Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research funds available

Access to healthy, affordable foods and beverages is essential to helping all children grow at a healthy weight. As advocates, decision-makers, and policymakers create policies and programs to promote the well-being of children, it is important to provide them with a body of evidence that shows the best approaches and strategies to improve children’s nutrition habits, dietary intake, and weight status.

Healthy Eating Research, a RWJF national research program, is funding $2.6 million toward research on actions and strategies that will help improve children’s physical, social, and emotional development through the consumption of healthy foods and beverages.

Proposals for studies that promote health equity and address disparities, such as high rates of overweight and obesity in children from low-income rural and urban communities and racial and ethnic minority populations, will be prioritized.

Learn more about eligibility and the program via an informational webinar.

Key Dates

• May 23–July 18 (3 p.m.): RWJF online system available to applicants for concept papers.
• June 6 (3 p.m.): Optional applicant webinar. Registration is required. Please visit the program’s website for complete details and to register.
• July 18 (3 p.m.): Concept papers due. Those submitted after July 18 (3 p.m.) will not be reviewed.
• Aug. 13: Applicants notified whether they are invited to submit a full proposal.
• March 13-15, 2019: Healthy Eating Research Annual Meeting

For all grant types, see table in the CFP for separate key dates/deadlines for small-scale vs. large-scale grants.

Contact the

Office of Research and Graduate Education

if you are interested in pursuing this funding.