You can view last week's COVID-19 Bulletin HERE
RELATED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES & UPDATES TO FUNDING:
FEDERAL FUNDING & UPDATES |
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Summary: | Notice seeking applications to increase rural access to education, training, and health care resources that are otherwise unavailable or limited in scope. DLT grant funds support the use of telecommunications-enabled information, audio and video equipment, and related advanced technologies by students, teachers, medical professionals, and rural residents. |
Due Dates: | Applications are due July 13, 2020 |
FEDERAL UPDATES:
As announced in previous bulletins, NSF has opened COVID-19 RAPID grants. A list of the NSF COVID-19 RAPID grants is continually updated as they are awarded.
NEH has published an FAQ regarding its CARES Act funding
NEA has announced an official CARES Act funding mechanism through Grants.gov.
NIH UPDATES |
- Updated COVID-19 Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding: See updated NIH information.
New NIH Resource to Analyze COVID-19 Literature: The COVID-19 Portfolio Tool: The NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) has assembled a comprehensive listing of COVID‑19 publications and preprints that is freely available to the public.READ MORE
FOUNDATIONS / CORPORATE FUNDING & UPDATES |
Grant Name: | Russell Sage Foundation Invites LOIs for Timely Social Science Research |
Summary: | Grants will be awarded in support of timely research or projects that analyze social, political, economic, or psychological disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 crisis affecting social and living conditions in the United States.... |
Due Dates: | May 21, 2020 (Letters of Inquiry) |
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Summary: | The Moore Foundation's goal is to strengthen accountability for diagnostic excellence by helping to develop and validate new measures for diagnostic performance, working to both minimize barriers for innovation and advocate for the safe and responsible deployment of these technologies in the clinical category of infections ( including COVID-19). |
Due Dates: | Proposals are due by June 30, 2020. |
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Summary: | This call for proposals is part of a recently announced major initiative to support the global fight against COVID-19 and potential future pandemic events. The Harrington Discovery Institute will provide successful applicants with grant funding and expert guidance and oversight in all aspects of drug/therapeutics development, while taking no rights to intellectual property, which is retained by the award recipient and their institution. |
Due Dates: | April 30, 2020 |
FOUNDATION / CORPORATE UPDATES:
The Microsoft AI for Health COVID-19 program is now accepting requests for grants from nonprofits, academia, and governments. This program provides Azure cloud and High-Performance Computing capabilities.
Global Fund creates $500 million COVID-19 funding mechanism: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced a $500 million funding facility for efforts to respond to and mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS & RELATED ARTICLES
How families can use technology to juggle childcare and remote life: NSF-fundedUniversity of Washington researchers are beginning a national study to help families discover technology that helps them both successfully navigate home-based learning and combat social isolation.
Call for Papers: COVID-19 and Rural Mental Health Challenges and Opportunities- The Journal of Rural Mental Health announced a call for papers that focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of tele-mental health (tele-MH) services in rural areas. Some potential topics include experiences with various tele-MH technologies, infrastructure challenges, reimbursement issues, and the differences between in-person and remote environments.
Public-Private Effort Launched to Help Distribute Existing Ventilators to High-Need Areas of the U.S.- The American Hospital Association (AHA) and several hospitals and health systems announced the creation of the "Dynamic Ventilator Reserve," an online inventory of ventilators and other supplies needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals can record inventory they are willing to lend to others, and providers can access and request to borrow as their need for ventilators increases.
Care Access Research launches COVID-19 alliance to boost pandemic R&D: Boston-based Care Access Research has created the COVID-19 Clinical Trials Alliance aimed at connecting sites, sponsors and CROs to speed up drug and vaccine development work against COVID-19.
The COVID-19 is prompting many museums to reconsider how they communicate their research to the public.
Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error:As they seek a path forward, governments around the world must triangulate the health of their citizens, the freedoms of their population, and economic constraints.