Clarification/Update of Areas of Research Focus for PAR-12-102, Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)


Notice Number: NOT-HD-12-021

Key Dates

Release Date: June 27, 2012

Related Notices

NOT-HD-12-013

Issued by

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Purpose

The purpose of this Notice is to clarify and update, Part 2, Section I. Funding Opportunity Description of the Areas of Research Focus, for applications submitted in response to PAR-12-102, Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13).

Part 2. Full Text of Announcement

Section I. Funding Opportunity Description

Current Areas of Research Focus

An ongoing series of conferences, meetings, seminars, and workshops, where academic and community partners work together to develop a strong working relationship and a set of research goals focused on community priorities may be focused in one or more of the following areas:

  • Infant mortality
  • SIDS
  • Uterine fibroid tumors
  • Childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity
  • Health literacy
  • Outreach and Information Dissemination
  • Pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention
  • Violence prevention
New Areas of Research Focus

An ongoing series of conferences, meetings, seminars, and workshops, where academic and community partners work together to develop a strong working relationship and a set of research goals focused on community priorities may be focused on disparities in one of the following areas:

  • Preterm birth
  • Infant mortality
  • SIDS
  • Uterine fibroid tumors
  • Childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity
  • Violence prevention
  • Perinatal HBV and HIV/AIDS prevention
  • HIV/AIDS prevention
  • Asthma
  • Intellectual and developmental disabilities
  • Pediatric injury prevention
  • Medical rehabilitation (e.g., spinal cord injury, TBI, stroke)

More than one area of research focus may be addressed only when scientifically appropriate. Health literacy and techniques for outreach and information dissemination may only be addressed in conjunction with one of the identified areas of research focus.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the Scientific/Research Contact listed in Section VII. Agency Contacts of the FOA regarding the appropriateness of research focus for proposed projects. This may be done as part of the required process for requesting advanced permission to submit an application no later than four weeks before the receipt date.

All other aspects of this FOA remain the same.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Della Brown White, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
Division of Special Populations
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 5E03
Bethesda, MD 20892
(FedEx and courier use: Rockville, MD 20852)
Telephone: 301- 435-2712
Email: whitede@mail.nih.gov