Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA AG 25 029
This funding opportunity (RFA-AG-25-029) is an NIH R25 education grant focused on building and delivering short courses that train researchers to use the NIH Stage Model to develop behavioral interventions aimed at healthy aging. The courses are meant to strengthen the pipeline of investigators who can design, refine, test, and ultimately scale non-pharmacological interventions that help older adults stay healthier longer, prevent illness, improve care and disease management, support families and caregivers, and address end-of-life decision-making and care needs. The emphasis is not on running an independent clinical trial under this award, but on creating, delivering, and evaluating a curriculum that equips participants with practical skills for intervention development research.
A central feature of the program is the NIH Stage Model, which organizes behavioral intervention development into a sequence of stages. Stage 0 covers basic science that identifies potential targets and principles relevant to behavior change. Stage I focuses on intervention generation and early work such as refinement, modification, adaptation, and pilot testing. Stage II is traditional efficacy testing, typically under controlled conditions to determine whether an intervention produces the intended outcomes. Stage III moves efficacy testing into real-world delivery contexts, using typical providers and settings to see whether results hold up beyond ideal circumstances. Stage IV emphasizes effectiveness research, asking how well an intervention works in the conditions where it is actually used. Stage V centers on dissemination and implementation research, which deals with adoption, scale-up, sustainability, and integration into systems of care or community practice. The courses supported by this grant are expected to teach investigators how to move interventions through these stages in a rigorous way.
The opportunity uses the term "behavioral intervention" broadly. It includes a wide range of non-drug approaches that can be delivered to individuals, dyads (such as patient-caregiver pairs), families, groups, communities, organizations, or entire systems. This could involve interventions that change health behaviors, improve self-management of chronic disease, strengthen caregiving practices, enhance communication and decision-making, reduce risk factors for functional decline, or improve care processes and coordination. The Stage Model can be applied to both single-component and multi-component interventions, and the courses are expected to reflect that flexibility.
A key scientific priority woven throughout the Stage Model is attention to mechanisms of behavior change (MoBCs). The goal is not only to show that an intervention works, but to understand how and why it works, which helps make interventions more potent, scalable, and culturally competent. Accordingly, this program encourages the inclusion of MoBC content across stages, so trainees learn to identify mechanisms, measure them appropriately, and use findings to refine and optimize interventions before moving to larger and more expensive studies.
The grant supports the development, delivery, and evaluation of the short-course curriculum itself. In practical terms, applicants should be prepared to propose a coherent training program: what the course will cover, who the faculty are, who the intended learners are, how the course will be delivered (for example, in-person, virtual, hybrid, or modular formats), and how success will be assessed. Because the purpose is workforce and capacity building, evaluation typically matters: applicants should plan to measure whether participants gain skills and knowledge in applying the Stage Model, whether the course changes how participants design and plan intervention studies, and whether it improves the quality or readiness of future intervention-development projects.
Eligibility is broad and includes many U.S.-based organizations: state, county, city, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and private institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) and tribal organizations (other than federally recognized governments); public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status; for-profit organizations (other than small businesses); and small businesses. The notice also highlights inclusion of institutions and organizations that serve specific communities, such as HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian serving institutions, and AANAPISI institutions, as well as faith-based and community-based organizations and regional organizations. At the same time, foreign participation is restricted: non-U.S. entities are not eligible to apply, non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations are not eligible, and foreign components as defined by NIH policy are not allowed.
Administratively, this is a discretionary grant under the NIH, with the activity category listed as Health (CFDA 93.866). The award ceiling is $350,000. The original application due date listed is 2024-10-08, and the opportunity was created on 2024-08-01. The overall takeaway is that NIH is investing in short, targeted training programs that help researchers systematically build behavioral interventions for older adults using a common, mechanism-focused development framework, with an eye toward interventions that are effective in real settings and can be disseminated and implemented at scale.Apply for RFA AG 25 029
- The National Institutes of Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Short Courses on Utilizing the NIH Stage Model to Develop Behavioral Interventions to Promote Healthy Aging (R25 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.866.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-08-01.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-10-08. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $350,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.
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