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November 11, 2011 || Vol. 3, Issue 45
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Funding Opportunities
Implications of the Economic Downturn for Health, Wealth, and Work at Older Ages (R01)
Deadline: January 7, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites research on the implications of exogenous shocks, such as those produced by the recent economic downturn, for health, economic circumstances, and planning throughout the life-cycle. The recent financial crisis emphasizes that there is much to learn, and scientific research is needed to address many of the questions, concerns, and implications that have arisen. Click here for more information.
Prostate Dream Team Translational Cancer Research Grant Program
Deadline: December 28, 2011 (Letters of Intent)
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
Stand Up To Cancer and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, along with the American Association for Cancer Research, are calling upon the cancer research community to submit Letters of Intent for a new "dream team" dedicated to prostate cancer research. The SU2C-PCF Prostate Dream Team Translational Cancer Research Grant will provide funding of up to $10 million over a three- year period for a cancer research project that will address therapeutic interventions for advanced prostate cancer (with a special emphasis on metastatic disease) and deliver near-term patient benefit through investigation by a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, synergistic team of expert investigators. Proposals must include plans indicating how the work will be translated to a clinic setting. To maximize creativity, innovation, and collaboration, the project team must include laboratory and clinical researchers, senior and/or young investigators, and senior scientists who have not worked together in the past, as well as patient advocates. The dream team will span multiple disciplines and utilize the new tools of modern biology to attack research questions in a coordinated way. Click here for more information.
Addressing Youth Social Settings
Deadline: January 5, 2012 (Letters of Inquiry)
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The William T. Grant Foundation, which supports research to understand and improve the everyday settings of youth between the ages of 8 and 25 in the United States, is accepting Letters of Inquiry for its Investigator Initiated Grants program. The program is designed to support high-quality research projects that address the foundation's current research interests - enhancing the understanding of how youth social settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved; and when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved. Click here for more information.
Targeted Analyses of Jackson Heart Study Data (R01)
Deadline: February 29, 2012
This FOA will fund external topical working groups to collaborate with Jackson Heart Study researchers to analyze the data collected to date. The Jackson Heart Study is an observational cohort study of 5,301 community-dwelling African Americans from Jackson, MS. At the time of these grant awards, the Study will have completed 3 clinical examinations between 2000-2012, with annual follow-up telephone interviews. NHLBI expects to fund 5 analytical working groups, each focused on a topic of concern for the health of African Americans, each having particular relevance to cardiovascular and related diseases, including but not limited to the following topics: hypertension, diabetes and obesity, physical activity and nutrition, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. Funding under this FOA will not support the collection of additional data. Click here for more information.
Science, Technology, and Society
Deadline: February 1, 2012
STS considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy.The STS review process is approximately six months. It includes appraisal of proposals by ad hoc reviewers selected for their expertise and by an advisory panel that meets twice a year. The deadlines for the submission of proposals are February 1st for proposals to be funded as early as July, and August 1st for proposals to be funded in or after January.Further information about proposal preparation and related matters can be found in the STS FAQs document. For program-specific guidelines on the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, please read the Doctoral Dissertation Preparation Checklist. The Program encourages potential investigators with questions as to whether their proposal fits the goals of the program to contact one of the program officers. Click here for more information.
Improving Adherence in Pre-teens, Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes (DP3)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
This FOA issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (DP3) applications from institutions/organizations proposing to develop, refine, and pilot test innovative strategies to improve adherence to medications and medical regimens, including self-management, in pre-teens, adolescents, and young adults with type 1 diabetes. At the end of the funding period, there should be a well-developed and well-characterized intervention that has been demonstrated to be safe, feasible to implement, acceptable in the target population, and, if promising, ready to be tested in a larger efficacy trial. Click here for more information.
Academic Research Enhancement Award (Parent R15)
Deadline: January 7, 2015
The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions, otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH research programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions, to expose students to meritorious research projects, and to strengthen the research environment of the applicant institution. Click here for more information.
Career Development Programs in Diabetes Research for Behavioral Scientists (K12)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
To foster the development of a diverse and highly trained workforce of behavioral scientists to assume leadership roles related to the Nations research efforts in the area of type 1 diabetes, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) invites applications for the establishment of institutional career development programs in diabetes research for behavioral scientists.The NIDDK will award K12 grants to eligible institutions to provide a program to prepare postdoctoral behavioral scientists (referred in this FOA as Scholars), selected by the institution, for behavioral research careers in type 1 diabetes. At each stage of the training award, supervision and mentorship will include both a diabetologist and a behavioral scientist as a way to maximize the relevance of the training to type 1 diabetes and encourage a multi-disciplinary approach to research. Click here for more information.
HIV & Drug Use Fellowship
Deadline: February 10, 2012
With the support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the International AIDS Society (IAS) has established a research fellowship programme focusing on HIV and drug use, with the goal of contributing to advances in the scientific understanding of drug use and HIV, while fostering international collaborative research on HIV and drug use. The fellowship programme is awarded as a stipend of US$75,000 in two categories: to a junior scientist for 18-month post-doctoral training, or to a well-established HIV researcher for an eight-month-long professional development training at leading host institutes excelling in HIV-related drug use research. Click here for more information.
Research on Retirement Income and Disability Insurance
Deadline: January 27, 2012
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College works to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to a broad audience, to help train new scholars, and to expand access to valuable data resources. The center is accepting applications for the following funding opportunities:
*The Steven H. Sandell Grant Program provides the opportunity for junior scholars and senior scholars entering a new field to pursue projects on retirement income and disability insurance. Junior scholars within the first ten years of their academic career and tenured scholars entering a new field are encouraged to submit proposals. Up to seven grants of $45,000 each will be awarded for one-year projects.
*The Dissertation Fellowship Program in Retirement Income and Disability Insurance Research provides funding opportunities for doctoral candidates to pursue cutting-edge research on retirement issues. Up to seven fellowships of $28,000 each will be awarded to doctoral candidates enrolled in an accredited program at a U.S. university. The program is open to scholars in all academic disciplines.
Priority areas for both programs include Social Security and disability insurance, macroeconomic analyses of Social Security, wealth and retirement income, program interactions, international research, and demographic research. Click here for more information.
Improving Behavioral Healthcare in Safety Net Settings
Deadline: January 25, 2012
(From the Black Social Workers Listserv)
This NIMH-funded (T32) two-year postdoctoral research training program aims to increase the number of early career investigators trained in mental health and addictions services research for safety net medical settings. Our interdisciplinary program is embedded in an academic-public sector partnership that has flourished for several decades. Fellows will spend their two year working with expert behavioral health services faculty on safety net setting projects. Click here for more information.
Postdoctoral position in Quantitative Research on Urban Scaling
Deadline: December 20, 2011
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral fellowship in a research program to develop a quantitative framework for understanding the structure and dynamics of human social organizations, with a focus on cities. The position is for 2 years with the possibility of extension to a third, subject to performance and funding. The ideal candidate should have a background in quantitative modeling and theoretical development with strong analytical skills and a serious interest in the empirical quantitative study of cities and other human social organizations. Fluency with data analysis, the ability to create and solve dynamical non-linear models and to analyze the structure of networks are other important attributes we are seeking. The successful candidate will work closely with Profs. Luís Bettencourt and Geoffrey West and with a group of interdisciplinary researchers and postdocs on the analyses of urban data and its mathematical modeling and theory development. The urban scaling project collaborates with leading researchers on the study of cities worldwide on a variety of themes from geography to urban economics and the ideal candidate should enjoy, and be able to take advantage of, these diverse research contacts. Click here for more information.
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Calls 
Call for Proposals
22nd Annual Management Institute
Human Services in Transition: Sustaining Impact in a Changed Economy
Deadline: December 1, 2011
The conference planning committee invites social work managers, faculty, students, and others involved in management of social work services to submit proposals for this upcoming conference. A select number of presentations/papers will be accepted for the conference, which will feature a combination of plenary sessions, invited presentations, parallel panel sessions and workshops, and poster sessions. Click here for more information.
Call for Applications
Study Section Rosters: Peer Review at AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has one chartered Health Services Research Initial Review Group (IRG) responsible for the peer review of grant applications submitted for study section review. This IRG is comprised of four subcommittees or study sections, each with a particular emphasis around which peer reviewer expertise is assembled. Attention Potential Reviewers: The Division of the Scientific Review (DSR) of AHRQ is seeking nominations for scientific reviewers to join AHRQ Peer Review Teams to evaluate grant applications submitted to AHRQ. If you are interested in being considered, please contact the Director of Scientific Review, Dr. Kishena Wadhwani at Kishena.Wadhwani@ahrq.hhs.gov for additional information. Click here for the full website.
Call for Editors
Journal of Comparative Social Welfare
Deadline: November 30, 2011
With our gracious thanks to Brij Mohan as outgoing Editor of the journal, we are looking to recruit a new Editor, or Co-Editors, starting on 1 January 2012. We are inviting applications, individual or joint, for this position. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare is a refereed international forum designed to promote interdisciplinary inquiry and research. It encompasses all scientific-academic fields dealing with social welfare including social work, social policy, social development and planning. Visit the website for more information.
Call for Proposals
7th Young Children Without Homes National Conference
Deadline: December 5, 2011
Hosted by Horizons for Homeless Children, this is the only national conference that focuses exclusively on young children and their families who experience homelessness. Over the past seven years, this conference has attracted hundreds of attendees in various locations and provided opportunities for service providers from across the country to learn and share information. The Conference will include workshops on the following topics:
* Early care and education
* Family support
* Supportive housing for families
* Research and evaluation categories
* Interdisciplinary perspectives on family homelessness
We are currently accepting applications from a wide range of individuals with diverse backgrounds including: providers of early care and education services; providers of homeless services; providers of family support/home visiting services; supportive housing providers; health professionals; mental health professionals; nutritionists; public school teachers/administrators; McKinney-Vento homeless education liaisons; Head Start providers; policymakers; legislators; college and university researchers; researchers and evaluators at non-profits; think tanks; and more. Horizons for Homeless Children strongly encourages all interested individuals to submit an application. Click here for more information.
Call for Applications
INNOVATION ADVISORS PROGRAM
Deadline: November 15, 2011
In the months and years to come, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) will seek to introduce transformative models of care delivery across the nation that will meet the aim of reducing cost and improving quality for Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP beneficiaries. The Innovation Advisors Program is designed to support delivery system reform, strengthening the capacity for change by creating a network of experts in improving the delivery system. Specifically, the Innovation Advisors Program will engage individuals in the health care system to test and refine new models of payment and care delivery. Selected Innovation Advisors will refine, apply, and sustain managerial and technical skills necessary to deepen several key skill sets. Click here for more information.
Call for Abstracts
33rd Annual UNC Minority Health Conference
Deadline: November 18, 2011
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Minority Student Caucus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health invites you to submit abstracts for poster presentations at the 33rd Annual Minority Health Conference, "Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity." The Minority Health Conference was launched by the Minority Student Caucus in 1977 to raise awareness about health disparities and to mobilize students, faculty, and community members to take action for change. The conference will be held on February 24, 2012, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Conference on Addiction, Research, Recovery and Education (CARRE) December 1-2, 2011 Las Vegas, NV (From the Join Together Weekly News)
CARRE will bring together addiction professionals, researchers, educators, students and the recovery community to build pathways to partnership in addiction recovery. The goals of the conference are to identify and overcome barriers and to facilitate the creation of effective pathways towards life-long recovery for all who are touched by addiction. The meeting will present the latest research, best practices and solutions to the problem of addiction, and identify meaningful partnerships in delivering an integrated and comprehensive continuum of recovery. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources ICPSR Data ResourcesBelow is a list of new data collection additions to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data archive. *26721 Iowa Youth and Families Project, 1989-1992 *30103 How Couples Meet and Stay Together (HCMST), Wave I 2009, Wave II 2010, United States *31421 New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES), 2004 *31924 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2007 *32321 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program II in the United States, 2010 Click here for more information and other data resources. Iowa Study May Help Transform Behavioral Health Care Models for Older Adults(From the ASPH Friday Letter)A University of Iowa College of Public Health study of older Iowans with behavioral health and late-onset psychiatric problems may help inform national efforts to translate integrated models of behavioral health care for older adults, especially those in rural areas. Older adults are the least likely of any population to utilize specialty care, particularly in rural areas where access to services varies. It may be necessary for older adults to rely on informal service providers like hospitals and senior centers to augment more traditional mental health care resources. That raises concerns, according to Dr. Brian Kaskie, professor of health management and policy at Iowa and associate director for public policy for Iowa's Center on Aging. Click here for more details. Findings From Hot Spots Policing StudyAn OJJDP-funded study reveals that juvenile crime tends to concentrate in discrete areas where youth congregate, and that police resources are used most efficiently when law enforcement focuses specifically on these places to deter crime. OJJDP has published these and other findings in the bulletin, Hot Spots of Juvenile Crime: Findings From Seattle. The bulletin provides the first portrait of the distribution of officially recorded juvenile crime events in smaller geographical areas-such as a favorite gathering place in a mall, restaurant, or shop-rather than certain police precincts or beats, the larger areas usually patrolled by police. Between 1989 and 2002, researchers led by Dr. David Weisburd-a distinguished criminologist and leading researcher in the field of hot spots policing-geographically mapped the crime incidents in which a juvenile was arrested in Seattle to identify the rates and hot spots of juvenile crime in the city. Click here for more information. Employee Programs Teaching Health Care "Consumer" Skills May Also Produce Health Benefits(From the Health Behavior News Digest)A workplace program designed to teach employees to act more like consumers when they make health care decisions, for example, by finding and evaluating health information or choosing a benefit plan, also improved exercise, diet and other health habits. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Journal of Juvenile Justice Launched
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP) new online Journal of Juvenile Justice is an accessible, practical tool for a diverse researcher and practitioner audience. The semi-annual, peer-reviewed journal will address a variety of issues in juvenile justice, ranging from delinquency prevention to evaluation of treatment approaches. The inaugural issue covers topics ranging from the unique risk factors associated with crossover youth to the benefits of comprehensive restorative justice programs. Articles that report the findings from evaluations of Parents Anonymous and King County's Child Protection Mediation pilot program highlight strategies that demonstrate promise in reducing child maltreatment and increasing the efficiency of case processing, respectively. Additionally, the journal includes items on the development of standards for defining and measuring recidivism and a method that may be used to improve the reliability of juvenile justice screening and assessment instruments. Click here for more information.
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