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 Funding Opportunities
Healthy Eating Research (HER): Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. This call for proposals is for two types of awards aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. The award types are: Round 7 grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program. Deadlines for receipt of invited full proposals are May 31, 2012 , July 31, 2012 and October 4, 2012. For more information, visit The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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OCE Partner Highlights
Anjelica Lansang, Joyce Javier, MD, MPH, Dean Coffey, PsyD, Allan Samson (Not pictured: Mary Jane Tesoro, Reginald Macapagal, Frank Aliganga, Cary Kreutzer, Jocelyn Supan, Sheree Schraeger and Taryn Liu)
The Filipino Family Initiative Study
Joyce Javier, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor Clinical Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics
CHLA/USC Keck School of Medicine
I am a current KL2 scholar at the SC-CTSI. Through community-academic partnerships, I plan to develop interventions that increase the uptake of evidence-based practices among hard-to-reach, vulnerable populations. Growing up in a Filipino immigrant family has permanently shaped my academic career. I was born in Historic Filipinotown, an area of downtown Los Angeles in which I am currently conducting a study focused on engaging Filipino parents in faith-based, evidence-based preventive parenting interventions. We are working in collaboration with Reverend Manuel Gacad and Reverend Enrique Ymson (see picture below), the pastor and associate pastor of twin parishes, St. Kevin and Precious Blood Catholic Church. These churches were approached based on recommendations from Queenscare Health and Faith Partnership, a current OCE partner.
Father Ymson and I co-lead a community advisory board which includes parishioners, public and catholic school leaders, catechists, and community based organization leaders. The goal of this CAB is to provide feedback regarding recruitment strategies and implementation of the Incredible Years, an evidence-based preventive parenting intervention developed by Dr. Carolyn Webster-Stratton. We are currently conducting a pilot randomized control trial of this parenting intervention and offering the intervention in a faith-based setting. This study would not be possible without the support of my hard-working research team (see picture) and my mentors ( Michele Kipke, PhD, Lawrence Palinkas, PhD, and Jeanne Miranda, PhD). I feel very fortunate to be able to give back to the community that raised me through this study.
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Announcements
Conference
Registration is now open for the Eleventh Annual IHA Health Literacy Conference, "Operational Solutions to Low Health Literacy." The conference will take place May 9-11, 2012. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Irvine. Please visit the Institute for Healthcare Advancement website for registration information.
Conference
Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, Hospitals Against Violence Empowering Neighborhoods and Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations presents The First Annual L.A. Gang Violence Prevention and Intervention Conference. Conference will be held in The Center for Healthy Communities on May 21 & 22, 2012. This will be a great opportunity to build relationships with individuals in the field. Please visit Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles website for regitration information.
Conference
The Building Bridges to Optimum Health Conference Series sponsored by the Center for Translational Science Institute will be held on Friday, June 22, 2012 at Magnolia Place Family Center. CEU's will be provided.
Summit
Join Latinas Contra Cancer for the 2012 National Latino Cancer Summit in San Francisco on July 23-25, 2012. Cancer researchers, health care providers, community based agencies and community health educators from across the country will turn the spotlight on the environment, from science to social justice. Register for the Summit, submit an abstract or apply for a scholarship.
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Recommended Reading
by: Valerie G. Zartarian, PhD, Bradley D. Schultz, MS, Timothy M. Barzyk, PhD, et. al
"Objective was to provide higher quality, more accessible science to address challenges of characterizing local-scale exposures and risks for enhanced community-based assessments and environmental decisionmaking. After identifying community needs, priority environment issues, and current tools, we designed and populated the Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool (C-FERST) in collaboration with stakeholders, following a set of defined principles, and considered it in the context of environmental justice."
Public Health Potential of Farmers' Markets on Medical Center Campuses: A Case Study From Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
by: Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, Jennifer L. Kraschnewski, MD, MPH and Liza S. Rovnlak, PhD, MPH
"There are currently 7175 farmers' markets in the United States, and these organizations are increasingly viewed as one facet of the solution to national health problems. There has been a recent trend toward establishing markets on medical center campuses, and such partnerships can augment a medical center's ability to serve community health. No studies have described the emergence of a market at a medical center, the barriers and challenges such an initiative has faced, or the nature of programming it may foster."
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