DoW Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health, Health Services Research Award
Funds health services research on traumatic brain injury and psychological health, including comparative effectiveness, implementation, and data-science validation studies for eligible applicants under the DoD program.
⚑ Applications must include clinical research or clinical trials; basic/preclinical/animal research is prohibited. · Preliminary data are required. · For research prospectively enrolling human subjects, CBPR approaches are required. · Early-Career Investigator Partnering Option allows two PIs; if selected, each PI receives a separate award.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 58 good | portfolio topic: public_health (primary); signature methods: policy analysis, community engaged; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds evaluation research; biomedical core — IPPRA health lane is communication/crisis/policy (capped); clinical-trial/biomedical core — IPPRA angle is policy/community (capped) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 50 partial | technical depth: substantial; funds evaluation research (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 15 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) Health Services Research Award (HSRA) intends to fund high-impact research that bridges the gap between research, practice and policy by building real-world evidence on how interventions, clinical practices/guidelines, or policies can be deployed to targeted populations at the appropriate time. In order to meet this intent, the mechanism supports health services research approaches.
Distinctive Features:
· The HSRA will support health services research approaches that include comparative effectiveness research; implementation of interventions, diagnostics and clinical practices/guidelines; and validation of data science insights.
· Applications must include clinical research or clinical trials . Prospective or retrospective clinical research or clinical trials involving human subjects, human subject data/records, and human anatomical substances are allowed.
· Preliminary data are required.
· Basic, preclinical and animal research are prohibited.
· For research prospectively enrolling human subjects, inclusion of community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches is required.
· Early-Career Investigator Partnering Option : This option accommodates two Principal Investigators (PIs), one of which is an Early-Career Investigator. If recommended for funding, each PI will receive a separate award.
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View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Teresa M Parker-Reeser Grants Officer <help@eBRAP.org>
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