Re: NIH Funding opportunity?

From: Currie, Janet <jcurrie_at_princeton.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:44:45 -0400

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I thought the following call for proposals from NIH might be of interest
> to some of you. I look forward to seeing you at the Summer Institute.
>
> Janet
>
>
>> Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)
>> <http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-198.html>
>> http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-198.html
>> This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National
>> Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the
>> National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
>> Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
>> (NIAAA), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and
>> Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Nursing Research
>> (NINR), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director
>> (OD) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), encourages innovative research to
>> enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical
>> activity. Applications submitted under this FOA may include development of:
>> Novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments;
>> assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups,
>> including older adults; improved technology or applications of existing
>> technology; statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors
>> or biases, methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and
>> physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated
>> measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmental
>> context of such behaviors.
>> **
>>
>> **Janet Stein
>> Program Administrator
>> National Bureau of Economic Research
>> 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
>> Cambridge, MA 02138
>>
>> phone: (617) 588-0366
>> fax: (617) 868-2742
>>
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> Janet Currie
> Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Policy Affairs
> Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
> 316 Wallace Hall, Princeton University
> Princeton NJ 08544
> 609 258 7393, http://www.princeton.edu/~jcurrie
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Janet Currie
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Policy Affairs
Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
316 Wallace Hall, Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544
609 258 7393, http://www.princeton.edu/~jcurrie
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Received on Mon Jun 11 2012 - 09:44:45 EDT