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Opportunity Summary:

The NIH grant opportunity titled Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R21) (Funding Opportunity Number PAR-06-103) is a discretionary research grant designed to support early-stage, exploratory projects that make meaningful progress in how diet and physical activity are measured in research and public health settings. The central problem it targets is that diet and physical activity are major drivers of chronic disease risk and prevention, including conditions like cancer and coronary heart disease, and they also matter directly for preventing overweight and obesity and for maintaining weight loss over time. Because of that, researchers and public health programs routinely assess diet and physical activity for surveillance, epidemiologic studies, and clinical research. Yet in many real-world scenarios, measuring a persons usual dietary intake or their typical physical activity over weeks, months, or years has depended heavily on self-report tools such as questionnaires, recalls, and similar instruments. The opportunity emphasizes that these tools are often cognitively demanding for participants and can produce substantial measurement error, with inaccuracies that may differ across population subgroups, vary with the time window being reported, and depend on respondent characteristics.

This announcement uses the R21 mechanism, which generally signals that the funder is looking for innovative, developmental work that can generate feasibility data, test new ideas, or pilot improved approaches, rather than requiring a fully mature, large-scale project from the start. Within that context, the purpose is to stimulate research that improves the assessment of diet and physical activity, including work that reduces bias and error in measurement, strengthens the validity and reliability of instruments, and ultimately produces better data for studying relationships between lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes. Although the description highlights the limitations of self-report measures, the underlying aim is broader: advancing the science of assessment so that studies can more accurately characterize usual intake and activity patterns across different populations and study designs, especially when researchers need information about past behaviors or behaviors over long periods.

Key administrative details include an award ceiling of $200,000, with no cost sharing or matching requirement. The opportunity was posted March 2, 2006, and it used multiple receipt dates, with the current closing date listed as May 7, 2009 and an archive date of June 7, 2009. The sponsoring agency is the National Institutes of Health, and the program aligns with several CFDA areas spanning mental health research (93.242), nursing research (93.361), cancer control (93.399), cardiovascular diseases research (93.837), lung diseases research (93.838), child health and human development extramural research (93.865), and aging research (93.866). That spread reflects the cross-cutting importance of diet and physical activity measurement across disease areas and life stages.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of domestic organizations such as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (with some distinctions noted in the listing), state and local governments (including counties, cities or townships, special district governments, and independent school districts), public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities, federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations, and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The opportunity also explicitly notes that foreign institutions are eligible to apply and that eligible agencies of the federal government may apply as well, along with faith-based or community-based organizations and units of state, tribal, and local tribal governments.

For applicants or interested parties seeking the official announcement text, the listing provides a link to the NIH funding notice at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-103.html. For technical access issues or problems linking to the announcement, the contact provided is the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster at FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV.

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