OpportunityTitle: Rural Policy Analysis Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants include domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit organizations.  Eligible organizations may include State, local, and Indian tribal governments; institutions of higher education; other non-profit organizations (including faith-based, community-based, and tribal organizations); and hospitals.   Eligible applicants must be national in scope and have an established long term relationship with each of the following constituencies: rural clinical service networks; frontier residents; rural hospitals and community health systems; rural medical and health care provider educators; rural health clinics; State Rural Health Associations (SRHA) and State Office of Rural Health (SORH).   Applicants must have experience identifying emerging rural health care policy issues and providing feedback to office inquires regarding those issues.  Eligible applicants must demonstrate experience conducting policy research in the areas of access to health care services, Medicare and Medicaid policies, development of rural delivery systems and public health.  Applicants should also have the capacity to disseminate policy analysis that informs policy makers of the needs of rural health care delivery systems in the design and implementation of health care policy.  Finally, applicants must demonstrate past experience and the ability to communicate the implications of national health policies for rural health services and delivery to a variety of audiences in a number of settings including meeting presentations and panel discussions.  Applications that fail to show such experience will not be considered.
Description: This funding opportunity announcement solicits applications for the Rural Policy Analysis Program. The purpose of this program is to support research and analysis of key policy issues affecting rural communities to inform policy makers. The program is national in scope and looks at cross-cutting rural health and human services issues in order to identify trends and challenges. Funded projects should focus on the changing rural environment and outline how they would achieve the following: -1 facilitate public dialogue on key rural policy issues by tracking emerging rural health and human services policy issues and synthesize them in a manner that provides for easy consumption by rural community leaders, with particular emphasis on rural health care providers and systems; -2 identify opportunities for integrating health and human services in rural policy, program, and evaluation in a local community context; -3 identify opportunities to demonstrate broad community impact of policies and programs in rural health and human services, consistent with policy goals related to rural revitalization and sustainability of rural regions; and -4 provide analysis of policies and regulations that helps optimize positive impacts on rural health systems and communities in the form of policy briefs, reports, and oral presentations. These activities should educate and inform rural decision makers and policy leaders as well as organizations focused on improving health and human services in rural communities such as State Offices of Rural Health, State Rural Health Associations, and the like.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772;301-998-7373 or email
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