Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Underserved Rural Communities (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-13-013.html

Description:

The overall objective is to build the evidence base and accelerate the implementation and translation of evidence- or practice-based interventions into practice in rural communities. To accomplish this objective, NHLBI invites applications that will plan and execute well-designed controlled trials that maximize the opportunities available in rural communities to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors. The long-term goal is to foster sustainable interventions and scientific research that will lead to reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in high-risk rural populations.

Short-Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research (R25)

Additional Information:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-13-020.html

 

Description:

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health invites Research Education (R25) applications to promote diversity in undergraduate and health professional participant populations by providing short-term research education support to stimulate career development in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and sleep disorders research. The overall goal of the program is to provide research opportunities for individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical science, including individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, and individuals with disabilities that will significantly contribute to a diverse research workforce in the future. The research opportunities should be of sufficient depth to enable the participants, upon completion of the program, to have a thorough exposure to the principles underlying the conduct of research, and help prepare participants interested in research to pursue competitive fellowships, or other research training or career development awards.

NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research [U54]

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-13-003.html

Description:

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) seeks to establish specialized Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers (TCCs) for Health Disparities Research comprising regional coalitions of academic institutions, community organizations, service providers and systems, government agencies and other stakeholders focused on priority research areas in minority health and health disparities. This initiative is intended to support coordinated research, implementation and dissemination activities that transcend customary approaches and “silo” organizational structures to address critical questions at multiple levels in innovative ways. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support the development of TCCs focused specifically on health policy research.

Telehealth Network Grant Program

Additional Information:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=211014

Details:
This announcement solicits applications for the Telehealth Network Grant Program (TNGP).  The primary objective of the TNGP as noted in Section 330I(D)(1) is to demonstrate how telehealth programs and networks can improve access to quality health care services in rural, frontier, and underserved communities. TNGP networks are used to: (a) expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of health care services; (b) improve and expand the training of health care providers; and/or (c) expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers, and patients and their families, for decision-making.   To further elaborate on the program’s statutory requirements noted above, applicants are encouraged to develop innovative applications that meet new and emerging needs in a changing health care delivery system with a focus on value and improved health care outcomes.  

Translational Research to Improve Obesity and Diabetes Outcomes (R18)

More Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-172.html

Description:
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) encourages NIH Research Demonstration and Dissemination Project grant (R18) applications from institutions/ organizations to test practical, sustainable, acceptable, and cost efficient adaptations of efficacious strategies or approaches prevent and treat diabetes and/or obesity. Research must target the prevention or reversal of obesity, prevention of type 2 diabetes, improved care of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, or the prevention or delay of the complications of these conditions. The approaches tested should have the potential to be widely disseminated to clinical practice, individuals and communities at risk.

Planning Grants for Translational Research to Improve Obesity and Diabetes Outcomes (R34)

More Information:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-173.html

Description:

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) encourage NIH Clinical Trial Planning Grant Program grant (R34) applications from institutions/ organizations to develop and pilot test practical, sustainable, acceptable, and cost efficient adaptations of efficacious strategies or approaches prevent and treat diabetes and/or obesity. Research must target the prevention or reversal of obesity, prevention of type 2 diabetes, improved care of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, or the prevention or delay of the complications of these conditions. NIMH encourages research focused on people with severe mental illness (SMI), whose risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes is twice that of the general population. The approaches tested should have the potential to be widely disseminated to clinical practice, individuals and communities at risk.

Practical Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence in Primary Care (R01)

More Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-022.html


Description:
This FOA seeks Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose practical interventions to improve adherence to medication. This FOA will support research to test interventions with the potential to significantly improve medication adherence in patients with chronic health conditions in settings where primary health care is delivered (including, dental and eye care settings). Applications may target medication adherence in the context of treatment for a single illness or chronic condition (e.g., hypertension) or multiple comorbid conditions (e.g., hypertension and HIV/AIDS).  Studies should use the most rigorous design and methodology possible given the populations and settings in which the study is taking place. Primary outcomes of the research should include: a patient self-report of medication adherence, and at least one other non-self-report measure of medication adherence (e.g., pharmacy refill records, electronic monitoring, etc.). In addition, applications should include a health outcome or biomarker (e.g., blood pressure, viral load in HIV patients, cholesterol levels, HbA1c) that is expected to be affected by changes in the targeted adherence behavior. Researchers should address the capacity of the tested approach for wide dissemination, the sustainability of the approach once the research is concluded, and are encouraged to include measurement and costs of the intervention characteristics and contextual factors that affect implementation and adoption.

Determinants and Consequences of Personalized Health Care and Prevention (U01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-12-024.html


Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits U01 applications for economic research on the determinants and consequences of personalization in health care and prevention. The objective of the research program is to support foundational research on economic aspects of individualized health interventions that will provide a framework for subsequent applied analyses. Program Director(s)/Principal investigator(s) for projects funded under this FOA are required to participate in a Steering Committee that will help identify key strategies to support critical research advances in this field. Research to be supported by this FOA includes analyses and development of research tools to advance understanding of: factors that affect the value of personalized interventions to individuals and their families, health care providers and payers, and society at large; incentives and constraints facing individuals and their families, health care providers, research organizations, drug and device manufacturers, and others and how they affect the actual and optimal extent to which interventions are tailored to patients’ personal characteristics or preferences; and strategies to promote improvements in health and cost outcomes through personalization of health care and preventive interventions. The purpose of this FOA is to expand generalizable understanding of the determinants and consequences of personalization in health care and prevention; it is not primarily intended to support evaluation of specific interventions or strategies for addressing particular health conditions.

WU-Center for Diabetes Translation Research Pilot and Feasibility Grants

Description:

The Washington University Center for Diabetes Translation Research (WU-CDTR) is soliciting applications for its second round of Pilot & Feasibility grants. The Center will grant two awards for up to $25,000 per year for 1-2 years, for a total of $50,000 over two years for each award. A second year of funding is contingent on review of first year’s progress. This pilot does not provide money for indirect costs. Projects must be for translation research, preferably T3 or T4; community-based; and in the area of diabetes, prediabetes/metabolic syndrome, or obesity prevention or treatment in order to be considered responsive to this RFA. T3 research is the practice-oriented stage of translational science that relies on dissemination and implementation (research to find out how an intervention or program is actually used in the community or the world-at-large), and T4 research explores what is the best method to reach clinicians and patients alike with a nationwide policy concerning an intervention or program so that they will understand it and start to use it.

Letters of Intent (LOI) should be limited to 2 pages and include a brief description of the project, how it is community-based and how it relates to diabetes, prediabetes/metabolic syndrome or obesity prevention or treatment.

LOI is due by November 15, 2012. Funding will start August 1, 2013.

Full applications will be by invitation only. Formal applications are due by March 15, 2013 and should include a Research Plan in NIH format (Specific Aims, Significance, Innovation, Approach; limited to 5 pages), detailed budget and justification, and Biosketches and Other Support for all key personnel. Additional application guidelines will be included with official invitation to submit.

Eligibility: In order to be eligible for WU-CDTR pilot funding, PIs must be members of the WU-CDTR and have a PhD or MD. For information on becoming a member of the WU-CDTR please visit our website at http://cdtr.wustl.edu.

LOIs and applications should be sent to:
Jenn Hultz
jhultz@wustl.edu
(314) 935-7504

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

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.

Small Grant Program for NIDDK K01/K08/K23 Recipients (R03)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-285.html

Description:
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) announces a program that provides NIDDK-supported K01, K08, and K23 recipients the opportunity to apply for Small Grant (R03) support at some point during the final two years of their K award. Through the use of this mechanism, which allows up to $50,000 direct costs per year for each of two years, the NIDDK is seeking to enhance the capability of its K01, K08, and K23 award recipients to conduct research as they complete their transition to fully independent investigator status. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects, including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. The R03 is, therefore, intended to support research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources and that provide preliminary data to support a subsequent R01, or equivalent, application. 

Data Coordinating Center for The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study (UC4)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-12-510.html


Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites one High Impact Research and Research Infrastructure Cooperative Agreement application (UC4) from the Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) of the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) that has been involved in study design and coordination, and data and biosample acquisition and management, since the inception of The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) consortium, an ongoing epidemiological study. The DCC will provide continued support for TEDDY study activities. This is a one-time solicitation to support the TEDDY DCC as part of an ongoing consortium of investigators for a maximum of five years, contingent on satisfactory participant recruitment and retention. The DCC will provide for data and sample management, including standardized acquisition, quality control, dissemination and public accessibility. The DCC will accommodate and support a wide range of research projects seeking to utilize and augment the TEDDY data and biosamples. Individual hypothesis-driven studies are not a component of this FOA. It is anticipated that all data and biosamples acquired will be used to conduct analyses specified in the TEDDY study protocol and to create a publicly available resource for future hypothesis-based research.

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Foundational Program

Additional Information:
 http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=Fyn3Q8JX1nmBpYQGKTtL6dztZkTgpTwJn0KJZ7RlFMDPT8hHGtTh!54841632?oppId=204054&mode=VIEW


Description:
The AFRI Foundational Program is offered to support research grants in the six AFRI priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge critical for solving current and future societal challenges. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Single-function Research Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants are expected to address one of the Program Area Priorities (see Foundational Program RFA for details).

Funding Opportunity Webinar

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, EST

 

How does culture affect health-related beliefs and practices? Artists and arts organizations may help answer this question through a new funding opportunity from the National Institutes of Health. This Request for Applications (RFA) will support research projects that bring together teams of social and behavioral researchers and arts and cultural experts to gain new insights into the relationships between culture and health. NEA co-hosts this webinar with the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health. Bill Elwood of OBSSR will present this grant announcement from the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network  (OppNet), a trans-NIH initiative that funds activities to build the collective body of knowledge about the nature of behavior and social systems.  Also joining the webinar are several NIH program directors who serve as scientific contacts for the OppNET RFA. This is the first-time the NIH has embedded the arts into an OppNet RFA on the social sciences. 

 

For more than a year, the NEA Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development has brought together federal agencies – including the NIH – to promote more and better research on how the arts help people reach their full potential at all stages of life. This OppNet RFA aligns with the NEA Task force goals.

 

The NEA and the Interagency Task Force periodically host public webinars to share compelling research, practices, and/or funding opportunities for research in the arts and human development. Task Force members include representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and other agencies and departments.  More information on the Task Force can be found at http://www.nea.gov/research/convenings.html 

 

Guests and speakers

 

• Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research & Analysis, NEA, will moderate the webinar
• Bill Elwood, Coordinator, NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet)
• Eva Caldera, Assistant Chairman for Partnership and Strategic Initiatives, National Endowment for the Humanities
• Dorothy Castille, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), invited
• Richard Jenkins, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Lana Shekim, The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
• Alan VanBiervliet, National Library of Medicine (NLM)

 

How to join the webinar

 

 The webinar is free and open to the public.  No registration is required. 

 

Media may RSVP to Sally Gifford, NEA Public Affairs Specialist at 202-682-5606 or giffords@arts.gov.

 

To join the webinar, go to http://artsgov.adobeconnect.com/artsdev5/  and check the "Enter as Guest" radio button. Type in your name and click hit "Enter Room" to join.  

 

You may listen using your computer's speakers or dial-in to 1-877-685-5350 and use participant code: 739587. Attendees will be muted but able to type in questions and comments through a text Q&A box.

 

Follow the conversation on Twitter @NEAarts with the hashtag #NEAtaskforce.

 

An archive of the webinar will be available on Monday, October 8, 2012 at http://www.arts.gov/research/convenings/

WU's Office of the Provost Releases Interdisciplinary Focused RFPs

The Office of the Provost has announced two opportunities to encourage faculty collaboration across schools and departments.

1. The Request for Proposals for Global Certificate Courses 2012
http://provost.wustl.edu/request-proposals-global-certificate-courses-2012#overlay-context=policies-reports-resources

The Global Certificate Program provides a platform for outstanding faculty to offer innovative day school courses that focus on global issues and fosters creative inquiry across disciplines and schools. These courses will introduce students to big ideas, address questions that affect our contemporary global society and encourage students to become engaged global citizens by increasing their global competency. While these courses will be created for the Global Certificate, they will be home-based in the proposed faculty’s department and/or school and are an opportunity to teach students across schools

2. The Cross-School Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant RFP 2012
http://provost.wustl.edu/cross-school-interdisciplinary-teaching-grant-rfp

Interdisciplinary faculty collaboration is fast becoming a hallmark of Washington University. The Office of the Provost wishes to encourage such collaboration across school and departmental lines to enhance faculty knowledge and enrich faculty research. In addition, the Task Force on Undergraduate Education has endorsed support for cross-disciplinary teaching to further interdisciplinary learning opportunities for our students. The Provost seeks to support interdisciplinary teaching to foster innovation and to channel funds toward the most promising courses in their infancy.

Basic social and behavioral research on culture, health, and wellbeing (R24)

Additional Information:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-12-002.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued on behalf of the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet), will provide grants for infrastructure support to develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social research on the relationships among cultural practices/beliefs, health, and wellbeing.

Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-102.html

Description:

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) encourages Research Conference Grant (R13) applications to conduct health disparities-related meetings, workshops, and symposia. The purpose of the Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series is to bring together academic institutions/organizations and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). The objectives of meetings conducted as part of this award will be to: (1) establish and/or enhance academic-community partnerships; (2) identify community-driven research priorities, and (3) develop long-term collaborative CBPR research agendas. Thus, it is expected these partnerships will lead to grant applications for the support of CBPR projects designed to meet identified community needs. The areas of focus for these partnerships may include one or more of the following community-health issues: infant mortality; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); fibroid tumors; childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; health literacy; techniques for outreach and information dissemination; pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; and violence prevention.

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. Click here for more information.





Deadline: May 15, 2013

PhRMA Foundation Young Investigator Grant Program

Additional Information:

http://www.phrmafoundation.org/

Description:

Medication adherence is defined as the extent to which a patient acts in accordance with the prescribed interval and dose of a treatment regimen. Extensive evidence shows that medication adherence can yield better clinical and economic outcomes. However, many individuals do not take their medications as recommended. Closing the adherence gap is important to improving the quality of health care, encouraging better chronic care management, and promoting better outcomes. The purpose of the PhRMA Foundation Young Investigator Grant Program is to encourage research aimed at improving adherence by providing financial support to promising researchers.

The fellowship will be awarded to candidates who establish a sound and innovative research agenda focused on the goal of improved medication adherence. Relevant research goals may include the development or evaluation of policies, interventions, or tools that are potentially successful in improving medication adherence. We are currently offering three types of awards to be granted for one year:

· Pre-doctoral fellowship award of $25,000 (view details)

· Post-doctoral fellowship award of $50,000 (view details)

· Research starter grants of $50,000 (view details)

 

 

Application deadline: October 30, 2012
Anticipated award date: January 15, 2013

 

 

Basic social and behavioral research on culture, health, and wellbeing (R24)

OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, announces its second FY2013 RFA: 

Application due date

December 17, 2012

Purpose

This RFA encourages grant applications for infrastructure support to develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social research on the relationships among cultural practices/beliefs, health, and wellbeing. This includes an appreciation for more comprehensive understandings of the relationships regarding cultural attitudes, beliefs, practices, and processes, on outcomes relevant to human health and wellbeing.  Model animal research teams are welcome to apply.  OppNet intends to commit $1,425,000 in FY2013 for approximately 5-7 awards. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations.

Background

Culture usually is defined in terms of beliefs and practices that are shared within a population, which itself may share attributes such as ethnicity, race, language, gender, sexuality, specific physical impairments, or geographic space. These beliefs and practices reflect common values, socialization processes that are intrinsic to the population of interest, and their other shared attributes.  The specific processes by which culture encompasses health-related beliefs and practices may be obscured by surrogate variables (e.g., language, national origin, race/ethnicity). There is a need for research that improves the conceptualization and measurement of culture and does this in the context of health and social and behavioral processes that influence health. 

The R24 mechanism is designed to build research infrastructure and incorporates research projects as part of this effort.  Projects should bring together transdisciplinary teams of investigators who collectively can provide new insights into relationships between aspects of culture and health. The team should choose a small project that demonstrates the power of their approach to deliver new insights that lead to improved health outcomes or facilitates the effectiveness of health research. This project may provide formative or pilot data which can be used to inform future, larger transdisciplinary health research.

OppNet welcomes research teams that include expertise complementary to basic social and behavioral sciences, e.g., arts, ethics, humanities, law.  Given OppNet's express mission to advance the basic behavioral and social sciences, applications must have a majority emphasis in basic behavioral and social sciences.  For feedback on specific topics, please consult the program staff listed in Agency Contacts.

About OppNet

OppNet is a trans-NIH initiative that funds activities to build the collective body of knowledge about the nature of behavior and social systems, and that deepen our understanding of basic mechanisms of behavioral and social processes. All 24 NIH Institutes and Centers that fund research and five Program Offices within the NIH Office of the Director (ICOs) co-fund and co-manage OppNet. All OppNet initiatives invite investigators to propose innovative research that will advance a targeted domain of basic social and behavioral sciences and produce knowledge and/or tools of potential relevance to multiple domains of health- and lifecourse-related research. 

OppNet uses the NIH definition of basic behavioral and social science research (b-BSSR) (http://obssr.od.nih.gov/about_obssr/BSSR_CC/BSSR_definition/definition.aspx) to determine application responsiveness. Consequently, OppNet strongly encourages prospective investigators to consult this definition, OppNet’s answers to frequently asked questions about b-BSSR (http://oppnet.nih.gov/about-faqs.asp), OppNet’s Coordinating Committee members, and the Agency Contacts section of this FOA for individuals with expertise in the research subject matter and the OppNet initiative.

Applicants should understand that the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which made this FOA available to the public, is not necessarily the NIH IC that ultimately will manage a funded OppNet project. Instead, OppNet assigns funding and project management of meritorious applications to one of 24 NIH ICs whose scientific mission most closely corresponds to each research project.  For more information about OppNet, its NIH members, its grant portfolio, and all its current funding opportunities, visit http://oppnet.nih.gov. 

Center for Community Health and Partnerships St. Louis Community-University Health Research Partnerships

Additional Information:
 https://publichealth.wustl.edu/initiatives/CCHP/Pages/CUHRP.aspx

Details:
The St. Louis Community-University Health Research Partnerships (CUHRP) initiative focuses on health care problems of importance to the community with the goal of improving health outcomes, reducing health disparities, and fostering long-term collaborations between university faculty and community-based organizations in St. Louis city and county.

In 2009, Washington University, Saint Louis University, and BJC HealthCare partnered to fund CUHRP. The St. Louis Regional Health Commission administered the first round of funds and coordinated the initiative’s activities. As of August 2012, a team from Saint Louis University and Washington University is coordinating the remaining funds of the CUHRP initiative.

As part of the CUHRP initiative two grant opportunities are available for one-year funding: Partnership Development grants ($5,000) and Implementation grants ($40,000).

ADA and Medronic Technology in Diabetes Fellowship

Description:

The ADA-Medtronic Technology in Diabetes Fellowship provides grant support for technology-based studies that utilize the CareLink database (which includes blood glucose-monitoring and insulin pump-derived data) to investigate novel clinically related questions that assess, evaluate, correlate, and improve the application of this and similar technologies, and focus on clinical outcomes for patients with insulin-treated diabetes. Clinical and post-doctoral fellows and scientists in training are encouraged to apply.

Additional Information:

http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?typ=18&cid=89698#GSK

ADA and GSK Award in the Microbiome and Metabolic Changes in Diabetes and Obesity

Description:

The American Diabetes Association and GlaxoSmithKline Award in the Microbiome and Metabolic Changes in Diabetes and Obesity are designed to support basic, translational and clinical research proposals focusing on the relationship between the microbiome and metabolism, including the role of the microbiome in the predisposition to and progression of obesity and diabetes.

Additional information:

http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?typ=18&cid=89698#GSK

NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities: Dissemination Phase (R24) Grant

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-13-001.html

Description:
The National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites applications for a limited competition Funding Opportunity (FOA) to provide continuing support for NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Intervention Research Phase grantees. The goal of this initiative is to support the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based interventions designed to reduce health disparities using a community-based participatory research approach.

Time-Sensitive Obesity Policy and Program Evaluation (R01)

PAR 12-257--Time-Sensitive Obesity Policy and Program Evaluation (R01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-257.html

Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute on Aging (NIA), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This announcement establishes an accelerated review/award process to support time-sensitive research to evaluate a new policy or program expected to influence obesity related behaviors (e.g., dietary intake, physical activity, or sedentary behavior) and/or weight outcomes in an effort to prevent or reduce obesity.  This FOA is intended to support research where opportunities for empirical study are, by their very nature, only available through expedited review and funding.  All applications to this FOA must demonstrate that the evaluation of an obesity related policy and /or program offers an uncommon and scientifically compelling research opportunity that will only be available if the research is initiated with minimum delay. For these reasons, applications in response to this time-sensitive FOA are eligible for only one submission.  It is intended that eligible applications selected for funding will be awarded within 3-4 months after the application submission/receipt date. However, administrative requirements and other unforeseen circumstances may delay issuance dates beyond that timeline.

Applicants please note:  Resubmissions are not allowed for this funding announcement.  Please read the PAR very carefully.  Only time-sensitive studies will be given priority.  Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact one of the program officers listed below.

Christine M. Hunter, Ph.D.

Director of Behavioral Research

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Telephone: 301-594-4728

Email: ch514c@nih.gov

John G. Haaga, Ph.D.

Deputy Director, Division of Behavioral and Social Research

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Telephone: 301-496-3131

Email: HaagaJ@mail.nih.gov

Robin A. McKinnon, Ph.D., MPA

Health Policy Specialist

Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Telephone: 301-594-3599

Email: mckinnonr@mail.nih.gov

Layla Esposito, Ph.D.

Program Director

Center for Research for Mothers and Children

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Telephone: 301-435-6888

Email: espositl@mail.nih.gov  

Secondary Analyses and Archiving of Social and Behavioral Datasets in Aging (R03)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13-004.html


Description:
 The NIA supports collection of data and biological samples including a broad array of measures that are relevant to: the dynamics of health and disability, cognition, psychosocial and sociodemographic factors, genetics and biomarkers, long-term care, caregiving, behavioral medicine, retirement, economic status and well-being over the lifecourse (see the Resources Section below for links to NIA sponsored data sources).   The purpose of this FOA is to solicit one-year R03 applications for (1) secondary analysis of data on aging in the areas of psychology, behavioral genetics, economics, demography or (2) archiving and dissemination of data sets to enable secondary analyses in order to further advance research.

Secondary Analyses of Comparative Effectiveness, Health Outcomes and Costs in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions (R21)

Additional Information:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13-003.html

Description:  The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for short-term projects involving secondary analysis aimed at the following goals:

• To assess the public health and health cost impact of specific combinations of two or more conditions in defined older populations,
• To identify potential differences in effectiveness and safety of different treatment regimens for patients with specific combinations of two or more conditions,
• To examine alterations in safety or effectiveness of a treatment for one condition related to the presence of one or more specific coexisting condition.

·         To identify and address methodological issues relevant to analyses of the health impact of multiple chronic conditions such as validity of data and confounding by indication.

BJHF-ICTS Funding Program

Additional Information:

http://www.icts.wustl.edu/funding/bjhf_icts_funding_program.aspx

Description:

The Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation (BJHF) and the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) announce the 5th annual BJHF/ICTS Clinical and Translational Funding Program.
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 or translational research, but whose proposed project is different from their previous work
• Investigators collaborating with community-based organizations
• Developing inter- or multidisciplinary groups working on novel methodologies or research teams working on a clinical problem of interest and importance.

Healthy Lifestyles in Youth Project

Link to Additional Information:

Full Funding Opportunity Announcement

Description:

The Indian Health Service (IHS) proposes a single source competing continuation cooperative agreement with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) for the purpose of continued implementation of the Healthy Lifestyles in Youth Project in selected Native American Boys and Girls Clubs of America. This program promotes healthy lifestyles among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth using the curriculum “Together Raising Awareness for Indian Life” (TRAIL) among selected Boys and Girls Club sites. The focus of the project continues to be on addressing healthy lifestyle development, emphasizing nutrition and physical activity for AI/AN children and youth 6 through 17 years of age. The long term goal is to prevent or delay the onset of obesity and related diseases such as type 2 diabetes. NCAI will continue partnering work with selected Tribal Boys and Girls Club sites to: a) provide health and physical education programs; b) help youth achieve and maintain healthy lifestyles through participation in fitness programs; c) help youth to acquire a range of physical skills; and d) help youth develop a sense of teamwork and cooperation.             

           

PPHF 2012: National Diabetes Prevention Program: Preventing Type 2 Diabetes Among People at High Risk financed solely by 2012 Prevention and Public Health Funds

Additional Information:

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=Qc86QN5cRLKx0rvgMpGL1MN0wwZxJywhhRw1NtCQS1r2NjyJ23nh!487209127?oppId=179273&mode=VIEW

Description:

The purpose of this funding announcement is to scale (expand) and sustain the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP).               

PPHF 2012: REACH: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health: Obesity and Hypertension Demonstration Projects financed solely by 2012 Prevention and Public Health Funds

Additional Information:

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=Qc86QN5cRLKx0rvgMpGL1MN0wwZxJywhhRw1NtCQS1r2NjyJ23nh!487209127?oppId=178674&mode=VIEW

Description:

Funding provided through this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will support the implementation arm of demonstration projects focused on reducing health disparities. It builds upon previous Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) programs (www.cdc.gov/reach) and other health equity-related community health programs and serves as a focused complement to programs working to make population-wide, place-based improvements.              

PPHF 2012: REACH: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health financed solely by 2012 Prevention and Public Health Funds

Additional Information:

http://www.grants.gov/search/synopsis.do;jsessionid=pVS1QNMTc5L0QXPm7vCtL8QNj0pcP3n2cByY8xY2LTPLHwTnFf8l!487209127

Description:

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is designed to fund national or multi-state organizations to:•Fund, manage, support, and monitor sub-recipients to address health disparities and implement evidence- and practice-based strategies that reduce health disparities for intervention population(s) experiencing high burden of disease or risk factors. The intervention population is the population within the selected geographic area that applicants will reach with proposed program activities. •Contribute to the development and implementation of a community health action plan to address chronic disease health disparities.             

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)

Link to Additional Information:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-198.html

Description:

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director (OD) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), encourages innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted under this FOA may include development of: Novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups, including older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases, methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmental context of such behaviors.              

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R21)

Link to Additional Information:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-197.html      

       
Description: 

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director (OD) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), encourages innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted under this FOA may include development of: Novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups, including children and older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases, methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmental context of such behaviors.              
    

Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures

Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures 

Additional information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-027.html


Deadline: October 5, 2012 

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), 

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), 

Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), NIH, and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to: (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related "natural experiments" (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior, and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans. Click here for more information.

CDC Releases Call for National Organizations for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: CDC-RFA-DP10-1008

Link to Announcement: 

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=4VpKP23LLkpkLrbRRJGmmxj2PrKjXC9xxMQmwGVyT3QXpJt9DQtp!-9084050?oppId=183393&mode=VIEW

Purpose:

The purpose of the program is to plan, coordinate, and facilitate public health activities related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion (focusing on the National Center For Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s priority areas and goals), and environmental health. Approximately 79 million Americans have prediabetes.  Prediabetes means blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diabetes.  People with prediabetes have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

The program purpose is to develop a process for identifying and supporting the work of 5-10 State Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs (DPCPs) that have the capacity and are well positioned to engage in state-wide or regional (large city) efforts to promote increased use of lifestyle change programs that have achieved CDC recognition.

Provide training and technical assistance on: 1) strategic use of health communication and marketing campaigns to raise awareness of prediabetes risk factors for people at risk, 2) strategies for raising awareness among health care providers of how to recognize and treat prediabetes and increase referrals to CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs, 3)  strategies for developing and implementing systems for referral of people with prediabetes or multiple type 2 diabetes risk factors to sites offering CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs, and 4) strategies for partnering with state and local government agencies to recommend that CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs be offered as a covered benefit for public employees to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. 

Program Implementation

Recipient Activities

1)      Develop a process for identifying  and supporting the work of 5-10 State Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs (DPCPs) that have the capacity and are well positioned to engage in state-wide or regional (large city) efforts to promote increased use of lifestyle change programs that have achieved CDC recognition (or pending recognition) to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes among people at high risk during the 12 month project period; 

2)      Provide training and technical assistance to 5-10 selected states, in coordination with CDC, in the following areas:

a)      Strategic use of health communication and marketing campaigns to raise awareness of prediabetes risk factors for people at risk, the location of sites offering lifestyle change programs that have achieved CDC recognition (or pending recognition), and how to enroll in these lifestyle programs;

b)      Strategies for raising awareness among health care providers of how to recognize and treat prediabetes;

c)      Strategies for working with health care providers to increase referrals to CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs;

d)      Strategies for developing and implementing systems for referral of people with prediabetes or multiple type 2 diabetes risk factors to sites offering CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs;

e)      Strategies for partnering with state and local government agencies to recommend that CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs be offered as a covered benefit for public employees to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes;

f)       Strategies for partnering with organizations such as business coalitions to increase support for CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs as a covered benefit by insurance providers and companies that are self-insured;

g)      Strategies for ensuring that efforts to increase awareness and promote the program are aligned and coordinated with organizations in the State that are delivering CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs.

3)      Develop a plan for documenting and evaluating the impact of the selected DPCP’s contributions toward increasing awareness, referrals and access to CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs during the project period, and the extent to which these activities support and/or complement those of the organizations offering the programs.

Dedicate staff with necessary knowledge and skills to successfully manage the project and complete the required recipient activities.

 In a cooperative agreement, CDC staff is substantially involved in the program activities, above and beyond routine grant monitoring.  

PCORI Funding Opportunities

PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) are issued to support a portfolio of comparative clinical effectiveness research based on PCORI’s National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda. PCORI’s first Research Agenda includes five broad areas. Each area represents a line of research inquiry that addresses currently unmet needs of patients, their caregivers, clinicians and other healthcare system stakeholders in making personalized healthcare decisions across a wide range of conditions and treatments.


They offer a series of RFAs, including this call for communication and dissemination:
http://www.pcori.org/assets/PFA-Communication-and-Dissemination-05222012.pdf

For more information on all of their calls, please visit the PCORI funding opportunity website:
http://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/pfa/

Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) (PAR-12-182)

Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-182.html

Purpose:

The purpose of the Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) initiative is to reduce health disparities, enhance partnerships and reduce distrust of research by  American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities while developing a cadre of AI/AN scientists and health research professionals.  The AI/AN Tribal nations and communities have long experienced disparities in health compared with other Americans.  Health disparities of AI/ANs are related to a complex set of factors and the paucity of health research within these populations may contribute to the situation.  One approach that combats this distrust is to ensure that Tribes and Tribal Organizations are the managing partners in research and training that involves them.  To that end, NIH in collaboration with IHS has issued the NARCH funding opportunity announcement in which collaborations between Federally recognized AI/AN Tribes or Tribal organizations (including national and area Indian health boards, and Tribal colleges meeting the definition of a Tribal organization as defined by 25 U.S.C. 1603(d) or (e)) and institutions that conduct intensive academic-level biomedical, behavioral and health services research will be supported to conduct research and training in AI/AN communities. 

Research Objectives:

The NARCH program seeks to support development of AI/AN communities in research partnerships, build upon strengths in combating health disparities and increase the pool of trained AI/AN scientists and research professionals.  Due to the complexity of factors contributing to the health and disease of AI/ANs, and to their health disparities compared with other Americans, the collaborative efforts of the agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the collaboration of researchers and AI/AN communities are needed to achieve significant improvements in the health status of AI/AN people. To accomplish this goal, in addition to objectives set by the Tribe, Tribal organization or Indian health boards, the NARCH program will pursue the following program objectives:

• To gain a better understanding of strengths and resilency factors: An understanding of how to enhance the strengths and resilience within the AI/AN communities and individuals may help reduce health disparities. While AI/AN communities have relied on health research and medical science to reduce health disparities, they have also relied on their own psychological, organizational, and cultural assets and strengths to survive major harms and disruptions over the centuries, and to rebound from insults to health.
• Strengthen partnerships and AI/AN community engagement in health research: Fully utilizing all cultural and scientific knowledge, strengths, and competencies, such partnerships can lead to better understanding of the biological, genetic, behavioral, psychological, cultural, social, and economic factors either promoting or hindering improved health status of AI/ANs, and generate the development and evaluation of interventions to improve their health status.  Community distrust of research and researchers will be reduced by offering the Tribe greater control over the research process. Recent community-based participatory research suggests that AI/AN communities can work collaboratively in partnership with health researchers to further the research needs of AI/ANs (Thomas LR, Rosa C, Forcehimes A,Donovan DM. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. Research partnerships between academic institutions and American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and organizations: effective strategies and lessons learned in a multisite CTN study. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2011 Sep;37(5):333-8).  Helpful guidelines for community leaders and health researchers conducting research within the AI/AN communities can be found athttp://www.ncaiprc.org/research-curriculum-guide and http://www.ncaiprc.org/research-regulation.
• Development of AI/AN scientists and health research professionals: Opportunities are needed to develop more AI/AN scientists and health professionals engaged in health research, and to conduct biomedical, clinical, behavioral and health services research that is responsive to the needs of the AI/AN community and the goals of this initiative. Faculty/researchers and students at each proposed NARCH will develop investigator-initiated, scientifically meritorious research projects, including pilot research projects, and will be supported through science education projects designed to increase the numbers of, and to improve the research skills of, AI/AN investigators and investigators involved with AI/ANs.

By involving and training people from within the community in areas of health research, a better understanding of community health concerns and needs regarding health research is attained. The approach in which the community is empowered in the research is beneficial in both designing research relevant to the health needs of the communities and providing sustainability of addressing these needs with trained researchers from Tribal communities. 

Research Interests:

Although many ICs indicated specific research interests that they would like to fund, NIDDK did not. It is highly recommended that you contact the program officer to see if they would be interested in funding your research concept.

The program officer indicated in the RFA is Alan Trachtenberg:

Alan Trachtenberg, M.D., M.P.H. 
IHS Research Director (Acting) 
801 Thompson Ave, TMP Suite 450 
Rockville, MD 20852 
(301) 443-0578 or narch@ihs.gov

Re-Issue of NIDDK Translation R18 and R34

NIDDK has recently re-issued their translation research calls for the R18 and R34 mechanisms. It is strongly advised that you thoroughly read the new call and note that there have been some changes including the addition of a translation component to the review criteria:

Translation

Is the approach to be tested novel and/or significant in relation to its potential to meaningfully improve healthcare or public health?  Does the approach to be tested have the potential to reach and/or be generalized to a reasonably large segment of at risk individuals?  If the translation is to a new population, is the adaptation or modification to the evidence based approach directed toward meaningful differences between the target population and the population addressed in the clinical efficacy research? For example, does the proposed intervention address unique barriers or differences in lifestyle and beliefs?  Does the approach to be tested have the potential for wide dissemination and implementation at the conclusion of the research? Have the researchers justified the sustainability of the approach beyond the research period, including appropriate partnerships and consideration of cost and resources such as personnel and infrastructure? Is there a sufficient evaluation of the implementation costs in relation to sustainability and the health benefit achieved?

Translational Research to Improve Obesity and Diabetes Outcomes

(R18) PAR-12-172
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-172.html




Planning Grants for Translational Research to Improve Obesity and Diabetes 


Outcomes (R34) PAR-12-173
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-173.html

Benefits of approaches proven efficacious in clinical trials for diabetes and obesity are often not fully realized because the therapies are not implemented in many healthcare settings or communities. For example, it is well established that behavioral lifestyle interventions, with modest (5-7%) weight loss, can prevent or delay development of type 2 diabetes in individuals at high risk for the disorder.  Further, large clinical trials have demonstrated that glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factor modification can reduce the risk of diabetes complications.  Large controlled trials have also consistently demonstrated success in achieving weight loss though lifestyle approaches, although maintenance of weight loss remains a challenge.  Despite these advances, the efficacious interventions from these trials are rarely translated into widespread practice.  Often this is because they lack adaptation and testing to be feasible, acceptable, cost effective and sustainable outside of tightly controlled research settings and populations. Closing the gap between clinical efficacy research and adoption and application of these approaches in community and healthcare settings is a complex challenge but an important focus of necessary research to improve the health of the nation.

Research in response to this announcement must test sustainable, acceptable, and cost efficient adaptations of efficacious strategies or approaches prevent and treat diabetes and/or obesity.  Areas of research included in this FOA include:

• Testing innovative strategies to promote the implementation of evidence-based health practices within applied practice or community settings.  Examples include testing approaches designed to achieve more rapid medication intensification in patients with diabetes, improve adherence to diabetes medications and blood glucose monitoring, or increase adherence to screening guidelines such as screening for gestational diabetes, assessing body mass index in healthcare practice, or screening high risk individuals for type 2 diabetes.
• Testing novel adaptation, or translation, of evidence based interventions to evaluate effectiveness within applied practice or community settings.  Such evidence based interventions could include behavioral lifestyle counseling for weight management in both children and adults or diabetes self management approaches to improve adherence and tighten glucose control.
• Adaptations should retain core strategies from the evidence based intervention (e.g.        inclusion of both dietary and physical activity changes as well as core behavioral strategies for weight loss). Innovations in delivery frequency, intensity and/or modality are encouraged, particularly if they are aimed at overcoming barriers to wide implementation or unique barriers in high risk communities.  Amount of adaptation should be balanced with maintaining core elements of an evidence based approach.  A less expensive and more adoptable approach only benefits public health if it also achieves meaningful health outcomes.

All grant applications must specifically include a description of the tested approach’s capacity to address the following questions: 

a) Could it be applied to a significant number of at risk individuals? 

b) Could it be widely disseminated (widely adopted) and implemented (put into practice)? 

c) Would the approach be sustainable once the research is concluded?

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