The Health Effects Institute Funding Opportunities

Requests for (Preliminary) Applications
Follow the links below to find the current and past RFAs and RFPAs, application forms, and instructions on how to fill out the forms.

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Current HEI Research Agendas

HEI has issed its Fall 2011 Research Agenda, which includes RFA 11-2, Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award.

• Request for Applications 11-2: Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award NEW
  The purpose of this award is to bring new, creative investigators into active research on the health effects of air pollution. It provides three years of funding for a small project relevant to HEI’s research interests to a new investigator with outstanding promise at the Assistant Professor or equivalent level. For eligibility criteria please click here. All applicants should contact HEI to discuss their eligibility and include a Curriculum Vitae with the Letter of Intent.
  
  For more information please contact Dr. Annemoon van Erp (+1 617 488 2346). Letters of Intent for RFA 11-2 are due on February 1, 2012. Full applications are due on March 1, 2012 or should be sent by overnight mail service postmarked February 29, 2012.
  Download the Fall 2011 RFA booklet  
  
  
• Request for Preliminary Applications: Health Effects of Air Pollution (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
  HEI's preliminary application process provides a mechanism for investigators whose area of interest falls outside of the current RFAs but is compatible with the HEI research program and mission. For more information please contact Dr. Kate Adams (+1 617 488 2330). The request for preliminary applications is closed at this time. HEI may reissue this request when funding becomes available.
  

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Application forms for full applications.
Instructions to fill out the application.

Project Negotiations and Investigator Commitments (from the RFA booklet). Read about the scientific negotiation of project plans, the research agreement (contract), quality assurance program, progress reports, site visits, annual conference, final report, and publications. 

Policy on follow-on applications (from the RFA booklet). For HEI investigators who are nearing completion of their projects and would like to apply to HEI for funding to continue their research.

HEI special quality assurance procedures (RFA booklet Appendix C)

Policy on the provision of access to data underlying HEI-funded studies (RFA booklet Appendix D)

HEI Strategic Plan 2010–2015

Investigators' Guide. HEI's Investigator's Guide contains important information for HEI-funded investigators who are getting ready to write the Final Report for their study. The Guide introduces HEI's review, editing, and publication process and lists requirements for submission of the report. The Guide also contains detailed instructions on reference and text styles, tables and illustrations, and submission of electronic art.

RFA archive:  Past RFAs and RFPAs, 1996-2011.