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Equity-Focused Policy Research: Building Evidence on Nutrition Supports for Low-Income Families with Young Children in U.S.

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Deadline: 24 September 2019

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is currently accepting applications for a program entitled “Equity-Focused Policy Research: Building Evidence on Income Supports for Low-Income Families with Young Children”.

Purpose

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support action-oriented research that advances health equity, builds the knowledge base, and informs policymaking to increase access to nutrition supports and reduce nutrition disparities. (RWJF is supporting research on the two other policy areas addressed in the research agenda—access to income supports and ECE—through separate calls for proposals.) Evidence generated through funded projects should inform practice and policy and guide practitioners and policymakers (federal, state, and local) in setting priorities and allocating resources.

The Foundation is particularly interested in research on several federal nutrition programs that serve low-income families with young children and have the potential to help address nutritional disparities. They include the following:

Research on other federal, state, and local nutrition programs may also be relevant to this opportunity, to the extent that they benefit or target families with young children from birth to age 8.

Research funded under this opportunity might clarify the sources of disparities in access to nutrition supports; evaluate innovations that have the potential to improve access to nutrition supports and reduce nutrition disparities through policy change or implementation; assess or review strategies for scaling up effective policies and innovations; or explore new measures to monitor progress toward achieving equity in access to key supports.

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Eligibility Criteria

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply online via the given website.

For more information, please visit https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2019/equity-focused-policy-research-building-evidence-on-nutrition-supports-for-low-income-families.html

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