Shape American Research Grant Program

Additional Information:
http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102697691773-134/RC_Grant_Info-Guidelines_2014-15.pdf

Description
The Research Council is calling for original research proposals designed to focus on issues that provide evidence based outcomes to promote or document the value, influence, or effect of social justice and diversity in health, physical education, physical activity, dance and/or sport.

Healthy Eating Research

Additional Information:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/funding-opportunities/2014/her-special-solicitation.html?rid=SSqytDjM87pPiLkiVw8JKS1dJ4qR3hrf&et_cid=129083

Description:

Purpose

Childhood obesity is one of the most serious threats to the health of our nation. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), through its commitment to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic, has provided national leadership in efforts to achieve a healthy weight for all of our nation’s children, especially in lower-income communities and communities of color. This landmark work continues today as part of its vision to build a national Culture of Health that will enable all Americans to live longer and healthier lives, now and for generations to come.
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is an RWJF national program. The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among groups at highest risk for obesity: Black, Latino, American Indian, Asian/Pacific Islander children, and children who live in lower-income communities. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic and help all children achieve a healthy weight.
This call for proposals (CFP) focuses on childhood obesity prevention efforts in two settings:

• Healthy Food Retail
• Early Care and Education

Total Awards

Approximately $425,000 will be awarded under this CFP. Awards up to 12 months and up to $75,000 each will be funded through this special solicitation. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for projects that require between $25,000 and $75,000 to complete. Approximately two-thirds of the funds available will be allocated to studies focused on healthy food retail and one-third will be allocated to studies focused on early care and education.

Key Dates

December 3, 2014
RWJF online system for concept papers will be available to applicants.
January 7, 2015 (3 p.m. ET)
Deadline for receipt of concept papers.
January 21, 2015
Applicants will be contacted by email and informed as to whether or not they are invited to submit a full proposal. Invited full proposals must be submitted via the RWJF online system.*
March 4, 2015 (3 p.m. ET)
Deadline for receipt of invited full proposals.
Late April 2015
Notification of finalists.
Summer 2015
Projects begin.

WUSTL Center for Dissemination & Implementation

Additional Information:
https://publichealth.wustl.edu/initiatives/dandi/Pages/Funding-Opportunities.aspx?utm_source=IPH+Master+List&utm_campaign=41a7bfaebb-FA14D%26I&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df1e46aa8b-41a7bfaebb-106376993

Description:
The Center for Dissemination & Implementation is offering two new funding opportunities to support dissemination and implementation research at Washington University, a pilot program and small grants program.

Pilot Grants:
Provide up to $25,000 direct costs for one year to facilitate the planning of a new dissemination and implementation research project. Pilot grants are used to fund developmental or early stage work, including pilot data, preparatory to submission of a federal grant proposal.

Timeline
Letter of Intent Due: December 1, 2014
Application Due: January 30, 2015
Peer Reviews: February 2015
Award Decisions: March 2015
Start Date: June 1, 2015

Small Grants:
This program will provide up to $5,000 from the Center for Dissemination & Implementation for up to one year for development of a D&I research proposal to be submitted for extramural funding.

Timeline
Application Due: January 30, 2015
Award Decisions: March 2015
Start Date: June 1, 2015

Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research (P50)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-14-010.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications to support Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research to stimulate basic and applied research on environmental health disparities. The proposed research is expected to develop innovative approaches to understand environmentally-driven health disparities and improve access to healthy environments for vulnerable populations and communities. The proposed Centers are expected to support research efforts, mentoring, research translation and information dissemination.

Gerber Foundation Research Grant

Additional Information:
http://www.gerberfoundation.org/pd-research/research

Description:

The Gerber Foundation’s mission focuses on the nutrition, care and development of infants and young children. Therefore, grant-making interests are focused on health and/or nutrition-related research having a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children from the first year before birth to age 3.

The Foundation is particularly interested in fresh approaches to solving newborn or pediatric problems or emerging issues with a predictable time frame to clinical application. Projects should be focused on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve the health, nutrition and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. Projects may include:

• Etiologic mechanisms of disease
• New, improved or less invasive diagnostic procedures
• Reduction or elimination of side effects
• Alleviation of symptoms
• New, improved or less invasive therapies, care, or treatments
• Dosage or dosing requirements or mechanisms for drugs, nutrient supplementation or other therapeutic measures (under or overdosing)
• Preventative measures

Competitive requests will be focused in a way to achieve measurable outcomes that could result in systemic practice changes within a reasonable period of time.

The Foundation gives priority to projects of national or regional impact. Foundation support is not typically ongoing. Project outcomes should be of sufficient impact, if successful, to generate long-term support from other sources.

System-Level Health Services and Policy Research on Health Disparities (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-15-001.html

Description:
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit innovative system-level health services and policy research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the elimination of health disparities.

Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (P50)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-14-002.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications to support a transdisciplinary program of basic and applied research to examine the effects of environmental factors on children’s health and well-being. Research conducted through the Centers should include substantive areas of science in children’s health while incorporating innovative technologies and approaches and links to the environment. This program encourages strong links between disciplines in the basic, applied, clinical and public health sciences to prevent disease and promote health of all children.     

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

Additional Information:
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.

Psychosocial and Behavioral Aspects of Bariatric Surgery (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-14-026.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support research to measure psychosocial and behavioral variables in individuals undergoing bariatric surgery to understand how they predict success and risk and examine mechanisms of behavior change. The goals of this funding opportunity announcement are to: 1) improve the ability to identify who is at risk for sub-optimal weight loss, weight regain, and short- or long-term adverse metabolic/physiologic or behavioral outcomes based on pre-and/or post-operative behavioral characteristics and 2) inform the development of new treatment approaches to be used pre and/or post surgery to minimize risks and improve outcomes or allow for more tailored patient and procedure selection.

Advancing Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-334.html

Description:

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is being issued by the NIH Adherence Network through the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), with participation from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers. This FOA seeks Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose interventions to significantly improve medication adherence in individuals. Applications may target medication adherence in the context of treatment for a single illness or chronic condition (e.g., hypertension), to stave off a disease recurrence (e.g., cancer) or for multiple comorbid conditions (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, alcohol use disorders and HIV/AIDS). A well-articulated theoretical or conceptual framework is key for applications encouraged under this announcement. Primary outcomes of the research can include a patient self-report of medication adherence, but must also at least one non-self-report measure of medication adherence (e.g., pharmacy refill records, electronic monitoring, etc.). In addition, applications are encouraged to include a relevant health outcome or biomarker (e.g., blood pressure, viral load in HIV-infected individuals, cholesterol levels, HbA1c) that is expected to be affected by changes in the targeted adherence behavior. For diseases without identified biomarkers, inclusion of a clinical assessment (e.g., a medicine blood level, diagnostic interview or an independent clinician rating of the symptoms and behaviors) may be considered.

Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R21)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-331.html

Description:

This initiative seeks applications from applicants that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older.

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

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

Description:
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) seeks to fund pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs), large simple trials (LSTs), or large-scale observational studies that compare two or more alternatives for addressing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or management of a disease or symptom; improving health care 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 analysis, systematic reviews (with or without meta-analysis), 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.

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization

Additional Information:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/funding-opportunities/2011/changes-in-health-care-financing-and-organization--hcfo-.html?rid=GCwK8mvlIypq6d4XQxCigg&et_cid=56461

Description:
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) supports research, policy analysis and evaluation projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy, financing and organization issues. Supported projects include:

• examining significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and
• exploring or testing major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services.

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP)

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=HRSA-15-034

Description:
This announcement solicits applications for the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP). The goal of this program is to promote access to health care for children, youth and their families nationwide, and employ preventive health strategies through innovative community driven programs. This program supports HRSA's goals to improve access to quality health care and services, to build healthy communities, and to improve health equity. HTPCP funding supports direct service projects, not research projects. HTPCP applications MUST represent either a new initiative (i.e., project that was not previously in existence) within the community or an innovative new component that builds upon an existing community-based program or initiative. HTPCP grants: 1) support the development of community-based initiatives that plan and implement innovative and cost-effective approaches to promote community identified preventive child health and developmental objectives for vulnerable children and their families, especially those with limited access to quality health services; 2) foster/promote collaboration among community organizations, individuals, agencies, businesses, and families; 3) involve pediatricians and other pediatric primary care providers (family physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants) in community-based service programs; and 4) build community and statewide partnerships among professionals in health, education, social services, government, including State Title V and Medicaid and CHIP programs, and business to achieve self-sustaining programs. A defining characteristic of HTPCP has been the sustainability of projects post Federal funding. Data indicates that 85% of HTPCP grants in 1998-2005 were partially or fully sustained after Federal funding ended (AAP, 2011). Topical areas of greatest interest for HTPCP funding include the following: early childhood development, school readiness, developmental/behavioral pediatrics, medical home (including enhanced family and youth engagement), care coordination and case management, safe sleep, oral health, mental health, school-based health, and nutrition and physical activities to address overweight/obesity. 

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)

Additional Information:
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)

Additional Information:
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)

Additional Information:
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.

NIH Transformative Research Awards (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-14-003.html

Description:
The NIH Transformative Research Awards complement NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research. 

AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-290.html

Description:

This FOA invites Large Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) Project applications. The Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The R18 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 Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) 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.

Promoting Preventative Health Services for Women

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=258077

Description:
This announcement solicits applications for the Promoting Preventive Health Services for Women initiative. The purpose of this initiative is to improve women¿s health across the lifecourse by increasing the use of clinical preventive services. This will be accomplished by: Increasing the number of women enrolled in health insurance; Raising consumer awareness of the importance of clinical preventive services; and Supporting providers in the delivery of quality preventive services. These objectives will be accomplished by a coalition of organizations representing women¿s health care providers who will: Develop and implement strategies to assist uninsured women in obtaining health insurance coverage; Develop and implement strategies to promote awareness among consumers about the importance of clinical preventive services; and Provide information and training to providers to support the quality provision of these services.

Children's Discovery Institute Call for Proposals

Additional Information:
http://www.childrensdiscovery.org/Grants/Forms,InstructionsPolicies.aspx

Description:

The Children’s Discovery Institute requests applications from all Washington University faculty and postdoctoral trainees for the funding mechanisms listed below.

 

Letters of Intent must be submitted by 5:00 pm CST on August 1, 2014.

 

Funding Mechanisms:

1. Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives: up to $150,000/yr for up to three years is available for faculty seeking to embark on novel projects in need of initial start-up funding to enable procurement of other independent support. Projects should strive to bring investigators from multiple disciplines together to identify targets for improved diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a pediatric health problem relevant to the goals of the CDI.
2. Postdoctoral Fellowships: up to $30,000/yr for up to two years is available for especially promising postdoctoral trainees to complete a research project under the direction of a mentor on an issue relevant to the goals of the CDI.
3. Educational Initiatives: up to $50,000/yr for up to three years is available for educational activities on child health topics relevant to the goals of the CDI.
4. Faculty Recruitment/Scholar Awards: $300,000 over five years is available for exceptional new investigators to establish a laboratory and to embark on highly promising pediatric medical research relevant to the goals of the CDI. Nominations for Faculty Recruitment/Scholar Awards may be submitted by any Washington University Department Chair. Department Chairs wishing to submit nominations (i.e. Letters of Intent) for Faculty Scholar/Recruitment Awards must obtain the approval of the CDI Executive and Scientific Directors prior to submission.

 

Funding Objectives:

• Preference will be given to faculty members prior to achieving tenure, to teams of investigators from multiple disciplines, and to multi-investigator projects to develop interactive research groups.
• Translational impact, scientific excellence, and potential for acquisition of new knowledge. This includes the development and/or testing of novel approaches for diagnosis, therapy and/or prevention.
• Programs synergistic with Washington University and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
• Immediate relevance to goals of one or more of the CDI’s Centers:
• McDonnell Pediatric Cancer Center focuses on the etiology and treatment of pediatric cancers.
• Center for Musculoskeletal and Metabolic Disease focuses on the genetic basis of musculoskeletal birth defects, childhood arthritis, metabolic diseases, and related disorders.
• Center for Pediatric Pulmonary Disease focuses on the biology of the pulmonary system and genetic and acquired causes of pediatric lung disease.
• Congenital Heart Disease Center focuses on the environmental and genetic etiology of congenital heart and vascular disease, related birth defects, and other heart disorders.

U.S.-India Bilateral Collaborative Research Partnerships (CRP) on Diabetes Research (R21)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-14-006.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Exploratory/Developmental (R21) applications from United States (U.S.)-funded institutions with an Indian institution partner to establish Collaborative Research Partnerships (CRP) to advance science and technology important to understanding, preventing, and treating diabetes and its complications. The U.S.-India Bilateral CRP Program is designed to develop collaborations between scientists and institutions in the United States and India to conduct high quality diabetes research of mutual interest and benefit to both countries while developing the basis for future institutional and individual scientific collaborations. This FOA will utilize the research capacities of the institutions and scientists in both countries to advance science and technology important to understanding, preventing, and treating diabetes and its complications.  

Research Supplements for Aging Research on Health Disparities (Admin Supp)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-256.html

Description:

NIA is interested in basic research on aging to explore the social, behavioral, neural and biological mechanisms that account for disparities in age-related change; in research that investigates contextual, social and cultural influences that delay or accelerate health disparities in aging populations; and research on geriatric conditions where disparities emerge in diagnosis, prognosis and/or treatment, including palliative and end-of-life care.  NIH Health Disparities Populations include African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Populations, and Rural Populations. Health disparities mechanisms of interest include, but are not limited to, race, ethnicity, education, residential segregation/geography, and socioeconomic status.

Appropriate topics/studies include those listed below:

• Studies that examine cellular and molecular mechanisms of aging biology/physiology (i.e., inflammation, stress, cellular senescence, etc.) that underlie health disparities  
• Research that will examine the mechanisms underlying the health disparities in aging of sensory, motor, cognition, and/or other neural systems and/or Alzheimer’s disease 
• The addition of populations to ongoing studies that permit comparisons and analyses of health disparities
• The development of measures appropriate for health disparities populations that enhance research on the mechanisms by which health disparities affect health and well-being outcomes over the life span
• Studies focused on racial or ethnic disparities in functional, physiologic, or metabolic outcomes across the life span and in old age

- See more at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-256.html#sthash.LpNff84j.dpuf

NIHCM Foundation Research Grants

Additional Information: 
http://www.nihcm.org/grants/research-grants

Description:

NIHCM Foundation is making available up to $250,000 to support investigator-initiated research with high potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system by reducing health spending growth, enhancing quality, and/or expanding access to health insurance and health care services. Projects must advance existing knowledge in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy.

We will support three to five projects in 2015 from this budget.

Winning studies will be selected using the following process:

1. All interested researchers must submit a brief letter of inquiry (LOI) outlining their study idea by 5:00 PM EDT, July 14, 2014.
   
2. Full (10-page) proposals will be invited from a small number of applicants in September 2014.
3. Winners will be announced in November 2014 for projects starting in 2015.

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

Additional Information:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-260.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, oral diseases, 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 diseases, the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, mental illness, oral disease, 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.

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, oral diseases, 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 diseases, the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, mental illness, oral disease, 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. - See more at: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-260.html#sthash.zyPo7L7w.dpuf

Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH)

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=255899

Description:
Purpose: This 3-year initiative will award funds to create healthier communities by strengthening existing capacity to implement locally tailored evidence- and practice-based population-based PSE improvement strategies in priority populations experiencing chronic disease disparities and associated risk factors, and supporting implementation, evaluation and dissemination of these strategies. This FOA will also support effective implementation of existing PSE improvements and offers the opportunity for communities to take comprehensive action to address risk factors contributing to the most common and debilitating chronic conditions. The intent of REACH is to also build an evidence base that supports community centered approaches to reducing or eliminating health disparities. Applicants will provide compelling data to support the priority population selected; that data should be accompanied by justification for selection of the intervention(s) that will improve population health. Applicants should plan a strong evaluation of proposed activities and strategies. This will contribute to an increased understanding of how racial and ethnic minority communities and their partners can effectively reduce or eliminate health disparities, and achieve health equity.

Public Health Services and Systems Research 2014 Call for Proposals

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

Description:
This solicitation aims to expand the evidence for administrative and policy mechanisms that improve quality, efficiency and value in public health delivery. Up to nine studies may be selected to receive funding of up to $350,000 to support projects of up to 24 months in duration.
Studies funded through this solicitation will focus on multidisciplinary research that examines the organization, financing, delivery and quality of public health services and the subsequent impact on population health outcomes. Projects may seek to: 1) elucidate the health and economic value of public health activities; 2) understand how elements of the public health system influence the effective implementation of evidence-based public health strategies and/or strategies for collaboration between the public health and clinical health care delivery systems; and/or 3) test the impact of alternative strategies for delivering evidence-based public health services and/or collaborative approaches aimed at community health improvement between the public health and clinical health care delivery systems. Public health strategies include programs, policies, laws, services and administrative practices that are implemented by a variety of contributors within public health delivery systems for the primary purpose of promoting health and/or preventing disease and injury on a population-wide basis.

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

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

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

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

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

Description:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Kresge Foundation: Innovative approaches to improve community health

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

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

Washington University Nutrition Obesity Research Center Call for Proposals

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

Description:

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

Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program Call for Applications

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

Description:

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

 

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

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

Description:

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

Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance Research Small Grants Program

Additional Information:
http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102697691773-91/Extramural+RIDGE+RFP+2014-15.pdf

Description:
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) seeks to stimulate innovative research related to federal food assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) and the National School Breakfast/Lunch Program, and to support training of researchers interested in food assistance issues.

Early-Career Research Grants (The Obesity Society)

Additional Information:
http://www.obesity.org/about-us/early-career-research-grants.htm

Description:

This program (formerly, New Investigator Research Grants) is offered by The Obesity Society (TOS), as a member service, to foster and stimulate new research ideas in any area of investigation related to obesity. The program targets junior-level investigators and post-doctoral trainees by funding proposals that demonstrate a high likelihood of resulting in new and innovative approaches in obesity research.

Early-career investigators are defined as individuals who:

• Have received a PhD within the past five years or MD within the past eight years, and;
• Currently hold full-time, entry-level positions (e.g., post-doctoral fellow, instructor, assistant professor) at an established academic/research institution.

Applicants may request up to $25,000. No indirect cost will be paid from this grant. Applications (Letters of Intent) are due Monday, March 31, 2014, with funding available August 20, 2014. The award may be expended over a period of up to one year.

Reducing Health Care Disparities through Payment and Delivery System Reform

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

Description:
This call for proposals will fund up to three implementations of paired health care payment and delivery system changes that incorporate a focus on reducing disparities in care and/or outcomes.
The goal of this call for proposals is to develop evidence that payment and delivery system reform designs that attempt to manage extrinsic and intrinsic incentives for overall quality and efficiency, while also explicitly attempting to reduce health care disparities, can produce positive results for each goal.
Our hope is that the knowledge gained through these grants will inform the development of new care delivery and payment models, by demonstrating potential ways to build-in a financially-supported focus on equity. The grants will also inform health care organizations and providers with new practices for developing and implementing disparities interventions within the context of new and emerging payment models.

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Childhood Obesity Prevention

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=252219

Description:
This Challenge Area Focuses on the societal challenge to end obesity among children, the number one nutrition-related problem in the US. Food is an integral part of the process that leads to obesity and USDA has a unique responsibility for the food system in the United States. This program is designed to achieve the long-term outcome of reducing the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents 2-19 years. The Childhood Obesity Prevention Program supports Multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants.

Behavioral Interventions to Address Multiple Chronic Health Conditions in Primary Care (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-114.html

Description:
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to use a common conceptual model to develop behavioral interventions to modify health behaviors and improve health outcomes in patients with comorbid chronic diseases and health conditions. Specifically, this FOA will support research in primary care that uses a multi-disease care management approach to behavioral interventions with high potential impact to improve patient-level health outcomes for individuals with three or more chronic health conditions. The proposed approach must modify behaviors using a common approach rather than administering a distinct intervention for each targeted behavior and/or condition. Diseases and health conditions can include, but are not limited to: mental health disorders (e.g., depression), diabetes, smoking, obesity, chronic pain, alcohol and substance abuse and dependence, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, cancer and hypertension.  

Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-118.html

Description:
This FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications for research and development of technologies that monitor health or deliver care in a real-time, accessible, effective, and minimally obtrusive way. These systems are expected to integrate, process, analyze, communicate, and present data so that the individuals are engaged and empowered in their own healthcare with reduced burden to care providers. The development of these technology systems has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, people aging with mild impairments, as well as individuals with chronic conditions.

Design and Development of Novel Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R21)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-119.html

Description:

This FOA encourages Exploratory/ Developmental Research Project (R21) applications for design and development of novel technologies to monitor health or deliver care in a real-time, accessible, effective, and minimally obtrusive way. These may be novel sensor or monitoring systems, home-use point-of-care devices, home or mobile therapy or rehabilitation tools, or information systems and should have the goal of fostering healthy and independent living. The development of such technologies has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, people aging with mild impairments, as well as individuals with chronic conditions.

  

AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-045.html

Description:

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 project will be performed by the named investigator and study team. The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ.

Chronic Illness Self-Management in Children and Adolescents (R21)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-030.html

Description:
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research to improve self-management and quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic conditions. Managing a chronic condition is an unremitting responsibility for children and their families. Children with a chronic condition and their families have a long-term responsibility for self-management. This FOA encourages research that takes into consideration various factors that influence self-management such as individual differences, biological and psychological factors, family and sociocultural context, family-community dynamics, healthcare system factors, technological advances, and the role of the environment. 

Chronic Illness Self-Management in Children and Adolescents (R01) Modification 2

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-029.html

Description:

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research to improve self-management and quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic conditions. Managing a chronic condition is an unremitting responsibility for children and their families. Children with a chronic condition and their families have a long-term responsibility for self-management. This FOA encourages research that takes into consideration various factors that influence self-management such as individual differences, biological and psychological factors, family and sociocultural context, family-community dynamics, healthcare system factors, technological advances, and the role of the environment.

Health Impact Project - Call for Proposals

Additional Information:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2014/health-impact-assessment-portfolio.html?cid=xem_a8017

Description:
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew), promotes the use of Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) and related approaches to help policy-makers in a wide range of fields incorporate health considerations into new policies, programs, plans, and projects, and make decisions that reduce unnecessary health risks, improve health, and decrease costs. This call for proposals (CFP) supports two types of initiatives: 1) HIA demonstration projects that inform a specific decision, with a focus on tribes, states, and territories that have had limited experience with HIAs to date; and 2) HIA program grants that enable organizations with previous HIA experience to develop sustainable HIA programs that integrate HIAs and related approaches in policy-making at the local, state, or tribal level. The Health Impact Project also partners with additional funders to support HIAs on specific topics or in a defined state or region. We will provide information regarding the availability of additional funds through periodic announcements to our mailing list and on our website.

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.

Obesity Treatment Options Set in Primary Care for Underserved Populations

Additional Information:
http://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/funding-announcements/obesity-treatment-options-set-in-primary-care-for-underserved-populations/

Description:
In this PFA, we seek to determine the real-world comparative effectiveness of obesity treatment options set in primary care, in adults for racial/ethnic minorities, low socio-economic status populations, and/or rural populations. We aim to fund up to two pragmatic, randomized, multi-site clinical trials that focus on improving obesity treatment outcomes in these populations. We seek proposals where the interventions are set within primary care practices and where the comparator arm of the trial is the primary care obesity treatment that is currently reimbursed through Medicare. We encourage applicants to this PFA to leverage available staff, facilities, and community resources that are representative of real world (present and potential) linkages to primary care practices to increase the potential of adoption and uptake of the findings by other health care providers/systems. Areas of research focus should be generalizable to other settings and clinical practice sites.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE): Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act

Additional Information:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2014/state-health-access-reform-evaluation--share-.html?cid=XEM_A7899

Description:
Researchers, as well as practitioners and public and private policy-makers working with researchers, are eligible to submit proposals through their organizations. Projects may be generated from disciplines including health services research, economics, sociology, program evaluation, political science, public policy, public health, public administration, law, business administration, or other related fields. The Foundation may give preference to applicants that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.

Healthy Communities, Tobacco Control, Diabetes Prevention and Control, and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (CDC)

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=250395

Description:
The purpose of the program is to reduce the morbidity and premature mortality associated with chronic diseases and to eliminate associated health disparities by supporting capacity building, program planning, development, implementation, evaluation, and surveillance for chronic disease conditions and chronic disease-related risk factors. This program addresses the Healthy People 2010 focus areas of Diabetes, Educational and Community-Based Programs, Public Health Infrastructure - Data and Information Systems, and Tobacco Use. This program also addresses the CDC goal of "Healthy People in Every Stage of Life" and "Healthy People in Healthy Places".

Additional Information:
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=18814

Description:
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) is interested in leading by example through this funding opportunity announcement to truly tackle the systemic issues that present barriers for many Americans to access preventive services. OASH is interested in working across traditional categories to meet priority needs because people most at risk for missing preventive services often fit more than one category, and systemic approaches in reaching underserved populations need to be more effective in achieving a healthier population.