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May 11, 2012 || Vol. 4, Issue 19
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Funding Opportunities
Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) Deadline: June 10, 2012 (letter of intent) The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to encourage grant applications for new or continued Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH). The NARCH program supports opportunities for conducting research and research training to meet the needs of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. This FOA is issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in conjunction with the other Institutes/Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Indian Health Service (IHS). Click here for more information. Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster Deadline: October 3, 2015 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide an expedited funding mechanism for research in the aftermath of disasters and mass casualty events. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) Program Staff before submitting a RAPID application to determine whether or not the proposed work meets the guidelines of this program, whether requested RAPID funding is likely to be available, and whether the idea should be considered for initial submission as a fully developed, non-expedited application via a regular/parent FOA. RAPID grants described in this FOA may be used to facilitate initial research for investigators who intend to follow up with a full research application, using the preliminary time sensitive data from a RAPID grant as the basis for their subsequent application. Click here for more information. Exploratory/Developmental Clinical Research Grants in Obesity Deadline: May 7, 2015 This FOA issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI); the National Cancer Institute (NCI); the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages research grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct exploratory/developmental clinical studies that will accelerate the development of effective interventions for prevention or treatment of overweight or obesity in adults and/or children. Exploratory epidemiological research with a goal of informing translational/clinical research will also be supported within this program. Click here for more information. 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. 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.
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Calls
Call for Papers
The Transition to Adulthood after the Great Recession
Deadline: May 15, 2012
The Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics at Bocconi University announce a call for papers that contribute to our understanding of how the Great Recession has affected the Transition to Adulthood in industrialized countries. In many countries, family incomes, housing values and other wealth holdings have fallen, unemployment rates have been high, and economic growth has been slow. In many countries, young adults have experienced greater hardships on average than mature and older adults. However, there is substantial heterogeneity in the experience of young adults, as those with affluent parents often have access to resources that can buffer them from negative economic shocks. There is also heterogeneity in the way young adults experience these shocks across countries. Click here for more information.
Call for Applications
IRP Visiting Scholar: U.S.-based Poverty Scholars from Underrepresented Groups
Deadline: June 30, 212
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) invites applications from U.S.-based social science scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to visit IRP, interact with its faculty in residence, and become acquainted with the staff and resources of the Institute. The invitation extends (but is not restricted) to those who are in the early years of their academic careers. The intent of this IRP Visiting Scholars Program, which is supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is to enhance the research interests and resources available to visitors, to foster interaction between resident IRP affiliates and a diverse set of scholars, and to broaden the corps of poverty researchers. Click here for more information.
Call for Applications
Visiting Food Assistance Research Scholar
Deadline: June 30, 2012
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) invites applications from U.S.-based food assistance scholars to visit the IRP RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance Research for one week during the 2012-2013 academic year, interact with its faculty in residence, and become acquainted with the staff and resources of the Institute. The intent of the IRP Research, Innovation, and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Center and the Visiting Food Assistance Scholars Program is to stimulate innovative research related to food assistance programs such as SNAP (formerly food stamps) and school breakfast and lunch, and to support training of researchers interested in food assistance issues. Click here for more information.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Edition of Advances in Social Work
The Impact of Socio-Economic, Cultural, Political, and International Factors on Latinos/Latinas in United States
Deadline: September 30, 2012
Guest Editor: Irene Queiro-Tajalli, Indiana University School of Social Work
This special issue, to be released in Spring 2013, seeks to highlight the assets, challenges, and opportunities of Latinos in this country and to make the connections between this community and the impact of the socio-economic, political, and cultural relations between the US and Latin America. Unlike other immigrant populations, large numbers of Latinos are impacted by events in Latin American countries and the US government's position on immigration and foreign policies toward Latin America. This special issue expects to contribute to the discourse on areas of mutual concerns for United States and Latin America. We are interested in conceptual, research, or practice-grounded manuscripts that cover a wide range of topics related to Latinos. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Race and Social Problems
Deadline: ongoing
The journal, Race and Social Problems, provides a multidisciplinary and international forum for the publication of articles and discussion of issues germane to race and its enduring relationship to psychological, socioeconomic, political, and cultural problems. The Journal publishes original empirical studies, reviews of past research, theoretical studies, and invited essays that advance the understanding of the complexities of race and its relationship to social problems. Submissions from the fields of communications, criminology, economics, education, law, political science, psychology, public health, history, demography, public policy, international relations, social work, and sociology are encouraged. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Applications of Social Network Analysis
Deadline: June 1, 2012
Welcome to the 9th conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis in Zurich, Switzerland. ASNA 2012 has the goal to assess the state of the art and discuss current developments in social network research. As for the previous years, ASNA 2012 will primarily provide an interdisciplinary venue with a focus on applications of social network analysis. However, submissions on theoretical or methodological issues as well as software demos are also welcome. There are no limitations with respect to scientific disciplines and research questions. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Measuring the Success of the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Recommendations from the PCMH Evaluators' Collaborative
May 16, 2012
To promote shared learning from the large number of medical home pilots and evaluations under way, The Commonwealth Fund established the Patient-Centered Medical Home Evaluators' Collaborative in 2009. The Evaluators' Collaborative seeks to align PCMH evaluation methods, identify common outcome measures, share best practices, and exchange information to improve evaluation designs. The Evaluators' Collaborative has developed a core set of standardized measures to evaluate cost, utilization, and clinical quality outcomes in PCMH evaluation studies. Join a webinar on Wednesday, May 16, at 3 p.m. E.T. to hear more about the consensus process and the recommended measures. Click here for more information.Immigration and Poverty Conference: Economic and Social Connections and Policy Approaches
Center for Poverty Research and the Program in Economy, Justice and Society
May 17, 2012
Davis, CA
Bringing together scholars from several disciplines and top academic institutions, this conference addresses the social, economic, and policy challenges of immigration and its consequences. Conference topics cover international migration and global poverty; immigration, jobs and wages; and assimilation of undocumented immigrants. A concluding policy panel will focus on the current limits of immigration policy and the potential for reform. Please join us for a series of presentations on these critical topics by scholars from top institutions across the country. Admission is free and open to the public with pre-registration. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Bridging the Gap: Do Farmers' Markets Help Alleviate Impacts of Food Deserts? Final Report Vicki A. McCracken, Jeremy L. Sage, and Rayna A. Sage (From the Institute for Research on Poverty) Pressures of the globalized food system have left communities and individuals in precarious situations in which nutritious and accessible food is not a given. Research has begun to suggest that relocalization efforts will not necessarily alleviate these trends without directed efforts to produce exchanges that enhance both food and farm security. Existing research in the area of food deserts and Community Food Security lacks significant empirical, spatially relevant support for developing a sound understanding of the variation in effectiveness of federal food assistance programs in relation to local food systems. This research begins to fill this void by first establishing the traditionally conceived food desert estimation for Washington State using grocery store location and census demographic data, followed by an expansion using farmers' markets. Findings suggest substantial variation in the amount of food benefits redeemed at each market based on whether the market is in an UA, UC, or a rural location. Markets in urbanized areas took in over $655,000 dollars combined in WIC FMNP vouchers, while UC markets took in roughly $124,000, and rural markets $9,000. Click here to read more.
ICPSR Updates
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:
*30441 Evaluation of the Healthy Families New York Home Visiting Program, Age Seven Follow Up, 2007-2009
*32442 Surveys of Consumers, January 2003, February 2003, March 2003, April 2003
*32922 National Profile of Local Health Departments, 2010
*33281 Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico City, 1970-1972
Click here for complete details and additional data collections.
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News & Notices
AHRQ Seeks Comments on a Proposed Children's Health Care Quality Measures Project The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is soliciting comments on the Agency's intent to request that the Office of Management and Budget approve a project to collect information related to children's health care quality measures. The goal of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Pediatric Quality Measures Program candidate measure submission form project is to solicit comments on a proposed template for collecting information on the reliability, validity, feasibility, understandability and other attributes of children's health care quality measures. AHRQ, in collaboration with CMS, intends to use the information provided through the standardized data collection form to support review of measures by a Subcommittee of AHRQ's National Advisory Committee on Healthcare Research and Quality. These measures will be nominated by the public or developed by the seven Centers of Excellence for potential inclusion in the CHIPRA improved core measure set or for other related purposes. Comments must be received by June 18. Click here to read more and submit comments.
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