January 2016
On January 12, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) posted three Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) regarding grants for researchers to explore linkages between education and health.
These opportunities build upon 13 previous research grants that NIH funded in 2003. While the previous grants advanced research in better understanding connections between education and health, the work also raised further questions. In 2014, NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) held a workshop (in which AERA Executive Director Felice Levine participated) that encouraged further exploration of these issues. The workshop also recommended developing measures of outcomes and investing in longitudinal studies to understand the long-term effects of health and education interventions across the lifespan.
NIH is considering funding some of the following topics:
The following links provide further information on the three FOAs:
The deadline for the Research Project Grant (R01) is June 5. The deadline for applications for the Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21) and Small Grant Program (R03) opportunities is June 16.