Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences December 20, 2000

News Flash

NIEHS sponsors RFA for Community-Based Participatory Research in Environmental Health

Just in case you didn't see this Request for Applications (RFA) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for "Community Based Participatory Research in Environmental Health." The RFA appeared in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts late last month: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-01-003.html

Following is the opening text of the RFA:

Community-Based Participatory Research in Environmental Health

Release Date: November 29, 2000
RFA: ES-01-003
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Letter of Intent Receipt Date: January 17, 2001
Application Receipt Date: March 15, 2001

THIS RFA USES THE "MODULAR GRANT" AND "JUST-IN-TIME" CONCEPTS. IT INCLUDES DETAILED MODIFICATIONS TO STANDARD APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS THAT MUST BE USED WHEN PREPARING APPLICATIONS IN RESPONSE TO THIS RFA.

Purpose

The purpose of awards in this program is to develop community-based public health research approaches to diseases and health conditions having an environmentally related etiology and determine the impact of these methods. Moreover, awards are intended to stimulate further advances in the design and implementation of prevention and intervention methods that are appropriately applied to environmental health; accumulate and evaluate data, making assignments of environmental etiologies of diseases more plausible; and develop, implement, and evaluate community-based exposure assessment protocols.