December 16, 2011  || Vol. 3, Issue 50
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
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 (see FAQ for definition of research areas covered by the fellowship). 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.

NICHD: Addressing Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health through Community - Based Participatory Research
Deadline: August 19, 2012
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) requests applications to implement developmental community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects planned and developed by recipients of the Phase I Academic-Community Partnerships Conference Series awards. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) provides support for community based participatory research projects that (i) address a community health concern, (ii) increase understanding of community related factors and/or cultural beliefs and practices that significantly impact health outcomes in one of the areas of emphasis (including: infant mortality; sudden infant death syndrome; fibroid tumors; childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; literacy; techniques for outreach and information dissemination; pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; and violence prevention), or (iii) focus on the development of innovative health messages with the objective of increasing health literacy in areas of concern. Letters of intent are due by July 19, 2012. Applications are due by August 19, 2012. Click here for more information.

NIH: Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) Basic Research on Decision Making: Cognitive, Affective, and Developmental Perspectives (R01)
Deadline: January 18, 2012
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued as part of the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet), encourages research grant applications that propose to increase understanding of the basic cognitive, affective, motivational, and social processes that underlie decision making across the lifespan. This includes an appreciation of the interactions among the psychological, neurobiological, and behavioral processes in decision making. It also includes consideration of the mediating and/or moderating influences of genetics, physiology, the social environment, and culture. This FOA encourages applications that clarify relationships among cognitive, affective, motivational, and social processes across levels of analysis and over the life course. Approaches to these questions may include model animals, laboratory-based human research, and social science projects in real-world, ecological settings. Due to the complex nature of this research, OppNet encourages formation of multidisciplinary research teams. Letters of intent are due by December 18, 2011. Applications are due by January 18, 2012. Click here for more information.

NINR/NCI: Research on Clinical Decision Making in People with or at Risk for Life- Threatening Illness (R21)
Deadline: February 16, 2012
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is seeking applications invite research grant applications on clinical decision-making with regard to life-threatening illness. The focus of the solicitation is the decision-making process with regard to illnesses that almost always lead to death in a fairly short period of time if left untreated, but may be chronic and treatable - or even cured - if dealt with early in the disease process. The underlying disease processes were almost uniformly fatal until very recent advances in biomedical science (e.g. highly active anti-retroviral therapy), or improved screening. An example of a life-threatening illness that may be chronic for many years before development of fatal complications would be HIV infection when treated. An example of a life-threatening illness that may be curable would be early stage breast cancer. Grant applications are due by February 16, 2012. Click here for more information.

NICHD: Program Project Grant (P01)
Deadline: January 25, 2012
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) seeks applications from organizations and institutions that propose to conduct research on reproductive, developmental, behavioral, social, and rehabilitative processes that determine the health or functioning of newborns, infants, children, adults, families, and populations. This grant encourages investigations of complex problems relevant to NICHD's mission. The size and duration of each award will vary. For new applications, up to $750,000 can be requested for the first year, with a cumulative total funding request of no more than $4,000,000 over a five-year period. For continuation applications, the first-year direct cost cap is either $750,000 or an amount 10% above the direct costs awarded in the last non-competing year, whichever is greater. There is also a cumulative cap of $5,000,000 in direct costs over a 5-year award period. Grant applications are due January 25, 2012. Click here for more information.

Brown International Advanced Research Institutes
Deadline: review begins January 4, 2012
Over the past three years, the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), a collaboration between Brown University and Santander Universities overseen by Brown's Office of International Affairs, have hosted participants and visiting speakers from over seventy countries. Inaugurated in 2009, this major faculty development initiative convenes high-level academic Institutes on Brown's campus each summer. Organized by discipline and designed and run by recognized scholars, each Institute addresses the canonical and cutting-edge questions of the field, and contributes to building the next generation of transnational academic community.The objective of the BIARI program is to provide a platform for promising young faculty from the global South and emerging economies to engage in a high-level and sustained intellectual and policy dialogue with leading scholars in their fields and each other. Institutes foster scholarly networks among young faculty, while providing them with an opportunity to develop their scholarship agendas. Click here for more information.

Fostering International Research on Women in Public Service
Deadline: February 15, 2012
The Women in Public Service Project (WPSP) aims to build a generation of women leaders who will invest in their countries and communities, provide leadership in governments, and change the way global solutions are forged. Evidence based research is one key to improving policy decisions in order to increase the presence of women in public service. The first funded research component of WPSP will provide grants for research within a total amount of 60,000 dollars. This research is intended to be used for practical applications: informing policy makers and providing input for the design of effective programs to attract, retain and advance women in public service. Applications will only be accepted from international teams that include a member from at least one ESF eligible country (see list at end of announcement.) That is, the research proposals must involve researchers in a minimum of two countries. Interdisciplinary applications are encouraged. Click here for more information.

AHRQ's Health Services Research Dissertation Grant Program: New Starts
The mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. To help achieve the Agency's mission, AHRQ supports extramural research grants and contracts, research training, conference grants, and intramural activities. AHRQ is committed to fostering the next generation of health services researchers who will focus their time and expertise on some of the most important problems facing our Nation's health care system. An important component of this effort is the Agency's dissertation research grant program, which provides 1-year awards to full-time predoctoral students enrolled in accredited research doctoral programs in the United States, including Puerto Rico and other U.S. Territories and possessions. To qualify for dissertation awards, students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents by the time of the grant award and must have completed all of their doctoral requirements by the time they submit a dissertation grant application. Click here to see brief descriptions of the 24 dissertation grant awards funded by AHRQ in fiscal year 2011. Each entry includes the project title, grantee's name and institution, his or her area of focus, the grant number and project period, and a short description and goal of the project.

NSF: SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Deadline: Due dates vary across programs
The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question. In an effort to improve the quality of dissertation research, many programs in BCS, SES, and the Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics Program within SRS accept doctoral dissertation improvement grant proposals. Click here for more information.
CallsCalls
Call for Papers
24th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work
Deadline: January 27, 2012
The College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 24th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work to be held on April 20 on the campus of The Ohio State University. A well-known social work scholar will deliver the keynote address pertaining to the College's year long focus on "Seek Justice". The symposium showcases dissertation research of recent Ph.D. recipients. Dissertations completed between May 201 and December 2011 are eligible for consideration and selected presenters will receive a $250 honorarium. Click here for more information and submission guidelines.

Call for Abstracts
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
Deadline: January 12, 2012
(From the APSH Friday Letter)
The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) is an opportunity for researchers to share important findings with policymakers and providers who can move the research into action. Abstracts are invited for four categories: call for papers, call for posters, call for research panels, and call for policy roundtables. Abstracts submitted to the call for papers will also be considered for publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Click here for more information.

Call for Submissions
Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work
Deadline: September 30, 2012 
The Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work is inviting submissions for the "Special Issue: Culturally Informed Social Work Interventions, Programs, Practice, and Policy." Conventional social work theories, practice, and programs are mainly developed based on Eurocentric values and experiences. Globalization and migration across different countries, however, offer beneficial opportunities for the social work profession to learn from different cultures, traditions, and practices. For instance, mindfulness practice and yoga have been increasingly utilized in different mental health and health settings for diverse problems. In this special issue, we hope to provide a forum for social work researchers, scholars, and practitioners to exchange research and practice of integrating knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures into social work interventions, programs, practice, and policy. This Special Issue welcomes all articles related to the following topics:
·    Research on social work interventions, programs, practice, and policy that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
·    Social work interventions that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
·    Social work programs that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
·    Social work policies that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
In the e-mail subject line, the author(s) should indicate that this is a submission to the Special issues: Culturally Informed Social Work Interventions, Programs, Practice, & Policy. Please submit an electronic version of the manuscript to:
Mo Yee Lee, PhD
Editor, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
College of Social Work
The Ohio State University
340A Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
Columbus, OH43210
E-mail: lee.355@osu.edu 
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities
Deadline: January 17, 2012
(From the Black Social Workers Listserv)
The CAPS Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities is designed to assist investigators already conducting HIV-prevention research with ethnic minority communities to improve their programs of research and obtain additional funding for their work. The goals of the program are:
* To increase the quantity and quality of HIV prevention research targeting vulnerable ethnic minority populations.
* To develop theory-based, culture-specific research methods for effective HIV prevention interventions.
* To increase the number of minority group members among principal investigators funded by the NIH, CDC and other agencies.
The Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities program is designed for scientists in tenure-track positions or investigators in research institutes who have not yet obtained RO1 funding from the NIH or equivalent funding from another agency. We seek scientists conducting theory-driven, culturally specific HIV prevention research with minority communities. Click here for more information.

AERA Faculty Institute for the Teaching of Statistics with Large-Scale Data Sets
Deadline: January 17, 2012
With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Grants Program announces the AERA Faculty Institute for the Teaching of Statistics with Large-Scale Data Sets. The Faculty Institute's goal is to help develop a critical mass of U.S. education researchers at doctoral granting institutions using large-scale federal data sets, especially those sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies. These data sets, which are often longitudinal and nationally representative, offer an excellent opportunity for students and early career scholars to conduct research and learn advanced quantitative methods with high quality policy-relevant data. Secondary data analysis of federal data sets provides one of the most opportune and cost-effective ways of generating knowledge and contributing to policy deliberations based on large numbers of individuals and observations. This Institute aims to "train the trainers," enabling more education researchers to take advantage of these rich data resources. Historically underrepresented minority faculty are strongly encouraged to apply. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata
BUILDING MEDICAL HOMES: LESSONS FROM EIGHT STATES WITH EMERGING PROGRAMS
(From Rural Assistance Center Health Update)
Many states are strategically engaging public and private payers in the design of medical home programs as a means of achieving better health outcomes, increasing patient satisfaction, and lowering per capita health care costs. The eight states profiled in this report- Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia-are at different stages in the development and implementation of a medical home program and have relied on different strategies to encourage primary care providers to adopt the model, including developing state medical home qualification standards instead of adopting national standards. As a whole, their experiences demonstrate that states can play a critical role in convening stakeholders, helping practices improve performance, and addressing antitrust concerns that arise when multiple payers come together to create a medical home program. Click here for the full report.

Recent Developments in Antipoverty Policies in the United States
James P. Ziliak
I survey recent developments in antipoverty policy in the United States over the past decade and examine how the safety net and tax system affect poverty and its correlates using data from the 2000 to 2010 waves of the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Unlike the 1980s and 1990s, and until the health care overhaul in 2009, the first decade of the 21st century was relatively tepid in terms of major transfer policy reforms. However, real spending on most major social programs increased significantly, and in some cases doubled or tripled, in response to demographic shifts and the deep recession. In spite of the real growth in social insurance and means-tested transfer programs, the trends in after-tax and transfer poverty rates were little affected, and if anything, suggest that the safety net has lost some of its antipoverty bite in terms of alleviating hardship among those living in deep poverty.

ICPSR 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:
*31022 Global Views 2010: American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
*31565 CBS News 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Survey, February 2010
*31622 Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study [Public Use Data]
*32722 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2010
*32723 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2010
*32841 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2010
Click here for access to these datasets and more information.

Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Promising Strategies to Improve Access to Fresh, Healthy Food & Transform Communities
(From Rural Assistance Center Health Update)
For decades, low-income urban and rural communities have faced limited opportunities to purchase healthy food. In the 1960s and 1970s, white, middle-class families fled urban centers for homes in the suburbs. The supermarkets followed, leaving the families who remained in the central cities with limited access to fresh, healthy, affordable foods. Often without cars or convenient public transit options, low-income residents in these areas must rely for much of their shopping on expensive, fatty, processed foods sold at corner convenience stores and small local shops. Low income rural residents face similar struggles to access high-quality, affordable, healthy foods. But there are signs of change. Across the country, there are a growing number of innovative programs and policies that are turning the tide, providing low-income neighborhoods with access to affordable healthy foods. By opening grocery stores, improving the quality and selection of food sold at convenience stores, and linking farmers directly to consumers, these efforts are increasing access to healthy foods, contributing to reduced rates of obesity and diabetes, creating jobs, increasing profits, and revitalizing distressed neighborhoods-a boon to a country in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Click here for the full report.

GW Researchers Find Obesity Negatively Impacts Income, Especially for Women
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
A new report from George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services's Department of Health Policy uncovered an overall wage differential between those of normal weight and those who are obese, especially when it comes to women. The research, titled Gender and Race Wage Gaps Attributable to Obesity, demonstrates the impact obesity may have on a person's paycheck. Click here for more information.

Teens in Foster Care Face Elevated Risk of Becoming a Teen Parent
(From ChildTrends)
Teens in foster care face considerable individual and family challenges that place them at an elevated risk of becoming a teen parent. Child Trends has released a new research brief, Teen Parents in Foster Care: Risk Factors and Outcomes for Teens and Their Children, which reviews existing research literature on teens in foster care and examines analyses of primarily regional data to assess the extent to which teens in foster care are at risk of teen pregnancy and parenting. Existing studies suggest that teens in foster care have higher rates of teen pregnancy and parenthood than youth not in care. More than 160,000 of the children in foster care were over 12 years old in 2009. Click here to read the full report.
News & Noticesnews
Committee on Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States
(From the Institute of Medicine)
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has requested that the IOM and the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice study commercial sexual exploitation of children and sex trafficking of minors in the United States. This study will examine current approaches to addressing the problem at the local, state, and federal levels and investigate the causes and consequences of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors for both victims and offenders. The study committee will make recommendations that will inform future policy and practices within law enforcement, human services, and health care agencies. Be in the loop for information on this project, click here.
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