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September 20, 2013 || Vol. 5, Issue 37
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Funding Opportunities
Maternal and Child Health Research Program (HHS)
Deadline: Nov 8, 2013 The MCH Research Program supports applied and translational research relating to maternal and child health services including services for children with special health care needs, which show promise of substantial contribution to advancement of the current knowledge pool, and when used in States and communities should result in health and health services improvements. Findings from the research supported by the MCH Research Program are expected to have potential for application in health care delivery programs for mothers and children. Click here for more information.
Maternal and Child Health Secondary Data Analysis Studies (MCH SDAS) (HHS)
Deadline: November 8, 2013
The MCH SDAS program supports applied research relating to maternal and child health services that utilizes exclusively the secondary analysis of existing national databases and/or administrative records. These projects should have the potential to improve health care services and delivery and to promote health and wellbeing among maternal and child health populations. Click here for more information.
Maternal and Child Health Policy Analysis Program (HHS)
Deadline: November 8, 2013
The MCH Policy Analysis Program supports: (1) analyses of policy changes that support improved access, quality, and integration of health care and services for MCH populations; (2) assessments of the key social determinants that may serve as barriers to effectively implementing policies which attempt to improve access, quality, equity, and/or integration of services among MCH populations; and (3) identification of key components of policy changes that effectively promote access, quality, and integration of systems of social, behavioral, and physical health among MCH populations. Click here for more information.
Behavioral & Integrative Treatment Development Program (NIH)
Deadline: January 8, 2016
The purpose of this FOA for R01 applications is to encourage behavioral intervention development research to test efficacy, conduct clinical trials, examine mechanisms of behavior change, determine dose-response, optimize combinations, and/or ascertain best sequencing of behavioral, combined, sequential, or integrated behavioral and pharmacological (1) drug abuse treatment interventions, including interventions for patients with comorbidities, in diverse settings; (2) drug abuse treatment and adherence interventions for use in primary care; (3) drug abuse treatment and adherence interventions that utilize technologies to boost effects and increase implementability; (4) interventions to prevent the acquisition or transmission of HIV infection among individuals in drug abuse treatment; (5) interventions to promote adherence to drug abuse treatment, HIV and addiction medications; and (6) interventions to treat chronic pain. Click here for more information.
Health Promotion for Children With Physical Disabilities Through Physical Activity and Diet: Developing An Evidence Base (NIH)
Deadline: September 8, 2014
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Project Grant applications that will improve our understanding of how patterns of physical activity and dietary choice affect the health and fitness of children with physical disabilities.
Proposed research should account for the functional limitations of children with disabilities and their nutritional needs, as well as the physiological, psychosocial, and environmental factors that play a role in determining the health of this population. Click here for more information.
Research on Children in Military Families: The Impact of Parental Military Deployment and Reintegration on Child and Family Functioning (HHS)
Deadline: May 8, 2014
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage interdisciplinary studies on the impact of parental military deployment, combat-related stress, and reintegration with the family on child social and affective development outcomes as well as on family functioning. Longitudinal prospective studies with diverse samples would address important gaps in the literature and are highly encouraged. Descriptive studies addressing the particular concerns of early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence are also encouraged. Click here for more information.
Smart and Connected Health Program
Deadline: October 10, 2013
The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program is to accelerate the development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on well-being rather than disease. Approaches that partner technology-based solutions with biobehavioral health research are supported by multiple agencies of the federal government including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Click here for more information.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
Deadline: November 13, 2013
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation's most comprehensive fellowship experience at the nexus of health science, policy and politics in Washington, D.C. It is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health and health care policy promoting the health of the nation. Fellows participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care and health policy. Click here for more information.
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 13, 2014
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or in teams. Click here for more information.
Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 13, 2014
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers is pleased to announce a new focused regional fellowship program enabling pre- and early post-doctoral scholars to carry out research in the humanities and related social sciences in countries bordering the Mediterranean and served by American overseas research centers. Click here for more information.
Washington University Brown School Addictions and Addictive Behaviors Post-Doctoral Opportunity
Deadline: Rolling
The Transdisciplinary Training in Addictions Research (TranSTAR) Program at Washington University's Brown School, in collaboration with investigators from the School of Medicine, Arts and Sciences, and the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, is seeking applicants for its post-doctoral fellowship. This is a 2-year in-residence post-doctoral opportunity funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) designed to produce researchers who have state-of-the-art knowledge of addictions research, including alcohol, licit/illicit drug use, and tobacco. Click here for more information.
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Deadline: Program Dependent (please see link for more information)
The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) 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. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Proposals
American Men's Studies Association 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference - Considering Culture: Masculinities in International and Regional Contexts
Deadline: October 15, 2013
We specifically invite proposals that address aspects of masculinities within and across
indigenous communities. Additional proposals related to the theme might address regional, national, international, and cross-cultural masculinities. With this theme, AMSA hopes to focus the lens of men's studies on communities outside the bounds of mainstream discourse. While we particularly encourage proposals that address the conference theme we also invite proposals on a range of other topics relevant to the critical study of men and masculinities, and that reflect AMSA's mission. Click here for more information.
Call for AbstractsThird International Conference on Practice Research - Building Bridges Not Pipelines: Promoting Two-Way Traffic Between Practice and ResearchDeadline: October 15, 2013The purpose of this conference is to promote innovative, flexible and truly collaborative practice-research strategies that engage academic researchers and social work practitioners in a productive dialogue rather than a conflict over research-based "versus" practice-based knowledge-development paradigms. It is intended to bring our most inventive national and international thinkers together to learn from each other rather than to set them apart. Abstract submission categories include: stakeholders and partnerships in practice research, multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches in practice research, boundary crossing and meeting points, the changing context of practice, education on and in practice research, and public policy and research dissemination. Click here for more information. Request for ProposalsSchlumberger Foundation 2014-2015 Faculty for the Future Fellowship (from the Philantrhopy News Digest) Deadline: November 15, 2013The Houston-based Schlumberger Foundation is accepting applications for the 2014-15 Faculty for the Future fellowship program. Launched in 2004, the program awards fellowships to female scientists from developing nations to help them pursue advanced graduate degrees and postdoctoral fellowships in scientific disciplines at leading universities around the world. Click here for more information. Call for Submissions2014 Rural Sociological Society Conference - Equity, Democracy, and the commons: Counter-narratives for Rural TransformationDeadline: March 3, 2014The organizers invite the contribution of papers, sessions, roundtables and posters that provide alternative accounts of, explanations for, and responses to current impasses; promote dialogue between different systems of knowledge; tell stories about or with rural people representing diverse perspectives and standpoints; use creative means to present the results of research or to engage participants; and provide fresh theoretical insights for rural sociology and new ideas about how we can participate in a more just and transformative rural development. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
2013 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference: Issues and InnovationsOctober 10-11, 2013
This conference aims to identify issues, emphasize best practices, and highlight innovations by providing those who work with
refugees and immigrants an opportunity to learn from and network with one another. The conference will include sessions on: education, health care, family support services, employment, capacity building, refugee populations, integrated services, issues of citizenship and immigration policy/legislation/updates, and cultural orientation. Click here for more information. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) 42nd Annual Conference - Recession, Renewal, Revolution? Nonprofit and Voluntary Action in an Age of Turbulence
November 21-23, 2013
In a world that is facing constant change and weathering these turbulent forces, it is important for scholars to reflect on how have nonprofit organizations, NGOs, social movements, and other forms of voluntary action been affected by the economic and social turbulence of the past five years? Click here for more information. Central Nebraska Area Health Education Center Conference - Responding to the Brain Injury Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Needs of Returning Veterans
October 17-18, 2013
Conference objectives include: reviewing compensatory strategies and intervention techniques for addressing common issues following brain injury; describing military culture, including the after effects of deployment and how it contributes to communicating with veterans; discussing resources available for military services members, veterans, and their families; reviewing current drug treatments for symptoms of PTSD; discussing assessment and diagnosis of TBI and PTSD. Click here for more information. Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Science and Public Policy
November 4-5, 2013 The theme of the meeting is Societal, Technological, and Scientific Changes. It will feature presentations by the new director of the Census Bureau and leaders from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Other highlights will include panels on America's Political Institutions in Trouble, Social Science and the Press, and Changes Regarding Race in America. In addition, there will be sessions on Changes in Living Arrangements and the Impact of Technology on Social Change. Finally, COSSA's outgoing Executive Director will reflect on his thirty years of advocating for the social and behavioral sciences. Click here for more information. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Webinars
Registration is now open for AHRQ's two webinars to introduce health services and policy researchers to the HCUP state and nationwide databases and related resources: - Overview of the HCUP Databases - September 18, 2013, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
- Overview of the HCUP Products and Tools - September 25 , 2013, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
These webinars are free and open to the public. Click here for more information. Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) luncheon briefing: What's Ailing America? Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
September 25, 2013
Speakers will report on the findings of the National Research Council's and Institute of Medicine's report, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Communication, 1996-1998 DatabaseThis data collection is designed to examine factors influencing the validity of violence risk assessment and risk communication, and it covers three surveys: (1) 1996 Clinical Judgements Survey, (2) 1997 Dangerousness Survey, and (3) 1998 Survey. Click here for more information.
Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions (PREHCO) Project, 2002-2003, 2006-2007 Database
The Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions (PREHCO) study investigates the mental and physical health status among the elderly (individuals over 60 years of age) in Puerto Rico. Through a cross-sectional sample survey of target individuals and their spouses, PREHCO identifies the varying demographic and health variables affecting the elderly such as income, housing arrangements, health insurance, migration, and childhood characteristics. Based on the patterns of access and utilization of health services, the data can be used to project the health profiles and risks of mortality among the elderly in Puerto Rico. Click here for more information.
Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2011
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is a part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR), administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The data focus on a variety of aspects of a crime incident. Click here for more information.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Fact Sheet: Long-term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
This factsheet explains the long-term physical, psychological, behavioral, and societal consequences of child abuse and neglect. Click here to view the fact sheet.
HHS Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings
This report summarizes findings from the National Survey on Drug Use and health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. Click here for the full report.
Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) FAX Updates
CESAR FAX provides a weekly, one-page overview of timely substance abuse trends or issues. This week's articles include:
- High School Dropouts Report Higher Rates of Substance Use Than Those Who Remain in School
- More Than One-Third of Designated Drivers in a Southeastern U.S. College Town Had Been Drinking
Click here for a full listing of this week's articles.
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News & Notices
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Fellows Announcement Fellow Status is an honor conferred by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). The Association established this honor to recognize outstanding leadership in gerontological/geriatric education by established scholars and educators at AGHE member institutions. Fellow status is granted only to individuals demonstrating a record of excellence beyond routine teaching. Click here for more information.
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