Opportunity Information: Apply for PA 14 177
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- The National Institutes of Health in the education health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Healthy Habits Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.361 Nursing Research.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 17, 2014 and posted on Apr 16, 2014.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 7, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Eligible applicants include: County governments Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Independent school districts For profit organizations other than small businesses State governments Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education City or township governments Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) Small businesses Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification) Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities Special district governments.
- Other Eligible Applicants include the following Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs) Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government Faith based or Community based Organizations Hispanic serving Institutions Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized) Non domestic (non U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations) Regional Organizations Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) U.S. Territory or Possession.
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Opportunity Summary:
The Healthy Habits Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01) opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number PA 14-177) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) discretionary grant program designed to support innovative research focused on how healthy behaviors are formed, reinforced, and maintained from birth through age 21. The central emphasis is not simply on short-term behavior change, but on understanding and strengthening the processes that lead to sustainable, lifelong healthy habits. In practical terms, the FOA is looking for studies that can explain what influences children and adolescents to adopt healthy choices and how those influences can be used to produce durable improvements in health-related behaviors over time.
A major theme of the announcement is that healthy habit formation happens within real-world social and cultural environments, so proposed interventions and mechanistic studies are expected to engage those contexts rather than treating behavior as an isolated individual choice. Applications are encouraged to target social and cultural factors that shape daily decisions, including settings and systems such as schools, families, neighborhoods and communities, broader population-level influences, and the food industry. The FOA also highlights age-appropriate learning tools and games as potential avenues for influence, along with modern communication channels like social media, social networking platforms, technology-enabled tools, and mass media. In other words, NIH is signaling interest in research that meets young people where they are, developmentally and socially, and that tests scalable ways to support healthy routines in the environments that most strongly shape them.
The FOA lays out several topic areas that applicants can address. One is identifying effective and sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices, which can include studying how habits form, how cues and rewards operate, how routines become automatic, and how social norms and peer/family dynamics reinforce behavior. Another is determining the most appropriate stage(s) of influence for learning lifelong healthy behaviors, meaning research that examines timing and developmental windows: for example, whether certain interventions are most effective in early childhood, middle childhood, early adolescence, late adolescence, or during transitions such as entering school, puberty, or moving toward independent living. The announcement also calls for work on the role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior, which can include both opportunities (tailored messaging, interactive tools, real-time feedback, social support) and challenges (misinformation, persuasive marketing of unhealthy products, excessive screen time, attention capture). Additional priority areas include identifying factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations, identifying barriers that prevent healthy behavior adoption or maintenance, and pinpointing mechanisms and mediators that are common across multiple habitual health behaviors. That last point is important because NIH is explicitly interested in underlying pathways that might apply to more than one behavior domain, such as sleep, nutrition, physical activity, stress management, or other health-related routines, so that findings can be used more broadly.
Because children and adolescents are influenced by overlapping forces (biology, development, psychology, family systems, education systems, media ecosystems, community resources, and policy/economic factors), the FOA strongly encourages multidisciplinary teams. Competitive applications are therefore likely to integrate expertise across fields such as behavioral science, developmental psychology, pediatrics and adolescent health, nursing research (the CFDA listing notes 93.361, Nursing Research), education research, public health, communication and media studies, data science/technology design, community-based participatory research, and implementation science. The goal is not only to show that an intervention can work, but to clarify why it works, for whom it works, under what conditions, and how it can be sustained or scaled in real settings.
The ultimate purpose of the program is to build a stronger evidence base about the processes that create lasting positive behavior, and to use that evidence to strengthen those processes or shift the social and cultural norms that shape health and future health behaviors. That means the FOA is aligned with research that can lead to durable population-level impact, whether through changing institutional practices in schools, strengthening family- and community-level supports, redesigning health messages and media environments, or developing technologies that reinforce healthy choices over time.
From an administrative standpoint, this is an R01 research project grant under NIH, categorized under Education and Health. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement. The opportunity was posted in April 2014, with an original and final closing date of May 7, 2017, and it was archived June 7, 2017. While archived opportunities are not currently open for new submissions, the details remain useful as a guide to NIH priorities and as a reference point for related active NIH funding announcements that continue to focus on pediatric and adolescent health behavior formation and maintenance.
Eligibility is broad and includes many types of applicants across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Eligible applicants listed include state governments, county and city/township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), for-profit organizations (other than small businesses), and small businesses. It also includes Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) and tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments). The additional eligibility information expands this further to include various minority-serving institutions (such as HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, AANAPISIs, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, and tribally controlled colleges and universities), faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible federal agencies, regional organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, and even non-U.S. entities (foreign organizations). This breadth reflects the FOA’s recognition that meaningful, sustainable behavior change research often depends on partnerships with the institutions and communities that directly shape youth environments.
For those seeking the original announcement text and NIH submission details, the archived program page is referenced as http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-177.html, and NIH’s Office of Extramural Research (OER) provides technical help through the OER webmaster contact listed in the source information.
FAQs: Healthy Habits Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01) (PA-14-177)
What is the Healthy Habits Timing FOA (PA-14-177)?
PA-14-177 is an NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement for an R01 research project grant supporting innovative research on how healthy behaviors are formed, reinforced, and maintained from birth through age 21, with an emphasis on sustainable, long-term habit formation rather than short-term behavior change.
What is the main goal of this grant program?
The program aims to build evidence about the processes that create lasting positive health behaviors in children and adolescents and to use that evidence to strengthen those processes or shift the social and cultural norms that shape health behaviors over time.
What age range does the program focus on?
The focus is on individuals from birth through age 21, covering childhood, adolescence, and key transitions toward independent living.
Is the focus on short-term behavior change programs?
No. The central emphasis is on understanding and strengthening mechanisms that lead to durable, lifelong healthy habits, not simply producing short-term changes.
What kinds of behaviors are relevant to this FOA?
The FOA is interested in habitual health behaviors broadly and highlights that mechanisms may apply across multiple domains such as sleep, nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and other health-related routines.
What types of research questions does NIH want to see addressed?
Examples of topic areas include identifying sustainable processes that influence healthy choices; examining how habits form (including cues, rewards, automaticity, routines, and social reinforcement); assessing timing and developmental windows for effective intervention; evaluating the role of technology and media; studying barriers to adoption and maintenance; and identifying shared mechanisms and mediators across multiple behaviors.
Why does the FOA emphasize social and cultural context?
The announcement stresses that habit formation occurs within real-world social and cultural environments. Applications are expected to engage these contexts rather than treat behavior as an isolated individual choice.
What settings or systems are encouraged as intervention or study contexts?
The FOA specifically encourages targeting social and cultural factors in settings and systems such as schools, families, neighborhoods and communities, broader population-level influences, and the food industry.
Does the FOA encourage research involving technology and media?
Yes. It highlights modern communication channels and technology-enabled tools, including social media, social networking platforms, mass media, interactive tools, tailored messaging, real-time feedback, and technology-based social support.
Does the FOA also consider risks or downsides of technology and media?
Yes. It notes challenges such as misinformation, persuasive marketing of unhealthy products, excessive screen time, and attention capture as relevant issues for study.
What does the FOA mean by “timing” of healthy habit formation?
Timing refers to identifying the most appropriate stage(s) of influence for learning lifelong healthy behaviors, including developmental periods such as early childhood, middle childhood, early adolescence, late adolescence, and transitions like entering school, puberty, or moving toward independent living.
Are age-appropriate learning tools and games within scope?
Yes. The FOA highlights age-appropriate learning tools and games as potential avenues to influence and reinforce healthy behaviors.
Does the FOA prioritize research in vulnerable populations?
Yes. Priority areas include identifying factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations and identifying barriers that prevent adoption or maintenance of healthy behaviors.
What does NIH mean by “mechanisms” and “mediators” common across behaviors?
The FOA signals interest in underlying pathways that may apply to more than one behavior domain, so findings can generalize across multiple habitual health behaviors rather than being limited to a single behavior.
Are multidisciplinary teams encouraged?
Yes. Because youth behavior is influenced by biology, development, psychology, family systems, education systems, media ecosystems, community resources, and policy/economic factors, the FOA strongly encourages multidisciplinary teams.
What disciplines are mentioned as relevant to competitive applications?
The FOA notes areas such as behavioral science, developmental psychology, pediatrics and adolescent health, nursing research (CFDA 93.361 is cited), education research, public health, communication and media studies, data science/technology design, community-based participatory research, and implementation science.
What type of grant mechanism is this?
This opportunity uses the NIH R01 research project grant mechanism.
Is there a cost sharing or matching requirement?
No. The opportunity states there is no cost sharing or matching requirement.
What categories is this opportunity associated with?
It is categorized under Education and Health.
Is this funding opportunity currently open?
No. The FOA is archived. It was posted in April 2014, had an original and final closing date of May 7, 2017, and was archived on June 7, 2017, which means it is not currently open for new submissions.
If it is archived, why is it still useful?
The archived details can still serve as a guide to NIH priorities and as a reference point when looking for related active NIH funding announcements focused on pediatric and adolescent health behavior formation and maintenance.
Who is eligible to apply?
Eligibility is broad and spans public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including state governments; county and city/township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education); for-profit organizations (other than small businesses); and small businesses.
Are tribal entities eligible?
Yes. Eligible applicants include Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) and tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments).
Are minority-serving institutions included in the eligibility description?
Yes. The additional eligibility information includes minority-serving institutions such as HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, AANAPISIs, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, and tribally controlled colleges and universities.
Are faith-based or community-based organizations eligible?
Yes. Faith-based and community-based organizations are included in the additional eligibility information.
Can federal agencies apply?
Yes. Eligible federal agencies are included in the additional eligibility information.
Are U.S. territories or possessions included?
Yes. Regional organizations and U.S. territories or possessions are listed in the additional eligibility information.
Are non-U.S. (foreign) organizations eligible to apply?
Yes. The additional eligibility information explicitly includes non-U.S. entities (foreign organizations).
What kinds of impacts does the FOA ultimately aim for?
The program is aligned with research that can lead to durable population-level impact, such as changing institutional practices in schools, strengthening family and community supports, redesigning health messages and media environments, or developing technologies that reinforce healthy choices over time.
Where can the original archived announcement be found?
The archived program page is referenced at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-177.html.
Where can applicants find technical help for NIH extramural systems?
Technical help is referenced through NIH’s Office of Extramural Research (OER) via the OER webmaster contact listed in the source information.
What is the Funding Opportunity Number for this program?
The Funding Opportunity Number is PA-14-177.
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