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November 1, 2013 || Vol. 5, Issue 43
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Funding Opportunities
Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (NIH)
Deadline: May 8, 2016
This FOA encourages research grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to investigate the effectiveness of structural interventions aimed at reducing the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission by changing the environment of alcohol use. Although a variety of structural and environmental interventions have been employed successfully to reduce other drinking-related problems, similar research extending into the realm of HIV/AIDS risk reduction is still in its developing stages. Click here for more information.
Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care (NIH)
Deadline: January 25, 2014
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages research grant applications focused on palliative care in geriatric populations. This FOA emphasizes studies in a variety of settings including ambulatory care, hospitals (and specific sites within hospitals including specialty wards, intensive care units and emergency departments), assisted living facilities, and short- and long-term care facilities; however, hospice and end-of-life settings are not included within the scope of this FOA, as they are the subject of other NIH programs. Rather, this FOA highlights research on palliative care in settings and at time points earlier in geriatric patients' disease or disability trajectories. Click here for more information.
The Kresge Foundation Healthy Environments Program
Deadline: Ongoing
Low-income communities often are located in areas with higher exposure to environmental hazards due to the condition and proximity of their homes, schools and workplaces to polluting industries and aging urban centers. These multiple exposures range from air pollution and chemical contaminants to the toxins associated with substandard housing and the additives in unhealthy foods. We support efforts to improve the homes, surroundings and quality of life for children and their families living in low-income communities. Click here for more information.
The National Institute of Justice SORNA Challenge: Developing Strategies to Measure the Implementation Costs and Public Safety Benefits of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)
Deadline: November 18, 2013
NIJ's SORNA Challenge seeks creative and innovative research strategies for future researchers to use when studying (1) the implementation costs associated with complying with SORNA and/or (2) SORNA's public safety benefits (examples include, but are not limited to, the Act's general and specific deterrent effects, its effect on law enforcement's ability to prevent crime, and its effect on the public's ability to protect itself). Click here for more information.
National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Postdoctoral Research FellowshipsDeadline: November 12, 2013The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in two tracks: (i) Broadening Participation (SPRF-BP), and (ii) Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences (SPRF-IBSS). The SPRF-BP track offers fellowships in an effort to increase the diversity of researchers who participate in NSF programs in the social, behavioral and economic sciences and thereby increase the participation of scientists from under-represented groups in selected areas of science in the United States. The SPRF-IBSS track aims to support interdisciplinary training where at least one of the disciplinary components is an SBE science. The proposal must be motivated by a compelling research question (within the fields of social, behavioral and economic sciences) that requires an interdisciplinary approach for successful investigation. Click here for more information.
NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellowship
Deadline: January 6, 2014
The fellowship program brings visiting scholars in health services research-related disciplines to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in Hyattsville, Md. for a period of 13 months to conduct studies of interest to policymakers and the health services research community. Fellows have access to NCHS data resources for use in their proposed studies, and also work on collaborative projects with NCHS staff. Click here for more information.
UNC-Chapel Hill Sheps Center for Health Services Research Postdoctoral Trainee
Deadline: February 15, 2014
This post-doctoral traineeship provides experience with research encompassing health services research, comparative effectiveness research and patient-centered outcomes research. Trainees are drawn from a variety of disciplines including Clinical Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Health Policy, Epidemiology, Sociology, Economics, Health Behavior, among others. Click here for more information.
Public Health Tribal Support Fellowship (CDC)
A research opportunity is available at the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorials Support (OSTLTS) in the Tribal Support Unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The chosen applicant will be involved with Tribal Support's research and program integration and evaluation projects. Tribal support is the primary link between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and tribal governments. Tribal Support activities focus on fulfilling CDC's supportive role in ensuring that American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities receive public health services that keep them safe and healthy. Click here for more information.
Post Doctoral Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill
A project now based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health is looking for a post-doctoral fellow for up to a year.
The work will use several existing data sets. One data set is from the CHOICES study which evaluates the use of a social interaction website to help prevent unhealthy weight gain in young adults in a randomized control trial and includes measures of social media engagement. The other primary data set is from research examining the etiology of youth obesity and includes multi-level data from individuals (individual biological/physiological data, psychosocial and behavioral data from adolescent and parents) and their physical environments (including home, school and neighborhood assessed with GIS data). For more information, contact Leslie Lytle at llytle@email.unc.edu or Brian Southwell at bsouthwell@rti.org.
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Calls
Call for Proposals
17th Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference
Deadline: November 15, 2013
OPRE invites proposals for individual presentations and entire conference sessions for the 2014 conference.
The conference will focus on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and related programs, policies and services that support low-income and vulnerable families on the path to economic self-sufficiency. ACF has a strong preference for presentations that feature recent findings in empirical research based on rigorous, experimental designs, although discussions of work in progress will not be automatically excluded. Presentations that combine research findings with input from State and local practitioners are especially welcome. Click here for more information.
Call for Abstracts
The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development Joint Regional Conference on "Enhancing Food Security and Rural Viability through Innovative Food System Practices and Opportunities"
Deadline: December 15, 2013
We seek high quality research, teaching and outreach presentations that will stimulate, inspire, motivate and advance knowledge of and practices related to food security and rural viability, through the development of food systems. Abstracts will be accepted for research papers, work-in-progress and proposal ideas; extension programs (education and training); policy design and proposals; case studies and student projects. Click here for more information.
Call for Presentations
Millersville University 1st Annual Global Well Being Conference - Global Youth: Understanding Challenges, Identifying Solutions, Offering Hope
Deadline: January 12, 2014
This year's conference,
Global Youth: Understanding Challenges, Identifying Solutions, Offering Hope, invites presentations (poster format, paper, roundtable, and workshop) that investigate challenges faced by youth here and abroad. These presentations can be original research, theoretical framework, clinical interventions, pedagogy, or policy and advocacy. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Working with Data from the Pathways to Desistance Study Webinar
November 6, 2013
The goal of the workshop is to expose investigators to the Pathways to Desistance Study and its accompanying data sets. These data sets contain detailed information on 1,354 serious adolescent offenders followed for seven years after court involvement. They have relevance for a number of topics related to law and psychology research, including risk assessment, perceptions of the risks of crime, and developmental trends. The purpose of the webinar is to: describe the Pathways to Desistance study methods and sample;describe the measures used over time; discuss possible areas of investigation that the Pathways study might be useful for addressing. Click here for more information.
Native American Fatherhood and Families Association (NAFFA) 10th Annual National Native American "Fatherhood is Leadership Conference"
November 4-6 - Mesa, AZ
The Native American Fatherhood & Families Association is pleased to host a 3-day conference to provide a forum of information exchange, skill development, resource networking and learning opportunities to further Native American Fatherhood and Motherhood and to support families in their desire to reach their fullest potential. Click here for more information.
AUCD 2013 Conference: Promoting Inclusion in an Increasingly Diverse World
November 17-20, 2013 - Washington, DC
This year's AUCD Conference theme promotes our network values of inclusion of all persons with developmental and other disabilities in community life and engages the network in conversation and practices to ensure our work reflects the changing cultural and linguistic landscape in our Centers and States. The conference will include opportunities to address these issues through conference panels, concurrent and poster sessions. Click here for more information.
2013 National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children Conference
November 18-20, 2013 - Oklahoma City, OK
We anticipate a nationwide representation of service providers and professionals, including child welfare providers, substance abuse treatment providers, juvenile and family court judges and attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors, probation officers, prevention specialists, maternal and child health agencies, physicians, nurses, researchers and evaluators, educators, Tribal communities, community organizations serving youth, and children and adult mental health providers. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Database Available
CRELES-2: Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study - Wave 2, 2006-2008
The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study is a nationally representative longitudinal survey of health and lifecourse experiences of 2,827 Costa Ricans ages 60 and over in 2005, the baseline collection. The second wave fieldwork was conducted from October 2006 to July 2008, with 2,364 surviving and contacted participants. The original sample was drawn from Costa Rican residents in the 2000 population census who were born in 1945 or before, with an over-sample of the oldest-old (ages 95 and over). Click here for more information.
New Database Available
Citizenship, Democracy, and Drug-Related Violence (CIDENA, 2011)
The survey Citizenship, Democracy, and Drug-Related Violence (CIDENA, 2011) was implemented with the goal of providing information towards understanding the complex relationship between society and drug-related violence in Mexico. Cognitive interviews, face-to-face interviews, and list experiments were utilized in Mexico. The survey was conducted in face-to-face interviews (at the residence of the interviewee) based on a sample of men and women over 18 years of age and residents of Mexico. The sample was representative nationwide of 7 states with different levels of violence. Click here for more information.
New Database Available
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies Database, 2012
The CCDF Policies Database project is a comprehensive, up-to-date database of inter-related sources of CCDF policy information that support the needs of a variety of audiences through (1) Analytic Data Files and (2) a Book of Tables. These are made available to researchers, administrators, and policymakers with the goal of addressing important questions concerning the effects of alternative child care subsidy policies and practices on the children and families served, specifically parental employment and self-sufficiency, the availability and quality of care, and children's development. Click here for more information.
NCHS Data Brief - Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults: United States, 2011-2012
This brief provides key findings from analyses of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Healthier diets possible in low-income, rural communities in America
This article summarizes the results of a two-year randomized, controlled, community- and school-based intervention to prevent unhealthy weight gain among rural school-aged children that was published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Click here for more information.
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