The National Institutes of Health's next deadline for the Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13) is October 17, 2012. The program is designed to support health-disparities-related meetings, workshops and symposia to bring together partnerships that will use Community-Based Participatory Research to address health disparities. Focus areas include obesity (child, adolescent or adult), techniques for outreach and information dissemination, violence prevention and medical topics such as fibroid tumors and HIV/AIDS prevention. The limit is one application per institution.
Award: Up to $30,000 per year for up to three years
Important dates
Mandatory notification of interest in applying: Due by 5 p.m. July 19, 2012 tocarol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu . Please provide a prospective topic or focus area for the proposed conference, and identify the individual(s) who will provide the expertise in Community-Based Participatory Research.
Internal preproposal submission: Due by 5 p.m. August 7, 2012 tocarol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu . For internal guidelines, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/
Estimated internal review completion: August 10, 2012
NIH application deadline: October 17, 2012
For information about preparing a competitive application for this program, you can view abstracts of currently funded projects at http://projectreporter.nih.
