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August 26, 2011  || Vol. 3, Issue 34
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Funding Opportunities
Value and Impact of the Arts
Deadline: November 8, 2011
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts has announced the availability of grants for research on the value and impact of the U.S. arts sector, at either the individual or community level. The NEA is interested in novel and significant research questions that will lead to greater public understanding of the contribution of the arts. Grantees may use either existing or newly established datasets to conduct their research. The resulting projects will help determine the usefulness of various datasets to arts-related research - including those not previously used for that purpose. Through this grant opportunity, the NEA hopes to further expand the pool of researchers knowledgeable about arts and culture datasets. Click here for more information.

Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Deadline: September 7, 2014
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (R21) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to develop basic and applied projects utilizing systems science methodologies relevant to human behavioral and social sciences and health. This FOA is intended to encourage a broader scope of topics to be addressed with systems science methodologies, beyond those encouraged by existing open FOAs. Research projects applicable to this FOA are those that are either applied or basic in nature (including methodological development), have a human behavioral and/or social science focus, and feature systems science methodologies. Click here for more information.

Economic Research on Incentives for Efficient Use of Preventive Services (R01)

Deadline: November 15, 2011
This FOA solicits R01 applications for economic research on the role of incentive arrangements in promoting efficient use of preventive services and interventions, specifically considering both costs and health outcomes. The objective of the research program is to advance general knowledge about how incentives can be structured to improve both health and cost outcomes through more efficient use of preventive services; it is not primarily to advance specific knowledge about any particular preventive intervention or prevention of any particular health condition. This FOA is a component of the Common Fund initiative on Health Economics for Health Care Reform. Click here for more information.

Alzheimer's Disease Research Program
Deadline: October 12, 2011
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The American Health Assistance Foundation's Alzheimer's Disease Research program provides funds for U.S. domestic as well as international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to a greater understanding of Alzheimer's disease. Preference is given to exciting, cutting-edge type projects that would not, at their present stage, be competitive for large government or industry awards. ADR awards are typically made to junior investigators, or to more established investigators who are proposing particularly innovative research. The program offers three types of awards.
*The ADR Standard Award provides $400,000 over three years to researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but who still require significant support for further research before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding entities.
*The ADR Pilot Award provides $150,000 over two years for highly innovative proposals with minimal preliminary data. These awards are typically described as being "high risk, high reward." Pilot awards are often given to investigators who need funding to demonstrate the validity of a very focused hypothesis.
*The ADR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award provides $100,000 over two years to young researchers in the final stages of mentored training. These awards are meant to fund projects in an established laboratory that will serve as the basis for the applicant's own independent research career.
Click here for more information.

Behavioral and Social Genomics of Aging: Opportunities in the Health and Retirement Study (R01)
Deadline: September 7, 2014
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal, nationally representative sample of the US population aged 50 years and older (plus spouses) with an oversample of African and Hispanic Americans and a total sample size of over 20,000). Using funds from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the HRS is currently conducting genome-wide scans of DNA samples from approximately 20,000 participants, using the Illumina HumanOmni 2.5 Quad chip. It is anticipated that the genotype data for the first 13,000 subjects will be released to the public via dbGaP in the Fall of 2011, with data from the remaining participants to be released by the end of 2012. This FOA encourages applications taking advantage of the newly available genetic data to advance our understanding of how genetic, behavioral, and psychosocial factors affect the health and well-being of older Americans. Click here for more information.
Calls Calls
Call for Abstracts

MCH EPI Conference
Deadline: September 23
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (MCH EPI) conference organizers are currently seeking abstract submissions. The conference aims to bring researchers and health professionals together to work on issues related to improving the health of women, children and families in sharing research, enhancing knowledge, and generating new ideas for improved MCH data use and informed policymaking. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf
2011 ASPH Annual Meeting

October 28-November 2, 2011
Washington, DC
The 2011 Association of Schools of Public Health Annual Meeting will be held Friday, October 28 through Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Committees and councils will meet at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. The ASPH Annual Meeting of the Deans, also at the Hyatt Regency, will be held on Monday, October 31. Registration is now required for the 2011 ASPH Annual Meeting; however, attendance at all open meetings, excluding the Summit on Undergraduate Education in Public Health, is free. For more information and to register, visit the website.

North American Housing & HIV/AIDS Research Summit
September 21-23, 2011
New Orleans, LA
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The 2011 North American Housing & HIV/AIDS Research Summit will bring together researchers, policy experts, consumers and providers of HIV/AIDS housing to review findings from research and policy initiatives, discuss evidence-based housing practice and policy, and develop community-driven research and advocacy strategies. It will be held September 21-23 in New Orleans, LA. The summit's focus is "Eliminating HIV Health Disparities: Is Housing the Key to Ending the AIDS Crisis?" Click here for more information.

Sex-Specific Reporting of Scientific Research: A Workshop
August 30, 2011
Institute of Medicine
Washington, DC
In response to a recommendation made in IOM's report, Women's Health Research: Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise, the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health has requested the IOM to hold a one day scientific workshop to explore the benefits of and barriers to sex-specific reporting of scientific data. The workshop will address various questions on sex-specific reporting including:
Why is there a need for sex-specific reporting of scientific results?
What are the potential barriers and unintended consequences of sex-specific reporting of scientific results?
Are there journals that have implemented sex-specific requirements for publishing of scientific results? What have been the challenges and benefits of such editorial policies?
What steps would encourage or facilitate the reporting of sex-specific results?
Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data ResourcesResearch
Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2008: Selected Findings
OJJDP developed the biannual Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC) to collect information about the facilities in which juvenile offenders are held. Facilities provide information about characteristics such as their size, structure, type, ownership, and security arrangements. This bulletin presents findings from the 2008 JRFC-findings that are generally positive. JRFC data indicate that the population of juvenile offenders in custody continued to decline-a decrease of 12 percent from 2006, a trend that may be explained by the decline in juvenile arrests. To order a printed copy, visit the NCJRS Web site.

Changes in Contraceptive Use Among Teenagers and Young Adults
(From ChildTrends)
Teenagers and young adults have among the highest rates of unintended pregnancy and childbearing in the United States and are among the most likely to contract an STD.  Youth who choose to be sexually active can lower their risk of unintended pregnancy by using highly effective contraceptive methods and reduce their risk of STDs by using condoms consistently and correctly.  However, as shown in a new Research Brief, Trends and Recent Estimates: Contraceptive Use Among U.S. Teens and Young Adults, the increase in contraceptive use seen in the late 1980s and 1990s slowed substantially in the 2000s, and teens and young adults today still do not always choose highly effective contraceptive methods and are not perfect users of condoms. Click here to read the complete report.
 

New AHRQ Report Shows Strengths and Areas for Improvement in Nursing Homes
AHRQ's first report on nursing home safety culture shows that 86 percent of nursing home employees participating in surveys on safety culture feel that residents are well cared for and safe.  The report also shows that just over half of staff (51 percent) reported that they feel safe reporting mistakes.  The report, Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report, offers a comparative assessment of 16,155 staff responses from 226 U.S. nursing homes that implemented AHRQ's Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture.  The new report also includes supplemental information that can help survey users understand how to compare their results to other survey users and prioritize and target improvement efforts.  In addition, overall survey results are presented by nursing home characteristics such as size and ownership and respondent characteristic such as job titles, work areas, direct patient contact, and shift worked.   

News & Notices
NIH RELEASES BEST PRACTICES FOR COMBINING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
The National Institutes of Health today released recommendations or best practices for scientists conducting mixed methods health research. Mixed methods research combines the strengths of quantitative research and qualitative research. Despite the increased interest in mixed methods research in health fields and at NIH, prior to this report, there was limited guidance to help scientists developing applications for NIH funding that featured mixed methods designs, nor was there guidance for the reviewers at NIH who assess the quality of these applications. Click here for more information.

SAMHSA Asks for Feedback on Definition of Recovery
(From Join Together Weekly News)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is seeking feedback on its working definition of recovery. The definition aims to portray the essential, common experiences of people recovering from substance use and mental disorders, and includes 10 guiding principles of recovery. Click here for more information and to provide feedback.
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