NIOSH Small Research Grant Program
Funds small, short occupational-safety research projects — pilot studies, secondary analysis, or new research methods — on a limited budget.
Not every good research question needs a multi-year budget to start answering. NIOSH's small-grant mechanism exists for the ones that don't.
Three purposes are named: building understanding of the risks and conditions behind occupational disease and injury, exploring ways to reduce or prevent hazardous workplace exposure, and turning solid findings into prevention practices and products that actu…
Small, short occupational-safety and health research projects — pilot and feasibility studies, secondary analysis of existing data, or development of new research methods — carried out on a limited budget. No foreign organisation, and no foreign component of a U.S. organisation, applies as the lead.
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