Medical Forensic Access Initiative

WH-AST-26-004 · Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

public health biomedical clinical social services tribal indigenous Health

Closes: 2026-07-27 · 20 d
Award ceiling: $1,000,000
Award floor: $500,000
Program funding: $1,000,000
Expected awards: 5
Cost sharing: No
Posted: 2026-06-25
Instrument: Grant

Characterization · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-07

This grant funds practical, data-driven projects that help states, Tribal communities, healthcare systems, or community-based organizations measure and report access barriers and service gaps for medical forensic examinations for women and girl survivors of sexual assault.

Funds: evaluation research
University: direct
social behavioral: substantial
life biomedical: substantial
computational data: substantial

⚑ Focus is access assessment/reporting rather than direct clinical service delivery. · Eligibility is not stated in the notice.

Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules

IPPRA	92 strong	portfolio topic: public_health (primary); social/behavioral work is substantial; funds evaluation research
Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo)	40 partial	technical depth: substantial; funds evaluation research (capped)
Tom Love Innovation Hub	10 none	deep-tech content; no commercialization signal

Description

This notice solicits applications for practical, data-driven, and scalable projects that support States, Tribal communities, healthcare systems, or community-based organizations in collecting, analyzing, and reporting information related to access to medical forensic examinations for women and girl survivors of sexual assault. Projects funded under this initiative should identify barriers, service gaps, workforce shortages, geographic gaps, wait times, and system-level challenges impacting women and girl survivor access to timely, forensic healthcare services.

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