Health Systems Research
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Research on care for veterans across the largest integrated health system in the country, with career development awards alongside project grants and unusually rich linked administrative data.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)Project and career development awards on VA's own scales, which differ from NIH's.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Mar, Jul, NovNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Multiple submission rounds each year.
- Who can apply
- Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- Generally requires a VA appointment of at least five-eighths time — the constraint that surprises university-based applicants most.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- veterans · administrative data · learning health system · career development
- Apply at
- https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/funding/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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- Research grantsAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention$30k–$200k · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov
- Grants for veterans, service members and their familiesBob Woodruff Foundation$25k–$500k · Annual cycle
- FY26 Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) Health Services Research AwardU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health Agencyup to $4M · Annual cycle · May, Sep, Oct
- Under Secretary's Award in Health Systems ResearchU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Health Systems Research$50k per year · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep
- Public Humanities ProjectsNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Public Programsup to $750k · Annual cycle · Dec