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Awards funding for projects in Minnesota that focus on the social and economic conditions affecting health and health equity. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

Awards funding and technical assistance to enable communities to substantially accelerate health improvement strategies. Pacesetter communities will participate in an intensive learning and doing program designed to improve the health and well-being of people, populations, and the community-at-large. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Supports the development of formal rural health networks that focus on care coordination activities for diabetes, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Federal Office of Rural Health Policy

Offers loan repayment to physicians who agree to practice in rural communities in Oklahoma. Geographic coverage: Oklahoma -- Physician Manpower Training Commission

Offers scholarships to graduate anesthesia students who choose to practice anesthesia in rural or medical shortage areas of Nebraska. Geographic coverage: Nebraska -- Nebraska Association of Nurse Anesthetists

Offers funding to support children's oral and behavioral health programs and programs that address childhood obesity. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Cambia Health Foundation

Supports endeavors to include the arts and humanities, education, human services, medical sciences and health, and the social sciences. Geographic coverage: Giving primarily in ND, particularly in Bismarck and Mandan, and the upper Midwest. -- Tom and Frances Leach Foundation

Provides second or third year dermatology students with a residency program that offers dermatologic care to the rural Navajo Nation population. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- American Academy of Dermatology

Offers loan repayment assistance to clinical support staff who who provide direct medical, dental, or behavioral healthcare at safety net sites in Colorado. Geographic coverage: Colorado -- Colorado Community Health Network

Awards funding to replicate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs in communities with documented disparities in teen pregnancy rates, including rural communities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

Offers guidance and support from a community coach for communities who want to improve the health of their populations and work toward building a culture of health. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

Offers funding to states to develop and implement programs that address the dental workforce needs of designated dental health professional shortage areas. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Bureau of Health Workforce

Funding for projects in Iowa and South Dakota that are activity-based and address healthy eating and/or active lifestyles. Geographic coverage: Iowa and South Dakota -- Wellmark Foundation

Offers loan repayment assistance to healthcare professionals who agree to practice in a Health Professional Shortage Area of New York. Geographic coverage: New York -- New York State Department of Health

Offers loan repayment assistance to certain healthcare professionals who agree to practice in a Health Professional Shortage Area of Idaho. Geographic coverage: Idaho -- Idaho Bureau of Rural Health and Primary Care

Call for Applications: Grant for Growth Innovation (GGI)

Grantor: Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany)/EMD Serono

Region: All regions

Closes: 01/06/2015

Maximum: €400,000

Call for Applications: Grant for Growth Innovation (GGI)

The deadline for grant applications is Tuesday January 6, 2015.

Researchers with proposals for projects that have the potential to advance understanding in the field of growth are invited to apply for the GGI 2015 award. We are particularly interested in:

• Innovative translational research that could potentially improve patients’ lives

• The impact of nutrition on growth

• The metabolic impact of growth disorders

• Pathophysiology of growth disorders

• Techniques in diagnosis and follow-up on growth disorders

• Extremes in growth disorders

• Identification of biomarkers in patients with growth disorders

• Studies elucidating the long-term metabolic impact of the ‘GH-IGF axis’ activity.

A total grant of up to €400,000 will be awarded to one or more selected projects.

Applications will be evaluated by a Scientific Steering Committee, composed of internationally renowned endocrinologists, according to five criteria:

• Innovation

• Scientific rationale

• Clarity

• Feasibility

• Impact of research.

For further information on the GGI and to register your interest in applying for the GGI 2015, please visit www.grantforgrowthinnovation.org.