Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Program (P30 Clinical Trials Optional) — RFA-ES-25-002

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH

NIEHS Core Centers are intellectual hubs that knit together already-funded environmental health investigators at a single institution and extend their reach. What makes this relevant to social work is that a Community Engagement Core is MANDATORY, must be funded at a published floor, and must operate a Stakeholder Advisory Board — the center cannot be scored without it. That core is routinely where social work faculty sit: running the partnership with affected residents, translating exposure findings into action, and building the two-directional communication NIEHS requires. It is a large infr

Indicative award

$850k–$1M per year (per year)New applicants may request up to $850,000 direct costs per year for up to 4 years; renewals up to $1.0 million direct costs per year for up to 5 years. The Community Engagement Core carries its own floor: minimum $100,000 direct costs a year for new applications, $150,000 a year for renewals. NIEHS

Timing

Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Mar, AprPublished deadline: 2027-04-20 — 249 days awayReceipt dates published in the RFA are March 18, 2025, April 20, 2026 and April 20, 2027. The 2026 date has passed; the remaining cycle is April 20, 2027, and the RFA expires April 21, 2027. Institutions with an internal limited-submission process usually set their own pre-proposal deadline several

Who can apply

Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank

Eligibility

Institutional, and demanding: the applicant institution must show four or more Center members holding combined grant funding of at least $3 million per year in direct costs, with at least 50% of that from NIH, and each qualifying award must have at least one full active year remaining at submission. Only ONE application per institution is permitted, which makes this a limited-submission competition internally at most universities. Foreign organizations and non-U.S. components are NOT eligible. Community organizations cannot apply; they participate through the required Community Engagement Core

SSWR clusters

Topics

environmental health · community engagement · research infrastructure · environmental justice

Apply at

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-25-002.html

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