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August 21, 2015 || Vol. 7, Issue 34
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Funding Opportunities
Improving Health and Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk in Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness (NIMH)
Deadline: November 6, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aims to support research grants focused on rigorous effectiveness testing of innovative services interventions that demonstrably reduce the prevalence and magnitude of common health risk factors related to shortened lifespan in youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and young adults with severe mental illness. These risk factors include, but are not limited to, smoking, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, low physical activity, substance use, poor fitness and diet. This FOA aims to generate the service delivery knowledge necessary to achieve 100% screening of this population for common, cardiometabolic risks and 100% referral to appropriate care to manage the identified risks. This FOA aims to support population-based approaches to prevention, identification and intervention, i.e., targeting cardiometabolic risk in entire populations of youth with SED and/or young adults with SMI within a given community or healthcare setting. Click here for more information.
NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research on Chronic Disease Prevention (NIH)
Deadline: December 16, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications to establish specialized Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers (TCCs) for health disparities research focused on chronic disease prevention, with an emphasis on developing, implementing and disseminating community-based multilevel interventions. Click here for more information.
Autism Science Foundation 2016 Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Awards & Medical Student Gap Year Research Training Awards
Deadline: November 13, 2015
The Autism Science Foundation invites applications for its Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Awards from graduate students, medical students and postdoctoral fellows interested in pursuing careers in basic and clinical research relevant to autism spectrum disorders.
The proposed training must be scientifically linked to autism and may be broadened to include training in a closely related area of scientific research. Autism Science Foundation will consider for training purposes all areas of related basic and clinical research including but not limited to: human behavior across the lifespan (language, learning, behavior, communication, social function, motor skills & planning, epilepsy, sleep, repetitive disorders), neurobiology (anatomy, development, neuroimaging), pharmacology, neuropathology, genetics, epigenetics, genomics, epigenomics, immunology, molecular and cellular mechanisms, studies employing model organisms and systems, and studies of treatment and service delivery. Click here for more information.
Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being
Deadline: December 1, 2015 These fellowships are designed to identify and develop a new generation of leaders interested in and capable of creating practice and policy initiatives that will enhance child development and improve the nation's ability to prevent all forms of child maltreatment. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims' (IRCT) 10th International Scientific Symposium
Deadline: October 1, 2015
The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) will hold its 10
th International Scientific Symposium in Mexico City from March 14-16, 2016. The Symposium is titled Delivering on the Promise of the Right to Rehabilitation
and it is the first global event to look in detail across disciplines at how to deliver on the promise of the right to rehabilitation as set out in the United Nations' Convention against Torture and elaborated in General Comment 3 of the United Nations Committee against Torture. Please note that the Symposium is interdisciplinary and means to attract submissions and participation from a variety of researchers and experts working with torture rehabilitation or in other sectors working at the intersection of health and human rights. The IRCT hopes to draw on the research, experiences and knowledge from the broader health and human rights sectors who have faced the challenge of evidencing, advocating for and securing the rights of victims or survivors of human rights violations and in particular their access to services, assistance and rehabilitation. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
APHA Webinar Series
The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation - Webinar #3, Unequal Treatment: Disparities in Access, Quality and Care
August 25, 2015, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
The Affordable Care Act has led to expansions in health insurance coverage. But racial and ethnic minorities still are more likely to have unequal access, receive poorer quality care and have worse health outcomes. These health disparities threaten our nation's health. Presenters will talk about how the levels of racism play out within the health care system, unconscious bias in health care and what's being done to address those inequities to improve the public's health. Click here for more information.
NIMH Webinar - Mental Health Disparities Research at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Cross-Cutting Aspects of the NIMH Strategic Plan
August 26, 2015, 3:00-5:00 PM EDT
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is excited to announce a webinar presenting exemplary studies that represent the four NIMH Strategic Objectives (SO) of the revised NIMH Strategic Plan for Research. The goal of this webinar is to bring recognition to the unique and compelling needs to reduce and eliminate mental health disparities in communities across the country. NIMH-funded researchers who have investigated disparities under each SO category will present their preliminary findings. Click here for more information.
10th Annual Liberation Based Healing Conference (LBHC) - "Challenging Inequities: Decolonizing Practices and Social Action
November 13-14, 2015 - Northridge, CA
This two-day conference, brings together local and national organizations and communities offering strategies that promote healing by interrupting oppressive societal structures in systems of criminal justice, community and domestic violence, education, immigration, health and mental health, religious and spiritual practices, homelessness, and youth incarceration. Click here for more information.
8th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation - Optimizing Personal and Population Health
December 14-15, 2015 - Washington, DC
A forum for discussing the science of dissemination and implementation, the 8th Annual Conference aims to grow the research base by bridging the gap between evidence, practice, and policy in health and medicine. Researchers, evaluators and implementers who are interested in identifying opportunities, challenges, and strategies for disseminating the findings and implementation of research to key stakeholders should attend the meeting to discuss, debate, and explore in-depth approaches to advance dissemination and implementation science. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Dataset Available - Work, Family, and Health Study (WFHS)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formed the Work, Family and Health Network (WFHN) as a transdisciplinary research effort designed to enhance understanding of the impact of workplace practices and policies on work, family life, and health outcomes. The Work, Family and Health Network also seeks to illuminate the processes through which such practices and policies are adopted by employers and implemented by managers and employees. Click here for more information and to gain access to these freely available data.
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News & Notices
RWJF Culture of Health Blog - How Food Marketing Can Help Kids Want What's Good For Them
A new report from the UConn Rudd Center for Food, Policy & Obesity reveals that a majority of the largest food and beverage companies are spending a disproportionate amount of money advertising their nutritionally poor products to Black and Hispanic consumers, especially youth. Click here for more information.
Commonwealth Fund Blog - The Ramifications of Repealing the Individual Mandate
Although it survived the 2012 Supreme Court challenge, the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) individual mandate requiring most Americans to obtain insurance or pay a penalty remains broadly unpopular.1 Most legislative proposals to modify the ACA would eliminate this requirement, which-along with subsidies to make coverage affordable and bans on denying people coverage or charging them more on the basis of their health-is critical to achieving the law's goal of near-universal coverage. This post explores the effects of eliminating the mandate on health insurance enrollment and individual-market premiums. Analyses find that repealing the requirement would significantly reduce health insurance enrollment and cause individual market premiums to rise. Click here for more information.
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