Deadline:

May 16, 2007 - Closed

Program Area:

Childhood Obesity

Purpose:

Active Living Research is a $12.5-million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that stimulates and supports research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity.

The purpose of this call for proposals is to increase our understanding of how environments and policies affect children's physical activity in community and school settings. Grants will be awarded for two research topics:

1. Examination of how children's and parents' perceptions of community and recreation environments are related to objective attributes of the environments and how those perceptions affect their desire to use the environments for physical activity.
2. Evaluation of policy interventions to promote physical activity in schools.

Research funded under this call for proposals will inform the Foundation's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Preference may be given to applicants that may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Proposals should demonstrate the potential to produce high-quality, scientifically sound research that could be used to inform policy-makers about environmental and policy changes that could increase levels of physical activity and prevent childhood obesity in the United States. Active Living Research will assess each proposal based on the degree to which it:

• thoroughly addresses one of the topics listed in this call
  for proposals;
• uses transdisciplinary research approaches and teams to provide the variety of conceptual, measurement, study design and analytic methods needed for the best possible research;
• articulates a clear hypothesis or conceptual framework that guides the design of the study;
• describes a clear and specific plan for systematic data collection and analysis;
• provides evidence of access to needed data, settings and study populations;
• documents that the experience, qualifications and time commitment of the investigator(s) and key project staff are adequate for conducting the proposed project;
• justifies the reasonableness of the budget request and feasibility of the timeline; and
• describes a plan to disseminate research results to scientists and policy-makers.

Key Dates:

• May 16, 2007 (1 p.m. PDT)—Deadline for receipt of proposals.
• September 2007—Applicants will be notified of awards.

Total Award:

• Up to $1 million is available in this seventh round of funding for research grants. For research topic 1, grants of up to $150,000 total over one to two years are available. For topic 2, grants of up to $200,000 total over one to two years are available. We expect to fund up to four grants under topic 1 and two under topic 2.
• Funds also are available for doctoral dissertation awards.

Contact:

Chad Spoon, research coordinator (Active Living projects)
cspoon@projects.sdsu.edu
Office: (619) 260-5539

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