Funding Priorities:National Cancer Institute

Carly Parry, PhD, MSW

National Cancer Institute

Priority Areas Provocative Questions RFAs (11-011, 11-012)

NCI has several Divisions: DCCPS ,DCP most relevant to social and behavioral research topics/interests

Division of Cancer Prevention

Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences– Behavioral Research Program***– Applied Research Program***– Office of Cancer Survivorship (OD)***– Implementation Science Team(OD)***– Surveillance Research Program– Epidemiology & Genomics Research Program***

http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/funding_apply.html

http://dcp.cancer.gov/funding/funding-grants

Priority Areas include… DCCPS, Behavioral Research Program (BRP)

– Biological mechanisms of psychosocial processes related to prevention, detection, treatment, and maintenance of healthy lifestyle behaviors

– Predictors of diet, weight, physical activity, and tobacco use– Risk perception and communication of health information to public,

patients, and providers– Surveillance of communication outcomes and new media channels of

communication

DCCPS, BRP, Tobacco Control Research Branch– Etiology, predictors, correlates, and determinants of tobacco use, nicotine

dependence, and cessation– Tobacco prevention interventions at the individual, system, and population

level– Tobacco cessation interventions at the individual, system, and population

level Tobacco control interventions for underserved and at-risk populations– Other tobacco products, e.g., smokeless tobacco, cigars, roll-your-own,

hookah, bidis, etc

Finding Specific FOAs for Social and Behavioral Research in Cancer

http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/funding_apply.html

Finding Specific FOAs

http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/funding.htm

General FOAs for Social and Behavioral Research

Parent R01: Research Project Grant http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-260.html

• General announcement

NCI Omnibus R21: NCI Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program, PAR-12-145, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/par-12-145.html

Purpose: to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects.

• NCI Omnibus R03: NCI Small Grants Program for Cancer Research PAR-12-144, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-144.html

Purpose: supports small research projects on cancer that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources, including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.

Specific FOAs: Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer

Control (R03)– PAR-12-035 (R03), expires October 2012.– Purpose: to enhance basic and applied behavioral sciences

research in the context of cancer control, with a secondary goal of attracting new investigators to the field from a variety of biomedical, behavioral and public health disciplines

Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities– PAR-10-136 (R01) – PAR-10-137 (R21)– Purpose: Behavioral and social science research on the causes

and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U. S. population. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention.

Specific FOAs: Dissemination/Implementation

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-038.html (R01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-040.html (R21)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-039.html (R03)

• Purpose: Methods, structures, and strategies that propose to disseminate and implement health behavior change interventions and evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment, and quality of life improvement services into public health and clinical practice settings.

Specific FOAs: Epidemiology, Diet and Physical Activity Assessment

Small Grants Program for Cancer Epidemiology PAR-12-039 (R03)– Purpose: to provide support for pilot projects, testing of new techniques,

secondary analyses of existing data, development and validation of measurement methods, linkage of genetic polymorphisms with other variables related to cancer risk, and development of innovative projects for more comprehensive research in cancer etiology and epidemiology.

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment PAR-12-197 (R21)PAR-12-198 (R01)– Purpose: encourages innovative research to enhance the quality of

measurements of dietary intake and physical activity

Questions?

Carly Parry, Ph.D., MSWProgram Director

Office of Cancer Survivorship, Behavioral Research Program

Division of Cancer Control and Population SciencesNational Cancer Institute 

Phone: (301) 435-4540Main OCS phone: (301) 402-2964

Carla.parry@nih.gov