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October 3, 2014 || Vol. 6, Issue 40
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SWRnet provides a weekly update about new research funding opportunities, calls for papers and proposals, conferences and trainings, new data and research, and news for the social work research community.
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Funding Opportunities
Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (NIH)
Deadline: September 7, 2016
This initiative seeks applications from applicants that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older. Click here for more information.
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies Postdoctoral Training Program in Behavioral Sciences HIV Research
Deadline: November 1, 2014
Our program is a postdoctoral research training program that provides intensive training in human sexuality research as applied to HIV prevention and HIV-related health interventions. The major components of our program are academic course work, the development of research and professional skills, and the conduct of independent research. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Institute for Research on Poverty Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Deadline: November 21, 2014
The National Poverty Fellows Program offers talented postdoctoral researchers an opportunity to participate in a federal government-university partnership. The goal of the program is both to build the capacity of researchers to conduct high-quality policy-relevant research on poverty and inequality in the United States and to contribute to the effective use of research and scientific knowledge in the formation of public policy. Click here for more information.
American College Health Foundation Weiss Writing Prize
Deadline: January 31, 2015
The Weiss Writing Prize will be awarded to the lead author of a pivotal publication in college mental health. American College Health Association Institutional or Individual Members are eligible to apply. The winning article should demonstrate a successful student retention program for those with mental health issues. The program will provide creative, innovative solutions that could be implemented on other campuses. Preference will be given to articles published in the Journal of American College Health. Click here for more information.
American College Health Foundation Stephan D. Weiss Student Mental Health Award
Deadline: January 31, 2015
The Stephan D. Weiss Foundation and the Weiss Fund of the American College Health Foundation offers a $2500 award to promote and improve the quality of mental health support for college students. The Weiss Award is intended to encourage the development of creative initiatives that will enhance mental health service delivery to students through an innovative program which could be replicated at other colleges or universities. This award will support program development that can demonstrate measurable success in student retention for those whose mental health problems might otherwise compromise the quality of their college experience and jeopardize the likelihood of their graduation. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Papers
Deadline: November 7, 2014
This year's conference theme, "Integrating Prevention Science and Public Policy," offers the opportunity to consider the intersection of prevention science and policy in settings around the world. This theme emphasizes the value of a mutually supportive dialogue that addresses ways prevention science can effectively contribute to advancing evidence-based policy, and opportunities for policy issues to drive a pragmatic science agenda. Both researchers and policymakers have long suggested that high-quality research could and should be used to inform and shape policies and practice. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal of Public Child Welfare - Defining the Evidence Base for In-Home Services
Deadline: November 15, 2014
This special issue of Journal of Public Child Welfare seeks to stimulate intentional thinking about how child welfare systems -- the public sector and allied formal and informal community resources -- are currently working toward improving outcomes when children are at home and to help keep children at home. The issue strives to inform the field of practices with the strongest evidence base that have been applied to in-home child welfare services. Moreover, we are looking to improve practice and program development, addressing critical issues faced by program administrators and practitioners working toward keeping children at home in the face of limited resources. We are looking for original and well-executed quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods studies that use the most rigorous (and appropriate) methodologies to address in-home child welfare approaches such as those noted below. Strong conceptual articles will also be considered for this issue. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
ICPSR Webinar - Disclosure Risk Training - For Public-Use or Not For Public Use, That Is the Question
October 7, 2014, 3:00-4:00 PM EDT
Whether depositing data or publishing results from using data, researchers need to determine whether the data they are sharing are appropriate for public-use or not. This session will provide examples of disclosure risk concerns and will describe techniques to modify data to alleviate disclosure risk, keeping in mind that the goal is always to maximize the usefulness of the data while sufficiently addressing concerns about disclosure. Options for sharing data as restricted-use will also be described. Click here for more information and to register.
ASPPH/CDC Webinar - Allan Rosenfield Global HIV Surveillance Fellowship
October 8, 2014, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
Please join ASPPH, in collaboration with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff, for a live webinar to discuss new fellowship opportunities specializing in global HIV surveillance at CDC. Click here for more information. Click here to register.
7th Biennial National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence
March 19-21, 2015 - Washington, DC
The 7th Biennial National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence aims to advance the health care system's response to domestic violence. The conference attracts the nation's leading medical, public health and family violence experts from across the U.S. with increased international participation. Workshops, scientific posters, and plenary sessions highlight the latest research and most innovative clinical responses to domestic violence, with a focus on the work being done by physicians, physician assistants, dentists, nurses, nurse midwives, mental and behavioral health providers, social workers, domestic violence experts, researchers and others. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Dataset Available - Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), 2002-2004
The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), is a multi-site longitudinal, epidemiologic study designed to examine the health of women during their middle years. The study examines the physical, biological, psychological and social changes during this transitional period. The goal of SWAN's research is to help scientists, health care providers and women learn how mid-life experiences affect health and quality of life during aging. Click here for more information and to gain access to these freely available data.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report - Health Care: Necessary But Not Sufficient
Will improved access to health care remove the health disadvantages faced by people with less education? Will health care reform make high school dropouts as healthy as college graduates? Not necessarily. Click here for more information.
Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief - Catching Up: Latino Health Coverage Gains and Challenges Under the Affordable Care Act
For decades, Latinos have had the highest uninsured rates of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. Less than one year after the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces opened for enrollment, the overall Latino uninsured rate dropped from 36 percent to 23 percent, according to the Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
NPR - HBCUs Move To Address Campus Sexual Assaults, But Is It Enough?
When it comes to studying sexual violence, college surveys often don't include students at historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. But one major study found sexual assaults are lower on those campuses than others. Click here for more information.
PBS Newshour - Why So Many People Die in Hospitals Instead of at Home
Chronically ill patients in New York and New Jersey spend more time in the hospital during their last six months of life than their counterparts in the rest of the country - an average of 14.4 and 12.9 days, respectively. The national average is 9.8 days. Click here for more information.
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About SWRnet
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