The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood
Obesity program supports research on environmental and policy
strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among
children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and
racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are
expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity
epidemic by 2015.
The primary goal of this CFP is to fund and communicate strategic and
timely research addressing key evidence needed to advance RWJF's policy
priorities — providing advocates, decision-makers, and policy-makers
with innovative, solution-oriented, policy-relevant environmental and
policy studies to guide policy action.
Proposals are invited for two types of awards: 1) Round 7 grants,
and 2) RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating
Research program.
Round 7 grants represent the majority of RWJF's investment in
research through this program. Approximately $1.7 million will be
awarded in grants of up to $170,000 for a maximum funding period of
eighteen months. Concept papers may be submitted at any time until
August 9, 2012. The deadlines for receipt of invited full proposals are
May 31, 2012; July 31, 2012; and October 4, 2012.
The New Connections grants are offered in collaboration with RWJF's New Connections program,
which is designed to expand the diversity of perspectives that inform
RWJF programming and introduce new researchers and scholars to the
foundation. These grants are to support research by new investigators
representing populations and communities historically underrepresented
in childhood obesity prevention research, including researchers from
underrepresented ethnic or racial minority groups and lower-income
communities and those who are first-generation college graduates. Up to
two grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded for projects of twelve to
eighteen months. Concept papers are due May 22, 2012; invited full
proposals will be due July 21, 2012.
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