NIEHS leads research efforts addressing domestic health disparities
The NIEHS has emerged with a significant leadership role in the health disparities arena and has undertaken a number of activities to help eliminate health disparities influenced by the social and physical milieux. These activities include the announcement of the multiagency Request for Application (RFA) ES-00-004, "Health Disparities: Linking Biological and Behavioral Mechanisms with Social and Physical Environments," located online at http://grants. nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-00-004.html. Moreover, NIEHS director Kenneth Olden cochaired a director-level trans-NIH working group that has set research priorities directing the development of NIH initiatives on domestic health disparities beginning in FY 2001.