Tribal Self-Governance Study
Description of Program,
Service, Function or Activity (PSFA)
INVENTORY
1. Agency Name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, HHS
2. Program Name: Alcohol National Research Service Awards for Research Training
3. CFDA #: 93.272
4. Program Objectives: To assure the maintenance of an adequate supply of well-trained alcohol researchers through the provision of both individual fellowships and grants to training institutions for support of training at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels and for Senior Fellowships and M.D./Ph.D. Fellowships. Special predoctoral fellowships are also available for students with disabilities and for minority students. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports awards for training in clinical research, treatment assessment research, problems of health promotion and alcoholism prevention, and basic biological and behavioral processes applicable to alcohol research.
5. Titles and Descriptions of at least Three Funded Grantees: Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Evaluation. This award supports a three-year predoctoral training program whose overall mission is to prepare clinical psychologists to conduct program evaluation research on treatment and prevention efforts in the field of alcohol abuse. The program has specifically been designed to attract psychologists-in-training into the alcohol field during a formative period for shaping their career direction. All trainees are placed for at least one year in a community agency to conduct on-site evaluation research, providing first hand experience in the practical aspects of program assessment. These clinical placements provide trainees with the opportunity to assess health services that target local Hispanic and Native American alcohol-involved populations. Trainees are also placed in the research laboratories of faculty who are engaged in NIH-funded research on prevention and treatment outcomes. (Miller)
Training in Alcohol Treatment Research. The prevalence of alcohol abuse and dependence in our society has produced a demand for professionals capable of conducting methodologically sound research, especially in the alcoholism field. The goal of this training program is to produce well-rounded individuals who are knowledgeable about the basic science and clinical aspects of alcohol and alcoholism, who are familiar with treatment strategy, and most importantly, who are trained to appreciate and conduct independent research in the area of alcohol treatment-related research. The target trainees are postdoctoral fellows including psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and/or basic scientists. (Anton)
Neuropsychopharmacology - Multidisciplinary Training. The purpose of this program is to train promising young scientists at the postdoctoral level in the mulidisciplinary strategies of molecular, cellular and behavioral neuropsychopharmacology. Present day research on alcohol and other abused drugs requires methodologies that can pinpoint molecular and cellular sites in the brain, and integrate these mechanisms at the functional system level of analysis. In addition to developing technical skills deemed essential for trainees= transition into career scientists, this program also attempts to develop other important skills: creative research expression, critical selection of problems, data recording, validation and security, data interpretation and manuscript and grant preparation. (Koob)
AUTHORITY
6. Authorizing Statute(s): Public Health Service Act, Title IV, Section 487, as amended, Public Law 99-158, 42 U.S.C. 288
7. Regulatory/Administrative Requirements: 42 CFR 66; Guidelines included in application kits. PHS Grants Policy Statement, DHHS Publication No. (OASH) 90-50,000, (REV.) April 1, 1994. Specific program announcements are available electronically from the NIAAA World Wide Web Home Page on the Internet at http://www.niaaa.nih.gov or from the NIH Home Page under Institutes and Offices. Copies may also be obtained from NIAAA at P.O. Box 10686, Rockville, MD 20849-0686 or by calling 202-842-1819.
8. Mandatory Statutory Changes Needed to Operate PSFA as a Demonstration: Authority would need to modify the grant making process, enable the Department to make self-governance funding awards, and alter federal monitoringing mandates.
APPLICANTS, BENEFICIARIES and FORMULAS
9. Type of Funding: Competitive training grants and fellowships
10. Eligible Applicants: Domestic public or private nonprofit organizations may apply for institutional training grants. The sponsoring institution for a fellowship application may be a foreign or domestic, private (profit or nonprofit) or public institution. The applicant institution must have, or be able to develop, the staff and facilities to provide the proposed research training in an environment suitable for performing high quality work. An applicant for individual predoctoral support must be enrolled in a doctoral degree program by the proposed activation date of the fellowship. A postdoctoral applicant must have received a doctoral degree. All individuals to be supported under the National Research Service Awards (NRSA) program must be a citizen or noncitizen national of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.
11. Allotment Formulas, Etc.: Not Applicable
12. Applicant Provisions/Allotments in Law for Indians: No
13. Eligible Beneficiaries: Individuals, public and private, profit or nonprofit organizations or fellowships. Public and private nonprofit organizations for institutional training grants.
14. Beneficiary Provisions/Allotments in Law for Indians: No
15. Amount and Percent of Total that is Mandatory for Indians: Not Applicable
FINANCIAL
16. Total FY 2000 Funding: $7.773 million
17. Amount and Percent of Total Funding Awarded to Indians: Not Available
18. For Awards to Tribes: Number, Range and Average Amounts: None
19. Total FY 2001 Funding and Amount for Indians, If Known: Not Available
OTHER
20. How long assistance is funded -- By law, an individual may receive no more than 5 years of support in the aggregate at the predoctoral level and 3 years of support in the aggregate at the postdoctoral level under the NRSA program (through an individual and/or institutional award). Any exception to these limitations requires a waiver from the Director of the awarding Institute based on review of justification from the awardee and the program director for the institutional grant.
Fund use restrictions --Individual grants are made to fellows seeking predoctoral or postdoctoral support for full-time research training. An institutional allowance will be provided, upon request, to the sponsoring institution for each awardee. In addition, any domestic public or nonprofit institution may apply for an institutional research training grant in a specified area of research from which a number of stipend awards will be made to individuals selected by the training program director at the institution. Support is available for both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees and for Senior Fellowships and M.D./Ph.D. Fellowships. Special predoctoral fellowships are also available for students with disabilities and for minority students. Actual tuition and fees are allowable for trainees, and an amount for institutional expenses will be provided. Indirect costs may be requested at 8 percent of total direct costs, exclusive of tuition and related fees and expenditures for equipment, or actual indirect costs, whichever is less. Postdoctoral fellows and trainees in the first 12 months of postdoctoral NRSA support incur one month of payback obligation for each month of support. The 13th and subsequent months of postdoctoral NRSA support are considered payback service for prior postdoctoral support. Predoctoral fellows and trainees do not incur a service payback obligation. Stipend levels will be $15,060 for predoctoral awards and from $26,916 to $42,300 for postdoctoral awards dependent upon the number of years of relevant experience. Research training support may not be used for intern or other clinical training.
Reporting requirements -- Annual progress reports are required. Annual financial status reports are required for institutional National Research Service Awards. Annual reports of activities for tracking payback provisions are required from all postdoctoral fellows upon termination of support.
Audit requirements -- In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 24, 1997), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that receive financial assistance of $300,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $300,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133. In addition, grants and subject to inspections and audits by DHHS and other Federal officials.
CONTACTS
21. DHHS Workgroup Contact: John Ruffin, Ph.D., Director
National
Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
(301) 402-1366
22. HHS Agency/Program Contact: Dr. Ernestine Vanderveen, Deputy Director
Office of Collaborative Research
(301) 443-2531