Office of Research
Children’s Healthy Weight Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN)
This announcement solicits applications for a Children’s Healthy Weight Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN). The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to develop and implement a Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN, with the goal of increasing the proportion of children and young adults ages birth to 21 years who fall within a healthy weight range by supporting states to adopt evidence-based or evidence-informed policies and practices related to nutrition, physical activity, and breastfeeding. The Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN will support implementation of the Title V Block Grant transformation by supporting states’ efforts to address the new National Performance Measures (NPMs) on physical activity and breastfeeding by accelerating improvement and innovation through collaborative learning to achieve the greatest collective impact at the state level. This cooperative agreement will also support achievement of National Outcome Measure #20: “Percent of children and adolescents who are overweight or obese (BMI at or above 85th percentile),” with the goal to reduce the proportion of children and adolescents who are considered overweight or obese. The Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN will gather best practices, promote evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies, and increase resources related to nutrition, physical activity, and breastfeeding to support Title V programs, enabling states to facilitate collaborative learning and adopt quality improvement principles and practices that support healthy weight behaviors. Increased implementation of evidence-based or evidence-informed policies, programs, and practices through collaborative improvement and innovation models are expected to lead to a measureable improvement in children’s health. The Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN objectives/goals under this FOA will be advanced through three activity components: (1) Establishment of a National MCHB Children’s Healthy Weight Initiative (a resource center), (2) Children’s Healthy Weight CoIIN Activities, and (3) Children’s Healthy Weight Capacity Building. For more detailed information on program requirements and expectations in this FOA, please see the Methodology section.
Application Instructions
Please submit:
- a one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
- Biosketch or CV of the PI
- A letter of support from the Dean or Chair. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally
to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, April 7, 2016. Full proposals are due to the sponsor 5/17/16, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 5/9/16 for processing, if given the go ahead by the Proposal Review Committee.
Inquiries and Contact Information
Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.