November 7, 2014  || Vol. 6, Issue 45
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding       
Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research (NIH)
Deadline: January 9, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications to support Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research to stimulate basic and applied research on environmental health disparities. The proposed research is expected to develop innovative approaches to understand environmentally-driven health disparities and improve access to healthy environments for vulnerable populations and communities. The proposed Centers are expected to support research efforts, mentoring, research translation and information dissemination. Click here for more information.

Mechanistic Studies of Pain and Alcohol Dependence (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2018
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications that propose to conduct mechanistic studies on the relationship between excessive alcohol drinking, alcohol dependence and pain. An association between chronic pain conditions and alcohol dependence has been revealed in numerous studies with episodes of alcohol abuse antedating chronic pain in some people and alcohol dependence emerging after the onset of chronic pain in others. Pain transmission and alcohols reinforcing effects share overlapping neural substrates giving rise to the possibility that chronic pain states significantly affect alcohol use patterns and promote the development of dependence and addiction. In addition, long term alcohol intoxication and alcohol dependence induce pain symptoms and may exacerbate chronic pain arising from other sources. The objective of this FOA is to understand genetic, pharmacological and learning mechanisms underlying the association between the propensity to drink excessively alcohol and pain responses. Click here for more information.

Russel Sage Foundation Future of Work Grant Program
Deadline: January 16, 2015
The Russell Sage Foundation's program on the Future of Work supports research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less- and moderately-skilled workers in the United States. We seek research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on the employment, earnings, and the quality of jobs of American workers. We are especially interested in funding analyses of original qualitative and quantitative data sources, and novel uses of existing sources of data to address important questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers, today and in the future. Click here for more information.

The Center for Retirement Research Steven H. Sandell Grant Program 
Deadline: January 31, 2015

The Center for Retirement Research sponsors the annual Steven H. Sandell Grant Program for scholars in the field of retirement research and policy. The program is funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration to provide opportunities for junior scholars from all academic disciplines to pursue cutting-edge projects on retirement income issues. Priority areas include: Social Security, macroeconomic analyses of Social Security, wealth and retirement income, program interactions, international research, and demographic research. Click here for more information.

 

Boston University Post-Doctoral Position
Deadline: Ongoing
The Strong Families Strong Forces Project at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) is seeking applications for a Project Director position to join an ongoing intervention research project with military families. This research is funded by the Department of Defense, and will be conducted by a team of interdisciplinary researchers at BUSSW, STRONG STAR Consortium (https://delta.uthscsa.edu/strongstar/), and the RAND Corporation. The Project Director will work closely with PIs at all sites on project oversight. A doctoral degree in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology, Public Health or a related field is required. The position is a 12-month, full-time appointment and is located at the BU Charles River Campus in Boston. For more information or to apply, please contact Dr. Ellen DeVoe (edevoe@bu.edu). 

DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Deadline: December 24, 2014
The NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program in social and behavioral sciences
provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited universities that offer research-based doctoral degrees. Click here for more information.
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REMINDER
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Social Work Education: The International Journal- Environmental Justice, Green Social Work or Eco Justice: Preparing for Social Work's Growing Involvement
Deadline: January 15, 2015
This special issue seeks to capture the efforts of social workers who are embedded in the realities of environmental degradation and its impact on the well-being of individuals, families, and communities across the globe. Manuscripts that provide documentation of the issue, evidence of an attempted intervention at any system level and the outcome (if it worked or not) are welcomed. Conceptual manuscripts of how to integrate and frame environmental concerns and consequences for vulnerable populations, particularly to students in educational settings, are also invited. Finally, manuscripts with evidence of successful curriculum adaptations to include environmental concerns are welcomed. All manuscripts must provide implications to the education of social workers and the profession, as well aid the international readership of this journal and their understanding of this common problem. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers
Policy Conference 2.0 - Social Work as Action: Confronting Injustice
Deadline: January 15, 2015
The Policy Conference provides a collective space for social work students, faculty, and practitioners with a passion for social policy and policy practice. The following key questions will be explored during the conference: challenges and opportunities in social work policy practice in today's political climate? ramifications of current human rights and injustice issues for social work? knowledge and skills do our students need to be effective policy practitioners and advocates for social justice? innovative teaching methods are resulting in demonstrated competency in policy practice? Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf
ICPSR Webinar - Drug Use Among Young American Indians: Exploring the Data
November 13, 2014, 1:00-2:00 PM EST
The goal of the workshop is to expose investigators to the Drug Use Among Young American Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction study and the data available for 2001-2006 and 2009-2013. This data set contains detailed information on 16,590 adolescents in 7th to 12th grade in schools that had over 20% of its population self-identified as American Indian. Over 52% of the respondents reported being American Indian. Click here for more information and to register.

Rural Matters: An Online Data Event - Making the Case for Policy Change
November 17, 2014, 4:00-4:30 PM EST
After participating in this Rural Health Data Event, participants should be able to: use maps and reports effectively to assess and convey rural community conditions and needs; use the Target Intervention Area Tool to identify priority populations for a particular focus; create and share data visualizations to increase knowledge within your organization and the larger community health movement. Click here for more information and to register.

Policy Conference 2.0 - Social Work as Action: Confronting Injustice
May 28-30, 2015 - Austin, TX
This conference will bring together social work educators from across the country to share their work in policy and policy practice, and to develop strategies for maximizing social work's involvement in local, state, and national affairs. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
New Dataset Available - Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 2013 
These surveys of 8th- and 10th-grade students are part of a series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students in each grade are randomly assigned to complete one of four questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions but containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are more than 450 variables across the questionnaires. Drugs covered by this survey include amphetamines (stimulants), barbiturates (tranquilizers), other prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, tobacco, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, steroids, marijuana, hashish, LSD, hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, ecstasy, methamphetamine, and injectable drugs such as heroin. Click here for more information and to gain access to these freely available data. 

New Dataset Available - Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 2013
This survey of 12th-grade students is part of a series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students are randomly assigned to complete one of six questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions, but all containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are about 1,400 variables across the questionnaires. Drugs covered by this survey include tobacco, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, hashish, prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, LSD, hallucinogens, amphetamines (stimulants), Ritalin (methylphenidate), Quaaludes (methaqualone), barbiturates (tranquilizers), cocaine, crack cocaine, GHB (gamma hydroxy butyrate), ecstasy, methamphetamine, and heroin. Other topics include attitudes toward religion, changing roles for women, educational aspirations, self-esteem, exposure to drug education, and violence and crime (both in and out of school). Click here for more information and to gain access to these freely available data.

The Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief - Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Revisiting the ACA's Essential Health Benefits Requirements
The Affordable Care Act broadens and strengthens the health insurance benefits available to consumers by requiring insurers to provide coverage of a minimum set of medical services known as "essential health benefits." Federal officials implemented this reform using transitional policies that left many important decisions to the states, while pledging to reassess that approach in time for the 2016 coverage year. This issue brief examines how states have exercised their options under the initial federal essential health benefits framework. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews  
NPR - Medicare Concedes, Agrees To Pay For Woman's Home Health Care
A disabled woman with serious health problems who successfully challenged Medicare for denying her home health care coverage has racked up another win against the government. Click here for more information.

APA - Bills by Rep. Harris Would Add Resources to Foster Early-Career NIH Investigators
U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., a member of the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, is circulating two draft bills that would add funds for new investigators or "emerging scientists" and mandate that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) enact policies to lower the average age of those scientists to 38 within 10 years. The average age is now between 39 and 42, depending on how "emerging scientists" is defined. Click here for more information.

CFAH - Health Care Shortfalls for LGBT Young Women
Young sexual minority women, including those identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), were found to have higher elevated odds of adverse health conditions than heterosexual young women and lower odds of receiving a physical or dental examination. Click here for more information.
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