Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Habits in Children and Adolescents (R21)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-176.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to encourage applications that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 21). Applications to promote positive health behavior(s) should target social and cultural factors, including, but not limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning tools and games, social media, social networking, technology and mass media. Topics to be addressed in this announcement include: effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of influence for learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior; identification of factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations, identification of barriers to healthy behaviors; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators that are common to the development of a range of habitual health behaviors. Given the many factors involved in developing sustainable health behaviors, applications from multidisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged. The ultimate goal of this FOA is to promote research that identifies and enhances processes that promote sustainable positive behavior or changes social and cultural norms that influence health and future health behaviors. 

Research Answers to NCI’s Provocative Questions - Group E (R01 and R21)

Additional Information:
R01- http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-13-024.html
R21- http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-13-025.html

Description:

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative research projects designed to solve specific problems and paradoxes in cancer research identified by the NCI Provocative Questions initiative. These problems and paradoxes phrased as questions are not intended to represent the full range of NCI's priorities in cancer research. Rather, they are meant to challenge cancer researchers to think about and elucidate specific problems in key areas of cancer research that are deemed important but have not received sufficient attention.

Some of these "Provocative Questions" (PQs) stem from intriguing but older, neglected observations that have never been adequately explored. Other PQs are built on more recent findings that are perplexing or paradoxical, revealing important gaps in current knowledge. Finally, some PQs reflect problems that traditionally have been thought to be intractable but that now may be open to investigations using new strategies and recent technical advances.

In the second issuance in 2012, there were eight PQs FOAs, each covering a subset of identified PQs and utilizing the R01 and R21 funding mechanisms. The current reissuance of the PQ Initiative involves an updated set of 20 PQs. In order to facilitate the peer review process, the new/updated PQs have been divided into five groups related by themes resulting in five R01 FOAs and five R21 FOAs.

PQs in each Group are thematically related. However, the order of the groups and numbering of questions within a group are essentially arbitrary and should not be construed to indicate any order of priority.

This FOA (RFA-CA-13-024), using the R01 funding mechanism, solicits applications for PQs in Group E. The companion FOA for PQs in Group E, using the R21 exploratory/developmental funding mechanism, is RFA-CA-13-025. PQs in this group challenge investigators to seek answers to specific unsolved problems generally related to the development of methods to optimize the application of cancer treatments or interventions for enhanced clinical effectiveness.

Each research project proposed in response to this FOA must be focused on solving one particular research problem defined by one specific PQ selected from the list in Group E. Projects proposed to address specific PQs may use strategies that incorporate ideas and approaches from multiple disciplines, as appropriate. Transdisciplinary projects are encouraged as long as they serve the scientific focus of the specific PQ chosen.

Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics - Advancing Social Sciences-Based Research on Food Assistance and Nutrition Challenges in Rural America

Additional Information:
http://bit.ly/1ncaC9o

Description: 
The purpose of the RIDGE (Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics) Center for Targeted Studies is to invest in innovative social sciences-based research that explores the food and nutrition assistance challenges of rural people and places. The program is especially interested in a wide array of topics and issues. Proposals that focus on Native Americans, Hispanics, Africans Americans, and other racial/ethnic populations, as well as children and low-wealth individuals/households, are strongly encouraged.

The Kresge Foundation: Innovative approaches to improve community health

Additional Information:
http://kresge.org/programs/health/community-health-partnerships#innovative%20approaches

Description:
We support promising new practices that serve vulnerable populations by advancing prevention, improving access and integrating primary community and clinical care. We look for efforts that foster connections between the clinical health care and community health, integrating patient care with activity to recognize and “treat” the social and environmental factors that contribute to poor health. Examples include a first-ever report highlighting the work of community health centers in promoting health and working to eliminate conditions that adversely affect the communities they serve and medical-legal partnerships that address patients’ nonmedical needs.

Washington University Nutrition Obesity Research Center Call for Proposals

Additional Information:
https://research.wustl.edu/PGC/Funding/Documents/2014%20NORC%20PF%20CFA.pdf

Description:

The major objective of this program is to provide research support to test innovative hypotheses involving nutrition and obesity in the prevention, pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and therapy of disease. It is hoped that a Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Award will generate enough preliminary data for the investigator to obtain research funding from extramural sources (e.g., R01).

Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program Call for Applications

Additional Information:
http://www.healthandagingpolicy.org/haap/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2014-15-HAPF-Call-for-Applications.pdf

Description:

The program has a broad interdisciplinary focus, and fellows have included physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, dieticians, healthcare administrators, epidemiologists, economists, and lawyers from academic and practice settings, spanning career stages from newly minted PhDs to senior professors and community leaders. The program is open to U.S. citizens and seeks to achieve racial, ethnic, gender, and discipline diversity. Applicants from groups that historically have been underrepresented are strongly encouraged to apple.

 

Translational Research to Help Older Adults Maintain their Health and Independence in the Community (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-161.html

Description:

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications using the R01 award mechanism for translational research that moves evidence-based research findings toward the development of new interventions, programs, policies, practices, and tools that can be used by organizations in the community to help older adults remain healthy and independent, productively engaged, and living in their own homes and communities. The goal of this FOA is to support translational research involving collaborations between academic research centers and community-based organizations with expertise serving or engaging older adults (such as city and state health departments, city/town leadership councils, educational institutions, workplaces, Area Agencies on Aging, and organizations funded or assisted by the Corporation for National and Community Service) that will enhance our understanding of practical tools, techniques, programs and policies that communities across the nation can use to more effectively respond to needs of the aging population.