Firefighter Safety Research and Development Grant Activities are aimed at improvements to firefighter health and safety. Projects must address injury outcomes or provide a strong justification the proposed outcomes can be linked to injury outcomes. Behavioral, Clinical, and Social Science studies, Database/Data Collection and analysis projects/systems, Technology and Product Development Studies, and research regarding dissemination and implementation of effective programs and projects are all examples of eligible projects.

For more informationhttp://www.fema.gov/firegrants/docs/pdf/2011FPSguidance_Section_I.pdf.

Institutions are limited to one application. Applications are due April 22, 2012.

We will need a brief summary of your proposal in order to select the submission from Iowa State. A review committee will choose the project to be forwarded.

Please submit a brief description of the project (no more than two pages) to Dorothy Pimlott (dpimlott@iastate.edu) by no later than close of business on Monday, March 19.