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How to Write a Successful Research Grant Application

A Guide for Social and Behavioral Scientists

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Willo Pequegnat

    1. Office of AIDS Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, USA

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  2. Ellen Stover

    1. Office of AIDS Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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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

      Pages 5-5
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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
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About this book

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

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Willo Pequegnat, Ellen Stover

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: How to Write a Successful Research Grant Application

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide for Social and Behavioral Scientists

  • Editors: Willo Pequegnat, Ellen Stover

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2393-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 1995

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-2393-9Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 252

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Psychology, general

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