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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Addressing Health Disparities Among Immigrant Populations Through Effective Interventions

National Institutes of Health

The purpose of the immigrant health initiative is to support research to design and implement effective interventions to enhance health advantages and reduce health disparities among U.S. immigrant populations (particularly agricultural workers, unaccompanied minors, first generation immigrants, and children of immigrant families) and address factors related to immigration experiences that affect health. For this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI), the term "1st generation" refers to people who were born outside of the U.S. and its territories and relocated to the U.S. The term "2nd generation" refers to the U.S. born children of 1st generation immigrants.

This NOSI calls for multidisciplinary and multilevel research focusing on the design and implementation of effective interventions addressing immigrant-specific factors to promote health advantages and reduce health disparities, particularly among migrant workers, recent and 1st generation immigrants. Research should focus on improving the health outcomes among immigrant populations by targeting the complex causes or consequences of health disparities.

Investigators are strongly encouraged to employ a common set of tools and resources that will promote the collection of comparable data on social determinants of health (SDOH) across studies. Studies should incorporate measures from the Core and Specialty collections that are available in the SDOH Collection of the PhenX Toolkit ( www.phenxtoolkit.org ).

Applications should include multidisciplinary intervention research to target multiple factors causing health disparities among underserved immigrant populations. Projects that examine or address factors at multiple levels are strongly encouraged (see the NIMHD Research Framework for examples of determinants of health at different levels: https ://www.nimhd.nih.gov/about/overview/research-framework/nimhd-framework.html ). Studies may include interventions to foster positive interactions and more inclusive social climates in schools, workplaces, and organization/institution level strategies to improve access to healthy foods, or safe recreational spaces to improve immigrant health.

This notice applies to due dates on or after June 5, 2023 and subsequent receipt dates through June 8, 2026.

NOT-MD-23-003