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November 18, 2011 || Vol. 3, Issue 46
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Funding Opportunities
Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health
Deadline: January 31, 2012
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health has announced $35 million in funding available through two new grant programs to expand the pipeline of ideas that can help women and children in the developing world live more prosperous and healthy lives. In addition, Grand Challenges has opened an additional $9 million grant program to identify biomarkers of gastrointestinal function and health. The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative focuses on major global health challenges with the aim of engaging creative minds across scientific disciplines - including those who have not traditionally taken part in health research - to work on solutions that could lead to breakthrough advances for those in the developing world. Click here for more information.
Use of Mobile Applications to Increase HIV Testing Behavior and HIV Prevention
Deadline: January 6, 2012
The purpose of this funding announcement is to fund one applicant to conduct formative research to understand the needs, barriers, and facilitators of using mobile phone applications ('apps') for HIV prevention. Findings from this project will be used by the CDC to develop future HIV prevention mobile apps to support public health. Click here for more information.
Smart Health and Wellbeing
Deadline: February 6, 2012
Through the Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) Program, NSF seeks to address fundamental technical and scientific issues that would support much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on wellbeing rather than disease. The issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to, sensor technology, networking, information and machine learning technology, modeling cognitive processes, system and process modeling, and social and economic issues. Effective technology-based solutions must satisfy a multitude of constraints arising from clinical needs, social interactions, cognitive limitations, barriers to behavioral changes, heterogeneity of data, semantic mismatch and limitations of current cyberphysical systems. The high degree of complexity and broad range of the problems require multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers to identify and address barriers limiting quality of life, independence for chronically ill and elder individuals, and other aspects of wellbeing. Fundamental technological advances are also needed to understand the impediments that prevent people from engaging in health-promoting life styles including diet and exercise and from participating in their healthcare decisions. A more complete description of the project can be found here.
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.
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.
Post-Doctoral Training Program in Youth-Nex
Deadline: open until filled
Youth-Nex, the Center to Promote Effective Youth Development in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia has openings for up to four positions in the Youth-Nex Postdoctoral Training Program. The center is housed within the Curry School of Education but is a cross-university multidisciplinary center with approximately 25 faculty associates and affiliates. The post-doctoral training program focuses on multi-disciplinary and multi-method training with faculty from departments and colleges and schools across the University including but not limited to Patrick Tolan Ph.D., Joseph Allen Ph.D., Art Weltman Ph.D., Nancy Deutsch Ph.D., Daniel Cox Ph.D., Dewey Cornell Ph.D., and Joanna Lee Williams Ph.D. The intent is to produce scholars with interest and capability to conduct descriptive and intervention research related to promoting effective youth development and prevention of problem behaviors and conditions affecting youth. The center has four programs of research: Supportive and Helpful Relationships, Health and Well-Being, Engaged Citizenship, and Avoiding Risk. Click here for more information.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: The Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness (CEPWC) at the UVA Curry School of Education
Deadline: open until filled
Post-doctoral training includes two main components: strong mentoring with a senior investigator focused on the demanding and technical aspects of producing high quality scholarship (theory, design, use of rigorous methods, writing, etc.) and immersion in an intellectually challenging and scientifically rigorous community of scholars. The incumbent will build a research program by formulating research questions, generating research designs, writing grants, conducting analyses, and writing and presenting findings. Experience will include intense mentorship with a senior investigator; engagement in work-in-progress meetings with faculty, other post-docs and students; involvement in specialized training institutes; structured self-evaluation; conversation with other UVA faculty; and involvement in a speaker series. Click here for more information.
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Calls 
Call for Papers
2012 Annual Healthy Cities Conference
Deadline: March 2, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Fifth Healthy Cities: Working Together to Achieve Liveable Cities Conference will be a platform for government and industry sector professionals to discuss causes, effects and solutions that relate to population health, sustainability, natural resource management, transport, climate change, urban design and more. It will be held June 6-8, 2012 in Geelong, Victoria. 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 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.
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Conferences & Trainings
AcademyHealth 2012 National Health Policy Conference February 13-14, 2012 (From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The AcademyHealth 2012 National Health Policy Conference (NHPC), scheduled for February 13-14, 2012 in Washington, DC, will provide clarity on the critical health care issues and priorities for the upcoming year. In its twelfth year, the NHPC continues to deliver a program with insider perspectives from health policy leaders to an audience that includes researchers, policy experts, and advocates. Plenary sessions feature perspective from the current administration, Congress, the states and the business community while breakout sessions delve into the details of specific challenges by convening experts with varied, and sometimes conflicting, views. Click here for more information.
Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Generation
The IOM and the National Research Council are holding a public workshop to review and assess research on child abuse and neglect, identify gaps in the existing literature, and consider potential future research priorities. The workshop is designed to inform a future study that would identify ways in which the available research could inform policy and practice for child welfare and other family support services as well as recommend research priorities for the next decade. 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. *26361 National Inmate Survey, 2007 *28641 Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Study (ASAPS), 2001-2006, [Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis] *29263 American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2008 *30401 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2010 *30770 Uniform Crime Reporting: National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2009 *32561 Border Contraceptive Access Study, El Paso, Texas 2005-2008 Click here for more information and other data resources. Harvard and RWJF Poll Finds Americans Favor More Government Health Spending
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
A new poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health found that a majority of Americans (52 percent) prefer increased government spending on health services, while 37 percent support a smaller government providing fewer health services. In addition, the poll found that 6 in 10 Americans believe that government investment on measures to improve health and prevention will lead to long-term cost savings. Click here for more information.
Evidence is Thin on Non-Drug Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression
A new AHRQ research review has found there is insufficient evidence to evaluate whether nonpharmacologic treatments are effective for treatment-resistant depression. The review summarizes evidence of the effectiveness and efficacy of four non-pharmacologic treatments: electroconvulsive therapy, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, and cognitive behavioral therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy. These findings and the future research needs are all summarized in the review, Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression in Adults.
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News & Notices
AHRQ Encourages Spanish Speakers to Become More Active Partners in Their Care
AHRQ has launched a new Spanish-language campaign "Toma las riendas" ("Take the reins"), a nationwide effort to encourage Hispanics to take control of their health and explore treatment options. Ten organizations - including the National Hispanic Medical Association, Latino Student Medical Association, National Association of Hispanic Elderly, National Latina Health Network, Telemundo and the National Center for Farmworkers Health - are partnering with AHRQ to promote AHRQ's Spanish-language, evidence-based resources. AHRQ's Effective Health Program now has more than 20 free, Spanish-language publications that provide information about common conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, and depression. Patient guides are available online here.
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