Research Funding Opportunity

Research Funding Opportunity

Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury (RO1)

On December 21, 2017, the CDC released RFA-CE-18-001, Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence- Related Injury. CDC intends to commit up to $1,050,000 in Fiscal Year 2018 to support up to three awards. The agency is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance knowledge about what works to prevent violence by rigorously evaluating primary prevention strategies in any of three areas. The funding opportunity announcement can be found at www.grants.gov.

CDC is seeking to support research that rigorously evaluates primary prevention strategies, programs, and policies to address specific gaps in the prevention of youth violence and/or teen dating/intimate partner/sexual violence. The specific research objectives focus on evaluating the effectiveness of:

1. Community-level or societal-level strategies, programs, and policies
2. Strategies to prevent serious and lethal violence involving youth
3. Hospital-based strategies to prevent violence involving youth

Violence is a significant public health problem in the United States, resulting in more than 62,000 deaths and more than 2 million nonfatal injuries treated in emergency departments in 2015. The CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Violence Prevention works to stop violence before it begins.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity can be found at www.grants.gov.

Pre-application teleconference call to address prospective applicants' questions:

• January 16, 2017, 2:30– 3:30 PM Eastern Time
• Toll-Free Number: 1-866-600-6035; conference ID: 23198543
• Telecommunications for the hearing impaired: 770-488-2783

Letter of Intent due: February 9, 2018

Applications due: March 26, 2018