Testing Interventions for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (R01)

Additional Information:
http://1.usa.gov/1tiCNqG

Description:

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund highly innovative and promising research that tests multi-level intervention programs of 1 to 2 years in length that are designed to increase health-enhancing physical activity: 1) in persons or groups that can benefit from such activity; and 2) that could be made scalable and sustainable for broad use across the nation. This FOA provides support for up to 5 years for research planning, intervention delivery, and follow-up activities.

Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01)

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http://1.usa.gov/1tJT2OM

Description:

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to develop basic and applied projects utilizing systems science methodologies relevant to human behavioral and social sciences and health. This FOA is intended to encourage a broader scope of topics to be addressed with systems science methodologies, beyond those encouraged by existing open FOAs. Research projects applicable to this FOA are those that are either applied or basic in nature (including methodological development), have a human behavioral and/or social science focus, and feature systems science methodologies.

Understanding Factors in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 24 months) That Influence Obesity Development (R01)

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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-323.html

Description:

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations which propose to characterize or identify factors in early childhood (birth-24 months) that may increase or mitigate risk for obesity and/or excessive weight gain and/or to fill methodological research gaps relevant to the understanding of risk for development of obesity in children. Studies must propose research in children from birth to 24 months, although any proposed follow-up assessments, if applicable, may continue past this period. Studies may also assess factors relevant to families and/or caregivers of children from birth to 24 months. Applications should seek to fill unique research needs and involve expertise across disciplines as appropriate for the proposed research question.

Testing Interventions for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (R01) (R21/R33)

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R01: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-315.html
R21/R33: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-321.html

Description:

R01:
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund highly innovative and promising research that tests multi-level intervention programs of 1 to 2 years in length that are designed to increase health-enhancing physical activity: 1) in persons or groups that can benefit from such activity; and 2) that could be made scalable and sustainable for broad use across the nation. This FOA provides support for up to 5 years for research planning, intervention delivery, and follow-up
activities.

R21/R33:

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for Phased Innovation (R21/R33) grant awards to support highly innovative research aimed at developing multi-level interventions that will increase health-enhancing physical activity: 1) in persons or groups who can benefit from such activity; and 2) that can be made scalable and sustainable for broad use across the nation. This FOA provides support for up to two years (R21 phase) for research planning activities and feasibility studies, followed by a possible transition to expanded research support (R33 phase). Transition to the R33 depends on the completion of applicant-defined milestones, as well as program priorities and the availability of funds.

  

Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-292.html

Description:

The purpose of this FOA is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U. S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention. Particular attention is given to reducing “health gaps” among groups. Applications that utilize an interdisciplinary approach, investigate multiple levels of analysis, incorporate a life-course perspective, and/or employ innovative methods such as systems science or community-based participatory research are particularly encouraged.

MD-PhD Training Program in Aging and the Social/Behavioral Sciences (T32)

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=262268

Description:
NIA's MD-PhD Institutional Training Program in Aging and the Social/Behavioral Sciences is designed to help strengthen the pipeline of physician scholars dedicated to using social and behavioral science approaches to addressing the nation's challenges raised by population aging. This FOA invites applications from 1) institutions with NIA-funded grants in the social/behavioral sciences that are relevant to the research topics proposed under this FOA and 2) that have currently-active formal, combined MD-PhD training programs. Fields of graduate training that are responsive to this FOA are economics, health economics, demography, sociology, social epidemiology, and aspects of psychology relevant to affective science, decision science and the science of behavior change. Training programs that focus primarily on neuropsychology or clinical psychology are outside the scope of this initiative. Integrated medical and graduate research training programs may be built around single disciplines or may be multidisciplinary, may be flexible in structure, and should be consistent with individual institutional strengths. Proposed training programs should be flexible and adaptable in providing each trainee with the appropriate background in the social/behavioral sciences relevant to medicine, yet be rigorous enough to enable graduates to function independently in both basic social/behavioral science research and clinical investigation.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation and the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences 7th annual BJHF/ICTS Clinical and Translational Funding Program

Additional Information:
http://www.icts.wustl.edu/icts-researchers/funding/funding-opportunities/bjhf-icts-funding-program

Description:

The Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program provides members of the ICTS with the opportunity to apply for funds to advance medical knowledge that can improve human health. This program supports:

• New investigators in either clinical or translational research who do not yet have their own peer-reviewed research support
• Established investigators who are working in other fields, but are interested in exploring new directions in clinical and/or translational research
• Established investigators already active in the field of clinical and translational research, but whose proposed project is different from their previous work
• Investigators collaborating with community-based organizations
• Investigators developing inter- or multidisciplinary groups working on novel methodologies or research teams working on a clinical problem of interest and importance

Specific Aims of the Program

• To facilitate the development and implementation of novel clinical and translational research methodologies into human studies
• To improve the quality of patient care, enhance patient safety and improve patient outcomes
• To improve the transfer of research discoveries to practice

KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program Application

Additional Information: 
https://www.iths.org/education/kl2

Description:
The ITHS KL2 Program is funded through the National Institutes of Health CTSA initiative. Doctoral level Scholars are welcome from all health professions. Intensively mentored research experience will be the centerpiece of the program, and the ITHS offers an extraordinary range of research cores, centers, and mentors to support this work. The purpose of this program is to train outstanding individuals to design, execute, and oversee clinical and translational research in transdisciplinary team settings, and to develop future clinical and translational research leaders in disciplines critical to the overall mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
This program will provide the time, funding, and rigorous mentorship necessary to foster the early career development of clinical and translational researchers ("NIH Clinical Research Scholars"). The program encourages all types of clinical research, including patient-oriented research, translational research, small- and large-scale clinical investigation and trials, epidemiologic and natural history studies, health services research, and health behavior research. The program seeks to attract individuals from a broad range of disciplines, including dentistry, medicine, naturopathy, nursing, pharmacy, public health, social work, and surgery.
The program will involve faculty from the University of Washington Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Community Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, and Social Work; as well as prominent affiliated programs such as Seattle Children's Research Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, VA Puget Sound, the Group Health Research Institute, and other ITHS partner institutes.
We will train investigators to acquire depth in a specific area of research, but also breadth of knowledge about the full spectrum of clinical and translational investigation. We will provide them with methodological knowledge and practical skills for conducting high quality integrative clinical research. In the process we will create a strong multidisciplinary network of clinical research mentors and scholars, which should strengthen the early career development of each scholar. We believe that our graduates will be future research leaders prepared to conduct interdisciplinary clinical research using the highest ethical standards and capitalizing on new technology and informatics tools.

AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-291.html

Description:

This FOA solicits Large Research (R01) Project applications. The Research Project Grant (R01) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ. Although the PD/PI writes the grant application and is responsible for conducting and supervising the research, the actual applicant is the research institution/organization.

The AHRQ mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more ac­cessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. Within the mission, AHRQ’s specific priority areas of focus are:

• Improve health care quality by accelerating implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)
• Make health care safer
• Increase accessibility by evaluating expansions of insurance coverage
• Improve health care affordability, efficiency and cost transparency

These areas, relevant to Research Project Grant (R01) applications submitted to AHRQ, are articulated at (http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/foaguidance/index.html). Contacting an AHRQ staff member may help focus the research plan based on an understanding of the AHRQ mission and research priorities. AHRQ staff contacts can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/staffcon.htm.

As AHRQ is interested in funding research that will have an important impact on health care practice and policy, applicants to this FOA are encouraged to submit a structured abstract of the potential findings that might arise from the planned research proposed. If a structured abstract is included as part of the grant application, it should be submitted as an appendix.

Comparative Health System Performance in Accelerating PCOR Dissemination (U19)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HS-14-011.html

Description:

This FOA broadly invites applications to become a Center of Excellence on Comparative Health System Performance as part of AHRQ's Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) dissemination work under Section 937(a) of the Affordable Care Act. PCOR is comparative clinical effectiveness research of the impact on health outcomes of two or more preventive, diagnostic, treatment, or healthcare delivery approaches. This definition is based on the definition used in section 6301(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 (http://housedocs.house.gov/energycommerce/ppacacon.pdf). PCOR produces not only clinical findings (e.g., diuretics are superior to ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers in treating high blood pressure and preventing cardiovascular events), but also evidence about the effectiveness of different systems for delivering care.