Environmental Exposures and Health: Exploration of Non-Traditional Settings, (R01)

This grant opportunity encourages interdisciplinary research aimed at promoting health, limiting symptoms and disease, and reducing health disparities in children and older adults living or spending time in non-traditional settings. These settings result in exposure to environmental pollutants and toxins that result in health risks, symptoms, and other health conditions/diseases including lower respiratory diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular diseases. Risk identification and symptom management include prevention and behavior changes and actions to maintain health and prevent disease with an emphasis on the individual, family, and community which will advance nursing science. 


For purposes of this FOA, non-traditional settings, for children and older adults, include, but are not limited to places such as community centers, pre-school and non-traditional school environments (e.g., churches, daycare, home-based schools, dormitories, and alternative schools), child and older adult foster care facilities, older adult day care facilities, half-way homes,  assisted living and long-term care facilities.    


Budget: Not limited (but must reflect actual needs), 5 year project period.
Deadlines: 5 June 2012, 5 October 2012, and more


For more information, see: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-133.html