Research & Funding Resources
- NCATS Funding & Collaboration Opportunities
- NICHD Active Funding Announcements and Notices | Covid Research and NHCID
- NIDILRR Grants.gov database (To identify NIDILRR opportunities, use the search terms NIDILRR.)
- NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Beginning in fiscal year 2026, NIH will no longer post NOFOs in the NIH Guide)
- TiDe Training in Diversity for Rehabilitation Research Education Program – Funding
Federal Government & Non-Government Links for Funding
AOTF lists these government and non-government links as a service to the occupational therapy community. This list is not meant to be all inclusive; updates and additional resources are welcomed and should be sent to research@aotf.org.
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) PCORI funds studies that can help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare choices in addition to healthcare delivery and disparities research.
- Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program (DRRP) This program funds knowledge translation, building capacity for minority research entities, individual research projects, and other work.
- Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Program (RERC) This program funds advanced engineering research and development of innovative technologies to solve rehabilitation problems or remove environmental barriers for people with disabilities.
- Switzer Research Fellowship Program This program provides grants for individuals to perform research on rehabilitation, independent living, and other experiences of people with disabilities.
- Field-Initiated Projects Program Rehabilitation Research (FIP) This program is investigator-initiated research with projects to generate new knowledge.
- Model Systems Program This program provides coordinated systems of rehabilitation care and conducts research on recovery and long-term outcomes for spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and burn injury.
- Advanced Rehabilitation Research and Training Program (ARRT) This program increases capacity for high-quality disability and rehabilitation research by supporting grants to institutions to provide advanced research training to individuals with doctorates or similar advanced degrees.
- Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) This program supports development of new ideas and projects useful to people with disabilities through grants to small business firms with strong research capabilities in science, engineering, or educational technology.
- Americans with Disabilities Act National Network This program funds 10 regional centers for providing information, training, and technical assistance to individuals, businesses, and agencies with rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Administration on Aging (AOA)
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Department of Defense (DOD)
- Dept of Education (DOE)
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Dept of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
- National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Funding opportunities
- Weekly updates for funding opportunities
- Investigator-initiated announcements
- Eligibility requirements
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- NIH RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) provides access to reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities, including information on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH supported research.
- NIH Regional seminars
- NIH Center for Scientific Review manages the review meetings, has resources including mock review meetings, early career reviewer programs, and YouTube videos.
- NIH Toolbox® for measurement and assessment tools
- NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research Mike Lauer blog that provides useful updated information on funding activities on the NIH campus:
- Individual Institute Links:
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) NCCIH conducts and supports research, and provides information about complementary health products and practices. Among the many topics they fund are studies involving yoga, tai chi, cognitive behavior therapy, mind-body interactions and many more.
- National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)(NICHHD)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) In 2019, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has about $64 million in funding for data science and biomedical informatics projects.
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