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The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the application and funding process at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We target our discussion to demographic and population science at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), but the general strategies are applicable to social and behavioral scientists for all NIH funding opportunities.
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The authors would like to thank Michael Rendall, the editors of PRPR and two reviewers for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. This paper does not represent an official position of the NICHD (NIH, USDHHS) nor does it imply that any grant application on this topic will be considered higher priority or given preference for funding. It does not present a prescriptive policy statement from the NICHD on the conduct of research.
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Bures, R., Clark, R., King, R. et al. Funding Strategies for Population Researchers: Perspectives from the National Institutes of Health. Popul Res Policy Rev 33, 1–11 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-013-9306-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-013-9306-5