Friday, July 27, 2012

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


Additional Information:

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.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

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.

Monday, July 23, 2012

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.              
    

Friday, July 13, 2012

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.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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.