Friday, June 19, 2015

Strategies to Increase Delivery of Guideline-Based Care to Populations with Health Disparities (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-15-279.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications to conduct innovative and feasible studies to test strategies to accelerate the adoption of guideline-based recommendations into clinical practice among populations with health disparities.  Applications that propose strategies with a focus on providers who care for clinical populations with excess burden of cardiovascular, lung, blood, and sleep diseases and disorders, in concert with the health care delivery systems in which they practice, are strongly encouraged. Applications that test systems, infrastructures, and strategies to implement guideline-based care for NHLBI disorders in clinical care settings are also of high programmatic interest. 

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Native American Populations (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-346.html

Description:
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to develop, adapt, and test the effectiveness of health promotion and disease prevention interventions in Native American (NA) populations. NA populations are exposed to considerable risk factors that significantly increase their likelihood of chronic disease, substance abuse, mental illness, and HIV-infection. The intervention program should be culturally appropriate and promote the adoption of healthy lifestyles, improve behaviors and social conditions and/or improve environmental conditions related to chronic disease, the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, mental illness or HIV-infection. The intervention program should be designed so that it could be sustained within the entire community within existing resources, and, if successful, disseminated in other Native American communities. The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce mortality and morbidity in NA communities.  For the purposes of this FOA Native Americans include the following populations: Alaska Native, American Indian, and Native Hawaiian.  The term ‘Native Hawaiian’ means any individual any of whose ancestors were natives, prior to 1778, of the area which now comprises the State of Hawaii.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health

Additional Information:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2015/evidence-for-action-investigator-initiated-research-to-build-a-culture-of-health.html?rid=GCwK8mvlIypq6d4XQxCigg&et_cid=271792

Description:

Purpose

Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health is a national program of RWJF that supports the Foundation’s commitment to building a Culture of Health in the United States. The program aims to provide individuals, organizations, communities, policymakers, and researchers with the empirical evidence needed to address the key determinants of health encompassed in the Culture of Health Action Framework. In addition, Evidence for Action will also support efforts to assess outcomes and set priorities for action.  It will do this by encouraging and supporting creative, rigorous research on the impact of innovative programs, policies and partnerships on health and well-being, and on novel approaches to measuring health determinants and outcomes.

Total Awards

Approximately $2.2 million will be awarded annually. We expect to fund between five and 12 grants each year for periods of up to 30 months. We anticipate that this funding opportunity will remain open for at least a period of three years; however, decisions about modifications to the program and the duration of the program will be made by RWJF at its sole discretion.

Key Dates

Informational Web Conferences
Informational Web Conferences are scheduled for June 8, 2015 and July 22, 2015 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. ET. (10:30-11:30 a.m. PT). Registration is required:

Since applications are accepted on a rolling basis, these dates indicate the earliest submission, response, and funding decisions. Applications received at a later date can anticipate a similar pace.
June 1, 2015
CFP release, program begins accepting letters of intent

July 17, 2015
Notice on status of letters of intent received in June

September 11, 2015
Deadline for first set of invited full proposals

October 23, 2015
Notification of awards

December 4, 2015
Start date

Eligibility and Selection Criteria

Applicants must be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories. Awards will be made to organizations, not to individuals.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Advancing Health Disparities Interventions Through Community-Based Participatory Research (U01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-15-010.html

Description:
The overarching goals of the NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Program are to enhance community capacity in research for which they will directly benefit; support collaborative intervention projects addressing health disparities; and accelerate the translation of findings into improved health and health outcomes.  The purpose of this FOA is to support promising community interventions using CBPR principles and approaches aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating health disparities.     - See more at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-15-010.html#sthash.2j3TFMk9.dpuf

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

RWJF Health Eating Research Grants available

Description:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/how-we-work/grants/funding-opportunities.html?rid=SSqytDjM87pPiLkiVw8JKS1dJ4qR3hrf&et_cid=252819

Additional Information:

New Connections Grants Awarded through the Healthy Eating Research Program

The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity. Award type: New Connections grants awarded through Healthy Eating Research.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Administrative Supplements for Common Basic Sociobehavioral Mechanisms and Processes that Facilitate or Impede Self-Management of Chronic Conditions (Admin Supp)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-122.html

Description:
NIH's Basic Behavioral & Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) announces the opportunity of funds to support  increases in costs on existing projects in order  to elucidate basic mechanisms and processes that facilitate and/or impede  an individual's attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, and behaviors involved with the self-management of chronic disease conditions within  respective social and/or physical  environment(s). - See more at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-122.html#sthash.slfPC3fI.dpuf

Monday, April 27, 2015

Large Pragmatic Studies to Evaluate Patient-Centered Outcomes - Spring 2015 Cycle

Additional Information:
http://www.pcori.org/announcement/large-pragmatic-studies-evaluate-patient-centered-outcomes-spring-2015-cycle

Description:
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) seeks to fund pragmatic clinical trials, large simple trials, or large-scale observational studies that compare two or more alternatives for addressing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or management of a disease or symptom; improving healthcare system-level approaches to managing care; or eliminating health or healthcare disparities.
Proposed studies must address critical clinical choices faced by patients, their caregivers, clinicians, and/or delivery systems. They must involve broadly representative patient populations and be large enough to provide precise estimates of hypothesized effectiveness differences, and to support evaluation of potential differences in treatment effectiveness in patient subgroups.
For this solicitation, PCORI is requiring that relevant patient organizations, professional organizations, and/or payer or purchaser organizations be included as partners and active participants in the study. PCORI expects that most awards will be made for study designs that use randomization, either of individual participants or clusters, to avoid confounding bias. However, we recognize that exceptional opportunities may arise, by virtue of natural experiments and/or the existence of large registries, to address pragmatic questions using observational designs.
Please note that this funding program does not support applications to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses, systematic reviews (with or without meta-analyses), or development and/or evaluations of shared decision making or decision support tools.
This announcement is a collaborative effort of PCORI’s Clinical Effectiveness Research, Improving Healthcare Systems, and Addressing Disparities research programs. Thus, applications for pragmatic studies may fit within any of these three priority areas.