Health Games Research: Advancing effectiveness of interactive games for health
To build the field and advance knowledge about the intersection of video/computer games and health and health care through a national program that emphasizes applied research and convening.
Improving Chronic Illness Care
Program to help health care organizations redesign care to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with chronic illness.
Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program
To strengthen the presence of generalist physician faculty in the nation's medical schools through career development awards to outstanding junior faculty in medical school departments/divisions of family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.
Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos
To improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.
Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
To provide four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians from historically underrepresented groups who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine, improving the health of underserved populations, and furthering understanding and elimination of health disparities.
Health Tracking
To track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans' health.
Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
To support systematic research in the evaluation of interactive eHealth applications for health behavior change and chronic disease management.
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support investigator-initiated research to identify and assess environmental and policy influences with the greatest potential to improve healthy eating and weight patterns among the nation's children.
Healthy Eating by Design
Program to support efforts of schools and communities to increase access to healthy, lower calorie foods through policy and environmental change in order to prevent obesity among children living in low income, culturally diverse neighborhoods and communities.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: Supporting Community Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To catalyze and support policy and environmental change projects to promote children's physical activity and healthy eating, especially in lower-income and racial/ethnic communities at greatest risk.
Helping Young Smokers Quit: Identifying Best Practices for Tobacco Cessation
To evaluate and disseminate effective, developmentally appropriate cessation treatment programs for adolescents who smoke and try unsuccessfully to quit.
Improving Asthma Care for Children
Program to improve the management of asthma for children covered by Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
InformationLinks: Connecting Public Health with Health Information Exchanges
To provide funds to state and local health departments to support and encourage their participation in regional health information networks.
Injury Free Coalition for Kids: Dissemination of a Model Injury Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents
To reduce and prevent injuries to children through a hospital-based, research-driven model implemented in partnership with coalitions of community stakeholders.
Innovators Combating Substance Abuse
To highlight substance abuse as a leading health problem by recognizing those who are striving to bring creative solutions to the field.
Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
To support interdisciplinary studies that address critical knowledge gaps regarding causal linkages between nursing and health care quality and to synthesize, translate and disseminate major findings to key stakeholders.
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
To encourage researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving U.S. health and health care policy.