Funds for International Studies on Health and Economic Development, 08/00

This Request for Applications (RFA) solicits projects that examine the effects of health on microeconomic agents (individuals, households and enterprises) and aggregate growth (cross-country growth analysis), as well as explores how health finance and delivery systems are a source of variation in health outcomes. Studies pursued must be relevant to populations in low- and middle-income nations and should preferably be either hypothesis testing or hypothesis generating.

Longer-term objectives of the program are as follows:

* support socio-economic surveys with rigorous biomedical and psychosocial assessments relating to functional performance and other measures of productivity;
* improve and expand the quality of psychosocial and biological epidemiological data that support studies to measure and model economic outcomes;
* examine the connections between health and the social environment at the level of the individual and broader community - including the effects of social capital and infant/childhood antecedents of adolescent and adult well-being;
* assist in the development of a system of metrics that equips researchers, service providers and policymakers with information needed to inform policy and effectively target public health interventions;
* improve the quality and availability of health and economic data including longitudinal and inter-generational data sets;
* establish the relative effectiveness of different financing and delivery options at community, regional and national levels to enable international comparisons;
* build institutional capacity in low- and middle-income countries to incorporate health data in the measurement and modeling of economic performance.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign, for-profit and non-profit organizations, public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of State and local governments, and eligible agencies of the Federal government. Racial/ethnic minority individuals, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply as Principal Investigators.

INQUIRIES
Inquiries concerning this RFA are encouraged. The opportunity to clarify any issues or questions from potential applicants is welcome.

Dr. Kenneth Bridbord
Director
Division of International Training and Research
Fogarty International Center
Building 31, Room B2C39
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220, USA
Tel: +1-301-496-2516
Fax: +1-301-402-0779
mailto:ken_bridbord@nih.gov
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-TW-01-001.html

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