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Formerly IASWR Listserv Announcements
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September 30, 2011 || Vol. 3, Issue 39
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The IASWR Listerv Announcements are now SWRnet. Subscribers to SWRnet receive weekly email updates about funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference deadlines, and newly published research. Please visit the website to access other resources related to social work research.
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Funding Opportunities
Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Native American Populations (R01)
Deadline: April 15, 2012 (letter of intent)
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to develop, adapt, and test the effectiveness of health promotion and disease prevention interventions in Native American (NA) populations. NA populations are exposed to considerable risk factors that significantly increase their likelihood of chronic disease, substance abuse, mental illness, and HIV-infection. The intervention program should be culturally appropriate and promote the adoption of healthy lifestyles, improve behaviors and social conditions and/or improve environmental conditions related to chronic disease, the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, mental illness and HIV-infection. The intervention program should be designed so that it could be sustained within the entire community within existing resources, and, if successful, disseminated in other Native American communities. The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce mortality and morbidity in NA communities. Click here for more information.
DoD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In-Home Therapy Clinical Trial Award
Deadline: November 16, 2011
The PH/TBI Research Program Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In-Home Therapy Clinical Trial Award mechanism is being offered for the first time in FY11. This Program Announcement/Funding Opportunity seeks applications for funding to support randomized controlled trial comparative effectiveness research comparing behavioral health care delivered via three distinct treatment modalities: Face-to-Face In-Office, Face-to-Face In-Home, and Tele-Behavioral Health (provider-to-in-home patient). The selected studies will employ a study design including at least three treatment arms. The target population is OIF/OEF veterans who have returned from deployment (e.g., post-deployment Active Duty Service Members, demobilized Reservists, discharged veterans) who are currently diagnosed with PTSD and have been referred for behavioral health treatment. This Program Announcement/Funding Opportunity seeks applications that will directly compare these treatment modalities across several dimensions. Proposed projects should be designed to include treatment outcome (e.g., patient symptom reduction to below diagnostic threshold) as the metric of primary importance. However, other comparisons and factors of importance include patient compliance, treatment satisfaction, optimizing patient match to treatment modality, ease of treatment delivery, provider/patient safety issues, cost, program management issues, and a resultant best practice guide to implementation. Click here for more information.
Collaborative Hubs for International Research on Mental Health (U19)
Deadline: January 11, 2012
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), invites cooperative agreement research applications to establish regional research hubs to increase the evidence base for mental health interventions in World Bank designated low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Each regional hub is to conduct research and provide capacity-building opportunities in one of six geographical regions (i.e., East Asia and the Pacific; Europe and Central Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East and North Africa; South Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa). As a group, awardees will constitute a collaborative network for mental health research in LMICs with capabilities for answering research questions (within and across regions) aimed at improving mental health outcomes for men, women, and children. Click here for more information.
Common Fund Transformative Research Program
Deadline: January 12, 2012
The Common Fund is looking for exceptionally creative ideas that challenge conventional thinking and practice in biomedical and behavioral research. The NIH Director's Transformative Research Award program allows investigators to pursue unconventional ideas and sidestep stumbling blocks they often face when applying for funding for high-risk research, such as the need for preliminary data or a restriction on the amount of funds that can be requested. Awards may be up to $25 million total costs per year for 5 years for a single project. Here are the facts:
·Awards are open to all investigators at any career stage
·Multiple principal investigator and "team science" applications encouraged
·Projects in basic, clinical, translational, or behavioral science allowed
·Preliminary data not required (may be included)
The deadline for submitting Transformative Research applications is January 12, 2012. Letters of intent to apply should be submitted by December 12, 2011. See the instructions in the Funding Opportunity Announcement RFA-RM-11-006 for more information.
Center on Theological Inquiry and Templeton Foundation Offers Research Fellowships for Inquiry on Evolution and Human Nature
Deadline: November 30, 2011
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution in Princeton, New Jersey, with a visiting scholar program. With support from the John Templeton Foundation, the center is convening an interdisciplinary team of theologians and scientists to address questions of nature and nurture raised by the biological evolution of human beings. The program is inviting qualified scholars to apply to join this research team on evolution and human nature. The program welcomes proposals to explore how new research in evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology is challenging and changing the understanding of human nature and development, not least in relation to religion and theological accounts of the human condition. The program's field of inquiry encompasses these evolutionary and human sciences, theological anthropology, practical theology, psychology of religion, religious studies, and the history and philosophy of science. Click here for more information.
SBE Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants
Deadline: October 17, 2011
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Research Starter Grants in an effort to increase the diversity of researchers who participate in NSF programs in the social, behavioral and economic sciences and thereby increase the participation of scientists from underrepresented groups in selected areas of science in the United States. These activities (postdoctoral fellowships and follow-up research starter grants) support training and research in the areas of social, behavioral and economic sciences within the purview of NSF. Click here for more information.
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Calls 
Call for Applications
British Journal of Social Work: Special issue 2013
Guest Editorship
Deadline: December 2, 2011
The editors of the British Journal of Social Work invite submission of applications to act as guest editor(s) for a Special Issue with a publication month of March 2013 (Volume 43, No.2). The guest editor(s) will work closely with the editors to manage the review process for the Special Issue. It is intended that the issue will contain ten substantive papers (up to 7,000 words in length) focusing on a theme of direct relevance to the journal's international social work readership. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
The 25th Annual Children's Mental Health Research and Policy Conference
Deadline: October 31, 2011
The Conference Planning Committee invites you to submit proposal applications for research topics benefiting children, youth and their families, policy and practice. Special themes this year include: understanding the impact of a changing health care environment on system of care evaluators, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners; and a heightened focus on transition age youth and young adults up to the age of 30. Click here for more information.
Call for Applications
Community-Campus Partnership National Forum
Deadline: October 3, 2011
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
Community-Campus Partnership (CCPH) and the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service have been awarded funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for the National Community Partner Forum, Realizing the Promise of Community-Engaged Health Disparities Research. Designed "by and for" community partners involved in community-engaged research, the forum is an unprecedented opportunity to share best practices, address concerns and form an ongoing network for mentoring and professional development. Applications are due October 3 to attend the December 6-7 forum; click here for the application.
Call for Papers
Public Health Reports Supplement on Sexual Health
Deadline: March 1, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
Public Health Reports (PHR) is inviting papers for a Supplement on Sexual Health. The guest editors for this supplement are Dr. John Douglas and Dr. Kevin Fenton. Dr. Douglas is chief medical officer and Dr. Fenton is director, both with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
JAFSCD: Higher Education and Food Systems
Deadline: December 1, 2011
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development is requesting papers for an issue about Higher Education and Food Systems. A growing number of colleges and universities are making serious efforts to increase their ecological sustainability through conscious change in very specific aspects of teaching, research, operations, and public engagement. In addition to adopting practices such as LEED certified construction, green cleaning supplies, and sustainability education programming, many are focusing specifically on food- and agriculture-related sustainability issues, including developing local food procurement for their student food services, adopting composting and other food waste management practices, establishing demonstration farms, gardens and CSAs, supporting student food and agriculture groups, and programming in support of public engagement in food and agricultural policy. Many institutions of higher learning now offer food-related courses and academic programs. In this special topic call we invite researchers, administrators, graduate students, NGO staff members, and others to submit manuscripts featuring results of surveys, case studies, policy analyses, review articles, reflective essays, commentaries, and the like in which they examine the ways colleges and universities are pursuing their food system sustainability goals and the extent to which they are finding success. Click here for more details.
Call for papers
JAFSCD: Sustainable Livelihoods in Food Systems
Deadline: February 15, 2012
While industrialization and globalization of the food system continue to lead to declining numbers of mid-sized farms and more low-wage employment, emerging regional food systems appear to be creating some new occupational opportunities, including the emergence of green-collar sustainable occupations such as farmer trainers, farm managers, agriculture teaching positions certifiers, and consultants. At the core of regional food system growth, family farms are engaging in producing new crops and cultivating techniques that are entrepreneurial and high risk. Indeed, economics continue to challenge the viability of even the most progressive operation. From a public policy perspective, the growth of sustainable livelihoods in the food system will require fair prices and competitive markets for farmers, fair wages for workers, safe working conditions, and a well-trained workforce. JAFSCD welcomes submissions on a wide range of food system livelihood topics that will inform thinking and practice related to regional food system trends, issues, and public policy. We seek reports of qualitative and quantitative studies, review articles, reflective essays, and commentaries. We encourage submission which focus on Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLA), drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives and bridging divides, particularly between the natural and social sciences. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Fifth Annual Kristin Anderson Moore Lecture
Communities that Care: Using Research to Prevent and Reduce Delinquency and Drug Use
October 6, 2011
Washington, DC
Richard F. Catalano, Ph.D., Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Director, Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington will discuss the logic underlying the Communities that Care (CTC) approach, a system that provides the structure for community efforts to address youth issues, focusing on risk and protective factors through a community-wide, multi-step training process. The CTC model, developed by Drs. Catalano and David Hawkins, has been rigorously evaluated and found to have significant positive impacts on adolescents. Click here for more information.
National Conference on Rural Wealth Creation and Livelihoods
October 3-5, 2011
Washington, D.C.
The Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Ford Foundation are convening a National Conference on Rural Wealth Creation and Livelihoods, October 3 - 5, 2011, in Washington, D.C. "Wealth" can be considered to include a broad range of assets that contribute to human well-being, including physical, natural, financial, human, intellectual, social, political and cultural capital. Fostering wealth creation that leads to improved livelihoods in rural America is a top priority for USDA and for many regional, state and local research and development initiatives. The conference will bring together researchers, rural development practitioners and policy-makers who are working on regional and rural development issues. Click here for more information.
ASPH Annual Meeting
October 28-November 2, 2011
The 2011 ASPH Annual Meeting will be held Friday, October 28 through Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill located at 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The ASPH Annual Meeting is held in conjunction with American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, October 28 - November 2, 2011. In order to facilitate planning, ASPH is requiring all attendees to register for the our Annual Meeting this year. Registration for all sessions at the Annual Meeting is free with the exception of the Summit on Undergraduate Education in Public Health. To register click here. |
Research Publications & Data Resources ICPSR New Data Additions The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community. Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive: *30204 ABC News/Washington Post Monthly Poll, April 2010 *31202 National Crime Victimization Survey, 2010
*31568 CBS News/Vanity Fair Monthly Poll, March 2010 Click here for more information. Public Health Reports Supplement Explores Data Systems and Social Determinants of Health (From the APHA Friday Letter) In the latest issue of Public Health Reports, the focus turns to data systems and their use in addressing social determinants of health (SDH), as well as the underlying economic and social conditions that influence the health of individuals and communities as a whole. Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Public Health Reports, Volume 126, Supplement 3 brings attention to the increasing burden and inequities in some health outcomes, as well as the use of data to expand the knowledge base on SDH. Click here for more details. Using Data to Shape Policies and Programs Population Briefs, Vol. 17, No. 2The latest issue of Population Briefs, the Population Council's research newsletter, is now available on the Population Council's website. Stories in this issue include: *Improving policies and programs to respond to sexual and gender-based violence and HIV *Shaping evidence-based policies and programs for vulnerable children in Uganda *National surveys provide key information on lives of adolescents in Egypt and Ethiopia Click here for more details.
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News & Notices
Explore Healthcare Costs with New IOM Infographic
The United States spends far more on health care than any other nation. In 2009, health care costs reached $2.5 trillion-nearly 17 percent of the GDP. A new infographic from the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care describes what is driving the rise in costs, what is waste, and how we can save billions of dollars. Launch the graphic by clicking here.
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About SWRnet
Formerly known as the IASWR Listserv, SWRnet (Social Work Research Network) was launched in October 2009 to continue serving the social work research community by providing regular updates on funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference deadlines and newly published research. Help others subscribe by forwarding these announcements using the Forward to a Colleague function at the end of the email. |
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