The U.S. Congress has appropriated $175 million for the Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) to support research to understand, prevent and assess, and treat psychological health and/or traumatic brain injuries for U.S. service members, their families, veterans and the American public. The TBIPHRP is part of the DOD’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (https://cdmrp.health.mil/).
TBIPHRP has released five funding announcements for FY23.
The TBIPHRP anticipates funding approximately 70 awards ranging from $500,000 total direct costs up to $6 million total direct costs. Additional information can be found in the link below and includes research topics such as:
- Psychological health (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder, adjustment disorders, acute stress reaction, depression)
- Psychological health trajectories associated with trauma
- Crosscutting prevention approaches to prevent adverse outcomes such as suicide, violence or substance use.
- Suicide prevention
- Sexual harassment and sexual assault prevention, perpetration, victimization and response
- Mobile health/telemedicine
- Health services research (including comparative effectiveness and implementation science)
- Community-based participatory research
Eligible research proposals could target TBI, psychological health or both. Please visit https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/pdf/23tbiphrpreftable.pdf for more information.