The Office Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
UCSC Contact: Sarah Carle | sacarle@ucsc.edu
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Opportunity: Systems for Action – Systems and Services Research to Build a Culture of Health
Proposal Deadline: October 5, 2022
Overview
Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that helps to build the evidence base for a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems. New strategies and tools are needed to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to dismantle structural racism and improve health and well-being for all.
S4A studies a variety of novel approaches for aligning systems, using rigorous scientific methods to determine their impact on health and health equity. This 2022 call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for a new cohort of research studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems collaborate to address structural barriers to health and health equity, including racism and the social conditions that impact health.
Developmental Studies: This award will support pilot testing of the proposed systems alignment approach in order to examine its feasibility and acceptability for actors in the relevant medical, social, and public health systems, and its potential to dismantle forms of structural racism and inequity embedded within these systems.
Impact Studies: This award will support studies that examine the impact of the proposed system alignment strategy on relevant measures of health and health equity, with a focus on understanding the strategy’s success or failure in dismantling forms of structural racism and inequity embedded within systems. Applicants must provide documentation of pilot test results as part of their application, which may include a publication, report, working paper, or research brief.
Award Amount & Terms
Developmental Studies:
- Total award amount: up to $100,000 for each award
- Grant award length: up to 12 months
- Number of awards: up to five awards
Impact Studies:
- Total award amount: up to $500,000 for each award
- Grant award length: up to 36 months
- Number of awards: up to four awards
Eligibility
- Individuals having backgrounds and life experiences that are underrepresented on research teams, including Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other persons of color, first-generation college graduates, and individuals from low-income households.
- Individuals and institutions who are new to RWJF and have not received funding previously.
- Individuals from disciplines outside of the health professions and medical sciences, including but not limited to education, social work, criminal justice, economics, engineering, sociology, transportation, and urban and regional planning.
- Individuals working in nonacademic settings including government agencies, professional associations, and community-based organizations.
- Interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research teams that include individuals with both scientific expertise and operational experience.
- Because S4A is a research program, all applicants should make sure that their team includes individuals with relevant expertise in scientific research design, data analysis methodologies, and scientific publication. Applicants from nonacademic settings that do not have internal research expertise are strongly encouraged to collaborate with a research partner.
Applicants are eligible to apply for the Impact Study award category only if they have completed a pilot study of their proposed system alignment approach and can provide documentation about results that confirm the feasibility of the approach and its acceptability to key actors.
Timeline
- August 15, 2022 Join an informational applicant webinar at 3:00 p.m. EDT
- September 6, 2022 (3pmET) Deadline for receipt of optional, one-page letter of intent via email
- October 5, 2022 (3 p.m. ET) Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
- January 15, 2023 Grant start date (subject to change)
Special Instructions
Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying to this opportunity (cfr@ucsc.edu). Please submit a proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s internal Institutional Deadlines. For support developing your proposal, please contact the Research Development Specialist assigned to your unit or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu. Within the Division of Social Sciences, please contact Ashlee Tews (ashleeac@ucsc.edu) to initiate notification and proposal support.
Call sent: August 1, 2022
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