April 27, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 17
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding      
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)
Deadline: rolling
(Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) supports research, policy analysis and evaluation projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy, financing and organization issues. Supported projects include:
-examining significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and
-exploring or testing major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services.
Click here for more information.

NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities: Planning Phase (R24)
Deadline: June 27, 2012
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites applications for this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to plan the development of effective interventions using community based participatory research (CBPR) approaches. Support will be provided to develop and strengthen partnerships between researchers and health disparity communities to plan and pilot interventions for a disease or condition to reduce health disparities. Click here for more information.

Pilot and Feasibility Studies in Preparation for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Trials (R34)
Deadline: May 7, 2015
(National Institutes of Health)
This FOA for R34 applications seeks to support: (a) pilot and/or feasibility testing of new, revised, or adapted preventive intervention approaches targeting the initiation of drug and alcohol use, the progression to abuse or dependence, and the acquisition or transmission of HIV infection among diverse populations and settings; and (b) pre-trial feasibility testing for prevention services and systems research. This R34 mechanism does not support the development of intervention protocols, manuals, or the standardization of protocols. It is expected that research conducted via this R34 mechanism will consist of early stage efficacy, effectiveness or services research that will provide intervention pilot and/or feasibility data that is a pre-requisite for submitting larger drug or alcohol abuse and/or drug- or alcohol-related HIV prevention intervention studies. Click here for more information.

Pre-Application for the FY13 NIDA Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS Research (X02)
Deadline: October 3, 2012
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS Research supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose high-impact research that will open new areas of HIV/AIDS research and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among drug abusers. The term avant-garde is used to describe highly innovative approaches that have the potential to be transformative. The proposed research should reflect approaches and ideas that are substantially different from those already being pursued by the investigator or others. The research proposed must be in an area described in the Trans NIH Plan for HIV-Related Research. Click here for more information.

Multidisciplinary Studies of HIV/AIDS and Aging
Deadline: April 7, 2015
(National Institutes of Health)
This FOA invites applications proposing to study HIV infection, HIV-associated conditions, HIV treatment, and/or biobehavioral or social factors associated with HIV/AIDS in the context of aging and/or in older adults. Research approaches of interest include clinical translational, observational, and intervention studies in domestic and international settings. Click here for more information.

Translational Research to Improve Obesity and Diabetes Outcomes
Deadline: March 2, 2015
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) encourages NIH Research Demonstration and Dissemination Project grant (R18) applications from institutions/ organizations to test practical, sustainable, acceptable, and cost efficient adaptations of efficacious strategies or approaches prevent and treat diabetes and/or obesity. Research must target the prevention or reversal of obesity, prevention of type 2 diabetes, improved care of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, or the prevention or delay of the complications of these conditions. The approaches tested should have the potential to be widely disseminated to clinical practice, individuals and communities at risk. Click here for more information.

Rural Health System Analysis and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Deadline: June 1, 2012
(Health Resources & Services Administration)
This announcement solicits applications for the Rural Health System Analysis and Technical Assistance (RHSATA) Cooperative Agreement. The purpose of the RHSATA Cooperative Agreement Program is to inform policy makers and rural health care providers about how changes in the health care delivery system may affect them, and to provide technical assistance to rural providers in identifying potential new approaches to health care delivery in their communities. Click here for more information.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Culturally-Grounded Health Disparities Research
Deadline: July 1, 2012
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral fellowship beginning Fall, 2012, with the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC). Depending on performance, the fellowship may be had for up to 2 years. The goal of the fellowship is to enhance the research skills of the next generation of health disparities scholars. SIRC an exploratory center of excellence in minority health and health disparities research funded in part by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). SIRC is a vibrant research center with a well-established research infrastructure and a highly productive set of nationally and internationally known investigators who conduct multi-disciplinary, community-based research on health disparities among populations of the Southwest in the areas of substance use, HIV/AIDS, mental health and obesity. It focuses on culturally-grounded prevention research and culturally responsive and resiliency-focused treatment and services research to better understand how drug use, HIV/AIDS, mental health, and obesity are related to ethnic, gender, developmental, geographic, acculturation and other social identity variables. SIRC includes experts from nine ASU disciplines, other U.S. universities and over 20 local community and global research partners. Click here for more information.

SMART FY 12 Sex Offender Management Fellowship Program
Deadline: June 7, 2012
The SMART Office will be funding for the first time three fellowship positions focusing on 1) victims' issues, 2) prevention and education, and 3) practices and research in Indian Country in the field of sex offender management. The goal of these fellowships will be to work on multi-disciplinary issues across the various program offices in the Office of Justice Programs (Office of Victims of Crime, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National institute of Justice, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics) and , the Office on Violence Against Women, to explore and build a foundation for integrating victim-centered approaches and effective prevention and education programming into sex offender management practices and policies, and to identify experts, research, practices and programs related to sexual assault victim services and sex offender management in Indian County. Click here for more information.

AGESW Pre-Dissertation Initiative
Deadline: May 1, 2012
The Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) Pre-Dissertation Initiative provides support each year for a cohort of ten doctoral students who have completed the first year of doctoral studies. The goal of the Initiative is to support dissertation and career development in gerontological social work research and education. Recipients will receive more than ten hours of programming delivered by nationally recognized experts in gerontological social work research and teaching designed to prepare participants for an academic career in gerontological social work. The program is delivered each year at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) conference. Awardees are selected by the AGESW Pre-Dissertation Advisory Council. Click here for more information.   
CallsCalls
Call for Papers
SSWR 2013 
Deadline: April 30, 2012 
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) announces its Seventeenth Annual Conference "Social Work for a Just Society: Making Visible the Stakes and Stakeholders" which will convene in San Diego, CA, January 16-20, 2013. You are invited to submit abstracts for one of the three types of presentations of original research: (1) oral paper presentations; (2) organized symposia; and (3) poster presentations. The conference will also include workshop and roundtable sessions for which you can submit abstracts. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers
Australian Social Work
Deadline: October 2012
Young people transitioning from out of home care: An issue of social justice
There is a growing international awareness of the needs of young people transitioning from out of home care. They are recognized as a vulnerable and socially marginalized group who have not received the ongoing and holistic support that they require to transition successfully into adult life. Recent Australian government reports on both homelessness and child protection have identified care leavers as a key target group for policy and practice interventions. This special edition aims to draw together initiatives and thinking that explore these developments in leaving care policy and practice through the lens of children's rights and social justice. Click here for more information.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Families in Society
Deadline: September 1, 2012
Prevention Interventions in Social Work Practice
Recent emphasis on the use of evidence-based practices and practice-based evidence in social work has ignited discussions on "what works and for whom" within service organizations and funding agencies. While translation of these and other best practices are often slow to reach local agencies, innovative prevention activities aimed at identifying and reducing risk factors while building protective factors for service users are often at the center of daily social work practice and interventions. However, dissemination of these prevention initiatives is often lacking. For this special focus of Families in Society, we invite submissions that focus on the efforts of social workers and other social service professionals in the area of prevention services and policy. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Symposium on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Methods
June 12-13, 2012
An invitational symposium on research methods, "Efficacy to Effectiveness," will be held June 12-13 at the AHRQ Conference Center in Rockville, MD. AHRQ will provide a live, online broadcast of scientists' slides and audio presentations, which will highlight factors that result in differences between results from randomized clinical trials of treatments (efficacy) and observational studies of treatments outside of controlled research environments (effectiveness). The symposium - the 4th sponsored by AHRQ's DEcIDE Research Network -also will provide a forum for scholarly deliberation of new and emerging research methods in different disciplines and across settings. Sherine E. Gabriel, M.D., professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic and methodology committee chair at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), will provide the keynote speech. Click here for more information.

Dyadic Data Analysis Workshop
July 23-26, 2012
Deborah A. Kashy, Ph.D. (Michigan State University)
Robert A. Ackerman, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Dallas)
The workshop will focus on analyses for data in which both members of a dyad are measured on the same set of variables. Topics to be addressed include the measurement of nonindependence, the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, the analysis of distinguishable and indistinguishable dyads, and the analysis of over-time dyadic data (e.g., dyadic growth curve models). The software package used in the workshop will be SPSS. Although the workshop does not require any prior knowledge or experience with multilevel modeling (a basic introduction to this analytic approach will be included during the workshop), participants are expected to have a working knowledge of multiple regression and analysis of variance, as well as SPSS. This four-day workshop (with an optional ½ day on Friday) will include a lecture component with hands-on application of the material covered in lecture, as well as one-on-one consultation meetings concerning participants' actual research and data analytic questions. There will be time for individual meetings with workshop instructors from 3:00pm to 5:00pm each afternoon, as well as on Friday morning 9:00-11:00. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring their own data so that they can apply these new methods to their own projects.  Click here for more information.

3rd National Psychotherapy with Men Conference
June 9, 2012
Fordham University
New York, NY
This conference is devoted to promoting best practices and increasing treatment success in counseling and psychotherapy with diverse men. The conference is presented by the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity. Click here for more information.

American Council for School Social Work National Summit
June 24-26, 2012
Chicago, IL
ACSSW advocates for the practice of school social work and supports school social workers in their service to students, schools, and families to overcome social, systemic, economic and mental health barriers to student learning. Join School Social Work Colleagues From Across the Country - Practitioners, Leaders& Researchers - June 24 - 26 for the 3rd National Summit on School Social Work! Click here for more information.

Quantitative Literacy Through Social Science: Don't be Afraid of Data!
April 30, 2012
It is important for students to become knowledgeable consumers of information that is delivered to them through various media sources, an increasing amount of which is being presented in tables, graphs, or other quantitative formats. The use of survey data can help convey course content in an interesting way while building students' quantitative literacy. This session is designed to introduce even the most "number phobic" instructors to 1) the importance of including quantitative skills in courses outside the traditional STEM disciplines, 2) a multitude of sources of data-based exercises for classroom use (most of them free!), and 3) the additional benefits of using data in lower-division social science courses. This session will be a webcast version of a recent presentation presenters Lynette Hoelter & Linda Detterman conducted at the 2012 International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. Click here for more information.  
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
'Health Care Deserts' More Common In Black Neighborhoods
(From the Health Behavior News Service; Randy Dotinga, Contributing Writer)
New research into "health care deserts" finds that primary-care physicians are especially hard to find in predominantly Black and/or low-income Hispanic metropolitan neighborhoods. Research suggests that minorities, the poor, people in inner cities and rural areas, and the uninsured are more likely to not have a regular source of medical care. In the new study, published in the latest issue of Health Services Research, Gaskin and colleagues examined U.S. Census and American Medical Association data from 2000 and 2006 to determine which zip codes in U.S. metropolitan areas - which can include rural neighborhoods - had a shortage of primary-care physicians, defined as one physician for 3500 or more people, or no physician at all. After controlling for other demographic and economic factors, 25.6 percent of Blacks and 24.3 of Hispanics lived in zip codes with few or no primary-care physicians, compared to 9.6 percent of Asian and 13.2 percent of Whites. Zip codes that were identified with mostly Black or Hispanic residents were more likely to have a shortage of primary care physicians, however the disparity disappeared for Hispanics after controlling for socioeconomic factors. Click here to read more.

Wisconsin Poverty Report: How the Safety Net Protected Families from Poverty in 2010
(Institute for Research on Poverty)
The Wisconsin Poverty Project came into being in late 2008, when a group of researchers at the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) sought to gain a more accurate and timely assessment of poverty throughout the state at a time when the worst recession in the postwar era was gripping the nation. The researchers' efforts, which are in line with broader efforts (including federal development of the Supplemental Poverty Measure), sought to inform policy with up-to-date and place-specific data that go beyond the official statistics for Wisconsin. The project, which each year produces a Wisconsin Poverty Report-this one marking the fourth-joins many other endeavors by University of Wisconsin System faculty and staff to improve the lives of people throughout the state in the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea. Simply put, the Wisconsin Poverty Project model reflects IRP's commitment to informing public policy with research findings and, consistent with this idea, one of our primary goals in developing the Wisconsin Poverty Measure is to serve as a model for other states and localities seeking to craft their own more meaningful measures of poverty. Our model, including programming and other technical details, is available online. Visit the website for more information.

Recent Studies Find Raising Taxes on High-Income Households Would Not Harm the Economy
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Chye-Ching Huang)
Many policymakers and pundits assume that raising federal income taxes on high-income households would have serious adverse consequences for the economy.  Yet this belief, which has been subject to extensive research and analysis, does not fare well under scrutiny.  As three leading tax economists recently concluded in a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence, "there is no compelling evidence to date of real responses of upper income taxpayers to changes in tax rates." The literature suggests that if the alternative to raising taxes is larger deficits, then modest tax increases on high-income households would likely be more beneficial for the economy over the long run. The debate over the economic effects of higher taxes on people with high incomes has focused on a number of issues - how increasing taxes at the top would affect taxable income and revenue as well as the effects on work and labor supply, saving and investment, small businesses, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth and jobs. Click here to read more.

National Center for Children in Poverty
New Reports
*Paid Family Leave:  Strengthening Families and Our Future
*Protecting the Safety Net in Tough Times:  Lessons from the States
*Comprehensive Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood: Promising Federal and State Initiatives
Click here to read more.

Current Research Not Sufficient to Assess Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty
(National Academies of Science)
Research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates, says a new report from the National Research Council.  The committee that wrote the report evaluated studies conducted since a four-year moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976, and it found that the studies do not provide evidence for or against the proposition that the death penalty affects homicide rates.  These studies should not be used to inform judgments about the effect of the death penalty on homicide, and should not serve as a basis for policy decisions about capital punishment, the committee said. Click here for more information. 
News & Noticesnews   
Call for Nominations
American Psychological Association
Deadline: June 18, 2012
Clinical Treatment Guideline Development Panel: PTSD Across the Lifespan
The American Psychological Association's Advisory Steering Committee for the Development of Clinical Treatment Guidelines is seeking nominations of individuals to serve on a panel to develop a clinical treatment guideline for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) across the lifespan. Individuals, including those from disciplines outside of psychology, are encouraged to self-nominate and nominations from other individuals and groups are also invited. Nominees who will enhance the diversity of the development panels are particularly encouraged to apply. Click here for more information. 
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