November 13, 2015  || Vol. 7, Issue 46
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
AHRQ Individual Awards for Postdoctoral Fellows
Deadline: May 24, 2016
The purpose of this individual postdoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support to promising fellows with the potential to become productive, independent investigators in health services research, with a research interest in areas and priorities relevant to the mission of AHRQ. Click here for more information.

NIDA Research Center of Excellence Grant Program (NIH)

Deadline: January 7, 2019
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide support for research Centers that (1) conduct drug abuse and addiction research in any area of NIDAs mission, (2) have outstanding innovative science, (3) are multidisciplinary, thematically integrated, synergistic, and (4) serve as national resource(s) to provide educational and outreach activities to drug abuse research communities, educational organizations, the general public, and policy makers in the NIDA research fields. Click here for more information.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluating High-Value Innovations from Low-Resource Communities
Deadline: December 10, 2015 
Through this call for proposals the Foundation intends to pursue several objectives: (1) to identify promising innovations to improve health being implemented in low-resource communities, (2) to evaluate whether the innovations improve health care quality and health without increasing costs; and (3) to disseminate these  innovations as examples for other communities to implement. Click here for more information. 

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Engagement Award: Knowledge, Training and Development, and Dissemination
Deadline: February 1, 2016 
These awards support projects that encourage active integration of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders as integral members of the patient-centered outcomes research/clinical effectiveness research (PCOR/CER) enterprise. Click here for more information.

Boston University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Career Development among Transition Age Youth and Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions
Deadline: December 1, 2015
A two-year postdoctoral research fellowship program in psychiatric rehabilitation and vocational recovery from serious mental illnesses will begin April 1st, 2016 at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. One of these fellowships will be focused on career development and employment success among transition-age youth and young adults (ages 14-30) with serious mental health conditions. Click here for more information. 
 
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Boston College Center for Retirement Research Retirement Income Research Dissertation Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 31, 2016
This program is funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration and provides funding opportunities for doctoral candidates to pursue cutting-edge research on retirement 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. 
CallsCalls 
REMINDER 
Call for Presentations
Foster Family-based Treatment Association 30th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care 
Deadline: December 16, 2015 
Experienced and dynamic presenters from the fields of child welfare and children's mental health are invited to submit workshop proposals for the 30th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care, hosted by the Foster Family-based Treatment Association (FFTA). Click here for more information.

Call for Presentations 
Twelfth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability 
Deadline: December 21, 2015 
We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes: environmental sustainability, sustainability in economic, social and cultural context, sustainability in policy and practice, or sustainability education. Click here for more information.
 
REMINDER 
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care -  Pain Issues in Palliative Care and End of Life: Expanding the Social Work Role 
Deadline: January 15, 2016
Pain and/or the fear of pain is often experienced by patients receiving palliative care and those facing end of life. Failure to address the multidimensional sources of pain and related suffering can produce emotional and moral distress for both personal and professional care providers. Disparities continue in access to quality pain management, and too few providers feel well-prepared to care for those with complicated pain concerns. For this special thematic issue, manuscripts are encouraged that report on original research, including systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses, policy analysis, program evaluation, innovative educational programs, and evaluated community interventions. Manuscripts must specifically relate to palliative and/or end-of-life care topics in pain/symptom management for serious illness. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers
Journal of Gerontological Social Work Special Issue on Indigenous Older Adults 
Deadline: February 28, 2016
The Journal of Gerontological Social Work is inviting submissions to a special section on Indigenous Older Adults. This section will focus on current and future challenges to and opportunities for Indigenous Elders to be active and engaged members of their families and communities as they grow older. Submissions are encouraged from scholars studying Indigenous older adults in the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico and other nations with formally recognized Indigenous populations. Click here for more information.

Journal of Gerontological Social Work Special Issue on Health Care Reform and Gerontological Social Work Practice
Deadline: March 31, 2016 
This section is intended to highlight changes in professional practice with older adults in the last several years that are a result of reforms related to changes in health care policies including integrated care, acute care, long-term services and supports, consumer direction, social care, or other related areas. Click here for more information.

Journal of Gerontological Social Work Special Issue on Communities and Neighborhoods
Deadline: may 31, 2016
This section will focus on understanding the role that communities, neighborhoods and regions play in supporting positive outcomes for older adults. For this issue, communities and neighborhoods are broadly defined to range from densely populated city street blocks to sparsely populated rural areas, from social friendship networks to Internet communities, and from same-age groups to intergenerational relationships. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf  
American Public Health Association (APHA) 2015 Annual Meeting Highlight - Camara Jones Talks Health and Racism
APHA President-Elect Camara Jones talks at APHA 2015 about her plans for her upcoming year as president and about her initiatives for battling racism in public health. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
Institute for Research on Poverty Brief - Reducing Health Disparities by Poverty Status
This policy brief examines the latest figures on disparities in health insurance coverage, access to care, and health and describes the major health care programs that serve poor Americans and suggests cost-effective, evidence-based policy options to reduce and prevent these disparities that could be funded by shifting some current public health expenditures on efforts that have not proved successful. Click here for more information.

Institute for Research on Poverty Brief - The Basics of SNAP Food Assistance 
This policy brief examines the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), how it works, participation and expenditure trends, and discussion of what research says about some of the recent policy change recommendations. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews   
New York Times - New Medicare Rule Authorizes 'End-of-Life' Consultations
Six years after legislation to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a furor over "death panels," the Obama administration issued a final rule on Friday that authorizes Medicare to pay doctors for consultations with patients on how they would like to be cared for as they are dying. Click here for more information.
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