Opportunity Information: Apply for CMS 1W1 25 001
The Minority Research Grant Program (MRGP) 2025 is a discretionary grant opportunity from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) designed to fund health equity research with clear, practical value. The central aim is to spur innovative health services research that can directly and measurably improve health outcomes for people across all minority populations. In addition to supporting outcome-focused research, the program explicitly encourages work that targets health disparities at the health care system level, meaning projects that look beyond individual behavior to examine how policies, care delivery models, access barriers, quality differences, and institutional practices contribute to unequal results.
A key theme of the opportunity is strengthening research that characterizes and analyzes factors tied to health-related social needs. In practice, this points to studies that explore how issues like housing instability, food insecurity, transportation challenges, language access, and other non-medical drivers intersect with health care use, care quality, and outcomes. CMS is looking for research that does more than describe disparities; it should generate evidence that can inform real-world improvements in systems of care, especially where there is potential for demonstrable impact on minority health outcomes.
Eligibility is geared toward institutions that serve minority communities, particularly specific categories of minority-serving institutions. The eligible organization types highlighted in the notice include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Asian American and Native American and Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNHs), Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTIs), and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs). The source data also lists eligible applicants as public and state controlled institutions of higher education as well as public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities, signaling that certain public-sector entities may also be eligible depending on how they fit the program requirements and the formal application guidance.
From a funding and timing perspective, the opportunity is identified as CMS 1W1 25 001 under CFDA 93.779, within the health activity category. The application closing date is April 1, 2025, and the opportunity was created on January 17, 2025. CMS anticipates making about six awards, with an award ceiling of $212,500. Overall, MRGP 2025 is positioned as a relatively targeted research grant program intended to help minority-serving institutions and other eligible public entities produce actionable health services evidence that advances health equity and reduces system-level disparities.Apply for CMS 1W1 25 001
- The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Minority Research Grant Program (MRGP) 2025" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.779.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-17.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-04-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $212,500.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities.
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