Imagine that you receive the following request for proposals:
Request for Proposals: Health Research Funding
The ABC Community Health Program is pleased to announce a grant funding opportunity for new health researchers interested in investigating health problems affecting priority populations. Successful applicants will receive a $200,000 grant to fund activities over a 2 ½ year period to cover both salary and research activities. Funding is available for any research with a strong defined need, which should be clearly outlined in the proposal. Priority will be given to those proposals that specifically describe the research hypothesis and question(s), the research methodology, the sampling and measurement methods, and the potential ethical issues that might arise during the research. The research proposal, which can be a maximum of five pages, must include the following sections:
• Introduction (project title, topic, priority population, research question, significance of research)
• Literature Review (previous research on topic and population, unanswered questions)
• Methodology
o Overview of the approach
o Research population
o Sampling procedures
o Measurement (type of data collected, strategy for data collection)
o Potential threats to validity and reliability of data
• Ethical considerations
• References