Grant: HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG MINORITY AND UNDERSERVED WOMENThe purpose of this Federal initiative is to stimulate research aimedat reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minority andunderserved women. More specifically, this initiative seeks applications forresearch related to health promotion or risk reduction among minority and underserved women age 21 and older; and intervention studies that showpromise for improving the health profile of minority and underserved women. Investigators responding to this announcement should focus on enhancing the body of knowledge of a variety of factors (e.g., social,economic, demographic, community, societal, personal, cultural) influencing the health promoting and health compromising behaviors of racial and ethnic minority women and underserved women and their subpopulations. The focus of this program announcement (PA) is on womenage 21 and older, but investigators may also focus on the childhood antecedents of adult health disparities. This PA will use the NIH R01and R21 award mechanisms.DEADLINE: February 1, 2007MORE INFO: Email Yvonne Bryan at bryany@mail. nih.gov