Childhood Obesity Prevention Research

Posted by on January 8, 2007

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Accepting Proposals for Childhood Obesity Prevention Research

Deadline: February 13, 2007

Healthy Eating Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (<a href="http://www.rwjf.org/">http://www.rwjf.org/</a>) that supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance the foundation’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. This second round of funding focuses on children’s food environments and policies in selected community settings — preschool, child-care, school and after-school environments, as well as nearby food outlets.

Preference will be given to those applicants that may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or U.S. territories.

To help build a multi-disciplinary field of research, Healthy Eating seeks proposals from a variety of investigators in a range of fields, including agriculture, behavioral science, business, economics, education, law, marketing, medicine, nutrition, political science, psychology, public health, public policy, and urban planning.

Approximately $3 million in total funding will be awarded for two types of research grants: 1) Studies to identify and evaluate promising food environments and policy changes with potential to prevent obesity among children (12- to 18-month awards of up to $100,000 each, and 18- to 36-month awards of up to $400,000 each); and 2) Analyses of macro-level policy or system determinants of food environments and policies that relate to the targeted community settings (12- to 18-month awards of up to $75,000 each).

Visit the RWJF Web site for complete program information.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10005617/rwjf">http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10005617/rwjf</a>

For additional RFPs in Children and Youth, visit: <a href="http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_children.jhtml">http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_children.jhtml</a>