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Mission Statement
The NINR Mission is to lead nursing research to solve pressing health challenges and inform practice and policy, optimizing health for all.
Interest Areas
General Topics
NINR prioritizes community-engaged research with a focus on intervention and implementation science that explores the following research priority areas:
Optimize health for all by addressing differences in distribution of health and disease. Research that seeks to understand and intervene on the factors that limit the optimization of health across and within populations.
Identify effective approaches to improve health and well-being by addressing the conditions in which people are born, grow, learn, work, play, live, and age. Research that examines causal pathways and mechanisms through which the conditions of daily life positively or negatively influence health and social risks and protective factors that are downstream effects of higher-level conditions of daily life.
Identify and address pressing health challenges within and across populations and communities. Etiologic research that aims to identify risk and protective factors; applied and translational approaches that prospectively develop strategies; and systems approaches that examine a phenomenon as a network of interconnected elements that form an integrated whole.
Intervene at multiple levels to prevent and manage chronic and other diseases to promote health. Research that spans the continuum from primordial prevention that targets underlying risks to tertiary prevention that aims to reduce symptoms, severity, and progression.
Address the holistic needs of individuals, families, and communities through effective clinical and organizational solutions that leverage nursing research to optimize care delivery. Research that aims to design new or evaluate existing models of care through comparative-effectiveness studies, pragmatic trials, implementation science, and other designs.
Invest in the future of nurse scientists. NINR supports trainees at all career levels, including individual and institutional training grants for doctoral students and career development awards for early-stage investigators.
Assistance Listing
Assistance listings are detailed public descriptions of federal programs used across government agencies that provide grants, loans, scholarships, insurance, and other types of assistance awards. They are maintained in the System for Award Management (SAM) and can be used to search for opportunities in Grants.gov.
View NINR Assistance Listing Numbers
- 93.361 - Nursing Research
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Funding Opportunities and Notices
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ICO Funding Policies and Considerations
Visit NIH Fiscal Policies for NIH-wide information on appropriations and other budgetary information (salary limits, stipends, tuition/fees) and Funding Decisions to learn about NIH's consistent and unified approach for making funding decisions.
NINR Funding Policies and Considerations builds on that general information.
Additional Information by Funding Category
Administrative Supplements
NINR will not accept Administrative Supplement applications in the first or last year of the parent award.
Dues dates for NINR’s consideration of investigator-initiated Administrative Supplement applications are annually on November 1 and April 1, and only for an amount less than the parent award.
Program Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Grants Management Branch Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Conferences and Meetings
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) will accept applications from institutions or organizations to support research conferences, symposia, workshops, and/or meetings that align with our mission and strategic priorities and serve to advance the identified area of science.
- The NINR encourages enhanced participation of early career scientists and trainees.
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with appropriate NINR staff when considering a R13 application.
- Applications should aim to advance a specific scientific topic, strategy, or methodology.
- Applications focused on clinical knowledge, nurse education, or professional development will not be considered.
Scientific Program Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Small Business
Areas of interest include innovative small business proposals as they relate to NINR research priority areas of intervening on the conditions of daily life that influence health, using multilevel or multi-sectoral approaches to prevent chronic conditions and improve the outcomes of those with chronic conditions, promoting healthy school environments, meaningful engagement of communities at all stages of the research process, and integrating technological advancements, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI), to streamline and improve healthcare outcomes.
- Development of digital health technologies that explicitly aim to reduce health disparities in prevention and management of chronic disease
- Development of digital health technologies that address the conditions where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks to advance disease prevention and health promotion
- Projects proposing clinical trials with a large number of participants
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