Funding Opportunities     

Using Social Media to Understand and Address Substance Use and Addiction (NIH)  Deadline: March 25, 2014  

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is part of a trans-NIH initiative known as Collaborative Research on Addiction (CRAN). The goal of this FOA is to inspire and support research projects investigating the role of social media in risk behaviors associated with the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (hereafter referred to as "ATOD") and projects using social media to ameliorate such behaviors. Each research project proposed in response to this FOA must be focused on one of the two distinct areas: 1) observational research using social media interactions as surveillance tools to aid in the understanding of the epidemiology, risk factors, attitudes, and behaviors associated with ATOD use and addiction, or 2) intervention research measuring the reach, engagement, and behavioral and health impact of social media-based interventions for the screening, prevention, and treatment, of ATOD use and addiction. Click here for more information.  

Secondary Analyses of Strengthening Families Datasets (OPRE)
Deadline: May 14, 2014

The Office of Planning Research and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plan to solicit applications for Secondary Analysis of Strengthening Families Data grants. The cooperative agreements will fund research to conduct secondary data analysis of the Building Strong Families (BSF), Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM), and Community Healthy Marriage Initiative (CHMI) datasets. Successful applicants will demonstrate a familiarity with the proposed data for their analysis and an adequate understanding of the variables, sampling, methodology, etc. used to construct the dataset necessary for completion of the work proposed in the application. Proposed research should address topics relevant to strengthening families to improve the lives of children and parents and promote economic stability. Topics of interest include, but may not be limited to, mediators of relationship education programs, the measurement of relationship education and fatherhood with low-income families, or father involvement in low-income families. Click here for more information.

Substance Use and Abuse, Risky Decision Making and HIV/AIDS (NIH)

Deadline: May 7, 2017

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to stimulate model-driven research to understand the ways that people make decisions about engaging in behaviors that impact the risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV, or to adhere to treatments for HIV. Decision making processes may contribute to both substance use/abuse and other HIV acquisition or transmission risks. A better understanding of decision making processes in the context of brain neural networks and their associated functions would lead to the development of better strategies to reduce the frequency of HIV-risk behaviors. Therefore, this FOA encourages applications to study 1) cognitive, motivational or emotional mechanisms and/or 2) brain neuroendocrine and reinforcement systems that related to HIV-risk behaviors or treatment non-compliance. Interdisciplinary studies that incorporate approaches from psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, decision sciences, neuroscience and computational modeling are encouraged. Click here for more information.

Silberman Fund Faculty Grant Program

This year, the Silberman Fund at The New York Community Trust will fund projects that advance new knowledge and its application to social work education and practice in three important areas: (1) the changing role and place of males in American society; (2) the new poor, families affected by the recession and a widening income/wage gap and; (3) immigration, understanding and meeting the needs of diverse immigrant groups. Click here for more information.

Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Psychiatry Post-Doctoral Training Opportunity

Deadline: Position open immediately

This postdoctoral research fellowship offers a unique opportunity to build a research career in the context of a newly-funded mental health intervention for older adults impacted by Super Storm Sandy. The program is a community-academic partnership between the New York City Department for the Aged and Weill Cornell. Areas of research that the project will support include, but are not limited to, community-based partnership intervention development, community-based mental health services delivery, disaster interventions for older adults, implementation science and community resilience strategies. Eligible candidates (psychiatrists, medical physicians, psychologists, and social/behavioral scientists) are committed to becoming
independent investigators in mental health delivery research for older adults. Requirements include completion of doctoral degree before June 1, 2014. Send curriculum vita and a brief description of research interests to: Paul Toth, Weill Cornell Medical College, Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10603, or e-mail pjt2003@med.cornell.edu.

Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging at NORC at the University of Chicago Post-doctoral Fellowship

Deadline: February 4, 2014 

 The goal of these postdoctoral fellowships is to train recent doctoral recipients interested in the demographic and economic analysis of aging through the development of basic methodological tools, applied research, policy-making and analysis, and
professional development. Click here for more information.  

University of Wisconsin Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program (HDRS) Post-doctoral Fellowship

Deadline: March 1, 2014  

The objective of the HDRS program is to provide training at the postdoctoral level in interdisciplinary research that addresses disparities in health status and health outcomes among minority populations, as well as, to attract and maintain underrepresented minorities in academic research careers. Click here for more information.

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award - NICHD Postdoctoral Traineeship

Deadline: Screening of applications will begin on January 27th and will continue until the position is filled.   

The Population Research Center (PRC) at The University of Texas at Austin will have one opening for NICHD-funded postdoctoral position starting September 1, 2014.  This position is for one year, but is potentially renewable for a second year. The PRC is an interdisciplinary research and training unit of The University of Texas at Austin (UT) that provides infrastructure support services and project development support for a very productive, interdisciplinary group of faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students at UT. Most of the research is concentrated in four overlapping and reinforcing thematic areas: Health disparities, Educational Inequality & Opportunity, Partnership, Parenting, & Human Development, and Work and Stratification. Click here for more information.  

2014 Moore/Sloan Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowships
The program recognizes that rapid advances in our ability to acquire and generate data are transforming all fields of discovery from "data-poor" to "data-rich" and a significant bottleneck to discovery is our ability to perform inference over heterogeneous, noisy, and often massive datasets. Click here for more information.

DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY

Family Strengthening Research Scholars Grant (OPRE)

Deadline: April 18, 2014

This program will support dissertation research on healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy issues.  These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students. These grants are intended to address issues of significance to inform policy decisions and solutions, particularly for underserved/understudied populations (e.g., low-income families, minority populations), utilitize rigorous research methodology (both primary data collection and secondary data analysis), and help inform the development of future intervention research. Click here for more information.