Subject: NICHD Funding Opportunities on Reducing Health Disparities
From: Janet Stein (jbstein@nber.org)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2007 - 12:22:26 EDT
To: Children's Program Researchers...
NIH has just issued a new program announcement for R01 and R21 proposals on
Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children . I
have included a brief summary and the link to the complete guidelines
below. (Please don't worry about the sections that refer to the need to
register for electronic submission. NBER is already registered, and we
have experience with electronic submissions and can guide you through.)
If you would like to discuss possible research topics, Jon Gruber would be
happy to hear from you. As you may know, grants from NIH often support
substantial research efforts for as many as five years, so they allow you
to request funds for a large-scale project.
If you would like to learn more about what is involved in preparing a
proposal for NICHD and how we can help, let me know. Besides answering any
questions about the grant requirements (including differences between R01s
and R21s), I can send you samples of successful past proposals from the
Children's Program.
Please feel free to contact Jon or me with any questions. I look forward
to working with you.
Janet Stein
Coordinator, Program on Children
(1) Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R21)
* (PA-07-391) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-391.html
(2) Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R01)
* (PA-07-392)
* http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-392.html
Purpose (for both announcments) This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Alcohol,
Alcoholism, and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
(NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits
Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to conduct research to reduce
health disparities among minority and underserved children. Specifically,
this initiative focuses on ethnic and racial minority children and
underserved populations of children such as: children from low literacy,
rural and low-income populations, geographically isolated children, hearing
and visually impaired children, physically or mentally disabled children,
children of migrant workers, children from immigrant and refugee families,
and language minority children. Specific targeted areas of research include
biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence
child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular,
organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family
environments), social (e.g., peer influences), economic, institutional, and
cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health
promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and
studies that test and evaluate the cost effectiveness of health promotion
interventions conducted in nontraditional settings.
Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project Grant
(R01) award mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical
scientific scope,
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-391.html>PA-07-391, that
solicits applications under the R21 mechanism.
Janet Stein
Program Administrator
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: (617) 588-0366
fax: (617) 868-2742
