Funding Opportunities

Pilot Awards Program

Pilot Awards provide research support to conduct community-engaged research projects for generation of preliminary data to increase competitiveness for future extramural HIV/AIDS and mental health research funding. This is a traditional pilot award / research project, and a minimum of 10% of PI time should be budgeted for. 

Please find full RFA for 2024 here. 

To see a recording of our April 19, 2024 informational Session, please click here. 

Eligibility

• University of Miami (UM), Florida State University, Florida International University, or Nova Southeastern University affiliation is required.
  • Please note: Applicants from outside of UM will need a mentor or Co-Investigator from CHARM at the University of Miami
• Fulltime faculty members who are in their early career or new to HIV and Mental Health Research
• Interested post-doctoral fellows must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) prior to applying. If invited to submit an application, post-doctoral fellows will be required to submit a Letter of Support from the Chairperson of their home department indicating support for the application and a potential research/faculty appointment at the completion of the post-doctoral fellowship.
• Early career faculty and post-doctoral fellows will be required to submit a letter of support from a primary mentor for their applications.

2024-2025 Application Timeline

Forms and Instructions

RFA and Instructions

Collaborator's Table

Budget Template (Excel, Word, PDF) - Please start building your budget in the excel spreadsheet before transferring the figures in the word or pdf docs. 

Biosketch template

Submission Portal

LOI Submission (optional except for post-docs) - View application (PDF) 

Speed Review Submission (optional except for post-docs) - View application (PDF) 

Full Application Submission - View application (PDF) 

Scholar Award Program

Scholar Awards provide salary (minimum of 25% principal investigator effort), research and career development support for promising early career investigators aiming to transition to independence as HIV/AIDS and mental health researchers. The scholar awards typically do not involve new data collection, but instead involve doing a secondary data analysis project with existing data and/or data being collected as part of a parent study. 

Please find full RFA for 2024 here. 

To see a recording of our April 19, 2024 informational Session, please click here. 

Equitable Implementation Science (EIS) Core Program-Planning Microgrants

CHARM will be accepting applications for Microgrants for early-career investigators (ESIs) and South Florida service implementers. The purpose of this program to support the development of partnerships between investigators and implementers to lay the groundwork for future equitable implementation research in HIV and mental health.

Eligibility

• University of Miami (UM), Florida State University, Florida International University, or Nova Southeastern University affiliation is required.
• South Florida implementation partner involved in the delivery of HIV/mental health services.
• If you have questions about eligibility, please email Araceli Garcia (axg6042@miami.edu)

Deadline for applications is August 30^th, 2024 at 5:00PM EST

Please find full RFA for 2024 here.

To see a recording of our April 19, 2024 informational Session, please click here. 

CHARM Community Pilot Awards

Note - the cycle is now closed for this award. Please see below information from the previous cycle. 

CHARM will be accepting applications for community focused projects in:

1. HIV and Sexual Health
2. Mental Health
3. Community Engagement and Advocacy

The purpose of this program is to encourage community-centered research projects focused on HIV and Mental Health initiatives. Through our collaboration, we hope to financially support community-centered-research and position awardees for future funding.

Eligibility

• Miami Community Based Organization
• Must identify a University of Miami (UM) Faculty Collaborator

Deadline for applications is January 15^th, 2024 at 5:00PM EST

Please find full RFA for 2023 here.

Have any questions? View our informational session here, or reach out to Meadgine Ilmet (MHD-CE Core Coordinator, mfi13@miami.edu. 

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Funding Opportunity

Note - the cycle is now closed for this award. Please see below information from the previous cycle. 

NIMH and NIAID, along with several other participating NIH institutes, have recently announced a new Notice of Special Interest (NOT-AI-23-070) for applications to advance the goals of EHE. The NOSI solicits research in two priority areas:

1. Expanding and/or improving engagement and re-engagement in HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care services. Studies focused on people experiencing unstable housing or homelessness, including those within communities affected by clusters and outbreaks, are especially encouraged.
2. Scale-up of strategies to deliver integrated HIV prevention, treatment, and care services to address co-morbidities and coinfections, health conditions associated with HIV risk, and/or underlying social determinants of health that adversely affect HIV prevention and treatment outcomes.

As discussed during NIAID’s latest AIDS Research Advisory Committee Meeting, this notice represents a change in how the NIH is soliciting research in support of EHE, moving from one-year pilot projects funded through supplements, to larger multi-year studies. Interested applicants can apply to one of several different IC parent announcements for R01, R21, or R34 funding, and applications are not limited to the CFARs or ARCs. Applications must focus on one of the 57 geographic priority areas defined in the EHE Initiative, and the proposed work should support local EHE efforts through meaningful engagement with implementing partners, community members, and people with lived experience. This notice applies to due dates on or after January 7, 2024, and subsequent receipt dates through January 9, 2024.

For more information, please visit the following link:

NOT-Al-23-070

If you have any questions about the NOSI, please contact Christopher Gordon at cgordon1@mail.nih.gov.

If you have an idea and are interested in applying, please contact Mohamed Keita (mxk845@miami.edu) and Rosana Smith-Alvarez Chinigo (13rsmith@miami.edu), and CC Dr. Steve Safren (ssafren@miami.edu).