How to Write a Successful Research Grant Application

1. Front Matter

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2. Federal Commitment to Support Minority and Women Researchers

   1. Federal Commitment to Support Minority and Women Researchers

      • Delores L. Parron

      Pages 1-2

3. The Role of Community Service Groups in Research

   1. The Role of Community Service Groups in Research

      • Juan Ramos

      Pages 3-4

4. Grantsmanship and the Review Process

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Establishing a Research Program in Response to a Public Health Crisis

      • Ellen Stover, Willo Pequegnat

      Pages 7-23

   3. Program Announcements and Requests for Applications

      • Willo Pequegnat

      Pages 25-38

   4. Grantsmanship

      • Raymond P. Lorion

      Pages 39-45

   5. The Review Process

      • Hugh Stamper

      Pages 47-54

   6. Selecting the Appropriate Research Mechanism

      • Eleanor Friedenberg, Thomas R. N. Lalley, Barry Lebowitz, Steven Zalcman

      Pages 55-65

   7. Selecting Issues and Hypotheses for a Research Proposal

      • Spero M. Manson

      Pages 67-72

   8. Reading between the Lines of Your Summary Statement

      • William Lyman

      Pages 73-76

   9. The Award Process

      • Sherry Roberts

      Pages 77-81

5. Developing Sections of Your Research Application

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Developing a Theoretical Framework and Rationale for a Research Proposal

      • Gregory Herek

      Pages 85-91

   3. How Do You Formulate a Testable Exciting Hypothesis?

      • Robyn Dawes

      Pages 93-96

   4. Qualitative Inquiry An Underutilized Strategy in AIDS Research

      • Willo Pequegnat, Bryan Page, Anselm Strauss, Hortensia Amaro, Paul Goldstein, Richard B. Fritz et al.

      Pages 97-111

   5. Designing an Intervention Study

      • Jose Szapocznik, Willo Pequegnat

      Pages 113-127

   6. Instrumentation Off the Shelf or on Your Own

      • Robert Remien

      Pages 129-136

   7. Integrating Psychological and Immunological Variables

      • Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

      Pages 137-141

   8. Institutional Review Boards and Special Human Subjects Issues in AIDS Research

      • Judith Godwin Rabkin

      Pages 143-148

The Department of Health and Human Services has identified Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as the foremost public health problem in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that, as of December 31, 1994, there were 441,528 documented cases of AIDS in this country, and the number is increasing. AIDS is an illness characterized by a defect in natural immunity against disease. Many more individuals are known to be infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) but do not have symptoms or the defming characteristics of AIDS. The incubation period for AIDS may range from 1 to 10 or more years in adults and 6 months to several years in children. Infected persons appear to be capable of transmitting infection indefinitely, even if they remain asymptomatic. In order to increase the number of minority investigators conducting research on HIV infection and 1 AIDS, NIMH conducted a 3h-day technical workshop for minority investigators on July 24-27. 1990, in Fairlakes, Virginia. University-based research programs were asked to nominate investigators who were selected on the basis of a referred 1 0-page prospectus for a proposed research project. This procedure was used because NIMH wanted to be sure that the prospective investigators were established in a research environment that would pr

• Public Health
• behavioral sciences research
• environment
• grant proposal
• grant writing
• public health problem
• social sciences research
• study design

• Office of AIDS Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, USA

  Willo Pequegnat, Ellen Stover

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