This first AHA FIM Request for Proposals is focused on feasibility and implementation science, specifically achieving high rates of enrollment and engagement, using input from the lived experiences of participants and practitioners to guide program design, and testing ways to achieve significant short-term changes in healthy eating behavior.

The studies funded through this RFP are intended to be short term rapid cycle studies (18 months or less) that address the noted challenges in feasibility and implementation, as well as testing approaches to achieve short-term behavior change.

Subsequent studies will focus on sustaining these behavior changes and achieving significant improvements in longer-term clinical outcomes, as well as cost-effectiveness and other critical questions that face the field.  

Award Amount and Duration Grant amounts will be up to $400,000 over an 18-month funding period, including up to 10 percent institutional indirect costs. The AHA anticipates funding up to $3 million in awards. 

Read the full RFP (pdf)