by NCCIH if they propose trials of regulated products (e.g., dietary supplements, devices, or biologics) for indications that have not been approved or cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. NCCIH will only support applications that include complementary and integrative health approaches. As discussed in NCCIH’s Strategic Plan, expanding the portfolio of research on complementary and integrative health approaches to address and eliminate health disparities across the lifespan is a high priority. In addition, a central focus of NCCIH’s Strategic Plan is whole person health, which emphasizes that health exists across multiple interconnected body systems and domains, including biological, behavioral, social, and environmental.

Investigators are encouraged to review the NCCIH Clinical Research Toolbox to learn more about NCCIH's requirements, policies, guidelines, and required templates for clinical trials. Applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposed research interest with the designated NCCIH Scientific/Research Contact listed below to confirm its relevance to the NCCIH mission areas.

NCCIH welcomes pilot studies to prepare for future larger trials. The link, https://www.nccih.nih.gov/grants/mind-and-body-clinical-trials-funding-opportunities, provides more information about NCCIH funding for intervention refinement and optimization.

Areas of interest to NCCIH include but are not limited to:

• Trials that evaluate implementation strategies for adopting and delivering evidence-based mind and body interventions to prevent and address chronic stress among racial and ethnic minority women and girls in diverse settings (e.g., schools, criminal justice, primary health care, community health care centers, rural communities, faith-based organizations) to reduce risk of multi-morbidity and enhance whole person health, including (but not limited to) the promotion of physical functioning, sleep, resilience, pain management, mental health and well-being.
• Trials that evaluate implementation strategies to promote adherence to care using complementary and integrative health approaches.
• Hybrid effectiveness implementation trials that evaluate a combination of effectiveness and implementation outcomes for adopting and delivering promising complementary and integrative health interventions in diverse settings to prevent and/or intervene on risk or protective factors associated with multi-morbidity and whole person health for underserved racial and ethnic minority women and girls.
• Trials that assess multilevel factors – including social determinants of heath- which impact implementation of complementary and integrative health approaches to mitigate risk of multi-morbidity and/or enhance protective factors to improve whole person health for underserved racial and ethnic minority women and girls – including sexual gender minority and immigrants.
• Studies that leverage health information technology tools (e.g., mobile apps, wearables, and other devices) to implement complementary and integrative health interventions to reduce risk of multi-morbidity among racial and ethnic minority women and girls.
• Studies that assess novel continuum care models to implement complementary health approaches in conjunction with conventional care therapies to address risk of multi-morbidity and enhance wellness for racial and ethnic minority women and girls.

Part 2. Section II. Award Information

 Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards:

NCCIH, $300K in total costs, one award

Part 2. Section VII. Agency Contacts

Scientific/Research Contact(s)

Beda Jean-Francois, Ph.D. 
National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Phone: 202-313-2144
Email: beda.jean-francois@nih.gov

Financial/Grants Management Contact(s) 

Debbie Chen
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Phone: 301-594-3788
Email: debbie.chen@nih.gov  

 All other aspects of the NOFO remain the same.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Beda Jean-Francois, Ph.D. 
National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Phone: 202-313-2144
Email: beda.jean-francois@nih.gov