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.