EHE Grant Resources
As you are working on your National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) grant applications, you may wonder if there are resources that can help you make your application stronger. ISCI has compiled our most helpful tools and other resources that can be used in the NIH EHE grant application process. Scroll through our suggested videos and interactive tools to fortify your application.
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE)
NIAID and NIMH, 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:
-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.
-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.
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.
Relevant Tools for EHE Grant Applications
- Implementation Outcomes Crosswalk
- Implementation Research Logic Model (IRLM)
- Literature Review Dashboard
- Other Implementation Science and HIV Resources
What is the Implementation Outcomes Crosswalk?
The HIV Implementation Outcomes Operationalization Guide is a translational tool to help EHE-funded HIV researchers and implementation partners identify and select relevant implementation outcomes for their implementation research projects. It is a living document that will continue to be refined as we receive more feedback on its use.
How can you use this guide in your work?
The guide is a menu from which you can choose the most appropriate outcomes for your specific context, HIV intervention, and research question. It can serve you as you develop a proposal, execute it, or refine it for further inquiry.
The full list of constructs can seem overwhelming; however, not all will be feasible for every study or relevant/important for your stage of research.
Learn more and use the crosswalk
Video Resource – Implementation Outcome Measures for HIV Interventions:
What is the IRLM?
The IRLM is an organizing tool developed to improve the specification, rigor, reproducibility, and transparency of implementation research projects of various study designs and at various stages of research. The IRLM is a required component of the FY2020 1- and 2-year Ending the HIV Epidemic ARC/CFAR supplement announcement.
Develop your own IRLM
Video Resource – The Implementation Research Logic Model (IRLM):
What is the Literature Review Dashboard?
The Literature Review Dashboard is an interactive database tool comprised of hundreds of U.S. studies that identify multilevel determinants of HIV implementation. The aim of this tool is to give implementation researchers and practitioners access to the articles and implementation findings of systematic reviews that can help to inform delivery of HIV programs and services. The ISCI team will update this dashboard periodically, and here’s a snapshot of what is included to date:
-239 peer-reviewed, US-based studies containing over 1900 determinants of PrEP implementation
-Data are coded by setting, geographic region, priority population, domains and constructs based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) 2.0, valence (i.e., barriers, facilitators), and more.
Use the Literature Review Dashboard
Video Resource – Navigating and using the HIV Implementation Research Literature Review Dashboard:
Visit our Resources Page
ISCI has curated a variety of Implementation Science and HIV resources that can be relevant to your applications. These resources include third party tools, websites, relevant papers and videos.
Visit the Resources page
ISCI Support to EHE
We offer support to organizations and agencies that fund the implementation of evidence-based/evidence-informed interventions at community, state, and national levels to integrate IS as a requirement for funding.
If you would like to learn more or request support, please contact us at: isci@northwestern.edu
What Is Implementation Science and How Is It Helping to End the HIV Epidemic?
In this presentation, ISCI faculty explain the ways that applicants can use our tools and resources in their grant applications.
We invite you to dive into this informational session and learn more about how ISCI’s tools can benefit you during your application process and beyond. You can sit through the full session, use the key chapters provided to jump into relevant sections, or save this video to come back to throughout your application.
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