Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Transfer Application

The Foundation's Change Leadership Program was designed to support the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Leadership for Better Health's four national program centers, the cross-program Fall Leadership Institute, and the RWJF Coordinating Center for the change leadership programs authorization.Further, the Foundation's Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program seeks teams of researchers and community members who are committed to working together to produce community-relevant, action-oriented research to improve health and well-being.This grant supports the participant's continued engagement in the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program (the 'program'). Over the course of the three-year program, three months of which is remaining, the participant will have the opportunity for leadership training, exploration of methods for conducting cutting-edge research, mentoring, and networking, and will receive fellowship and research funds, to better effect change and become part of the next generation of leadership in population health and health equity research. During the program, the participant is expected to spend approximately one day per week on program-related activities, which will include, but will not be limited to, working with a team on a research project (from development through dissemination), participating in training, attending meetings, working with a mentor, and networking. Grant funds will support the participant's time spent in the program and may be applied to a base salary, fringe benefits, and associated indirect/overhead charges of up to 12 percent of all costs associated with the grant.