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Volume VII, Issue 3, February 4,
2005
Message from Our Executive Director
Membership
Matters
Upcoming Events
Grants Alert
Calls for Submissions
RISING HEALTH RISKS LINKED TO URBAN
SPRAWL: Family Doctors to Release Comprehensive Research Review
The
Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) has released an exhaustive review
of research on the relationship between urban sprawl and public health. A group
of distinguished family doctors authored the study in order to provide policy
makers with the clearest research summary on the topic of urban sprawl and
public health - critical for planning our communities - and to help educate
Ontarians about the choices we make as a society. The results of this review
cover selected studies and describe the findings regarding major adverse health
effects associated with urban sprawl. The study's findings include the
following:
·
Longer commuting distances mean increased traffic
fatalities (one of our populations leading causes of death);
·
Greater travel distances lead to increased air
pollution, which is worsening in Ontario and contributing to rising incidences
of respiratory and cardiovascular disease;
·
Sprawl makes public transit less financially
feasible;
·
People in car-dependent neighborhoods walk less,
weigh more, have higher blood pressure, and more incidences of diabetes and
cardiovascular disease; and,
·
People in sprawling communities are more likely
to suffer mental health problems.
For
further information contact Mike Van Soelen, Environics Communications call
(416) 969-2717 or visit http://www.ocfp.on.ca/
FOUNDATIONS JOIN FORCES TO CURB
HIGH-SCHOOL DROPOUT RATES
The
Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan, have
announced that they will invest a total of $2 million to combat the high-school
dropout crisis in five U.S. cities. Nationally,
more than 30 percent of students do not complete high school in a timely way,
and in some inner-city neighborhoods the odds of graduation are only
fifty-fifty.
In
response to this trend, the three foundations -- all members of the Youth
Transition Funders Group – have launched the Initiative to Support Struggling
Students and Out-of-School Youth and announced grants of $275,000 to Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, San Jose, and Portland, Oregon, to fund broad-based
partnerships that include educational advocacy groups, public school districts,
public care agencies, service providers, parents, and youth. "These cities
were selected because they are among the nation's leaders in their demonstrated
commitment to and capacity for engaging a wide range of partners to serve
at-risk youth," said Constancia Warren, senior Program officer and
director of Urban High School Initiatives at the Carnegie Corporation.
"While $275,000 for a one-year planning process is not enough for any city
to solve this problem, it can help local partners jump-start the conversation
about changing how their cities approach the needs of struggling students."
The
initiative will address race and class inequities related to the dropout crisis
in grantee communities and will support technical assistance and cross-site
learning activities. Based on their assessment of existing resources, policies,
and funding environment at the local and state levels, as well as options and
community support available for struggling students, the local partnerships will
create an action plan for 2006, including options for financing it through
private investments and reallocated public funds. "Addressing the needs of
dropouts and near-dropouts requires a multi-pronged, systemic approach built on
collaboration among school systems, alternative education providers,
community-based organizations, community colleges, and others," said
Marlene B. Seltzer, president and CEO of Boston-based Jobs for the Future, which
will staff the initiative and provide strategic consulting to the partnerships.
http://www.jff.org/jff/newsroom/PR/2005/PR_1_12_2005.html
MESSAGE FROM OUR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The announcement of dates and location of
our 8th Summer
Service-Learning Institute marks the latest effort in our longstanding
commitment to service-learning in the health professions. Service-learning is a structured learning experience
that combines community service with preparation and reflection. Students
engaged in service-learning provide community service in response to community-identified
concerns and learn about the context in which service is provided,
the connection between their service and their academic coursework, and their
roles as engaged citizens. As many
of you may know, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health grew from a national
demonstration program of service-learning in health professional schools,
funded by the Corporation for National Service (a federal agency) and The
Pew Charitable Trusts from 1994-1997. The
program, Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation, made three-year
grants to 17 health professional schools to incorporate service-learning into
their core curricula. An external
evaluation documented the program’s significant impact on participants and
led to a widely cited definition of service-learning. Since that time, CCPH has continued to support
service-learning as a core component of health professional education, through
training, technical assistance and information-sharing.
Reflecting on the state of service-learning in the health
professions, a number of conclusions are evident:
Service-learning in
health professional education has been steadily increasing since 1994. Although the exact prevalence of service-learning
in the health professions is not known, available data from higher education,
health professional education and CCPH programs indicates that it is on the
rise.
The feasibility and benefits of service-learning have been
demonstrated across a wide range of health professional disciplines, degree
programs and types of institutions. The evidence base for service-learning
in health professional education is favorable and growing. Dozens of peer-reviewed
journal articles, books and doctoral dissertations on service-learning in
the health professions have been published in recent years.
Policies and structures supportive of service-learning
have been established. Policies and structures that support service-learning
have been adopted by health professional schools and their national associations.The
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, for example, has adopted a policy
statement that encourages their member schools to incorporate community partnerships
into their curricula. A resolution drafted by CCPH members and approved by
the American Medical Association House of Delegates in June 2004 directs the
accrediting body for medical schools to require service-learning as a core
component of medical education. A recent report from the Association of Schools
of Public Health on practice-based learning endorses service-learning in public
health education. Service-learning interest groups are now operating in at
least 6 health disciplines and dozens of health professional schools have
established service-learning offices and leadership positions.
The knowledge, skills
and interest in service-learning among health professional schools and
community partners is significant and growing.
CCPH alone has reached over 5,000 health professional faculty and
community partners through our service-learning conferences, workshops and
institutes over the years. The 8th
Summer Service-Learning Institute promises to build on this depth of experience
by preparing novice and experienced service-learning practitioners to take
their work “to the next level.”
To learn more about the 8th Summer Service-Learning
Institute, June 17-20, 2005 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State,
see NEWS FROM CCPH below.
To learn more about the Health Professions Schools in Service to the
Nation Program, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastprojects.html
For more resources on service-learning in the health professions, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearningres.html
Examples of service-learning courses in the health
professions are available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearningres.html#Syllabi
To reach the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, visit http://www.servicelearning.org
CCPH's 8th Summer Service-Learning Institute
will be held June 17-20, 2005 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington
State. Combining the best of CCPH's past introductory and advanced institutes,
this summer's institute features two tracks designed to meet the needs of
both novice and experienced service-learning practitioners. For details, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html. To receive an application by email, please
send your request to ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
Audiofile Available
from Technical Assistance Conference Call
Last month, CCPH sponsored a technical assistance
conference call for prospective applicants to the federal program announcement
on Community Participation in Research (PAR-05-026). Federal agency representatives provided an overview and answered
questions. The audiofile from the call is
now posted on the CCPH website at www.ccph.info.
Details on the funding announcement are available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-026.html. Applications are due May 17, 2005, 2006 and
2007.
CCPH Fellow's Project
Cited as a National Oral Health Resource
Evaluating Service-Learning Programs in
Dental Education, a monograph authored by CCPH Fellow Michelle
Henshaw, is cited as a resource in the Oral Health Resource Bulletin,
Volume XI, a publication of the National Maternal and Child Oral Health
Resource Center (OHRC). The monograph provides an overview of service-learning
and evaluation frameworks using dental education examples and is available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/2002fellows-henshaw.html
The Oral Health Resource Bulletin can be downloaded from the Materials page at http://www.mchoralhealth.org/materials/multiples/interchange.html.
Are you receiving ALL of your member benefits? To
learn more about the benefits of being a CCPH member, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/members.html.
If you have any questions, please contact us at (206)
543-8178 or ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
JOIN
CCPH AT THESE UPCOMING EVENTS
For more event listings, visit CCPH’s website
conference page.
February
3-5, 2005: Second
Living Knowledge Conference: Advancing Science and Society Interactions in
Seville, Spain. This international conference provides a forum where
information on community based research, carried out in both community and
academic settings, can be shared and developed. It reflects the social impact
and scientific and democratic value of research from a range of disciplines
including social, natural, physical and technological sciences. The conference
is organised by the International Science Shop Network "Living Knowledge"
and supported by the European Commission under its Science and Society
Programme. CCPH Program Director
Jen Kauper-Brown will be presenting information about CCPH and our work to advance community-based
participatory research. For
more information about the conference, visit the Science Shop website.
March
1-3, 2005: Visit the CCPH exhibit at the 19th National
Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Health Disparities:
Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Atlanta,
Georgia. This conference will focus on efforts to eliminate disparities and
will explore more rigorous approaches for accomplishing the Healthy People 2010
objectives. The major goal of the conference is to accelerate the rate of
progress in improving the lives for those at highest risk for poor health,
including racial and ethnic minorities, and low-income and less educated
populations. Visit the CDC Conference Website
to learn more. CCPH will be leading a workshop session on the ASPH/CDC-sponsored community-based
participatory research training curriculum.
March 3-5, 2005:
Community Health Solutions- Keeping the Drive Alive,
the second joint conference of the Association for Community Health Improvement
(ACHI) and Communities Joined in Action (CJA) in Tampa, Florida. CCPH will
be facilitating an interactive workshop entitled “Health Institutions as
Economic and Community Anchors: Case Studies and Practical Strategies” at the
conference. Visit the Community Health Conference Website
or CJA Online for the latest information and
on-line registration. Visit the CCPH
Project Website
for more information on the conference presentation. being presented.
June 17-20, 2005:
CCPH’s 8th Summer Service-Learning Institute
in Leavenworth,
Washington. Combining the best of CCPH's past introductory and advanced institutes,
this summer's institute features two tracks designed to meet the needs of
both novice and experienced service-learning practitioners.
For details, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html. To receive an application by email, please
send your request to ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
NEW EVENT
LISTINGS
For details on all upcoming event listings, CCPH’s website
conference page
February 21-23,
2005: The 2nd International Conference on Patient- and
Family-Centered Care: Partnerships for Enhancing Quality of Care in
San Francisco.
March
21-23, 2005: Rural
Health Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
April
21-22, 2005: 2005
California Healthy Cities and Communities Annual Conference in
Berkeley, California.
April
27-29, 2005: 12th Annual National Public Health Leadership
Development Network Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
May
9-11, 2005: Injury
and Violence in America: Meeting
Challenges, Sharing Solutions in Denver, Colorado.
May
18-20, 2005: Public
Health Partnerships in a Changing Health Landscape in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) Funding
Preview
HRSA
has posted its FY 05 funding preview at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/preview.
Children and Health Literacy
The
KidsHealth Web site has published the results of a survey about where kids go
for health info. In short, most kids would ask a parent, a doctor or nurse, or
a teacher. They said they would not trust their friends or TV for health
information. The article also has advice about how to help children obtain,
understand, and use health information. http://www.kidshealth.org/breaking_news/health_literacy_kidspoll.html
2004 Learn and Serve America Grantee
Training Meeting Presentations Now Online
The
meeting was held November 7-9, 2004, in Bethesda, Maryland, provided a variety
of learning and networking activities.
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has created a new page on
its website that provides PowerPoint presentations and other materials from some of
the sessions. http://www.servicelearning.org/NSLC/lsa_page/workshops.php
E-health and the Elderly: How Seniors Use
the Internet for Health
A
recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey of older Americans found that as the
Internet becomes an increasingly important resource for informing decisions
about health and health care options, less than a third (31%) of seniors (age
65 and older) have ever gone online, but that more than two-thirds (70%) of the
next generation of seniors (50-64 year-olds) have done so. For more
information, please visit http://www.kff.org/entmedia/7223.cfm
KCUW-LP and the Yellowhawk Tribal Health
Center in Oregon Diabetes touches many on the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Yellowhawk
Tribal Health Center will strengthen its efforts to treat and prevent the
disease by partnering with the reservation's new low power radio station, KCUW,
to educate listeners and provide opportunities for diabetes screening.
"Health and Healing: Preventing Diabetes" will record inspiring
recovery stories and then produce radio and newspaper reports and talk radio
programming that will also be used after the broadcast to strengthen the Health
Center's outreach through media, workshops, talking circles, and powwow
activities. Read more on the Sound Partners' Web site: http://www.soundpartners.org
National Meeting on Public Health Agency
Accreditation
On
December 15th and 16th, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hosted a meeting of
national partners to discuss public health agency accreditation. Lee Thielen
presented a paper entitled Exploring Public Health Experience with Standards
and Accreditation and Glen Mays presented a paper on accreditation experiences
in other professions. Those reports and
slides used by the presenters should be available shortly on the RWJF website http://www.rwjf.org/. Moving forward, a broadly representative
working group (along the lines of the "commission" called for in the
IOM "Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century" report)
should be forming.
Missouri Universities to Create Health Disparities Center
The University of Missouri and Washington University in
St. Louis are collaborating to address health care disparities
in rural and urban Missouri. “The purpose of our collaboration is to share
ideas, resources and strategies for implementing high-quality health care to
racial and ethnic minorities and underserved populations,” said Kristofer
Hagglund, co-director of the University of Missouri’s Center for Health Policy.
“This contract will create a network of Missouri people and organizations who
are working to reduce health care disparities.” He said the rural and urban
focus will allow comparisons across regions and for the schools and their
communities to learn from each other. For more information, visit: http://www.muhealth.org/news/www/2005/MU_WU_study05.shtml
Comments Sought on Recommendations for
Non Profits
The
Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, which was formed by Independent Sector with the
encouragement of the Senate Finance Committee, has released a list of
recommendations regarding actions to strengthen governance, ethical conduct,
and accountability within the sector and has issued a request for comments from
members of the non-profit community.
During the comment period, which ends Friday, February 18, the nonprofit
community is invited to review the twenty-one recommendations and submit comments
on the panel's website: http://nonprofitpanel.org/workgrouprecs/firstrecs.
For a complete listing of all
current Grant Announcements, click here.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Prescription
for Health - Round 2 – Deadline: March 7
The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced Round 2 of funding for
Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research
Networks. This five-year national program is designed to develop, test,
evaluate and disseminate creative, practical strategies to promote healthy
behaviors in primary care practices by targeting four behaviors: lack of
physical activity, poor diet, tobacco use and risky use of alcohol. The program
is in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Up to nine 24-month grants of up to $300,000
will be awarded in this round of funding.
For more information about Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks
and eligibility, please visit http://www.prescriptionforhealth.org
Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Demonstration for Ethnic and Racial Minorities – Deadline: March 22
Funding
Opportunity Number: CMS-5036-N. The Department of Health and Human Services,
Centers for Medicare and Medcaid Services, is soliciting proposals from
interested parties to implement and
operate cooperative agreement demonstration projects. These demonstration
projects will focus on new and innovative intervention models that improve the
quality of items and services provided to target individuals in order to
facilitate reduced disparities in early detection and treatment of cancer;
improve clinical outcomes, satisfaction, quality of life, and appropriate use
of Medicare-covered services and referral patterns among those target
individuals with cancer; eliminate disparities in the rate of preventive cancer
screening measures, such as pap smears and prostate cancer screenings, among
target individuals; and promote collaboration with community-based
organizations to ensure cultural competency of health care professionals and
linguistic access for persons with limited English proficiency. Each project will stress the use of
evidence-based, culturally competent models that will target efforts to
decrease risk factors and increase screening rates and access to treatment and
survival for cancers of the breast, cervix, colon, or prostate. For details,
visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/demos/CPTD/default.asp
Youth Violence Prevention through
Community-Level Change – Deadline: March 30
Funding
Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-CE05-020 The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s (CDC) Procurement and Grants Office has published a program
announcement entitled, Youth Violence Prevention through Community-Level
Change. The purpose of the program is to assess the efficacy or effectiveness of
interventions designed to change community characteristics and social processes
to reduce rates of youth violence perpetration and victimization. For complete
program details, please see the full announcement on the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/grantmain.htm.
Investigator Awards in Health Policy
Research – 2005 – Deadline: April 1
The
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program of The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funds highly qualified individuals to undertake broad
studies of America's most challenging policy issues in health and health care.
Grants of up to $275,000 are awarded to investigators from a variety of
disciplines. Successful proposals combine creative and conceptual thinking with
innovative approaches to critical health problems and policy issues. Applicants must be affiliated either with
educational institutions or with 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located in
the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/rwjf/call_for_applications.asp
The Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ) Funding Announcement – Deadline: June 22
AHRQ
has announced ongoing extramural grants for research, demonstration,
dissemination, and evaluation projects.
For more information, please visit http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/AHRQ/AHRQ/PA-00-111/Grant.html. AHRQ
has a database at http://www.gold.ahrq.gov/ through
which you may access abstracts for active AHRQ grants in your state.
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health
– Deadline: Multiple
Funding
Opportunity Number: PA-05-029 The ultimate goal of this National Institutes of
Health program announcement is to encourage the development of health research
that integrates knowledge from the biomedical and social sciences. This
announcement invites applications to (a) elucidate basic social and cultural
constructs and processes used in health research, (b) clarify social and
cultural factors in the etiology and consequences of health and illness, (c)
link basic research to practice for improving prevention, treatment, health
services, and dissemination, and (d) explore ethical issues in social and
cultural research related to health. - This program announcement is a
re-issuance and revision of PA-02-043. The PHS 398 application instructions are
available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html in an
interactive format. For further assistance contact GrantsInfo, Telephone (301)
435-0714, E-mail: GrantsInfo@nih.gov. Link to
Full Announcement http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-029.html
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
For a complete listing of all
current Calls For Submissions, click here.
Community-Based Public Health (CBPH) Caucus
Call for Proposals – Deadline: February 10
The
CBPH Caucus invites abstracts related to the science and practice of
community-based public health for the 133rd American Public Health Association
Meeting and Exposition to be held on November 5-9, 2005 in New Orleans, LA. The
theme of the 2005 meeting is "Evidence Based Policy and Practice,"
and they have particular interest in abstracts and proposals that reflect this
theme. The CBPH Caucus is guided by the belief that community lies at the heart
of public health, and that research protocols and interventions work best when
they are rooted in the values, knowledge, expertise, and interests of the
community. Abstracts are invited that
reflect a diversity of community-based public health activities, including
basic and applied research projects, interventions, teaching and service
learning projects. Of particular interest are presentations that will provide
participants with enhanced knowledge and skills to conduct community-based
public health activities, as well as those that explicitly describe the
application of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to policy change
and decision-making at the local, state and federal level. Further information,
please visit http://www.sph.umich.edu/cbph/caucus/.
AcademyHealth Call for Panels – Deadline:
February 18
The
Public Health Systems Research Interest Group (PHSR IG) of AcademyHealth has
announced a call for panels for its meeting on Saturday, June 25 in Boston,
MA. The PHSR IG annual meeting is held
in conjunction with the 2005 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. The meeting
will feature two calls for papers sessions, update sessions on the PHSR
initiatives, a lunchtime poster program, and a reception. The PHSR IG meeting call
for panels offers researchers the opportunity to disseminate their findings and
provide policymakers and practitioners the information to make sound decisions to improve
public health systems and practice. To view submission guideline, see http://www.academyhealth.org/interestgroups/phsr/callforpanels.htm.
Call for Abstracts: International
Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services (ICSBHS) - Deadline: February 28
The ICSBHS is a biennial conference
series that began in the United Kingdom, and has since been hosted by the
Netherlands, Canada, Australia and the United States. The conference returns to
Canada in 2005 and will be in Montreal, September 18-20, 2005, hosted by the
Canadian College of Health Service Executives. The series provides an
international forum for the exchange of health services research and experience
to improve access to and the quality of healthcare systems. Its focus is on the
process of promoting the use of scientific evidence for clinical practice,
health services management and health policy. The Theme of the 2005 conference
is: Improving Health by Advancing Healthcare: Linking Research, Policy and
Action. To learn more, please visit http://www.icsbhs.org/abstracts.html.
2005 State Health Research & Policy
Interest Group Meeting Call for Case Studies – Deadline: March 4
The
Meeting will take place June 25 in conjunction with the 2005 AcademyHealth
Annual Research Meeting, June 26-28 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Call for Case
Studies offers researchers, policymakers, and practitioners the opportunity to
share their experiences in order to advance the translation of research into
policy and practice within the state setting. They are looking for cases that
demonstrate success in the translation and/or implementation of research into
policy and practice on a state, local, or organizational level. Cases can approach this topic from either
(1) the perspective of research being moved into policy and practice or (2) the
perspective where good research was sought to make a policy or implementation
decision. The goal of these cases is to share with others *tool kits* or *how
to* scenarios that can be replicated across states and help both researchers
and decision makers have practical examples of effective translation
strategies. http://www.academyhealth.org/interestgroups/shrp/callforcasestudies.htm
Articles on Social Exclusion, Gender and
Conflict Needed for International Development Journal – Deadline: April 15
Women
for Women International, a non-profit, humanitarian organization, seeks
submissions for the autumn 2005 edition of its bi-annual academic journal,
Critical Half, about economic, social, and political issues as they relate to
women in international development and post-conflict societies. This issue of
the journal will focus on the manifestation of social exclusion during and
after conflict with special attention to gender issues. It is important to
understand the role that gender plays in social exclusion and the effect that
it has on women, as they understand women's experiences to be a barometer for
the rest of society. They will look at various manifestations of exclusion in
conflict and post-conflict settings: economic, social, cultural, and political,
as well as strategies designed to extend opportunities for participation that
are shared equitably between men and women. For more information, visit www.womenforwomen.org or contact Corey Oser.
Abraham Horwitz Award for Leadership in
Inter-American Health – Deadline: April 15
The Foundation is accepting
nominations for the Horwitz Award. Nominees must be individuals whose
professional achievement in any field of inter-American health stimulates
excellence, and has impacted the health of populations across the borders of
the Americas. They may be active in their careers, active though in formal
retirement or retired having demonstrated an outstanding lifetime career. The
complete call for nominations can be found at http://www.paho.org/English/PAHEF/horwitz.htm. To make a nomination, please
submit and address a letter of introduction on official letterhead and a
completed nomination form http://www.paho.org/English/PAHEF/2005horwitzform.doc. For more information, email: info@pahef.org.
Calls for Submissions for Joint Conference – Deadline: Multiple, see
below
The National Association of
County and City Health Officials and the Association of State and Territorial
Health Officials have announced their 2005 Joint Conference July 12-15 in
Boston, Massachusetts. Particular
attention will be focused on the prevention of obesity and related chronic
diseases. Call for Panels in Public Health Systems Research – Deadline:
February 18. Abstract submissions – Deadline: March 4. More information is
available at http://www.astho.org and http://www.naccho.org.
Call for Papers for COMM-ORG – Deadline:
Ongoing
COMM-ORG
is the On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. Are you
writing a paper, thesis, or dissertation on: community organizing, community
development, community planning, community-based research, and/or a related
area? COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page. All papers are posted on the COMM-ORG
website and announced on its accompanying list-serve, which reaches over 1000
people across more than a dozen nations. They welcome discussion of all papers
on the list-serve and encourage our members to also send comments directly to
authors. To submit a paper, contact the editor, Randy Stoecker, at randy@comm-org.utoledo.edu. You can also find out more
at http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/callpapers.htm
PUBLICATIONS
Public Health Research Publication
The
University of Iowa, College of Public Health has the 2004 edition of their
research publication available as a pdf. Topics covered include: the work of
statistical geneticists, obesity and environmental and nutritional changes, an
agricultural health exposures study, and emerging infectious diseases. http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/news/pubs/
Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community
Change Reports Available
Reports on structural racism and community
building, structural racism and youth development: issues, challenges, and implications.
Reports available online as pdf files at: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/Programt1.asp?i=83
Health Indicators in Canada
This
new issue of Health Indicators, an Internet-based data publication, features
updated health region level data and maps based on the most recent vital and
cancer statistics available. Updates include: life expectancy, infant
mortality, low-birth weight, and mortality rates by selected causes. Even
though Canada has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, the
release of Health Indicators demonstrates that life expectancy varies widely
between health regions. People living in Northern and remote regions of Canada,
many of whom are Aboriginal, have life expectancies more in line with
developing countries than with other Canadians. http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050201/d050201a.htm
Public Health Foundation - Resources for
Learning
The Public Health Foundation
(PHF) has released the Fall 2004-Winter 2005 Resources for Learning, its
catalog of distance learning training courses and other resources. For more information about PHF's
publications, posters, CD-ROMs, brochures and videotapes please visit the PHF
bookstore at http://www.phf.org
Community Indicators Report
This report, released by the Association
for Community Health Improvement presents a snapshot of community indicators'
development, use and impact across a range of topics, by weaving together
summaries presentations from a March, 2004 Community Indicators Conference that
took place in Reno, NV. The document defines community indicators broadly as
systems of measurement pertaining to the quality of community life, with an
emphasis on health-related indicators initiatives. To download the report, please visit http://www.communityhlth.org/
Academic Medicine, February 2005
The
February issue of Academic Medicine includes five articles about innovations in
teaching. One of these is free to non-subscribers:
"Teaching Inpatient
Communication Skills to Medical Students: An Innovative Strategy." http://www.academicmedicine.org/
CONTACT EDITOR
Email the PM editor: ccphpm@u.washington.edu
PARTNERSHIP
MATTERS
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COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL
CURRENT GRANTS ALERT
New Grants Alert announced in this
newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
(BIRCWH) - Deadline: Feb 23
The
National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and
its cosponsors invite institutional career development award applications for
BIRCWH Career Development Programs. Programs will support research career
development of junior faculty members, known as Interdisciplinary Women's
Health Research Scholars, who have recently completed clinical training or
postdoctoral fellowships, and who are commencing basic, translational,
behavioral, clinical, and/or health services research relevant to women's
health. The goal of this initiative is to promote the performance of
interdisciplinary research and transfer of findings that will benefit the
health of women, including sex/gender similarities or differences in biology,
health or disease. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-05-002.html
U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program - Deadline:
Feb 28
The US
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, is soliciting grant and cooperative
agreement initial proposals (IP's) for projects in the New
Mexico-Texas-Chihuahua and Texas-Coahuila-Nuevo Leo-Tamaulipaus Regional
Workgroup areas that address the objectives of the U.S.-Mexico Border 2012
Program. The U.S.-Mexico Border 2012
Program is a bi-national collaborative effort whose mission is to protect the
environment and public health in the U.S.-Mexico border region (100 kilometers
either side of the U.S.-Mexico border) consistent with the principles of
sustainable development. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/EPA/OGD/GAD/EPA-GRANTS-122104-002/Grant.html
Healthy Communities
Access Program (HCAP) - Deadline: March 2
The
purpose of the Healthy Community Access Program (HCAP) is to provide assistance
to communities and consortia of health care providers and others to develop or
strengthen integrated community health care delivery systems that coordinate
health care services for individuals who are uninsured or underinsured, and to
develop or strengthen activities related to providing coordinated care for individuals
with chronic conditions who are uninsured or underinsured. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-05-104/listing.html
* Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Prescription for Health - Round 2 –
Deadline: March 7 Details
The Charles Frueauff Foundation 2005 Grants -
Deadline: March 15, Sept 15
The
Charles Frueauff Foundation focuses on at-risk youths in all its funding
categories: education, health, and social services. Tutoring, sexual-health and
job-training initiatives receive preference. Other funding priorities include
welfare-to-work programs, inadequate day-care systems, and economic-development
initiatives. http://www.frueaufffoundation.com
* Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration for Ethnic and Racial
Minorities – Deadline: March 22 Details
* Youth Violence Prevention through Community-Level Change – Deadline:
March 30 Details
* Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research – 2005 – Deadline:
April 1 Details
Peer Educator Training Sites and the Resource and Evaluation Center -
Deadline: April 1
This
cooperative agreement will be awarded to eligible entities to provide
nationwide peer education and training and other technical assistance to
increase the number of HIV/AIDS peer treatment educators within Ryan White
Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act funded programs. Funds will
also support a Resource and Evaluation Center (REC) which will coordinate and
maintain a central repository of training materials, assist in dissemination of
successful training strategies, and evaluate outcomes of the PETS program. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-05-038/Grant.html
Training and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreements Targeting
Ryan White Care Act Title IV Grantees - Deadline: April 2
This
Cooperative Agreement is intended to assist in providing training and technical
assistance to Ryan White CARE Act Title IV grantees and other programs with an
interest in improving access to primary medical care, research and support
services for HIV-infected infants, children, youth, and women and their
affected families. Applicants will assist the grantees in understanding and
putting into action the requirements of the CARE Act and research based best
practices for high quality, comprehensive HIV primary care and support service
delivery to people living with HIV/AIDS. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-05-042/Grant.html
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants for Scholarly Works in
Biomedicine and Health - Deadlines: June 1, Nov 1
The
NLM Grants are awarded for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other
scholarly works of value to US health professionals, public health officials,
biomedical researchers, and historians of the health sciences. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-025.html
* The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Funding
Announcement – Deadline: June 22 Details
* Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health – Deadline: Multiple Details
COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
New Calls for Submissions announced
in this newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
* Community-Based Public Health Caucus Call
for Proposals – Deadline: February 10 Details
The American Public Health
Association's (APHA) Call For Abstracts - Deadline: Feb 10
The
APHA’s 2005 Annual Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA on November 5-9,
2005. APHA invites abstracts that
reflect a diversity of community-based public health activities, including
basic and applied research projects, interventions, teaching and service
learning projects. Of particular interest are presentations that will provide
participants with enhanced knowledge and skills to conduct community-based
public health activities, as well as those that explicitly describe the
application of community-based participatory research to policy change and
decision-making at the local, state and federal level. Abstracts will be
accepted through the APHA web site, http://www.apha.org/meetings.
Engaged Learning, Student Mental Health,
and Civic Development Demonstration Program – Deadline: February 15
Preliminary
proposals are requested for projects (RFP) that will demonstrate what happens
when colleges and universities build capacity for engaged learning in ways that
promote mental health of students and contribute to their civic development.
For a copy of the RFP, please e-mail Jennifer Reynolds.
http://www.bringingtheorytopractice.org/pdfs/RFPNov04.pdf
Call
for Applications: The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program - Deadline:
Feb 15
This
program is designed to augment clinical training by providing new skills and
perspectives necessary to achieve 21st century leadership positions both within
and outside the walls of academia. The program stresses training in the
quantitative and qualitative sciences underlying health services research
essential to improving health and medical care systems. The program's newest iteration will also emphasize
community-based research
and leadership training. The program offers graduate-level study and
research as part of a university-based post-residency training program.
Four participating institutions will be recruiting scholars, including:
University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Michigan; the
University of Pennsylvania; and Yale University. Up to 28 scholars will
be selected in 2005 for appointments beginning in July 2006. For complete
information, see http://www.rwjf.org/cfp/clinicalscholars.
* AcademyHealth Call for Panels –
Deadline: February 18 Details
American Psychiatric Association
Scholarships - Deadline: Feb 18
The
American Psychiatric Association invites ethnic minority medical students who
have an interest in psychiatric issues to apply for the 2005 Minority Medical
Student Scholarships and Awards: Travel Scholarships for Minority Medical
Students Annual meeting. Students will attend sessions for experts and trainees
alike, and be assigned to a mentor. http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
Call for
2005 Award for Student Excellence in Public Health Practice - Deadline:
February 18
The Association of Schools of Public Health is soliciting nominations
for up to two masters and/or doctoral students from each of the 36 member
schools of public health. This award serves to recognize and reward
student comprehension, application, and growth regarding public health practice
as well as to encourage faculty and students to answer the “how” and “what”
questions regarding their interpretation of public health practice and the
achievement of practice. http://www.asph.org/UserFiles/ASPHStudentAward.doc
* Call for Abstracts: International
Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services (ICSBHS) - Deadline: February 28 Details
Minority Medical Student Summer
Mentoring Program Application - Deadline: Feb 28
This
program is intended to identify ethnic minority medical students who have an
interest in psychiatric issues and expose students to a setting where they can
work closely with a psychiatrist mentor for one month. http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Seeks Applicants for Post-Doctoral Program - Deadline: February 28
The
EPA’s Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental
Effects Research Laboratory is seeking applicants with a doctoral level degree
(PhD, MD, DVM) for openings in their federal post-doctoral program. These
post-doctoral candidates conduct high priority environmental research in a wide
variety of areas important to protecting human health and the environment.
Post-doctoral positions to conduct research on environmental health are
anticipated for divisions located in Research Triangle Park and Chapel Hill,
NC. Post-doctoral positions to conduct ecology research are anticipated for
divisions located in Duluth, MN; Gulf Breeze, FL; Corvallis and Newport, OR;
and Narragansett, RI. http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/postdocs/
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Seeks Pioneer Award Program Applications - Deadline: March 1-April 1
The
NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program is designed to support individual
scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major
contemporary challenges in biomedical research. The program will award grants
to individuals who intend to pursue new research directions that are not
already supported by other mechanisms. The program will fund between five and
ten awards of up to $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years. Awardees
are expected to commit the major portion (at least 51 percent) of their
research effort to activities supported by the NDPA. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-021.html
* 2005 State Health Research & Policy
Interest Group Meeting Call for Case Studies – Deadline: March 4 Details
The Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) Announces Two New Opportunities
for PostDocs - Deadline: March 31
EPA's
ORD is seeking candidates to fill approximately nine federal, four-year
post-doctoral research positions. Recent initiatives at ORD facilities have
promoted the conduct of cross-cutting research across the different ORD Labs
and Centers in the areas of human environmental exposure-effects and
ecosystems. In the human health area, the overall mission for the cross-ORD
post-docs will be to move forward more quickly the development and application
of exposure, dose and health effects assessment methods or models. In the
ecosystems research area, the cross-ORD post-docs will focus on advancing the
spatial analyses methods and on their application to water quality, ecological
forecasting problems, and linkages between economic drivers and landscape
conditions. http://www.epa.gov/ord/htm/jobs_ord.htm
Minority Medical Student Fellowship
in HIV Psychiatry Application - Deadline: March 31
This
new program is intended to identify minority medical students who have primary
interests in services related to HIV/AIDS and substance abuse and its
relationship to the mental health or psychological well being of ethnic
minorities. For more information
contact Carol Svoboda at (703) 907-8642, csvoboda@psych.org
or Diane Pennessi at (703) 907-8668, dpennessi@psych.org.
http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
* Abraham Horwitz Award for Leadership in
Inter-American Health – Deadline: April 15 Details
* Articles on Social Exclusion, Gender
and Conflict Needed for International Development Journal – Deadline: April 15 Details
Call for
Proposals for Presentations at the Humanitarianism Throughout the World: The
Life, Ideas and Enduring Legacy of Dr. Albert Schweitzer Conference - Deadline:
April 15
The Conference is scheduled for October 28-29, 2005 in Hamden,
Connecticut at Quinnipiac
University. Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees and a
United Nations ambassador for peace, will deliver the keynote address.
Submissions on the topics of theology, environment, health, peace and
humanitarian values are welcome, as are papers concerning the concept of
“reverence for life,” the idea Dr. Schweitzer felt was his main contribution to
the world. Send proposals or inquires to David Ives at david.ives@quinnipiac.edu.
* Calls for Submissions
for Joint Conference – Deadline: Multiple, see Details
* Call for Papers for COMM-ORG –
Deadline: Ongoing Details