To: Members of NBER's Children's and Health Care Programs.
NIH has issued a new funding opportunity that may be of interest:
Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors
in Children and Adolescents (R01, R03 and R21)) (PA-11-327,
PA-11-328, PA-11-329)
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-327.html>http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-327.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National
Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) with participation from the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the Eunice Kennedy
Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (NIDDK), the National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), and the Office of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research (OBSSR), is to encourage Research Project Grant
(R01) applications that employ innovative research to identify
mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health
behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 18). Positive health
behaviors may include: developing healthy sleep patterns, developing
effective self-regulation strategies, adaptive decision-making in
risk situations, practicing proper dental hygiene, eating a balanced
and nutritious diet, engaging in age-appropriate physical activity
and/or participating in healthy relationships. Applications to
promote positive health behavior(s) should target social and cultural
factors, including, but not limited to: schools, families,
communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning
tools and games, social media, social networking, technology and mass
media. Topics to be addressed in this announcement include:
effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make
healthy behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of
influence for learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the
role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior;
identification of factors that support healthy behavior development
in vulnerable populations, identification of barriers to healthy
behaviors; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators that are
common to the development of a range of habitual health behaviors.
Given the many factors involved in developing sustainable health
behaviors, applications from multidisciplinary teams are strongly
encouraged. The ultimate goal of this FOA is to promote research that
identifies and enhances processes that promote sustainable positive
behavior or changes social and cultural norms that influence health
and future health behaviors.
Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in this
competition, or in learning more about NIH proopsals 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 Tue Sep 06 2011 - 13:26:32 EDT
