RWJF’s Healthy Eating Research 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 the highest risk for obesity. Proposals can include:
- Experimental or quasi-experimental studies
- Secondary analyses of existing datasets
- Evaluations of planned interventions or natural experiments
- Retrospective analyses of apparent policy change successes, especially in settings where body mass index data is available
- Financial, economic, or cost-effectiveness studies
- Health impact assessments or statistical modeling studies
- Policy and legal analyses to identify or evaluate promising interventions
- Quantitative meta-analyses of the relationships between food environments and eating behaviors or weight outcomes
- Measurement studies to develop, test and validate methods and tools
The program consists of Round 8 grants and RWJF New Connections grants. Round 8 grants represent the majority of the foundation’s investment in the program. Awards cannot exceed $170,000 and have a maximum period of 18 months. New Connections grants are designed to support policy relevant research of early-career investigators from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities. They do not exceed $100,000 and range from 12 to 18 months. Concept papers are due February 13, April 24 and July 10, 2013. For more information, see the link below:
http://pweb1.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21417