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January 2, 2015 || Vol. 7, Issue 1
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Funding Opportunities
System-Level Health Services and Policy Research on Health Disparities (NIH)
Deadline: January 20, 2015
Investigators who conduct original and innovative system-level health services or policy research directed toward eliminating health disparities are encouraged to apply to this FOA. Projects may include observational/descriptive, simulation, or interventional studies and may involve primary data collection and/or secondary analysis of existing datasets. Projects must include a focus on one or more health disparities populations, which include Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, and rural populations. Click here for more information.
Effectiveness of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs Designed Specifically for Young Males (CDC)
Deadline: March 3, 2015
A collaborative initiative between the HHS Office of Adolescent Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the purpose of this research opportunity is to rigorously evaluate innovative interventions designed for young men aged 15-24 years old to reduce their risk of fathering a teen pregnancy that can be feasibly implemented in target settings (e.g., clinics, schools, community settings, youth-serving organizations, correctional settings). Click here for more information.
Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (CDC)
Deadline: March 16, 2016
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance knowledge in three areas: 1) how best to disseminate, implement, and translate evidence-based primary prevention strategies, programs, and policies designed to reduce youth violence; 2) what works to prevent violence by rigorously evaluating primary prevention strategies, programs, and policies; and 3) research to determine ways to effectively prevent serious and lethal interpersonal or self-directed violence. Click here for more information.
REMINDER
Brandeis University Lurie Institute for Disability Policy Post Doctoral Research Training
Deadline: February 1, 2015
We invite applications from qualified candidates for two-year fellowships. Advanced training is available under the mentorship of the nationally-recognized faculty of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. The primary goal of this fellowship is to prepare scholars to conduct rigorous research that can be applied in today's complex policy environment. Training of post-doctoral fellows will include immediate engagement in an existing research program coupled with opportunities to develop skills in preparing grant proposals, managing research projects, developing scholarly articles and scientific presentations and disseminating findings to advocates and policy makers. Fellows will also have the opportunity to develop their own independent research programs. Click here for more information.
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Calls
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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.
REMINDER
Call for Abstracts Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy Eighth Health Disparities Conference Deadline: January 16, 2015
We seek scientific and/or informative abstracts that reflect the focus of the conference. The upcoming conference will focus on replicable interprofessional collaborative models and approaches from the clinical, research, and community arenas that integrate all levels of providers to improve health outcomes, eliminate health disparities, and achieve health equity. Click here for more information.
Call for Proposals
Third Annual Military and Veteran Social Work Conference - Strengthening Military Families Through Effective Community Practices
Deadline: February 1, 2015
The intent of this conference will be to offer the following: introduction to Military Culture; skill building in clinical interventions with military veterans and their families; interventions for military-related childhood adversity in school, grief, family violence; effective strategies for workplace transition and occupational integration; ensuring veterans' academic success in higher education and beyond the degree; effective teaching and training of social work students in military/veteran social work education. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Dialogue4Health Webinar - Expanding the Boundaries: Health Equity and Public Health Practice
January 8, 2015, 11:30 AM-1:00PM PST
This webinar will focus on: w hy public health should focus on the underlying social inequalities that create health inequities; the importance of creating an organizational culture that supports confronting those underlying causes; approaches to working with communities to integrate social equity issues into public health; and strategies for engaging agencies and organizations outside of the traditional public health sector in this work. Click here for more information.
National Rural Health Association 26th Annual Rural Health Policy Institute
February 3-5, 2015 - Washington, DC
Join NRHA for the largest rural advocacy event in the country. Learn firsthand about the development and implementation of health care policy at the federal level and meet with your members. Click here for more information.
Pathways to Resilience III: Beyond Nature vs. Nurture
June 16 - 19, 2015 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Resilience Research Centre invites you to join us in our upcoming conference "Pathways to Resilience: Beyond Nature vs. Nurture", at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The conference will explore many different aspects of resilience, and how the theory is informing research, practice, and policy on a global level. Beyond Nature vs. Nurture will encourage discussions that examine the protective and promotive processes associated with resilience around the world, as well as how to design clinical interventions, human service systems, and social policies that contribute to sustaining resilience. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Urban Institute Research Report - Racial/Ethnic Differences in Uninsurance Rates under the ACA
This report is the first state-level projection of ACA coverage gains for racial/ethnic groups. Absent ACA coverage provisions, Latinos, blacks, and American Indian/Alaska Natives are overrepresented among the uninsured. With the ACA and current state Medicaid expansion decisions, uninsurance rates are projected to fall for each racial/ethnic group, narrowing coverage differences between whites and each minority group, except for blacks. If all states were to expand their Medicaid programs, we project that uninsurance rates would fall further for all racial/ethnic groups, with blacks experiencing a marked reduction. Effective outreach can further reduce uninsurance rates for all racial/ethnic groups. Click here for more information.
NC Rural Health Research Program Brief - Rural-Urban Differences in Continuity of Care among Medicare Beneficiaries
In response to the Affordable Care Act and other reforms in the health care market, new models of care are being tested and implemented across the country. Care and payment models such as patient-centered medical homes, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and bundled payments depend on linkages between different types of health care providers to ensure continuity of care. To address concerns that health care in rural areas may be more fractured and thus a difficult place for these models to succeed, we measured continuity of care using detailed data on a sample of Medicare beneficiaries from 2000-2009. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
NPR - New Blood Donation Rules Would Still Exclude Many Gay Men
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration recommended a change in the discriminatory and unscientific policy that effectively prohibited men who have sex with men from donating blood for life. However, the new policy would ban blood donation for men who have had sex with another man for the past year. So the most likely outcome is that the vast majority of gay or bisexual men still won't be able to donate blood. Click here for more information.
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