Funding Opportunities

Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards Program

Deadline: March 23, 2011

This program provides funding for clinical, basic science, public health, health services research and epidemiology projects that are hypothesis-driven with relevance to child health. The intent of the award is to support newly independent faculty, provide the opportunity to demonstrate creativity, and assist in the transition to other sources of research funding. Click here for more information.

Transformation Initiative: Natural Experiments Grant Program
Deadline: February 19, 2011
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) invites investigators to submit proposals for funding to support scientific research that make use of natural experiments to evaluate the impacts of local, state, and federal  policies in the areas of housing and community development.  HUD is particularly interested in funding evaluations that can help policymakers determine how to spend taxpayer dollars effectively and efficiently, though other types of projects will also be considered. Click here for more information.

Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health
Deadline: April 20, 2011
Public Health Law Research (PHLR) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program seeks to build the evidence for and strengthen the use of regulatory, legal and policy solutions to improve public health and help people lead healthier lives. PHLR is equally interested in identifying and ameliorating laws and legal practices that unintentionally harm health. PHLR's purpose is to answer important questions, such as: How does law influence health and health behavior? Which laws have the greatest impact? Can current laws be made more effective through better enforcement, or do they require amendment? Click here for more information.

The NSF-Census Research Network  (NCRN)
Deadline: February 16, 2011
The NSF-Census Research Network will provide support for a set of research nodes, each of which will be staffed by a team of scientists conducting interdisciplinary research and educational activities on methodological questions of interest and significance to the broader research community and to the Federal Statistical System, particularly the U.S. Census Bureau.  The activities will be expected to advance both fundamental and applied knowledge as well as further the training of current and future generations of researchers in research skills of relevance to the measurement of economic units, households, and persons. Click here for more details.

Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R01)
Deadline: January 7, 2014
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct research to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved children. Specifically, this initiative focuses on ethnic and racial minority children and underserved populations of children such as: children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations, geographically isolated children, hearing and visually impaired children, physically or mentally disabled children, children of migrant workers, children from immigrant and refugee families, and language minority children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family environments), social (e.g., peers), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the comparative effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in traditional and nontraditional settings. Click here for more information.

Learning Disabilities Research Centers (P50)
Deadline: May 3, 2011
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites center program project applications for the Learning Disabilities Research Centers Program, hereafter termed Program. The Program will focus on generating new scientific knowledge to inform our understanding of learning disabilities and comorbid conditions. The request invites both foundational and translational, transdisciplinary research examining issues related to etiology, classification and definition of, and prevention and remediation of learning disabilities impacting listening, speaking, reading, writing and mathematics with an emphasis on comorbid conditions. The P50 mechanism allows for richly integrative, multi-method approaches to examining research topics focusing on learning disabilities that are not feasible through standard research mechanisms. Applicants should propose inter-disciplinary, coordinated programs of research that demonstrate cohesion and synergy across research subprojects and cores. Click here for more information.

Interest Groups and Criminal Justice Policy

Check out the Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice's (CJCJ) newest web resource under the Public Education section on the homepage of our website: Interest Groups and Criminal Justice Policy. In addition to an introductory section, the webpage will continue to release sections on:

    * How Interest Groups Influence Criminal Justice Policy: A National Perspective

    * Criminal Justice Interest Groups in California

    * California Criminal Justice Interest Group Watch

These and many others will be investigated more thoroughly in the coming months, paying careful attention to how they influence crime-related legislation and more specifically how this in turn impacts the overall prison system. Go to Interest Groups and Criminal Justice Policy now.

Child Welfare Outcomes 2004-2007: Report to Congress
(From Child Welfare Information Gateway)
This comprehensive volume reports on the child welfare performance of States in seven outcome categories and includes data on outcomes and measures, data sources and elements, contextual factors, and summaries of key findings of analyses conducted across States. Click here for the full document.