Health Data for Action Data Access Award – Aug 18

Posted by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on July 25, 2023

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites applications for Health Data for Action Data Access Award

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) commitment to reaching a national Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health includes efforts to gather evidence and produce tools to advance health and health equity. Recognizing that access to rich data is a cornerstone of producing timely and objective research, RWJF’s Health Data for Action (HD4A) program is designed to leverage health data for actionable insights.

HD4A aims to reduce the barriers often faced in accessing rich data by serving as a conduit between unique data owners and interested researchers. Under this 2023 HD4A call for proposals (CFP), successful applicants for Data Access Awards will be provided free access to selected data sets, while limited funding is available for a small number of projects from first-time investigators who will receive both funds and access to conduct studies using selected data sets. Projects may be generated from disciplines including health services research, economics, sociology, program evaluation, political science, public policy, public health, public administration, law, business administration, or other related fields.

The HD4A program will support innovative research using available data to answer important research questions and inform health policy. Applicants will write a proposal for a research study using anticipated data sets listed in the CFP. Eligible research projects can focus on a variety of topics, including but not limited to national practice patterns in long-term care, public health surveillance and population health, rehospitalization rates, the opioid epidemic, maternal and infant health, home- and community-based services, racial and ethnic disparities, healthcare costs and utilization, prescription patterns and medication adherence, the prevalence of chronic disease, trends in insurance markets, consolidation and competition, and rate comparisons. Awards include:

Data Access Award: Successful applicants will be given access to the selected data set at no cost to the grantee. Up to 20 awards will be funded solely for data access, and no specific breakdown by the data set is prescribed. No financial award will be given with these study awards. Data access will accommodate studies of up to 12 to 24 months.

First-Time Investigator Awards: Applicants who are first-time investigators on a grant award at the time of application will be awarded funds to conduct studies using the selected data set, and no specific breakdown by the data set is prescribed. Up to six awards will be funded, with up to $600,000 total available, with recommended project funding of up to $100,000 per project over 12 to 24 months.

Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories. Preference will be given to applicants that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations.

Brief proposals are due August 18, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. ET, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals, due January 12, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website.

Deadline: August 18, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET