Funding Opportunities
NIH and CDC funding opportunities in childhood obesity
NIH Obesity Research Funding Opportunities: This page presents information about NIH research funding opportunities. Other federal agencies, public and private organizations also support research efforts and other types of activities related to obesity. The purpose of this website is to provide information about NIH research, including research on which NIH is collaborating with other agencies and organizations. This website does not provide information on funding opportunities available from other Federal agencies or other organizations.
NCCOR Funding Opportunities
USDA Center Releases Behavioral Economics Grant and Fellowship Opportunities - May 2015
HMSA Foundation
Hawaii Community Foundation
RWJF National Program - Policies for Action - first call for proposals
RWJF is launching its first call for proposals for innovative research that can inform what policies can serve as levers to improve population health and well-being, and achieve greater levels of health equity. Questions about the program, eligibility, or the selection process? Join an informational webinar with Scott Burris, JD, director of Policies for Action, whic will be held on February 16 from 1-2 p.m. ET.
Application deadline: March 15, 2016
Learn more about the funding opportunity and register for the webinar.
RTRN Small Grants Program
A strategic goal of the RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN) is to improve minority health and to reduce ethnic and geographic disparities in health by providing modest funding for inter-institutional clinical and translational science projects across the 18 RCMI grantee institutions. To achieve this goal, a continuing RTRN initiative is the Small Grants Program. For the upcoming funding cycle, clinical and community research proposals on obesity and metabolic syndromes, as well as research on diseases and co-morbidities associated with obesity, are particularly encouraged.
Letter of Intent Due Date: February 15, 2016 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time
Application Due Date: March 15, 2016 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity - Round 10
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) national program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among groups at highest risk for obesity: black, Latino, American, Indian, Asian/Pacific Islander, and children who live in lower-income communities (urban, suburban, and/or rural).
This call for proposals (CFP) is for two types of awards aimed at providing advocates, decision-makrs, and policymakers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. The award types are: Round 10 grants and RWJF New Connecitons grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research Program.
Up to two RWJF New Connections grants will be awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program. Awards will be for 12- to 18-month grants of up to $100,000 each.
You can learn more about Healthy Eating Research at www.healthyeating.org
Weight Watchers International Grant
Obesity Research - Early Career Grant Challenge
Obesity Research - Early Career Research Grants
Letter of Intent Deadline: July 15th, 2016
Weight Watchers has created the Karen Miller-Kovach Research Grant. There are three grant funding mechanisms for which researchers anywhere in the world are invited to apply. Grant mount ranges from $25-50,000 USD.
2015 RWJF Culture of Health Prize - Call for Applications
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) 2015 Culture of Health Prize is awarded annually to honor outstanding community efforts and partnerships that are helping people live healthier lives. Winning communities will each receive a $25,000 cash prize and have their accomplishments celebrated and shared broadly with the goal of raising awareness and inspiring locally-driven change across the country. Deadline: September 17, 2014, 3:00 p.m. ET
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces New Grant Competition - 2014 Clinical Research Mentorship
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is now accepting applications for the Clinical Research Mentorship. These competitive grants are intended to support the development of a one-on-one relationship between a DDCF clinical scientist and a medical student with an interest in becoming a future clinician investigator.
Grant Summary
Past and present recipients of DDCF medical research grants are invited to identify a medical student to mentor for one year and to then apply as a team. Alternatively, medical students may identify a qualifying DDCF researcher and apply together. In either case, the DDCF researcher must be the applicant.
For more information about this opportunity, including eligibility requirements, visit the
Clinical Research Mentorship website.
Mentors will be required to provide a 12-month, full-time clinical research experience for the student. Students must be willing to take 12 months out from medical school, typically after the third year of school. Each Clinical Research Mentorship grant will consist of $64,800, inclusive of a $29,000 stipend for the student. The student’s year out will start in the summer of 2014 and end in the summer of 2015.
In keeping with the wishes expressed in Doris Duke's will, experiments that use animals or primary tissues derived from animals will not be supported by this program.
Key Dates
Applications Due: January 14, 2014
Notice of Award: March 2014
Research Year for Student: July 2014 – June 2015
Visit the Clinical Research Mentorship website.
Safe Routes to School Plan
The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) offers the attached guidance that can be used when creating a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) plan. This document is also available on the HDOT SRTS web page at the following link.
http://hidot.hawaii.gov/highways/safe-routes-to-school-program/
NIH Director's Early Independence Awards (DP5)
The NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards provide an opportunity for exceptional junior scientists to accelerate their entry into an independent research career by forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period. Though most newly graduated doctoral-level researchers would benefit by post-doctoral training, a small pool of outstanding junior investigators would benefit instead by launching directly into an independent research career. For these select investigators, who have established a record of scientific innovation and research productivity and who have demonstrated unusual leadership, drive, and maturity, post-doctoral training would unnecessarily delay their entry into performing independent research. The NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards also provide an opportunity for institutions to invigorate their research programs by bringing in the fresh perspectives of the awardee scientists that they host.
Posted Date: Juy 13, 2012
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date)
December 30, 2012
Letter of Intent Due Date
December 30, 2012
Application Due Date(s)
January 30, 2013, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Healthy Eating Research 2012 Call for Proposals -Round 7 and RWJF New Connections
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Deadlines for concept papers:
- Round 7 grants: August 9, 2012 3:00 PM ET
- RWJF New Connections grants awarded through HER: May 22, 2012 3:00 PM ET
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
This call for proposals is for two types of awards aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. The award types are: Round 7 grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program.
For more information, and how to apply, click here.
NIMHD Social, Behavioral, Health Services, and Policy Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit innovative social, behavioral, health services, and policy research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the elimination of health disparities. Projects may involve primary data collection or secondary analysis of existing datasets. Projects that examine understudied health conditions; examine the effectiveness of interventions, services, or policies for multiple health disparity populations; and/or directly measure the impact of project activities on levels of health disparities are particularly encouraged.
Open date: May 4, 2012
Letter of Intent due date: May 4, 2012
Application due date: June 4, 2012
Areas of research interest for this initiative are divided into three areas, social and behavioral research, health services research, and policy research, for the sake of simplicity. It is recognized that these categories are not exclusive and it is expected that many projects will address more than one topic area; it is not required that investigators identify a single area as the focus of their application.
For more information, click here.
NIMHD Basic and Applied Biomedical Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is issued by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to solicit innovative grant applications on:
1. Biological and genetic research to explore disease mechanisms or pathways
that influence health outcomes in minority and health disparity populations.
2. Clinical and translational research linking basic science discovery with
effective treatment or clinical practice.
Open date: May 11, 2012
Letter of Intent due date: May 11, 2012
Application due date: June 11, 2012
The overall goal of this initiative is to enhance our understanding of
fundamental biological mechanisms involved in disease conditions and develop
therapies or interventions that can directly or demonstrably contribute to
the elimination of health disparities.
Biological, genetic, clinical and translational research projects
investigating the etiology, physiology, genetic risk factors, molecular
pathways, gene-environmental interactions, pharmacogenomic and personalized
medicine in health disparity populations are particularly encouraged.
For more information, click here.
RMATRIX Collaboration Pilot Projects Program - 2012 Call For Research Proposals
UH faculty with translational research focused on health disparities and inequities amongst Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Asians, and disadvantaged populations in Hawaii are encouraged to apply. Proposals must involve a transdisciplinary team of investigators and emphasize one of the RMATRIX HEALTH Initiatives (Cardiovascular Health; Respiratory Health; Perinatal, Growth and Developmental Health; Nutrition and Metabolic Health; Aging and Neurocognitive Health; and Cancer).
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 13, 2012, 5:00 pm Hawaii Time
More information, including guidelines and application instructions are provided here.
Click here for Research Grant Application.
Healthy Active Living Grants - American Academy of Pediatrics
Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) is collaborating with the Healthy Active Living Chapter Grants to support 6 AAP chapter/residency program pairs in developing and implementing sustainable strategies to address physical activity in early childhood.
The grants, in the amount of $25,000 each, fund an 18-month community-based initiative. This new collaborative approach will leverage capacity of both institutions, strengthen linkages between chapters and residency programs, and enhance sustainability of funded projects. This grant is generously supported by the MetLife Foundation.
Proposals are due by 2:00PM CST on November 18, 2011.
For application and guidelines, click here.
To download flyer, click here.
Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program
Posted Date: Sep 21, 2011
Application Deadline: Nov 17, 2011
Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
Agency: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
To support the development of Community Food Projects with a one-time infusion of federal dollars to make such projects self-sustaining. Assess food security needs and plan for long-term solutions for communities. Provide training and capacity building nationwide to entities interested in developing new Community Food Projects.
Eligibility: private, nonprofit entities with experience in (i) the area of community food work (small and medium-size farms) provisioning food to people in low-income communities, including the development of new markets in low-income communities for agricultural producers. (ii) job training and business development activities for food-related activities in low-income communities; competency in implementinga project and willingness to share information.
For more information click here.
Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R21)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is to encourage Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) 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.
Opening Date: September 16, 2011
Project Period and Award: 2 years, no more than $275,000
Click here for full overview.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Round 8 Grand Challenges Explorations
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 8 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.
Grant proposals are being accepted online until November 17, 2011 on the following topics:
NEW - Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market
NEW - Design new approaches to optimize immunization systems
NEW - Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children
Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges
Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million. Full desc-riptions of the new topics and application instructions are available at: www.grandchallenges.org/r8_gce
HMSA Foundation RFP: Reducing Native Hawaiian Health Disparities
The HMSA Foundation is extending this RFP to provide funding in an attempt to reduce health disparities between Native Hawaiians and other racial/ethnic groups in Hawai‘i through school-based projects, community-based projects, and health care setting approaches.
The HMSA Foundation hopes that resources committed to reducing health disparities between Native Hawaiians and other groups through this RFP can help facilitate program, policy and environmental changes designed to improve the overall health status for all of the people of Hawai‘i.
Funding parameters: $100,000 for up to five years
For more information and details regarding the RFP click here, or visit the HMSA Foundation Website.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars 2011-2012 Call For Applications
Deadline: September 30, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
Mid-to-late February 2012: Notification of acceptance.
Total Awards: Up to 12 scholars will be selected for two-year appointments beginning in the fall of 2012. Scholars will receive an annual stipend of $80,000.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation's capacity for research and leadership to address the multiple determinants of population health and contribute to policy change. The program is based on the principle that progress in the field of population health depends upon multidisciplinary collaboration and exchange. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to:
-investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and
-develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge, interventions and policies that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.
For more information and to apply, click here.
OHA Funding Guidelines for FY 12
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is soliciting proposals in the following areas:
-Economic Self Sufficiency with a focus on raising Native Hawaiian Family Income
-Education with a focus on raising education standards
-increasing post secondary graduation rates for Native Hawaiians
-Health with a focus on decreasing obesity among Native Hawaiians
LETTER OF INTEREST DUE: Monday, June 6, 2011
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, August 15, 2011
More details are at:
http://www.oha.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1212&Itemid=161
RMATRIX Collaboration Pilot Projects Program - 2011 Call For Research Proposals
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31, 2011, 5:00 pm Hawaii Time (electronic submission)
EARLIEST ANTICIPAED AWARD DATE: July 1, 2011
PROGRESS REPORT DUE DATE: Mid-Year Report Dec 30, 2011 5:00 pm Hawaii Time and Final Report: June 29, 2012, 5:00 pm Hawaii Time (electronic submission)
UH faculty with translational research focused on health disparities and inequities amongst Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Asians, and disadvantaged populations in Hawaii are encouraged to apply. Proposals must be related to one of the RMATRIX HEALTH Initiatives (Cardiovascular Health; Respiratory Health; Perinatal, Growth and Developmental Health; Nutrition and Metabolic Health; Aging and Neurocognitive Health; and Cancer) and involve a transdisciplinary team.
Guidelines and application instructions are provided here.
Click here for Research Grant Application.
To submit proposals or for more information, [email protected].
RTRN Small Grants Program 2011 Date Change
RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2011
MANDATORY LETTER OF INTENT RECEIPT DATE: April 18, 2011
APPLICATION RECEIPT DATE: May 2, 2011
PEER REVIEW PERIOD: May-June 2011
EARLIEST ANTICIPATED AWARD DATE: July 1, 2011
More details are at http://www.hicore.org/media/assets/RTRN_SGP_Informational_Webinar_date_change.pdf
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation / Round 7 of Grand Challenges Explorations
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it is accepting proposals for Round 7 of Grand Challenges Explorations, a $100 million grant initiative to encourage innovation in global health research. Proposals are being accepted through May 19, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time.
More details are at http://www.grandchallenges.org/about/Newsroom/Pages/GCERound7.aspx
RTRN Small Grants Program 2011
RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2011
MANDATORY LETTER OF INTENT RECEIPT DATE: April 4, 2011
APPLICATION RECEIPT DATE: May 2, 2011
PEER REVIEW PERIOD: May-June 2011
EARLIEST ANTICIPATED AWARD DATE: July 1, 2011
More details are at http://gallery.mailchimp.com/a6d6720d6b32da87cdc2031f6/files/RTRN_Small_Grants_Program_RFA_2011_release.pdf
CATCH Implementation Funds
The CATCH Implementation Funds program Call for Proposals is now open; applications are due January 31, 2011. This program supports pediatricians in the initial and/or pilot stage of developing and implementing a community-based child health initiative. Grants of up to $12,000 are awarded to pediatricians to work collaboratively with local community partners to ensure that all children have medical homes and access to needed health care services.
More details are at www.aap.org/catch/implementgrants.htm
Pediatric residents may apply for CATCH grants in amounts up to $3,000 to plan and/or implement a community-based child health initiative. To ensure project completion, only residents who will complete residency during or after June 2012 are eligible to apply. For most categorical pediatrics residents this would be PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents.
More details are at www.aap.org/catch/residentgrants.htm