Funder: National Institutes of Health
Due Dates: November 16, 2026 (Resubmission) | February 16, 2027 (New) | March 16, 2027 (Resubmission) | June 16, 2027 (New) | July 16, 2027 (Resubmission) | October 16, 2027 (New) | November 16, 2027 (Resubmission) | January 7, 2028 (Closing)
Funding Amounts: Up to $50,000 in direct costs per year for up to 2 years
Summary: Supports small studies advancing strategies, methods, and measures for disseminating and implementing evidence-based health interventions.
Key Information: Clinical trials are not allowed; projects must fit a participating NIH Institute or Center’s mission.
Description
NIH’s R03 Small Grant Program under PAR-25-233 supports research identifying, developing, or testing strategies to overcome barriers to adopting, adapting, integrating, sustaining, scaling up, and spreading evidence-based health interventions. These include practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies used in clinical and community settings.
The opportunity also encourages research on de-implementing ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful practices, improving dissemination and implementation methods and measures, and re-implementing health services disrupted by disasters. Projects should be achievable within the limited resources and short timeline of an R03. Relevant work includes secondary-data studies, economic evaluations, theory testing, measurement development, qualitative methods, and policy implementation research.
