Grants and Funding Opportunities
Telehealth, broadband and equipment related resources
Stay Up-To-Date On The Latest Opportunities
The grant and funding opportunities presented below are due between January 1, 2025 till June 30, 2025. For more information and other opportunities due in 6-months or more, visit the HRSA website for telehealth here.
Title
Summary
Due Date
Announcement Link
Health Resources & Services Administration – Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program
This community-based grant program aims to support organizations to promote rural health care services outreach by improving and expanding the delivery of health care services to include new and enhanced services in rural areas. To achieve this purpose, the program also aims to strengthen local resources and capacity in rural communities. Through collaborative consortiums that include three or more health care providers, each community can develop innovative approaches to solve their own unique challenges and factors underlying rural health disparities.
January 27, 2025
Health Resources & Services Administration – Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
The purpose of the AMF program is to expand the number of fellows at accredited addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry fellowship programs trained as addiction medicine specialists. These fellows will practice in medically underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorder and substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services. The fellowship must include training in prevention and treatment services in medically underserved community-based settings, including in rural areas, that have limited or no access to SUD prevention or treatment. The AMF program trains both addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry fellows.
February 28, 2025
Cancer Epidemiology Cohorts: Building the Next Generation of Research Cohorts
(U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This funding opportunity seeks to support the initiation and building of the next generation of population-based cancer epidemiology cohorts to address specific knowledge gaps in cancer etiology and survivorship. Areas of feasible study include test measures related to healthcare delivery such as telehealth.
March 1, 2025
Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health
(R01 Clinical Trial Required)
NIMH seeks applications for innovative research projects to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of digital mental health interventions which may impact mental health outcomes, including suicide behaviors and serious mental illness. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support the development of digital health test beds that leverage well-established digital mental health platforms and infrastructure to rapidly refine and optimize existing evidence-based digital health interventions and to conduct clinical research testing digital mental health interventions that are statistically powered to provide a definitive answer regarding the intervention’s effectiveness particularly in populations who experience health disparities and vulnerable populations.
March 6, 2025
AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development Award (K08)
The AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development Award (K08) provides financial and research support for individuals with clinical doctoral degrees to engage in mentored research and didactic study in patient-centered outcomes research, including the development of telehealth solutions and other digital health care tools.
March 13, 2025
Health Resources & Services Administration – Primary Care Training and Enhancement — Residency Training in Street Medicine (PCTE-RTSM)
The purpose of the Primary Care Training and Enhancement—Residency Training in Street Medicine (PCTE-RTSM) Program is to enhance training in street medicine for residents enrolled in accredited primary care residency programs. Awardees may use funds to support enrolled Graduate Medical Education (GME) residents.
March 20, 2025
Rural Health Care Telecommunications (Telecom) Program
The Telecommunications (Telecom) Program is a component program of the FCC’s Rural Health Care Program. It provides funding to eligible healthcare providers for eligible expenses related to telecommunications services necessary for the provision of healthcare.
April 1, 2025
Health Resources & Services Administration – Telehealth Rapid Response Center
The Telehealth Rapid Response Center funded under HRSA-25-044 is responsible for conducting rapid data analyses and short-term issue-specific telehealth research studies. It will provide stakeholders and the public with resources to understand the impact of telehealth policies and regulations as well as provide information that will improve telehealth access to underserved populations in the United States.
April 15, 2025
Health Resources & Services Administration – Telehealth Research Center
The Telehealth Research Center funded under HRSA-25-045 is responsible for conducting clinically informed and evidence-based research. The Telehealth Research Center plays a key role in helping to expand the evidence base for telehealth services and address gaps in knowledge for effectiveness, costs, and delivery, including the use of telehealth technology. This center will also conduct and maintain a comprehensive evaluation of nationwide telehealth investments in rural and underserved areas and populations. This research will help health providers and decision-makers at the local, state and federal levels by examining the impact of telehealth services in rural and underserved communities on access to health care, population health/health indicator, health care spending (both for payers and for the patients receiving the services), quality of care, value-based care, and clinical delivery of care.
April 15, 2025
Technology Development to Reduce Health Disparities
(R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications to develop and translate medical technologies aimed at reducing disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes. Appropriate medical technologies should be effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and deliverable to those who need them.
May 3, 2025
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
(R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies. Studies that promote equitable dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions among underrepresented communities are encouraged. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce ( de-implement ) the use of practices that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. Applications that focus on re-implementation of evidence-based health services (e.g. cancer screening) that may have dropped off amidst the ongoing COVID pandemic are encouraged.
All applications must be within the scope of the mission of one of the Institutes/Centers listed above.
May 8, 2025
Leveraging Health Information Technology (Health IT) to Address and Reduce Health Care Disparities
(R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to support research that examines the impact of leveraging health information technology (health IT) to reduce disparities in access to and utilization of health care services, patient-clinician communication, and health outcomes for populations that experience health disparities in the U.S.
May 8, 2025
Telehealth Related
Funding Opportunities
See funding opportunities for telehealth and broadband related programs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Weekly Rural Health Updates
The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) prepares regular policy announcements focusing on the impact regulations may have on rural communities. Sign up for their weekly updates.
Rural Development Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers Rural Development opportunities focused on a variety of areas including internet access, energy, telecommunications, community facilities and more.
Grants.gov - Federal Register Listserv
The Grants.gov System-to-System Listservs, are designed to support grantor agencies and applicants using a system-to-system interface to post funding opportunities and submit grant applications, respectively. The Listservs also allow members to post and receive messages from other members.
Equipment and Broadband Related
Find information on funding opportunities for broadband and learn about programs that exist to help qualified households pay for internet connectivity and telephone service.