Subject: NICHD Funding Opportunity on Health Risk Behavior
From: Janet Stein (jbstein@nber.org)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2006 - 16:02:12 EST
To: Children's Program Researchers...
NIH has just issued a program announcement for R01 and R21 proposals on
Understanding Mechanisms of Health Risk Behavior Change in Children and
Adolescents. 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 completed several 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, 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
>Understanding Mechanisms of Health Risk Behavior Change in Children and
>Adolescents
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-148.html
> * Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits
> research grant applications that will enhance our understanding of the
> factors and mechanisms that determine changes in health risk behaviors
> during childhood and adolescence. Interdisciplinary research is sought to
> explore the biological, genetic, physiological, psychological, and
> social/environmental factors and mechanisms that influence health risk
> behavior change in children and adolescents.
> * Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project
> Grant (R01) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical
> scientific scope,
> <http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-298.html>PA-06-298,
> that solicits applications under the Exploratory/Developmental (R21)
> grant mechanism.
>
Janet Stein
Program Administrator
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: (617) 588-0366
fax: (617) 868-2742
