Funding Opportunities
The American Heart Association is dedicated to advancing scientific research to support the integration of food is medicine to treat, manage and prevent diet-related diseases within health care. Through our funding opportunities, we collaborate with researchers, health care professionals and community organizations to develop and implement efficacious approaches to food is medicine. Health Care by Food research grants are designed to bridge critical gaps in evidence, enhance health outcomes and target populations most in need. Whether you are an investigator pioneering novel research or a practitioner seeking to address food and nutrition insecurity and chronic disease, the Association supports groundbreaking work that will help to shape the success of food is medicine in health care.
American Heart Association Funding
The American Heart Association is the largest nonprofit, non-governmental supporter of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research in the U.S. and has invested $5.9 billion in scientific research since 1949.
Currently, there are no funding opportunities available through Health Care by Food. We encourage FIM researchers to explore all AHA funding opportunities, which include investigator-initiated research opportunities where qualification is largely based on the principal investigator’s career stage.
Opportunities that may be of interest to FIM researchers include:
- AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Career Development Award
- Innovative Project Award
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Archived Opportunities
Health Care by Food issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a planning grant opportunity designed to provide support for the development of a detailed trial protocol and grant focused on developing and testing ways in which food is medicine (FIM) interventions are efficacious for improved health outcomes.
View the Request for Proposals (Closed March 11th, 2025)
Health Care by Food’s first Request for Proposals focused on feasibility and implementation science to achieve high rates of enrollment and engagement in food is medicine programs using input from the lived experiences of patient participants and practitioners to guide program design. Our focus is on testing ways to achieve significant short-term changes in healthy eating behavior since that is a prerequisite for achieving longer-term behavior change.