Key Dates

Related Announcements

• September 19, 2022 - Notice of Information: Announcing NIH Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program: Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Intervention Initiative (CHESI) Research Opportunity Announcement (ROA) and Technical Assistance Webinar. See Notice NOT-RM-23-004.
• NOT-RM-23-002 - Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS): Coordination Center (U24 - Clinical Trial Optional)

Issued by

Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund)

Purpose

Purpose

This Common Fund initiative through the NIH Office of the Director, Office of Strategic Coordination (OD-OSC) intends to use Other Transactions (OT) to develop, implement, assess, and disseminate community-led, health equity structural interventions (CHESIs) that leverages multisectoral partnerships to advance health equity. . As part of the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program, these CHESI projects will intervene upon structural factors that produce and perpetuate health disparities. This goal will be accomplished in three phases: 1) the intervention planning, development, and partnership phase; 2) the intervention implementation phase; and 3) the intervention assessment, dissemination and sustainability phase.

This Notice is intended to allow applicants additional time to begin making arrangements to develop responsive Letters of Intent (and applications if selected).

Research Initiative Details

The Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program is intended to make greater advances in promoting health and preventing disease among disproportionately impacted populations. ComPASS aims to be catalytic and cross-cutting in its integration of multisectoral partnerships, comprised of community organizations; local, state, Tribal, and federal governments; academic institutions and research organizations; and the private sector to address structural inequities that enable health disparities to persist. The program is transformative in its focus on structural health equity interventions given the evidenced impact of structural inequities on health outcomes.

ComPASS Goals and Objectives

The first overall goal of the ComPASS Program is to catalyze, develop, and rigorously assess CHESIs that leverage multisectoral partnerships to advance health equity. A second overall goal of ComPASS is to develop a new health equity research model for community-led, multisectoral structural intervention research across NIH and other federal agencies

The Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Interventions (CHESIs) will develop, implement, assess, and disseminate CHESIs in partnership with research organizations and other collaborators, by intervening upon structural factors that produce and perpetuate health disparities.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Yvonne Owens Ferguson, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC)
Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
Office of the Director (OD), NIH
Telephone: 301-827-7136
Email: [email protected]

Kristina Faulk
Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC)
Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
Office of the Director (OD), NIH
Telephone: 301.402.9185
Email: [email protected]