Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers funding for health games
research - application deadline is April 8, 2009

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (http://www.rwjf.org/) Health Games Research: Advancing Effectiveness of Interactive Games for Health is a national program that funds research designed to enhance the quality and impact of interactive games that are used to improve health.

The goal of the program is to advance the innovation, design, and effectiveness of health games and game technologies so that they help people improve health-related behaviors and, as a result, achieve significantly better health outcomes. In this round of funding, a total of approximately $2 million will be granted to outstanding research projects that study one or more games designed to increase physical activity and/or improve self-care.

Applicants must be a nonprofit organization such as a university, medical center, government agency, or other entity that is tax- exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is not a private foundation as defined under Section 509(a). For-profit organizations may participate as subcontractors or consultants on a project team but may not be the applicant organization. Applicant organizations must be based in the U.S. or U.S. territories. The focus of the program is the United States.

Studies to be conducted in other countries will be considered only if they have the potential to improve the health of U.S. citizens. The principal investigator must be employed at the applicant organization at a rate above half time.

Proposals must present a well-designed research plan that will lead to better understanding of the way people experience, process, and respond to specific features of health games. Proposals must also demonstrate that study findings will help improve the state of knowledge and practice related to health game design and implementation.

Up to fifteen research grants of between $100,000 and $300,000 each will be awarded for projects lasting one to two years.

For complete program information, visit the RWJF Web site.

RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016988/rwjfapp

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