Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-036
Key Dates
Release Date: January 19, 2017
PA-17-098
Issued by
Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives: Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO)
Purpose
This Notice is to inform potential applications that the following language is corrected regarding scientific study:
Part 2. Full Text of Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Currently reads:
Specific Areas of Research Interest
This FOA calls for research that will enrich scientific understanding of how sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or being born with DSD/Intersex conditions relate to health and health risks, perceptions and expectations about health, health behaviors, and barriers and access to health-related services. This FOA also calls for research on how the household and family structures (both family of origin and family of choice) of SGM individuals influence the health, development, coming-out process, and wellbeing of children born and/or raised in these households and families. This knowledge will also guide new directions for studies of the health and wellbeing of all populations across the lifespan.
Appropriate topics/studies for these supplements include, but are not limited to, those listed below:
Addition of SGM individuals to a study which either originally excluded them or has not enrolled enough SGM participants to make any meaningful comparisons between groups; studies need to have sufficient power to allow for meaningful comparisons
Expansion of an ongoing SGM study focused on one group to add another; sample sizes need to be powered to allow for meaningful comparisons
Expansion of questionnaires administered in any setting where it is relevant to address issues of sexual attraction, sexual behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression
Assessment of reliability and validity of measures relevant to sexual attraction, sexual behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression
Methodological innovations to improve the recruitment and retention of SGM individuals in any research initiative
Attitudes regarding the possibility that we may someday identify genes that influence sexual orientation or gender identity and someday be able to develop ways to change the impact these genes have on behavior, and the relationship between such attitudes and the risk of discrimination and stigmatization.
Modified to read:
Specific Areas of Research Interest
This FOA calls for research that will enrich scientific understanding of how sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or being born with DSD/Intersex conditions relate to health and health risks, perceptions and expectations about health, health behaviors, and barriers and access to health-related services. This FOA also calls for research on how the household and family structures (both family of origin and family of choice) of SGM individuals influence the health, development, coming-out process, and wellbeing of children born and/or raised in these households and families. This knowledge will also guide new directions for studies of the health and wellbeing of all populations across the lifespan.
Appropriate topics/studies for these supplements include, but are not limited to, those listed below:
Addition of SGM individuals to a study which either originally excluded them or has not enrolled enough SGM participants to make any meaningful comparisons between groups; studies need to have sufficient power to allow for meaningful comparisons
Expansion of an ongoing SGM study focused on one group to add another; sample sizes need to be powered to allow for meaningful comparisons
Expansion of questionnaires administered in any setting where it is relevant to address issues of sexual attraction, sexual behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression
Assessment of reliability and validity of measures relevant to sexual attraction, sexual behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression
Methodological innovations to improve the recruitment and retention of SGM individuals in any research initiative
Ethical, legal or social science research on the implications of genetic and other research findings on SGM populations.
All other aspects of this FOA remain unchanged.
Inquiries
Please direct all inquiries to:
Karen Parker
Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office
Telephone:301 402-9852
Email: klparker@mail.nih.gov
and Human Services (HHS)
