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CDC Releases New Program Announcement for Community-Based Research
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Feb. 22 that it is seeking potential applicants for grants under its latest program announcement (02003).
CDC explains that the new program "is intended to stimulate investigator-initiated participatory research on community-based approaches to prevention. ...Specifically, [it] seeks to support multidisciplinary, multilevel, participatory research that will enhance the capacity of communities and population groups to address health promotion and the prevention of disease, disability and injury."
Under this program, all phases of prevention research -- from basic research to surveillance -- will be supported. CDC will focus on research into the dissemination, translation and implementation of proven effective interventions; the development and maintenance of supportive policies and environments; and the development and validation of surveillance and evaluation methods.
While the direction of research funded under this program must be guided by the needs and interests of the community, funding is especially targeted for "cross-cutting research" -- that is, interventions or methods that would apply to more than one health condition.
Dr. Lawrence W. Green, director of CDC's Office of Extramural Prevention Research, said that the program "signals CDC's commitment to strengthen infrastructure and community capacity in public health through peer reviewed research that has immediate relevance to the needs that practitioners, policy makers and concerned citizen groups perceive for their communities."
Approximately $13 million is available in 2002 to fund roughly 30 awards, to begin on or about Sept. 30, 2002. Deadlines are March 20 for letters of intent and April 30 for applications.
HABIT joins CDC in urging all interested scholars, practitioners and policy makers who might form academic-community partnerships to review the program and its provisions. Details are available through the Federal Register Web site at frwebgate.access.gpo.gov (requires Adobe Acrobat, may take a while to download) or through the CDC Web site at www.cdc.gov (look under "Prevention Research").
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