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These non-traditional settings could include community centers, pre-school and non-traditional school environments, child and older adult foster care facilities, older adult day care facilities, half-way homes, assisted living and long-term care facilities.

In essence, the objectives of the program are all in conjunction with the idea of health promotion and disease prevention, as well as improving the quality of patients by successfully and continuously their symptoms.

In addition, the program also focuses on research studies that concentrates on symptom management so as to support and improve the existing understanding of symptoms and at the same time, develop new strategies that will drastically improve the quality of life of people who have been exposed to non-traditional settings.

The NIH and its partner agencies are ready to administer funds in the amount of $275,000 to support the initiatives under this program.

The institutions and organizations who will be deemed eligible to submit an application under the Environmental Exposures and Health: Exploration of Non-Traditional Settings Program are the following:

a) Higher Education Institutions such as Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education

b) Nonprofit Organizations

c) For-profit Organizations Such as Small Businesses

d) State Governments, County Governments, City or Township Governments, Special District Governments, and Indian/Native American Tribal Governments

e) Independent School Districts, Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities, Native American Tribal Organizations, and Faith-based or Community-based Organizations

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Research to Advance Vaccine Safety Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has partnered with the National Institutes of Health and as a result, has developed the Research to Advance Vaccine Safety Program, wherein it seeks to obtain a more thorough understanding vaccine safety.

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Funding Opportunity Announcement: Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents
The FOA is designed to encourage the use of Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Awards in employing innovative research studies that would help in determining mechanisms that could promote and influence positive sustainable health behaviors in children and in adolescents, from birth to 18 years old.

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Critical Congenital Heart Disease Newborn Screening Demonstration Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration has recently constituted the Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) Newborn Screening Demonstration Program in order to support and encourage the development, dissemination, and validation of screening protocols and newborn screening infrastructure for point of care screenings that are specific to Critical Congenital Heart Diseases.

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Exploratory/Developmental Grants Program for Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities
The National Institutes of Health has recently formed a partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in an effort to constitute the Exploratory/Developmental Grants Program for Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities wherein both agencies intend to solicit grant application from various eligible researchers who are interested in conducing basic research studies regarding the biological causes and mechanisms of cancer health disparities.

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