Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (IRINAH)

  1. IRINAH

Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (IRINAH), a network of principal investigators and their partners, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was launched in 2011 through a program titled “Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Native American Populations.”

Despite tremendous strengths, Native populations have significantly varying rates of disease across many health outcomes such as chronic disease, substance use and addiction, cancer, mental illness, and sexually transmitted diseases. The IRINAH program was created to develop, adapt, and test the effectiveness of health-promotion and disease-prevention interventions in Native populations. Through this initiative, intervention and related research is sought to build upon community knowledge, resources, and resilience to identify and rigorously test culturally appropriate solutions to reduce morbidity and mortality. Research projects may address topics within the identified interests of any of the participating Institutes or Centers.

IRINAH has two Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs)—an R01: PAR-25-379: Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) and an R34: PAR-25-378: Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R34 Clinical Trial Optional). Applications are due October 21 in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The application deadline for AIDS/HIV-related research proposals is January 7 in 2025, 2026, and 2027.

For a list of Frequently Asked Questions, see here.


Questions?

Contact Dr. Sarah Vidal at sarah.vidal@nih.gov or Dr. Alexa Romberg at alexa.romberg@nih.gov.

Participating Organizations

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD)

  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

  • National Library of Medicine (NLM)

All applications to this funding opportunity announcement should fall within the mission of the Institutes/Centers. The following NIH Offices may co-fund applications assigned to those Institutes/Centers.

  • Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)

  • Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

  • Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)

  • Tribal Health Research Office (THRO)