Small Business Initiative (Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer – SBIR/STTR)

Funding opportunities from this concept:
Innovations for Healthy Living - Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-MD-21-006

Technologies for Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-MD-21-005

Council Date: February 2, 2021

Objective

This initiative will support small business innovation research proposing to develop a product, process or service for commercialization with the aim of improving minority health or reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities. Appropriate technologies should be effective, accessible, affordable, and culturally acceptable.

Description of Initiative

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to engage SBCs in developing technologies and products that engage, empower, and motivate individuals and communities, including providers and health care institutions, in sustainable health promoting activities and interventions that lead to improved health, better health care delivery, and the elimination of health disparities in one or more NIH-defined populations experiencing health disparities in the U.S.

Appropriate technologies must be effective, affordable, acceptable, accessible and deliverable to the desired populations.


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