Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy Low Cost RCT Competition - Demonstrating How Low-Cost Randomized Controlled Trials Can Drive Effective Social Spending

Additional Information:
http://coalition4evidence.org/low-cost-rct-competition/

Description:
In response to the White House and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) call to action for evidence-based reforms across the federal government, the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy is launching a competition for low-cost randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that seek to build valid, actionable evidence about "what works" in U.S. social spending. This is designed as a high-visibility, three-year initiative, whose purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility and value of low-cost RCTs to a wide policy and philanthropic audience. Deadline: February 14, 2014

Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Tobacco Use, Heart Disease, and Associated Chronic Disease Risk Factors and improve maternal and child health support reproductive health

Additional Information:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=249493

Description:
The primary purpose of this funding is to support the implementation of cross-cutting, unified approaches to promote health, prevent and control tobacco use, diabetes, heart disease, promotion of health pregnancy and infancy through primary and secondary prevention of NCDs in the US Affiliated Pacific Islands, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. This FOA attempts to coordinate activities that address common risk factors, as well as cross-cutting epidemiology and surveillance, environmental approaches, health systems changes and clinical-community linkages (e.g. surveillance, screening, evaluation, data systems) and reduces the administrative and reporting requirements.

Request for Information (RFI): Identifying Gaps in Understanding the Mechanisms of Physical Activity-Induced Health Benefits

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-14-001.html

Description:
Increased physical activity has been linked to numerous health benefits including improved cardiovascular and respiratory health, insulin sensitivity, bone and muscle strength, and cognitive function. In addition to these improvements, physical activity is associated with reductions in coronary heart disease, stroke, some cancers, type 2 diabetes and depression (http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/guidelines/chapter2.aspx). For most health outcomes, benefits increase as the amount of physical activity increases through higher intensity, greater frequency, or longer duration, although the magnitude of these benefits diminishes with advancing age.

For the purposes of this request, physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by the contraction of skeletal muscle that increases energy expenditure above basal levels.

Although researchers have demonstrated that physical activity contributes to improved health outcomes (for purposes of this request, “improved health” and related phrases include reduced risk of disease), studies tend to focus on a single signaling pathway, tissue, or organ system and have not identified the molecular mechanisms by which physical activity is beneficial. Such compartmentalization limits the scope and impact of most research findings.

The NIH Common Fund is exploring strategies to help the research community develop a more integrative perspective on the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which physical activity improves multiple health outcomes.  The NIH is requesting comments, to include but not limited to addressing the following:

A. The most pressing research questions related to the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which physical activity improves health and reduces the risk of disease.

B. The types of new protocols, techniques, and tools needed to answer these research questions.

C. The likely translational applications for new knowledge about the mechanisms by which physical activity improves overall health and the long-term, overarching benefits of this knowledge.

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming

Additional Information:
http://www.rwjf.org/content/rwjf/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2013/new-connections-midcareer-consultants-2013-cfp.html

Description:
The New Connections program provides support and training to Midcareer Consultantsto address priorities related to RWJF’s program areas: Childhood Obesity, Coverage, Human Capital, Pioneer, Public Health, Quality/Equality and Vulnerable Populations. This round of New Connections funding will focus on projects addressing health disparities. A brief overview of programming priorities and research topics is included on pages 2-3. Please go to www.rwjf-newconnections.org and click on “Research Topics” for more detail.

Capacity Building Grants

Additional Information:
http://nb3foundation.org/capacity-building-grants.html


Description:

The purpose of the Native Strong: Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures Capacity Building Grant is to support:

1)    Community Health Assessments (new or ongoing): to better understand the root causes of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes which will result in strategies and an action plan to address this health issue; or 

2)    Community Planning and Capacity Building: to create a community-driven action plan to address childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes (i.e. host stakeholder convenings, coalition building and collaboration efforts)

Grants will be awarded up to $20,000 each.  Applications will be accepted from throughout the U.S. However preference will be given to grantees from three specific regions – the Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona), the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin) and the Southern Plains (Oklahoma, Texas).

Washington University Bear Cub Fund

Additional Information:
http://research.wustl.edu/Offices_Committees/OTM/faculty/Pages/TranslationalResearch.aspx#bear_cub

Description:
The Bear Cub Fund was initiated by the Vice Chancellor for Research to support faculty in translational studies not normally supported by federal grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and other sources.

Bear Cub Fund awards are designed to support translational research activities that will generate results to improve commercial licensing opportunities and/or investment potential. Such proof-of-concept studies are increasingly required by potential licensees to provide additional confidence that a technology will work in an applied setting.

The individual awards of $20,000 to $75,000 are intended to support research projects of one year or less.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 30, 2013

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01, R03, and R21)

Additional Information:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-038.html (R01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-039.html (R03)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-040.html (R21)

 

Description:

Dissemination and implementation research intends to bridge the gap between public health, clinical research, and everyday practice by building a knowledge base about how health information, interventions, and new clinical practices are transmitted and translated for public health and health care service use in specific settings. Unfortunately, there continues to be great variation in how these terms are used. Dissemination and implementation have both been used to represent the complete process of bringing "evidence" into practice, originally defined as "diffusion." While using the terms dissemination and implementation to cover such a wide area can be very helpful in facilitating discussion, it does not allow for the division of this very complex diffusion process into smaller, more easily addressed research questions that can develop a robust knowledge base. We are inviting applications that will continue to break down the complexity of bridging research and practice.

For the purpose of this FOA, we make a distinction between "dissemination" and "implementation."

• Dissemination is the targeted distribution of information and intervention materials to a specific public health or clinical practice audience. The intent is to spread knowledge and the associated evidence-based interventions.
• Implementation is the use of strategies to adopt and integrate evidence-based health interventions and change practice patterns within specific settings.

This distinction needs to be made because interventions developed in the context of efficacy and effectiveness trials are rarely transferable without adaptations to specific settings. Therefore, research is needed to examine the process of transferring interventions into local settings, settings that may be similar to but also somewhat different from the ones in which the intervention was developed and tested.