MINORITY HEALTH PROFESSIONS FOUNDATION PROGRAMS
AND OPERATIONS
| Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Partnership Overview |
The Cooperative Agreement between the Minority Health
Professions Foundation (MHPF) and the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) has significantly advanced collaboration between
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), minority health
professionals and underserved communities. Our partnership is a
significant response to national attempts to curb the growing disparity
in the health status of African Americans and other minority populations.
Currently, the MHPF is participating in its third five-year cooperative
agreement with the CDC, and projects supported under these Agreements
have grown substantially from the first award in 1989.
This Agreement focuses on projects ranging from disease prevention
research and health promotion, to professional advancement and career
development programs for undergraduate and graduate students as
well as faculty. The collaboration and cooperation being made possible
through this partnership have clear benefits to the CDC, the MHPF
member institutions and the community-at-large. Together we have:
• Increased minority awareness of available health professions
training and education resources.
• Contributed to the retention of minority health professionals
in minority communities.
• Expanded and increased culturally sensitive population-specific
health research.
The development, execution and management of the research, education
and training, as well as the community outreach projects funded
under this Agreement, are highly productive. These projects, which
play a key role in increasing and expanding the knowledge-level
of all healthcare professionals, include:
• Chlamydia Infection and Reactive Arthritis in Jamaica.
• LIFE Initiative to Address the Global AIDS Pandemic.
• Knollwood Community Health Survey.
• Dr. James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Program.
• Protease Inhibitor Serum Levels, Adherence & Resistance.
• Development of a Regional Research Center for Minority Health
and a Regional Medical &
Allied Health Education Center.
• Cultural Competence in the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted
Diseases.
Overall, the MHPF’s CDC funded projects are making a substantial
contribution in advancing scientific knowledge that will improve
the health status of minorities, underserved and poor Americans.
In addition, our efforts have helped prepare more minorities for
careers in the health professions, broadened and increased research
in minority health and developed intervention and prevention programs
specifically designed to improve the health status of minorities,
the poor and underserved.
| Potential
Extramural Projects |
Potential Extramural Projects (PEPs) are used by the Centers for
Disease Control & Prevention(CDC) to request proposals on topics
that are of interest to the Centers, Institutes & Offices (CIOs)
from cooperative agreement partners. Each year, the CDC identifies
PEPs and shares them with partners to distribute to their prospective
members. The identified PEPs do not have committed funding, but
indicate that CIOs have an interest in pursuing these activities.
Individuals interested in responding to the PEPs should have a clear
understanding of what is requested prior to submitting a Letter
of Intent (LOI) to the requesting partner. ALL LOIs must
be submitted electronically. A downloadable LOI form word
document can be found on the Programs
main page. Please download, type in information and email to the
address found on the form.
If a researcher does not identify a particular area of interest
in the PEPs, but has an idea that may be of interest to the CDC,
he/she may submit an investigator initiated LOI. This type of LOI
is based on the investigator’s own research interests. The
research idea can be in the areas of prevention, public health or
any other area that may be of interest to the funding agency.
The LOI review has been changed to a peer review process that complies
with the Department of Health and Human Services recommendations
based on the White House Memorandum (OSTP & OMB) May 6, 1994.
The document states, "Each Federal R&D Agency is expected
to significantly enhance the utilization of merit review with peer
evaluation and competitive selection in Federal R&D Projects.
Research not subject to merit review with peer evaluation is expected
to decline and funding in these areas should be moved into areas
of merit reviewed research with peer evaluations."
| MHPF
LOI Process (New Applications) |
Applicants interested in responding to the PEPs that have been identified
by the CDC should submit a LOI electronically to the MHPF Program
Manager specified on the form. Once the LOIs have been submitted
and reviewed, the funding agency will notify the MHPF of which applicants
have been invited to submit a full grant application. The researcher
will then be notified whether their LOI has/has not been invited
to submit a full application. For those researchers that have been
invited, please complete the PHS 398 grant application and submit
it to the MHPF electronically. Deadline to submit the application
will be given with the program announcement.
The PHS 398 form can be found at the following site.
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| MHPF
Continuation Process |
All current researchers must submit a continuation application in
order to receive funding for their prospective projects for the
next fiscal year. Failure to do so will result in the project not
receiving funding. Please submit the PHS 2590 continuation application
electronically to the MHPF. Deadline to submit the application will
be given with the program announcement.
The PHS 2590 form can be found at the following site.
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All continuation applications will be forwarded to the funding agency
and each researcher will be notified once funding is received. If
a request is made by the funding agency to revise a previously submitted
budget, that request must be fulfilled before the award can be issued.
Once the revised budget has been approved, an award letter will
be forwarded to the researcher.
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