Competitive Revision Supplements to Existing AHRQ Grants and Cooperative Agreements to Enhance Workforce Diversity in Health Services Research | PA 22 175

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The grant opportunity titled Competitive Revision Supplements to Existing AHRQ Grants and Cooperative Agreements to Enhance Workforce Diversity in Health Services Research (Funding Opportunity Number PA-22-175) is a discretionary AHRQ program that provides additional funding through competitive revision supplements to investigators who already hold certain eligible AHRQ research grants or cooperative agreements. The basic idea is not to start a brand-new stand-alone project, but to strengthen an existing, active AHRQ-funded research effort by adding activities that expand and diversify the health services research workforce.

The central purpose of the NOFO is workforce diversity. AHRQ is offering these competitive revisions so current Program Directors/Principal Investigators can recruit and support people from diverse backgrounds who are pursuing health services research pathways, including students, postdoctoral researchers, and other eligible investigators. The emphasis is on groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health services research, with the goal of building a stronger pipeline into the field and increasing representation across career stages. In practice, this kind of supplement is typically used to create structured research opportunities, mentorship, training experiences, and meaningful roles on the parent grant for trainees or early-career researchers who would benefit from targeted support and professional development within the context of the existing AHRQ-funded project.

In addition to diversity-focused workforce development, the NOFO also allows a separate but related use case: it is available to PDs/PIs who have a disability (or who become disabled) and need additional support or accommodations to continue working on the research project. This component is meant to ensure continuity and equitable participation in research leadership by providing resources that help the investigator remain fully engaged and productive on the ongoing AHRQ-supported work.

Eligibility is broad in terms of organizational types, but it is anchored to the requirement that the applicant is connected to an eligible existing AHRQ award of the specified activity codes referenced in the full announcement. Eligible applicants listed for the opportunity include various levels of government (state, county, city/township, and special districts), independent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, other tribal organizations, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions), individuals, and other eligible entities as defined by AHRQ. Foreign institutions are explicitly not eligible, and non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible, which effectively limits applications to domestic entities and domestic components performing the work.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is offered as a grant funding instrument under the Health category and is associated with CFDA number 93.226. The original closing date listed is February 28, 2025, and the opportunity was created on May 11, 2022. The public summary does not specify an award ceiling or the expected number of awards, so applicants generally need to consult the full announcement and coordinate with their AHRQ program contacts to understand budget constraints, allowable costs, and the scope AHRQ considers appropriate for a competitive revision supplement.

Overall, PA-22-175 is best understood as a mechanism for current AHRQ awardees to competitively request added funds to (1) bring more underrepresented individuals into hands-on health services research roles tied to an existing project and/or (2) provide disability-related support that enables an investigator to continue leading and contributing to that same project. It is a targeted supplement program focused on strengthening the research workforce and improving equity and inclusion in who gets supported, trained, and retained in health services research.

• The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Competitive Revision Supplements to Existing AHRQ Grants and Cooperative Agreements to Enhance Workforce Diversity in Health Services Research" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.226.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2022-05-11.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-28. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• 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, Individuals, Others.

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