RWJF - Open Calls For Proposals

Active Living Research - Round 8

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-03-12 00:00:00.0

Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). This call for proposals (CFP) is the first to reflect a new emphasis for Active Living Research. The program will now focus on supporting research to inform policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity among children and adolescents, decreasing their sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity. We will place special emphasis on strategies with the potential to reach racial/ethnic populations and children living in low-income communities who are at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

Proposed studies must address one of the topics identified below. Target populations include children and adolescents ages 3 to 18.

Evaluations of policy or environmental interventions and strategies for increasing physical activity and/or reducing sedentary behaviors among youth.
Studies of the interactive effects of built environment and social/cultural factors on youth physical activity and/or sedentary behaviors in populations at high risk for obesity.
Studies of the economic determinants and/or impacts of environments and policies that affect youth physical activity and/or sedentary behaviors.
Analyses of macro-level policies and environmental-change strategies with the potential to increase physical activity and/or reduce sedentary behaviors among youth.

Deadline: May 14, 2008

Examining the Effects of Public Reporting and Pay-for-Performance on Health Care Quality

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-05-01 00:00:00.0

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is committed to ensuring that all Americans receive quality health care. Specifically, we aim to help communities across the country set and achieve ambitious goals to improve the quality of health care in ways that matter to patients and families, including patients from racial and ethnic backgrounds who often experience lower quality care. Through this solicitation, we seek proposals for projects to examine the effects of public reporting and pay-for-performance on quality of care.

Deadline: Jun 12, 2008

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-04-22 00:00:00.0

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing is a scholarship program to help alleviate the nursing shortage and increase the diversity of nursing professionals. Through grants to schools of nursing, the program will provide scholarships to college graduates without nursing degrees who are enrolled in accelerated baccalaureate and master's nursing programs.

Deadline: Jun 26, 2008

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-02-15 00:00:00.0

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships (LFP) forge relationships between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and local grantmakers to fund promising, original projects that can significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities.Deadline: Jul 8, 2008

Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program - 2008-2009 Call for Applications

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-04-15 00:00:00.0

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program is designed to build the nation's capacity for research, leadership and policy change to address the multiple determinants of population health. 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 rigorously the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and
develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge and interventions that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.

The program is intended to produce leaders who will change the questions asked, the methods employed to analyze problems, and the range of solutions to reduce population health disparities and improve the health of all Americans.

Deadline: Oct 3, 2008

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) - 2008

webmail@rwjf.org — 2003-01-27 00:00:00.0

This program supports policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy and financing issues. This Call for Proposals is intended to support projects that: 1) examine significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and 2) explore or test major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services.

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