Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Developing and Testing Multi-level Physical Activity Interventions to Improve Health and Well-Being

The Office of Disease Prevention and participating Institutes Centers and Offices (ICOs) are issuing this Notice to highlight our interest in highly innovative multi-level interventions to increase and maintain health-enhancing physical activity in a wide range of population groups including populations that experience health disparities children older adults and persons at risk for mental/behavioral health conditions and any subpopulations that can be characterized by the intersection of two or more of these descriptors. Relevant physical activity intervention research includes translational research for pilot exploratory or developmental work in preparation for full-scale fully powered efficacy studies as well as studies seeking to adopt existing evidence-based interventions in a new context (e.g. population setting etc.). Research studies should be based on well-established theory existing data and/or evidence-based interventions. Furthermore studies may focus on establishing efficacy effectiveness or dissemination and implementation of multi-level interventions.