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Yes, please click here for Miller and Hendrie’s Monograph, “Economic Evaluation of Public Health Laws and their Enforcements.”
For short-term studies, grants of up to $150,000 for a maximum of 18 months, including indirect costs, will be available. For complex and comprehensive studies, grants of up to $450,000 for a maximum of 30 months will be available. Proposals that exceed the dollar thresholds listed in the CFP will not be accepted.
Yes, view it online by clicking here.
Letters of Support are only necessary in the Full Proposal phase. Letters of Support should be obtained from outside partners or collaborators who are key to your research (e.g., your local health department). A letter of support should indicate what the collaborator's role in your research study will be, acknowledging the commitment and scope of work.
There is no specific required format for the full proposal bio-sketches. The full proposal application template gives a detailed list of information that should be provided, but there is no standard bio format that must be followed.
There is no preferred style for references. Please consistently use a standard reference format that includes the full citation (i.e., author(s), year published, title of reference, source of reference, volume, chapter, page numbers, and publisher, as appropriate).
We have more than five collaborators, but the full proposal application’s bio-sketch limit is five. What should we do?
The Full Proposal Bio-Sketch Template should be used for the principal investigator, co-principal investigator, and up to three additional key team members. You can list all team members in the Work and Dissemination Plan section, but use the Bio-Sketch section to demonstrate that you have a team with the sophistication and expertise to conduct the research that you have proposed.
How many grants will be awarded? Is there a pre-set number of short-term studies and complex studies that you plan to fund?
PHLR has not set a specific number of grants to be awarded in each category and does not have a preference. However, it is anticipated that more short-term studies will be funded because the program is looking to support studies that can produce actionable evidence within the time frames specified by the call for proposals (CFP). Therefore, short-term proposals are encouraged.
Yes, the slides from web applicant calls will be available on www.PublicHealthLawResearch.org or through www.MyRWJF.org.
All datasets must be de-identified before turning over to the public domain.
This CFP supports two types of projects: short-term studies and complex and comprehensive legal studies. The purpose of short-term studies is to conduct legal research, policy analysis or empirical evaluations of actual or potential public health implications of specific laws, regulations or regulatory enforcement systems. The purpose of complex and comprehensive legal studies is to conduct analyses and in-depth evaluations of laws implemented across a variety of jurisdictions and fields, analyses of effective and ineffective components of laws and regulations, as well as analyses of implementation and enforcement challenges. This CFP focuses on three priority research areas:
- Effects of laws and legal practices on population health outcomes.
- Using innovative regulatory tools to promote health.
- Effects of law, regulation and policy on the performance of public health systems and the delivery of public health services.
The focus of this program is on the United States; studies looking at the laws or policies internationally will be considered only to the extent that they may directly inform U.S. policy and or the population's health.
Budget project specific travel such as trips to professional meetings to present project findings or promote the project.Travel cost formulas are available in the Foundation’s Budget Guidelines. However, we encourage you to budget less than the Foundation’s travel formulas when possible.Temple University will reimburse grantees for the cost of travel to program events, such as the annual meeting, so those travel costs should not be included in your budget.
PHLR seeks to:
- Strengthen interdisciplinary scholarship and practice in public health law.
- Fund legal analysis and research related to public health laws and their impact.
- Provide technical assistance and direction to those attempting to engage in this type of research, analysis and/or evaluation or to use this information in their practice.
- Broadly communicate learning and results to inform public health practice and policy deliberations.
PHLR is based at the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Applicants may contact the helpdesk at phlr@temple.edu or (215) 204-2134 with questions about their proposals. Questions by e-mail are preferred in order to facilitate accurate forwarding of the question to the appropriate staff member. Please include institution and contact information in every communication. If selected as a grantee the applicant will be assigned a program officer who can be contacted. Currently, all questions need to go through the helpdesk to ensure that all responses are captured and posted on the FAQs.
Scott Burris, J.D., is the program director. Burris is Professor of Law and Director, Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, Temple University Beasley School of Law. Dr. Heidi Grunwald is the program deputy director, she can be reached at phlr@temple.edu. The program Web site is www.PublicHealthLawResearch.org.
PHLR is a five year, $17 million RWJF national program. The goal of this program is to build the evidence for and increase the use of effective regulatory, legal and policy solutions—whether statutes, regulations, case law or other policies—to protect and improve population health and the public health system. Evidence is also vital to identify ways in which laws or their implementation may be harmful to public health. As public health practitioners, policy-makers and others consider the use of law as a tool to improve population health and the public health system, it is important to have evidence to address questions about which laws have the greatest impact on health and whether current laws can be made more effective (or less harmful) through better implementation or amendments. As a result, PHLR seeks to facilitate collaboration between legal experts and public health practitioners to help inform research questions and produce findings that improve population health and the quality of public health practice.
Would there be any preference given to national over regional or regional over state focused studies?
PHLR is committed to funding a range of projects focusing at the national, regional, state and local levels.
Would two proposals from the same organization on different topics be competing against each other or will each be considered on its own merits?
PHLR allows individual applicants and institutions to submit more than one proposal. Each would be considered on its own merits, using the selection criteria outlined in the CFP.
Short-term studies will be funded for up to 18 months. Complex and comprehensive studies will be funded for up to 30 months.
NPO stands for national program office. For the Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program, the NPO is located at the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Given the focus of public health, will you consider studies that propose to look at the effect of health law on outcomes that may be limited to those who have health insurance coverage?
The focus of the CFP is the impact of public health law on health behaviors, regardless of the characteristics of the population. A study that examines the impact of health insurance alone would not be favorably reviewed unless it included relevant legal and public health analyses and implications.
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Public Health Law Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is housed at the Temple University Beasley School of Law.