August 29, 2014  || Vol. 6, Issue 35
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding       
Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to develop basic and applied projects utilizing systems science methodologies relevant to human behavioral and social sciences and health. This FOA is intended to encourage a broader scope of topics to be addressed with systems science methodologies, beyond those encouraged by existing open FOAs. Research projects applicable to this FOA are those that are either applied or basic in nature (including methodological development), have a human behavioral and/or social science focus, and feature systems science methodologies. Click here for more information.

Testing Interventions for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (NIH)
Deadline: September 7, 2017
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund highly innovative and promising research that tests multi-level intervention programs of 1 to 2 years in length that are designed to increase health-enhancing physical activity: 1) in persons or groups that can benefit from such activity; and 2) that could be made scalable and sustainable for broad use across the nation. This FOA provides support for up to 5 years for research planning, intervention delivery, and follow-up activities. Click here for more information.

Viola W. Bernard Foundation Grants
Deadline: November 2, 2014
Grants are generally limited to projects or programs for children and young people with a mental health component. Grants provide funding for innovative programs that address the interplay between social conditions and psychological health of children and families. Click here for more information.

Program Evaluation Post-doctoral Fellowship (HRSA)
Deadline: Open until filled

The Health Resources and Services Administration's HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) works to provide leadership and resources to assure access to and retention in high quality, integrated care and treatment services for vulnerable people living with HIV and their families through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP). The Division for Policy and Data (DPD) within HAB works to provide leadership and expertise in HIV/AIDS data management and analysis, policy development and implementation of program evaluation, and technical assistance.  HAB/DPD is seeking an ORISE Fellow to support its work with conducting analyses and evaluations on the RWHAP. The Fellow will also assist with designing and implementing special scientific studies/evaluations on the impact and outcomes of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, particularly as they intersect with the Affordable Care Act. These studies will support HAB's ability to accurately measure public health indicators, and analyze trends in health care.  Fellow should have experience in utilizing methods and principles of statistical resources and procedures associated with the analysis of health care programs, experience pertaining to designing and conducting data management activities, developing statistical models and implementing operational research projects, and providing advice and expertise on data collection analyses and methodologies. Possession of statistical and database (i.e., SAS) programming expertise to recode and transform data into analytic-ready data files and create variables to accommodate analytic needs is helpful. Click here for more information.

CallsCalls 
Call for Abstracts
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Join the NHMA network of health care providers and government and private sector partners from across the nation and learn new strategies for effective health care delivery and policies for Hispanic populations. National and international experts will present on current innovations in medical homes, accountable care organizations, health insurance exchanges, prevention, integrative care, e-health, and cultural competence for the growing Hispanic populations in the U.S. Disease areas include diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer and more. CME credits to be provided. Click here for more information.

DEADLINE EXTENDED
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Traumatology - Trauma, Aging, and Well-BeingInvoking Human Rights, Intergenerational Family Justice, Peace, and Freedom 
Deadline: Februrary 15, 2015

In response to a large gap in the literature, Traumatology is pleased to announce a call for papers with a forensic and interdisciplinary focus, on the topics of trauma, aging, and well-being, particularly life course and cumulative trauma among older persons from diverse backgrounds and locations.  Advancing research, practice, and policy in this area has important prevention, assessment, and intervention implications that will ameliorate human suffering and illuminate the issues pertaining to human rights and social justice. Further, it will advance individual, family, and community rights to safety, dignity, respect and fair treatment, across the life course.  Shedding light on these topics is a critical step toward improving society's response to achieving peace, freedom, justice and well-being around the globe. Click here for more information.

Conferences & Trainingsconf
Child Trends Webinar - Family and Provider/Teacher Relationship Quality (FPTRQ) Measurement Development Project
September 10, 2014 - 10:00-11:00 AM EDT
Findings from the early childhood research literature show that positive, mutually respectful and collaborative relationships between families and early care and education providers and teachers contribute to young children's school readiness, increase family engagement in their children's program, and strengthen the home-program connection. FPTRQ, a project funded by the Administration for Children and Families' Office of Head Start and Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, has created new measures of family and provider/teacher relationships that are applicable to diverse settings including Early Head Start/Head Start, center-based programs and family child care, as well as ethnically and economically diverse populations. Click here for more information and to register.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
New Dataset Available - Drug Use Among Young American Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction, 2001-2006 and 2009-2013 
The Drug Use Among Young Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction study is an annual surveillance effort assessing the levels and patterns of substance use among American Indian (AI) adolescents attending schools on or near reservations. In addition to annual epidemiology of substance use, data pertaining to the normative environment for adolescent substance use were also obtained. For this data collection data comes from annual in-school surveys completed between the years 2001 to 2006, and 2009 to 2013. Students completed the surveys at school during a specified class period. The dataset contains 527 variables for 16,590 students in grades 7 to 12. Click here for more information and to gain access to these freely available data.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Issue Brief - Early Childhood Experiences Shape Health and Well-Being Throughout Life
During the last 15 to 20 years, accumulated knowledge has revealed that family income and education, neighborhood resources, and other social and economic factors affect health at every stage of life, but the effects on young children are particularly dramatic. Click here for more information.

The Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief - Arkansas: A Leading Laboratory for Health Care Payment and Delivery System Reform
As states' Medicaid programs continue to evolve from traditional fee-for-service to value-based health care delivery, there is growing recognition that systemwide multipayer approaches provide the market power needed to address the triple aim of improved patient care, improved health of populations, and reduced costs. Federal initiatives, such as the State Innovation Model grant program, make significant funds available for states seeking to transform their health care systems. In crafting their reform strategies, states can learn from early innovators. This issue brief focuses on one such state: Arkansas. Insights and lessons from the Arkansas Health Care Payment Improvement Initiative (AHCPII) suggest that progress is best gained through an inclusive, deliberative process facilitated by committed leadership, a shared agreement on root problems and opportunities for improvement, and a strategy grounded in the state's particular health care landscape. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews  

New York Times - Medicare to Start Paying Doctors Who Coordinate Needs of Chronically Ill Patients

In a policy change, the Obama administration is planning to pay doctors to coordinate the care of Medicare beneficiaries, amid growing evidence that patients with chronic illnesses suffer from disjointed, fragmented care. Click here for more information.

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