Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal
Solicitation Title: Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal
Funding Amount: echnology, Infrastructure and Health - For this funding opportunity, we will award up to $2.4 million to fund projects within the $200,000-$400,000 budget range and with a project term of between 12-36 months.
Open Call for Ideas - For this funding opportunity, we generally fund projects within the $150,000-$350,000 budget range and with a project term of between 12-36 months.
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2018
Solicitation Link: https://www.rwjf.org/en/how-we-work/submit-a-proposal.html?rid=0034400001rmIfFAAU&et_cid=1371822
Overview
<p>Technology, Infrastructure and Health: With regard to technology, we are primarily interested in digital technologies—the electronic tools, systems and structures that generate, store, and interpret data. These range from sensors and server farms, to virtual reality and more.<br>When we talk about infrastructure, we mean physical infrastructure, like roads and electrical grids, as well as data infrastructure, which generates, collects and supports the flow of information, and human infrastructure—the network of people—that supports the functioning of society.<br>Through this exploration we’re looking for projects that explore the relationship between technology, infrastructure, and health and examine how technology’s impact on infrastructure in the near future (5-10 years) could influence our efforts to improve health equity in the United States<br>Open Call for Ideas - Through this, our signature Pioneering Ideas funding opportunity, we seek to explore how cutting-edge ideas and emerging trends could help or hinder our progress toward a Culture of Health.<br>We’re open to ideas on a range of topics, from emerging technologies to pioneering strategies for changing norms and behaviors. We’re interested in funding a number of different project types, including research, pilots or demonstration projects, idea sourcing, network or coalition building, and more. Ultimately, we are looking for projects that bring new understanding and raise new questions about the future of health in the United States.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p><span>We are not interested in projects that primarily focus on building new structures, applications or online platforms, or in sustaining or scaling existing programs or interventions.</span></p> Other Information:<p>Technology, Infrastructure and Health – deadline is October 17, 2018.<br>Projects should be future-oriented, cultivating lessons that will hold relevance in the years to come, and can include, but are not limited to:<br>• Explorations of how data-driven infrastructure will enable or constrain access to healthy choices in everyday life.<br>• Frameworks for how we support design, decision-making and governance of infrastructures that will ensure more equitable health outcomes for all in America.<br>• Meta-analyses of how patterns of technology use influence decisions about the use and value of physical spaces.<br>• Projects that document the ways in which Internet of Things-based sensor networks and surveillance infrastructure are increasingly embedded in public spaces with varying impacts on health and well-being.<br>• Applied research projects that identify new ways to govern and regulate the development and application of data-driven technologies that have an impact on infrastructure and health.<br>• Historical analyses of the technology industry’s impact on health via infrastructure—translating these lessons into best practices for various stakeholders.</p> <p>Priority will be given to proposals that:<br>• Have a clearly-articulated focus on improving health equity;<br>• Focus at the population, rather than individual level;<br>• Include cross-sector collaboration or a multi-disciplinary effort or initiative;<br>• Prioritize community engagement;<br>• Explore the potential for emerging trends to impact our ability to build a Culture of Health; and<br>• Are both timely and future-oriented, cultivating lessons that are relevant now and will be in the years to come</p>Last Updated:
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