RWJF Announces New National Diabetes Initiative

September 16, 2002 Application Deadline for Two New National Diabetes Programs

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announces a $6.3 million two-program national diabetes initiative intended to address patient self-management. Together Advancing Diabetes Self Management and Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care aim to develop comprehensive self-management education programs and to extend self-management beyond clinical settings to communities where people with diabetes live. Edwin Fisher, Ph.D, Director of the Division of Health Behavior Research and Professor of Psychology, Medicine and Pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, will direct both programs.

Advancing Diabetes Self Management

• Up to six fifteen-month grants of $300,000 will be awarded to primary care providers to work as a network to develop and pilot test multi-component, self-management programs in primary care settings.
• The initiative will provide grants and technical assistance to guide program, communications, and evaluation planning and support.

Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care

• Up to eight twelve-month grants of $125,000 will be awarded to community-provider partnerships to address diabetes prevention and self-management issues in communities where cultural and ethic diversity strongly influence related health behaviors.
• The initiative will provide grants and technical assistance to guide program, communications, and evaluation planning and support.

How to Apply:

View more information and application forms

Please direct all questions for:

Advancing Diabetes Self Management program to Diabetes.SM@im.wustl.edu

Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care program to Diabetes.Comm@im.wustl.edu

You may also contact the Diabetes Initiative National Program office at (314) 286-1900