Health Policy and Law Research

Posted by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on February 6, 2017

RWJF Issues RFP for Health Policy and Law Research

DEADLINE: MARCH 10, 2017 (LETTERS OF INTENT)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a Call for Proposals for research projects that can help build an evidence base for policies that lead to a Culture of Health.

Through its Policies for Action: Policy and Law Research to Build a Culture of Health program, the foundation seeks to engage longstanding health and healthcare researchers, as well as experts in fields such as housing, education, transportation, and the built environment who have not worked in health before. The goal is to develop research that generates actionable evidence — data and information — that can guide legislators and other policy makers, public agencies, educators, advocates, community groups, and individuals in shaping health policy.

The research may examine established laws, regulations, and policies, as well as potential new policies and approaches, and should inform significant gaps in knowledge with respect to which policies can serve as levers to improve population health and well-being and achieve greater levels of health equity.

Preference will be given to innovative research that evaluates and addresses actionable policies focused on early childhood, or that have lifelong, even multigenerational benefits; are preventive rather than remedial; advance a community’s own priorities; highlight collaboration between the public and private sectors, or innovations within the private sector; address people or places or systems that have been traditionally underserved or unattended; foster stability and continuity at the neighborhood, community, state, and/or federal levels; transform or bridge major service systems, such as between healthcare and public health systems, or other systems that influence health in communities, such as social services or education; and/or influence values and beliefs integral to a Culture of Health.

Applicants must be a public entity or nonprofit organizations that is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and be based in the United States. Applications are welcome from interdisciplinary or cross-sectoral research teams; investigators from a variety of areas and disciplines, including but not limited to architecture, business, community planning, data scientists, economics, epidemiology, health policy, medicine, public health, social work, sociology; and urban planning and system engineers.

The program will award grants of up to $250,000 for up to two years.

The foundation will host an optional informational webinar on February 15, 2017, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST. Registration is required.

Letters of Intent must be received no later than March 10, 2017. Upon review, applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal by June 16, 2017.

For complete program guidelines, an FAQ, and application procedures, see the RWJF website.

http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2017/policies-for-action–policy-and-law-research-to-build-a-culture-.html