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April 12, 2013 || Vol. 5, Issue 14
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Funding Opportunities
Addressing Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases (R01)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks research to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases in the United States and to develop and test more effective interventions for reducing/eliminating health disparities. Research is encouraged in the following high priority diseases within the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK: diabetes, obesity, nutrition-related disorders, hepatitis C, gallbladder disease, H. Pylori infection, sickle cell disease, kidney diseases, urologic diseases, hematologic diseases, metabolic, gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal complications from infection with HIV. Click here for more information.
NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making
Deadline: June 17, 2013
The study of adult offender decision-making has typically been approached from the rational choice model. With this solicitation the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks to expand the existing research by examining the process of adult offender decision-making with respect to the decision to offend. NIJ requests proposals that either expand the rational choice model or use other theories (e.g., behavioral economics, business models, psychology, or cognitive models) or both. Proposed research also should consider issues such as social context, emotions, default choices, or possibly environmental context to help the field gain a better understanding of the overall decision-making process. Click here for more information.
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity - Round 8
Deadline: July 10, 2013
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. Click here for more information.
AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
Deadline: July 12, 2016
(Agency for Health Care Research and Quality)
The primary purpose of the AHRQ PCOR Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) program is to prepare qualified individuals for careers utilizing complex comparative effectiveness research (CER) methods to clinical and health systems PCOR issues, involving stakeholders, as appropriate, in the design, execution,and dissemination of the research. Click here for more information.
Occupational Safety and Health Research (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2013
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The purpose of this grant program is to develop an understanding of the risks and conditions associated with occupational diseases and injuries, to explore methods for reducing risks and for preventing or minimizing exposure to hazardous conditions in the workplace, and to translate significant scientific findings into prevention practices and products that will effectively reduce work-related illnesses and injuries. Click here for more information.
2013 Visiting Fellow: Criminal Justice Statistics Programs
Deadline: May 21, 2013
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for one or more BJS Visiting Fellows to work in its Criminal Justice Statistics Programs with existing BJS data. The overall purpose of this program is to support the scholarly use of BJS data collections, expand the body of policy-relevant research that uses these data, and enhance or inform BJS statistical programs. Under section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, BJS is authorized to "make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with public agencies, institutions of higher education, private organizations, or private individuals" for purposes of collecting and analyzing criminal justice statistics. Click here for more information.
Drug Abuse Dissertation Research (R36)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
(National Institutes of Health)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for support of drug abuse doctoral dissertation research. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
SSWR Annual Conference
Deadline: April 30, 2013
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) announces its Eighteenth Annual Conference "Research for Social Change: Addressing Local and Global Challenges" which will convene in San Antonio, TX, January 15-19, 2014. 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. Abstract submissions will be handled through the SSWR/Confex online submission website. Please note that the abstract submission deadline is Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 11:59pm, PDT.
Call for Submissions
Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference
Deadline: May 31, 2013
The Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference is one of the National Rural Health Association's fastest growing conferences. One of the only meetings in the nation to focus on rural multiracial and multicultural health issues, this event offers attendees the opportunity to meet with peers and experts who share unique concerns and interests. This conference is designed for those who are dedicated to bringing quality health care and health care services to this underserved and often under-represented portion of the rural population. Click here for more information.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Edition of Social Work and Christianity: Religion and Spirituality in Competency-Based Social Work Practice
Deadline: January 31, 2014
Guest Editors: Altaf Husain, PhD and Michael Sherr, PhD
Educators, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers with an emphasis on demonstrating religious and spiritual competence in practice. Building on the growing interest among practitioners in the role of religion and spirituality in social work practice, this special issue of Social Work & Christianity seeks to call attention to the diversity among both longstanding and emerging religious and spiritual traditions, while highlighting the implications for Christians in Social Work. Renewed professional interest in religion and spirituality has manifested itself in the formation of a work group on religion and spirituality convened by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Representatives of NACSW serve on the work group along with members from other diverse religious and spiritual traditions. The co-editors of this special issue are members of the CSWE work group, and are exemplars of religious diversity representing a Muslim, Jewish, and Christian perspective, respectively. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research
University of Michigan School of Social Work
Deadline: April 15, 2013
The Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research (MMR) at the University of Michigan School of Social Work (UM-SSW) is designed for researchers and practitioners in social work, nursing, psychology, and other applied fields. Participants will learn ways to integrate various types of research methods; commonly used data analysis procedures; and approaches to research conducted in practice settings. Special emphasis on: critiquing theoretical foundations of research, forming research questions, applying mixed methods techniques, conducting statistical analysis, and interpreting research reports. This certificate program is a blended and interactive web-based learning experience led by UM-SSW Professor Daphne C. Watkins, PhD. Each course of the program includes: web-based instructor-led skill development sessions, self-paced podcasts and web modules, and interactive course work from personal or work computer. Participants must agree to complete the web-based certificate program in 4 weeks (on Mondays and Wednesdays from May 20th through June 12th) and can earn 45 hours of macro social work continuing education credits. To enroll, click here. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2013, so enroll today! For more information contact the SSW Continuing Education Office at (734) 763-5723 or at ssw.conted@umich.edu.
36th Annual Rural Health ConferenceMay 7-10, 2013Louisville, KYThe National Rural Health Association (NRHA)'s Annual Rural Health Conference is the nation's largest rural health conference, created for all of those with an interest in rural health care, including rural health practitioners, hospital administrators, clinic directors and lay health workers, social workers, state and federal health employees, academics, community members and more. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
The 50 State CHARTBOOK on Foster Care: A Web-Based Data Resource for Child Welfare Professionals
Boston University School of Social Work, with funding from The MENTOR Network Charitable Foundation, has launched The 50 State CHARTBOOK on Foster Care. The CHARTBOOK is an online resource on current foster care policies, practices and financing in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with a particular emphasis on therapeutic or treatment foster care. The CHARTBOOK is a tool offering key stakeholders (i.e., policy leaders, practitioners, researchers, advocates) the ability to: (1) benchmark individual states on various key populations, programs and outcome indicators, and (2) learn about innovative programs being implemented by different states.
Using the online CHARTBOOK, you can access data for your own state and easily do a side-by-side comparison with other states' data. Each State Profile has been organized into eight sections: State Child Agency Background Characteristics; Demographics of Children in Out-of-Home Placements, State's Enhanced Models of Service Delivery in Foster Care; Child Welfare Revenues and Expenditures; Foster Care Permanency Outcomes; Children in Foster Care Well-being Outcomes; and State Key Initiatives and Innovative Programs in Foster Care. Click here to access the CHARTBOOK.
Release of Data from Multi-Site Evaluation of Foster Youth Programs
The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)at Cornell University released a dataset from the ACF Multi-Site Evaluation of Foster Youth Programs. ACF's Children's Bureau and the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) contracted with the Urban Institute and its partners-the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and the National Opinion Research Center-to conduct an evaluation of selected programs funded through John Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP). This evaluation, using a rigorous, random assignment design, was called for in the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999. The evaluation examined the effects of Independent Living Programs funded under CFCIP outcomes including education, employment, interpersonal and relationship skills, non-marital pregnancy and births, and delinquency and crime rates. A full description of the dataset and ordering information is available at the NDACAN dataset description page. There is no charge to obtain these data. All reports from the study are available on the OPRE website.
Profile of Rural Health Clinics: Clinic & Medicare Patient Characteristics: Review of 2009 Medicare Outpatient Claims Data
Andrea D. Radford, DrPH, Denise A. Kirk, MS, Hilda A. Howard, BA, Mark Holmes, PhD
In 1977, Public Law 95-210 created the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement designation for qualified primary care practices. With over 3,900 certified sites located across the county, RHCs are an important component of the rural health care infrastructure. RHCs can be private/for-profit or non-profit. Some operate as independent medical practices, while others are part of a hospital-owned system or other health care organization ("provider based"). RHCs receive cost-based reimbursement, subject to tests of reasonableness, for primary care services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. This Findings Brief is the second in a series on RHCs which draws on a large, national secondary dataset that includes data on all RHCs that bill Medicare. Using data extracted from 2009 Medicare outpatient provider claims, this Findings Brief presents a summary of the geographic distribution and clinic-level characteristics of RHCs, as well as an overview of the Medicare beneficiaries they served. Click here for more information.
Report Finds Stronger Research Needed on the Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent PTSD
A new review from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Effective Health Care Program identifies areas that need more and methodologically better research about the efficacy of interventions to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Specific therapies appear to be effective, such as collaborative care (a combination of care management, psychopharmacology, and cognitive behavioral therapy) for patients who require inpatient surgical admission and brief trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for people with acute stress disorder. However, debriefing is ineffective in reducing either the incidence or severity of PTSD or depressive symptoms in people who experience crime, assault, or accident trauma. Sixty percent of men and 51 percent of women report experiencing at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Approximately 10 percent to 20 percent of those individuals develop PTSD symptoms, which are associated with impaired functioning. More research is needed to develop a way to identify people at high risk of developing PTSD after trauma exposure and to evaluate the effectiveness of prevention interventions. Click here for more information.
ICPSR New Data
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:
-21520 Community Health Center: Core Data Project, 2001-2002
-30282 New Hope Project: Income and Employment Effects on Children and Families, 1994-2003 [Restricted Use]
-32201 Defining Law Enforcement's Role in Protecting American Agriculture From Agroterrorism in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, 2003-2004
-33802 American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2009
-33942 National Survey of Youth in Custody, 2008-2009
-34122 Perception and Memory Experiments Using Drug Names [2010, Canada]
-34265 Eurobarometer 75.2: Economic Crisis, Volunteer Work, the Environment, Audiovisual Interests, and Helplines for Social Services, April-May 2011
-34347 Land Use, Agropastoral Production, Family Composition, and Household Economy in Santarem, Para, Brazil, June-August 2003
-34374 Washington State Achievers Longitudinal Surveys, 2000-2007
-34375 Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS) Cohort 1, 2000-2008
-34388 Land Reform in Mexico 1910-1976
-34439 Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS) Cohort 5, 2004-2009
-34529 Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, May 2002
-34567 Eurobarometer 76.2: Employment and Social Policy, Job Security, and Active Aging, September-November 2011
Click here for more information.
Portfolio of Research in Welfare and Family Self-Sufficiency
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) released its Portfolio of Research in Welfare and Family Self-Sufficiency for Fiscal Year 2012. This document provides detailed summaries of OPRE's ongoing welfare and family self-sufficiency research efforts along with brief overviews of past projects. It also describes OPRE's efforts to disseminate rigorous research on welfare and family self-sufficiency topics. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
National Science Foundation-Funded Social Science Research Directly Benefits AmericansThe National Science Foundation (NSF) released a summary brochure today that shows how important human-focused research is to critical national needs. Titled "Bringing People Into Focus: How Social, Behavioral and Economic Research Addresses National Challenges," the brochure provides examples of the ways in which NSF-funded, basic, social and behavioral science research bears on national security and economic interests." As our population becomes more diverse and our economy becomes more globally integrated, Americans' quality of life increasingly depends on understanding the human dimensions that can better sustain our environment, promote public health, maintain a robust economy, reduce conflict and advance democracy," said NSF Assistant Director of Social, Behavior and Economic Sciences Myron Gutmann. "This summary highlights some of the groundbreaking NSF-funded scientists who are conducting pioneering research across all of these areas." The compilation of studies describes cutting-edge research from improving evacuation plans during natural disasters to expanding access to vital services, and from evaluating the experiences of returning veterans to understanding the value of good teachers. Click here to read more.
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