To: Members of NBER Aging, Children's, Health Care, and Health
Economics Programs.
NIA has just re-issued a funding opportunity for obesity research,
described below. The next due date June 5, 2013.
Obesity Policy Evaluation Research (R01)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National
Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Eunice
Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD), and the Office of Behavioral and Scoial Sciences
Research (OBSSR) encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications
that propose to evaluate large scale policy or programs that are
expected to influence obesity related behaviors (e.g., dietary
intake, physical activity, or sedentary behavior) and/or weight
outcomes in an effort to prevent or reduce obesity.
The full program announcement is available here:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-110.html
Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in this
competition, or in learning more about NIH proposals and grants
generally. We look forward to working with you.
Janet
Janet Stein
Program Administrator
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: (617) 588-0366
fax: (617) 868-2742
Received on Mon Feb 11 2013 - 14:17:09 EST
