Reducing the Duration of Untreated Psychosis in the United States
Deadline: February 5, 2016
This FOA aims to support research that will (1) investigate early links in the FEP case identification and referral chain in the United States, and (2) develop feasible strategies for reducing delays in early detection, speedy referral, and rapid initiation of stage-specific treatment. The target population is not limited to first episode schizophrenia, but includes all persons experiencing a first episode of psychosis regardless of presenting DSM-IV diagnosis.
Research On Autism And Autism Spectrum Disorders
Deadline: February 5, 2016
The sponsor provides support for research designed to elucidate the etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and optimal means of service delivery in relation to autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Clinical Studies of Mental Illness Not Involving Treatment Development, Efficacy, or Effectiveness Trials
Deadline: February 5, 2016
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to support collaborative clinical studies, not involving treatment development, efficacy, or effectiveness trials. Primary areas of focus include mental health genetics, studies of biomarker development or refinement, and mental illness research (e.g. psychopathology studies, neurodevelopmental trajectories of psychopathology; studies in which an intervention of known efficacy is used as a manipulation to understand pathophysiology).
Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice
Deadline: February 12, 2016
The Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice is designed to foster the advancement of social justice through participation in health care advocacy work that focuses on the unique challenges facing many communities of color. The fellowship is a year-long, full-time, salaried position at Families USA. One fellow will be selected for the twelve-month Fellowship.
Kazanjian (Calvin K.) Economics Foundation, Inc.
Deadline: February 15, 2016
The Foundation has an abiding interest in elevating the nation’s understanding of the need for economic education. It will support programs that raise various public’s participation in economic education and/or create a demand for greater economic literacy; The application of new strategies for teaching economics including on-line and web-based instruction is of interest to the Foundation; Projects, policy studies, or programs that encourage measurement of economic understanding.
Kinkade Grants
Deadline: February 15, 2016
Funded projects typically focus on linguistic analysis, social-cultural anthropology, ethnolinguistics, or sociolinguistics. Especially appropriate are field studies that address cultural expressive systems, such as music, language, dance, mythology, world view, folk taxonomy, art, intellectual life, and religion. Also appropriate are projects focusing on cultural and linguistic forms in modern contexts, for example, traditional environmental knowledge or social organization.
Midwest Sociological Society
Deadline: February 15, 2016
The MSS Scholarship Development Committee offers research grants up to $2,500. The sponsor seeks to fund high impact proposals.
National Cooperative Drug Discovery/Development Groups (NCDDG) for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction
Deadline: February 23, 2016
NIMH, NIAAA and NIDA invite applications to create multidisciplinary research groups or partnerships for the discovery of pharmacological agents to treat and to study mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction.
Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Deadline: February 29, 2016
Successful proposals will, within the financial resources provided by the award, construct such databases and/or relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences.