Funding-Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research Rapid Response Grants; July 17, 2009

Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Deadline: Jul 17, 2009 (Letter of Intent)

Purpose: Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research are national programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that support research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity.

This call for proposals (CFP) supports time-sensitive, opportunistic studies to evaluate changes in policies or environments with the potential to reach children who are at highest risk for obesity, including African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-American and Pacific Islander children (ages 3 to 18) who live in low-income communities or communities with limited access to affordable healthy foods and/or safe opportunities for physical activity. Research studies may focus on one or both sides of the energy balance equation—on physical activity (including sedentary behavior), healthy eating or both. Studies funded under this CFP are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

Call for Proposals (PDF): http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_ALRHER_rapid2009.pdf

Total Award:

• Up to $1.675 million total will be awarded for rapid-response research grants, with the majority of funds in this CFP focused on physical activity studies.
• The maximum amount for a single grant is $150,000, with a maximum funding period of 12 months.

Contacts:

Chad Spoon, research coordinator (Active Living projects)

cspoon@projects.sdsu.edu

Office: (619) 260-5539

Laura L. Klein, M.P.H., research coordinator (Healthy Eating projects)

healthyeating@umn.edu

Office: (800) 578-8636