Rosenblith New Investigator Award

Application Process

Two-Stage Application:

#### Part 1: Preliminary Application

1. Submission Format:
- Use HEI Preliminary Application Form
- Combine all materials into single PDF (max 10MB)
- File naming: "PI lastname firstname RFA xx-x Preliminary Application"
- Submit online at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X79G9Q5

2. Page Limits and Format:
- Maximum 5 pages (11-point font, 1-inch margins, single-spaced)
- Including cover material
- Excluding references, biosketches, and supporting letters
- Longer applications will be rejected
- Convert to PDF before submitting

3. Required Content:
- Cover Page: Title, contact information
- Plain Language Summary (max 150 words): Purpose of study, population(s) to be studied, datasets and approaches
- Study Description:
- Scientific background and rationale
- Hypothesis and study aims
- Preliminary or relevant data from previous studies
- Study design and methods
- Statistical analyses
- Anticipated results
- Novelty of proposed approach
- How study addresses RFA objectives
- Community Engagement Plan (if applicable, additional ½ page):
- Community stakeholders to engage
- General approach to engagement
- Integration of community stakeholders
- How engagement will benefit research and community
- Letter of Collaboration required for high-level engagement (sampling within community or partnerships)
- Qualifications of Investigator(s):
- Explain how team is uniquely positioned
- Specify expertise and experience of anticipated collaborators
- How collaborators will contribute to design, conduct, data analysis, and interpretation
- Highlight relevant experience with study design, data collection methods (field work), and community engagement
- Biographical Sketches:
- Include biosketches of principal investigator and key co-investigators
- Use HEI Biosketch form or other format
- Each biosketch: max 2 pages
- Rosenblith Only: Include only applicant's own biosketch; mentor biosketches NOT needed at preliminary stage
- Supporting Letters: As indicated in RFA
- Rosenblith Only: No cover letter, mentor biosketches, or letters of support needed at preliminary stage

#### Part 2: Full Application (by invitation only)

1. Submission Format:
- Submit to: funding@healtheffects.org
- Use HEI Application for Research Agreement (Forms F-1 to F-12)
- Type single-spaced, 1-inch minimum margins, 11 pt minimum font
- Provide DUNS number for institution

2. Required Forms and Components:

Rosenblith-Specific Requirements:
- Cover Letter (max 2 pages):
- Describe interest in award
- How project fits with career goals
- Long-term career plans
- How HEI award would contribute to career goals
- How award helps on pathway to independence

- Form F-1 (Face Page): Must be signed and dated by legal representative and principal investigator

- Form F-2 (Table of Contents): With page numbers

- Form F-3 (Project Abstract):
- Specific aims, methods, long-term research objectives
- Scientific disciplines involved
- Relationship to HEI objectives and RFA
- Self-contained and succinct
- Max 1 page

- Form F-4 and F-5 (Budget):
- Cost or pricing data justifying necessity and reasonableness
- Adequate accounting procedures
- Follow RFA-specific budget caps

- Personnel:
- Names and positions of all personnel (professional and nonprofessional)
- Rosenblith Only: Senior personnel and mentors cannot be included for salary support
- Percentage of time/effort or hours per week
- Dollar amounts for salary and fringe benefits separately
- Fringe benefits to extent treated consistently as direct costs
- Indicate summer vs. academic-year salaries
- Indicate current or escalated rates; if escalated, state percentage and methodology

- Consultant Costs:
- Specific area of service
- Identify consultants
- Number of days required
- Quoted rate per day (max $650/8-hr day)
- Hours per day
- Subject to federal regulations limits

- Supplies and Other Expenses:
- Itemized detail
- Major categories (glassware, media, chemicals, animal purchase/housing, publication costs, page charges, books)
- Patient compensation, travel, per diem, rentals, leases, computer costs
- Unusually expensive items identified separately with quantity, price, and use
- Items over $5,000 listed under equipment
- Construction costs not permissible
- Essential facility alterations: itemize by category with justification

- Travel Expenses:
- Limit to one scientific meeting per year
- Do NOT include travel to HEI Annual Conference (HEI covers directly)
- For other purposes (collaborator meetings): estimate number of trips, destination, reason, cost
- Support any special transportation costs
- HEI approval required in advance for foreign travel

- Indirect Costs:
- Max 30% of direct costs (excluding equipment and subcontracts)
- Cannot exceed government-negotiated rate for institution
- Limited exception possible for unique institutional capabilities and full cost recovery requirement

- Equipment:
- Itemization and justification
- Only equipment explicitly listed in Approved Budget or subsequently authorized in writing reimbursed
- Equipment budget not subject to indirect cost charges

- Subcontracts:
- Itemize with total
- Describe and justify costs for third-party services
- Include consortium and formalized collaborative agreements
- Separate budgets for initial and future periods (Forms F-4b and F-5b)
- Indirect costs subject to 30% cap
- Principal investigator's institution may charge indirect costs to first $25,000 of each subcontract

- Final Report Preparation (final year only):
- Due at end of final contract period at 12-month time point
- Budget funds and appropriate percentage effort for report writing
- Included in maximum allocated budget

3. Related Policies to Follow:
- HEI Project Negotiations and Investigator Commitments
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control Procedures for HEI Studies
- HEI Data Access Policy
- HEI Conflict of Interest Policy