March 2020
On March 20, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) issued a notice of special interest to solicit applications for one-year supplemental grants for research on firearms injury and mortality prevention.
Current NIH grantees with funding through the R01 and R21 program are eligible to apply to expand their research to examine their ongoing awards for studying the underlying causes and evidence-based methods of prevention of firearm injury. Applications are due on May 15.
Research topics that could be funded under this notice include, among others:
The final FY 2020 appropriations language included $50 million for firearms injury and mortality research, split evenly between the Centers for Disease Control and NIH. AERA joined more than 200 organizations on a letter sent to House and Senate appropriations leaders on March 30 requesting that $50 million be included for public health research on firearm morbidity and mortality research in FY 2021.