Funding Opportunities

Program for Extramural/Intramural Alcohol Research Collaborations (U01)

Deadline: May 7, 2013

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage collaboration between alcohol researchers in the extramural community and those within the NIAAA intramural research program. The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to bring together the research expertise that, as a functioning collaborative unit, will address key alcohol-based research questions that would not otherwise be possible by the same individuals working towards similar goals in isolation. The goal of the research proposed by the collaborating investigators should address questions that advance the alcohol research field with respect to issues surrounding alcohol use disorders including dependence, and the effects of alcohol on health. The NIH Intramural Scientist will be a tenured or tenure-track scientist from the NIAAA Intramural division, with whom the PD/PI has made prior contact for the collaborative project. Click here for more information.

Gang Research and Evaluation Programs
Deadline: May 9, 2011
Gang Field Initiated Research and Evaluation Programs will fund research and evaluation studies to produce practical findings for policymakers and practitioners to develop evidence-based programs, policies, and strategies that effectively address at-risk and gang-involved youth. Click here for more information.

Build Healthier Communities Through Informed Decision Making
Deadline: June 1, 2011 (Brief Proposals)
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, has announced a Call for Proposals for grants to conduct Health Impact Assessments. The funding is intended to enable awardees to develop an HIA, which is a study that can help policy makers and community members identify and address the potential, and often overlooked, health implications of policy proposals in a broad range of sectors, including agriculture, transportation, and development. The Health Impact Project will fund up to eight initiatives that identify how policy proposals will impact health at the local, tribal, or state level. Click here for more information.
 
Child Protection Research Program
Deadline: May 10, 2011
The Child Protection Research Program seeks to expand the understanding of how technology is used to commit crimes against young victims. OJJDP will support a research program on technology-facilitated crimes against children to inform policy and to support the development of effective responses to children at risk for exploitation and other adverse outcomes. Click here for more information.

Integrating Multi-Dimensional Data to Explore Mechanisms Underlying Mental Disorders (RO1)
Deadline: June 9, 2011
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit research grant applications to develop advanced bioinformatics and statistical tools to integrate genomic, environmental and phenotypic data. This FOA provides a mechanism to support the development of bioinformatic approaches focused on integrating multi-dimensional data sets. This may require the development of new methods for data reduction, the development of new statistical tools, and/or the development of new approaches to applying existing tools to the problems of integrating multi-dimensional data. Data sets of particular interest include genome-wide polymorphic assessment, epigenomic, neuroimaging, and physiological data with that of defined clinical phenotypes. These data sets should be derived from subjects of mental disorders, and although, not all modalities of measure may be available for the same cohort, the application should propose using as many data sets as deemed necessary to provide meaningful biological results. The desired outcome of this FOA is to establish links between one or more of the underlying genomic factors, biological networks, and environmental factors influencing mental disorders. Click here for more information.

Optimizing Fidelity of Empirically-Supported Behavioral Treatments for Mental Disorders (R21/R33)
Deadline: June 20, 2011
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks research applications designed to develop and test methods for improving the fidelity, and ultimately the effectiveness, of empirically supported behavioral treatments (ESBTs) implemented by front-line therapists in community practice settings. Because achieving this aim presumes valid and reliable assessment of fidelity, the FOA uses the sequential R21/R33 funding mechanisms to encourage research designed to develop and test (a) methods for assessing theory-derived ESBT fidelity components (R21 phase), and (b) interventions that enhance and maintain the fidelity with which clinicians implement an ESBT in community practice settings (R33 phase). Click here for more information.

The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
Deadline: October 17, 2011
The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program assists U.S. higher education institutions in expanding programs of academic exchange. By supporting non-U.S. scholars through grants for teaching at institutions that might not have a strong international component, both the U.S. institution and the scholar grantee benefit. The Fulbright European Union Scholar-in-Residence (EU S-I-R) is a subset of the S-I-R Program that focuses specifically on strengthening expertise in European Union affairs by bringing scholars and professionals from the European Union to U.S. campuses. Click here for more information.

Treatments Show Promise in Reducing Autism-related Behaviors, but Some Have Significant Side Effects

(From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

Some medical and behavioral treatments show promise for reducing certain behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but more research is needed to assess the potential benefits and harms, according to a new report funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The research results were published online in the journal Pediatrics. Click here for more information.

Active Effort Needed to Research Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People's Health
Researchers need to proactively engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in health studies and collect data on these populations to identify and better understand health conditions that affect them, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The scarcity of research yields an incomplete picture of LGBT health status and needs. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of what is known about the health of these groups and outlines an agenda for the research and data collection necessary to form a fuller understanding. Click here for the full report.

ZACAT - GESIS Online Study Catalogue
Welcome to ZACAT, a social science data portal allowing you to search for, browse, analyse and download social science survey data, provided by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (dept. Data Archive for the Social Sciences). The studies in this catalogue are a small selection of the data available at GESIS. Further studies are added continuously to ZACAT. Use of ZACAT is free of charge. Published datasets and accompanying documentation can be browsed without prior registration. Click here for more information.

Data Available on Workplace Violence
"Workplace Violence, 1993-2009" (NCJ 233231, 18 pp.) presents information on violence in the workplace against employed persons based on the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.
 
Data on Punitive Damage Awards Released
"Punitive Damage Awards in State Courts, 2005" (NCJ 233094, 12 pp.) presents findings on civil trials concluded in 2005 in a national sample of state trial courts in which punitive damages were requested or awarded.