DoW Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health, Health Services Research Award

About this funding opportunity

Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) Health Services Research Award (HSRA) intends to fund high-impact research that bridges the gap between research, practice and policy by building real-world evidence on how interventions, clinical practices/guidelines, or policies can be deployed to targeted populations at the appropriate time. In order to meet this intent, the mechanism supports health services research approaches.

Distinctive Features:

· The HSRA will support health services research approaches that include comparative effectiveness research; implementation of interventions, diagnostics and clinical practices/guidelines; and validation of data science insights.

· Applications must include clinical research or clinical trials. Prospective or retrospective clinical research or clinical trials involving human subjects, human subject data/records, and human anatomical substances are allowed.

· Preliminary data are required.

· Basic, preclinical and animal research are prohibited.

· For research prospectively enrolling human subjects, inclusion of community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches is required.

· Early-Career Investigator Partnering Option: This option accommodates two Principal Investigators (PIs), one of which is an Early-Career Investigator. If recommended for funding, each PI will receive a separate award.

Topic areas: General and Cross-cutting R&D, Life Sciences and Health, Security and Defense.

Funding amount

This grant provides Varies in funding.

Deadline

Applications are due Oct 15, 2026. Confirm the exact closing time on the official program page before applying.

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to the following applicant types:

• Open to all applicant types

Eligibility

The program did not publish a separate eligibility statement. See the official opportunity page for the full eligibility criteria.

Agency

DoW Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health, Health Services Research Award is administered by Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (AMRAA), listed via Grants.gov.