Roundup: Funding Opportunities in Child Obesity Research
Sep 1st
Check out the latest funding opportunities in Latino childhood obesity research:
Healthy Eating Research Rapid Response Grants
Healthy Eating Research, an RWJF national program, is seeking grant proposals for studies examining policy and environmental strategies that have a strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations. Concept papers are due Sept. 1.
NIH Pioneer and New Innovator Awards
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks proposals for 2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards, which support scientists who take innovative, high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. application deadlines are Sept. 13 and Sept. 20, 2010.
Ladder to Leadership
Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders seeks to help local, early- to mid-career professionals serving vulnerable populations develop leadership skills. The next opening, for Kansas City, Mo., is scheduled for Fall 2010.
Active Living Research Grants
Active Living Research, an RWJF national program, is seeking proposals for studies of emerging or anticipated changes in physical activity-related policies or environments. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis. Letters of intent may be submitted until July 1, 2011.
Grant Listings
Several other entities compile a variety of obesity-related research funding opportunities that are currently seeking applications:
NIH Obesity Grants
NCCOR Obesity Grants
Live Smart Texas
Funding Opportunities: Latino Cancer Research
Aug 3rd
Check out these funding opportunities in Latino health disparities and cancer research:
NCI/CRCHD Administrative Supplements
Three new fiscal year 2010 administrative supplement opportunities are available from the National Cancer Institute and the NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD). These opportunities are to: Expand NCI-supported community outreach capacity through community health educators; develop a CHE education/outreach plan; and conduct community-engaged research on HIV/AIDS-related cancers. The application deadline is Aug. 6, 2010.
Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities
Applications are invited for the NIH research grant, Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R01). Purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U.S. population. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention. The letter of intent deadline is Aug. 14, 2010.
NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards
The NIH is accepting proposals for 2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards. Both programs are part of the NIH Common Fund and support exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. NIH especially encourages women and members of groups that are underrepresented in NIH research to apply. Pioneer Award application deadline is Sept. 13, and the New Innovator Award deadline is Sept. 20.
Funding Opportunities: NIH Pioneer and New Innovator Awards
Jul 22nd
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) welcomes proposals for 2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards, which support exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research.
Pioneer Awards provide up to $2.5 million over 5 years and are open to scientists at any career stage.
New Innovator Awards provide up to $1.5 million over the same period and are for early stage investigators (those who have not received an NIH R01 or similar grant and are within 10 years of completing their terminal research degree or medical residency).
NIH expects to fund at least 7 Pioneer Awards and 33 New Innovator Awards in summer 2011.
The deadline for submitting Pioneer Award applications is Sept. 13, 2010. See the instructions in the RFA (RFA-RM-10-008) and here for more information. Send questions to pioneer@nih.gov.
The deadline for submitting New Innovator Award applications is Sept. 20, 2010. See the instructions in the RFA (RFA-RM-10-009) and here for more information. Send questions to newinnovator@nih.gov.
To continue its strong record of diversity in these programs, NIH especially encourages women and members of groups that are underrepresented in NIH research to apply.
Funding Opportunities in Child Obesity Research
Jul 20th
Check out the latest funding opportunities in childhood obesity research, brought to you by Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children.
Partnerships Active in Communities to Achieve Health Equity
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeks proposals for Partnerships Active in Communities to Achieve Health Equity. The program aims to curb health disparities and promote quality health outcomes. Applications are due August 2, 2010.
Healthy Eating Research Grants
Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is seeking grant proposals for studies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk. Applications are due September 1, 2010.
Ladder to Leadership
Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders seeks to help local, early- to mid-career professionals serving vulnerable populations develop leadership skills. The next opening, for Kansas City, Mo., is scheduled for Fall 2010.
Active Living Research Grants
Active Living Research, an RWJF national program, is seeking proposals for studies of emerging or anticipated changes in physical activity-related policies or environments. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis. Letters of intent may be submitted until July 1, 2011.
NIH Obesity Grants
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) compiles a wide variety of obesity-related research funding opportunities that are currently seeking applications.
NCCOR Obesity Grants
The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), which aims to improve childhood obesity research and reverse obesity, conducts a grants roundup.
Salud America! is a program of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday.
Grant Opportunities: Childhood Obesity Research
Jul 1st
Check out this roundup of current funding opportunities in childhood obesity research:
Ladder to Leadership
Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders seeks to help local, early- to mid-career professionals serving vulnerable populations develop leadership skills. The current opening for New Jersey’s Greater Newark Area runs until July 2, 2010.
Carol M. White Physical Education Program
The Carol M. White Physical Education Program provides grants to LEAs and community-based organizations to initiate, expand or enhance P.E. programs, including after-school programs, for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Applications are due July 19, 2010.
Healthy Eating Research Grants
Healthy Eating Research, an RWJF national program, is seeking rapid response grant proposals to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations. Applications are accepted until September 1, 2010.
Active Living Research Grants
Active Living Research, an RWJF national program, is seeking proposals for studies of emerging or anticipated changes in physical activity-related policies or environments. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis. Letters of intent may be submitted until July 1, 2011.
NIH Obesity Grants
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) compiles a wide variety of obesity-related research funding opportunities that are currently seeking applications.
NCCOR Obesity Grants
The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), which aims to improve childhood obesity research and reverse childhood obesity, conducts a grants roundup.
NEW VIDEO: NIH Offers Tips for Grant Applicants; Inside Look at Review Process
Jun 29th
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review (CSR) has released new videos to show new applicants and others how NIH assesses over 80,000 grant applications each year to help find those with the most merit, as well as offer tips to potential applicants.
With the majority of NIH’s $31 billion budget supporting grants to researchers, these assessments help ensure investments lead to significant advances in science and health.
“The video provides an inside look at the dynamic way reviewers evaluate NIH grant applications,” said CSR Director Dr. Toni Scarpa. “You’ll see the rigor and integrity of their efforts, which have enabled NIH to identify ground-breaking research year after year.”
Watch the NIH video on the grant review process here or below:
Watch the video, NIH Tips for Applicants, here or below:
Applications Sought for Cancer Research Grants in Texas
Jun 10th
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) is seeking applications for grants to research various cancer topics in Texas.
CPRIT began accepting applications for the 2011 Individual Investigator and High Impact/High Risk awards last month. The deadline for applications for the programs (listed below) is June 10, 2010.
In addition, recruitment award applications are always accepted and considered on an expedited basis.
And on June 8, CPRIT released applications for three Cancer Prevention awards: Cancer Prevention Micro Grant; Evidence-Based Primary Prevention, Early Detection and Survivorship Services; and Health Promotion, Education, and Training for Public and Health Care Professional Audiences). Applications will be available on the CPRIT funding Web site.
Texas Seeks to Fund Health Equity Projects
Apr 30th
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking applications for Health Equity Projects that expand and enhance organizations’ efforts to design, implement, and evaluate programming to reduce health disparities and promote health literacy among underserved communities in Texas.
The projects seek to support community-based organizations with a focus on health and human service, such as faith-based groups and non-profit entities that employ community-based practices to reduce health disparities.
Local and state agencies also may apply.
For details, go here.
Roundup: Latino Research Funding
Mar 30th
Check out the latest in funding opportunities related to Latinos:
NIH Award to Promote Diversity in the Scientific Workforce
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is inviting applications for Recovery Act Limited Competition: The NIH Director’s ARRA Funded Pathfinder Award to Promote Diversity in the Scientific Workforce (DP4). This funding opportunity introduces a new research grant program to encourage exceptionally creative individual scientists to develop highly innovative and possibly transforming approaches for promoting diversity in the biomedical, behavioral and other research fields. Letter of intent are due April 5, 2010.
RWJF New Connections Program
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has issued a call for proposals for New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming. The program aims to expand the diversity of perspectives that inform RWJF programming and introduce new researchers and scholars to the RWJF. The program invites junior investigator scholars from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to address specific questions posed by one of RWJF’s program areas, including childhood obesity. Brief proposals are due April 7, 2010.
Active Living Research Grants
Active Living Research, an RWJF national program, seeks applications for research grants to inform policy and environmental strategies for boosting youths’ physical activity, decreasing their sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity. Applications are due April 14, 2010.
New ‘Healthy Eating’ Funding Opportunity
Mar 17th
Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is seeking proposals for proposals for research to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.
Approximately $2.4 million will be awarded for Round 5 grants, rapid-response grants and New Connections grants through Healthy Eating Research.
The broad topics and types of studies that apply to these three types of grants are described in the full “call for proposals” here or at the Healthy Eating Research Web site.
Applications are due May 13, 2010.