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Volume VII, Issue 5, March 4, 2005
Message from Our Executive Director
NATIONAL
COMMISSION URGES ACTION TO LINK SCHOLARSHIP AND COMMUNITIES
The Commission
on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions released
today a national strategy for closing the gap between the promise of health
professional schools as community-engaged institutions and the reality of how
faculty members are typically judged and rewarded. The Commission’s report, Linking Scholarship
and Communities, contains detailed recommendations for action by
health professional schools and their national associations that can support
community-engaged scholarship and cites promising practices that illustrate
their implementation.
Convened by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
the Commission has taken a leadership role in creating a more supportive
culture and reward system for health professional faculty involved in
community-based participatory research, service-learning and other forms of
community-engaged scholarship in which faculty members connect their
scholarship with community needs and concerns. A list of Commission members
appears below.
Over the past decade, a steady stream of national organizations have
been recommending the community engagement of health professional schools as an
essential strategy for improving health professional education, achieving a
diverse health workforce, increasing access to health care, and eliminating
health disparities. Recruiting and retaining diverse community-engaged faculty
members is essential to developing and sustaining the community partnerships
that form the foundation for community-based teaching, research, and service. Despite the expansion of community
engagement in the health professions, a troubling issue has arisen in many
schools: Roles and expectations of faculty are changing, but the faculty
review, promotion, and tenure system has not kept pace. Addressing this problem is the central focus
of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions
and its report released today.
“The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports efforts to acknowledge and provide
incentives for health professional schools to become and remain engaged with
their communities,” said Marguerite M. Johnson, Vice President for Programs at
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. “We believe authentic partnerships between health
professional schools and communities will move this country closer to changes
in the health care system that will result in significant improvements in
access to health care, a more diversified health workforce, and the elimination
of ethnic and racial disparities in health. Changes must be made in our systems
and institutions to support all forms of community-engaged scholarship.”
The
report examines a number of critical challenges that community-engaged
scholarship poses to the predominant paradigm of faculty incentives in health
professional schools. These include the tendency of faculty peers to classify
community-engaged work as service rather than to consider the factors that
might qualify the work as genuine scholarship, the under valuing of the role of
products of scholarship that are not in the form of peer-reviewed journal articles,
and the limited role of community partners in faculty review, promotion and
tenure processes.
The Commission
recommends that:
1. Health
professional schools should adopt and promote a definition of scholarship that
includes and values community-engaged scholarship.
2. Health professional schools should adopt
review, promotion, and tenure policies and procedures that value
community-engaged scholarship.
3. Health professional schools should ensure that
community partners are meaningfully involved in review, promotion, and tenure
processes for community-engaged faculty members.
4. Health professional schools should educate the
members of review, promotion, and tenure committees about community-engaged
scholarship and prepare them to understand and apply the review, promotion, and
tenure guidelines in the review of community-engaged faculty.
5. Health professional schools should invest in
the recruitment and retention of community-engaged faculty.
6. Health professional schools should advocate
for increased extramural support for community-engaged scholarship.
7. Health professional schools should take a
leadership role on their university campuses to initiate or further campuswide
support for community-engaged scholarship.
8. National associations of health professional
schools should:
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Adopt and promote a definition of scholarship
within the profession that explicitly includes community-engaged scholarship
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Support member schools that recognize and reward
community-engaged scholarship
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Advocate for increased extramural support for
community-engaged scholarship
9. Recognizing that many products of
community-engaged scholarship are not currently peer reviewed, a national board
should be established to facilitate a peer review process.
The Commission stresses that recognizing and rewarding community-engaged
scholarship in the health professions will require changes not only in the
wording of policies and procedures but, even more importantly, in the culture
of institutions and professions. Leadership
is needed from both academic institutions and the many external stakeholders
that influence their values and priorities, including but not limited to
government, philanthropy, peer-reviewed journals, accrediting bodies, and the
communities in which they reside and work. As a starting point, the Commission
suggests that health professional school administrators, faculty, and members
of review, promotion, and tenure committees review this report in relation to
the mission, vision, values, and policies of their institutions and
professions.
In announcing its report, the Commission also applauds the recent formation of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative. Organized by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health with funding from the US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the Collaborative is a group of health professional schools that aims to significantly change faculty review, promotion and tenure policies and practices to recognize and reward community-engaged scholarship - in the participating schools and their peers across the country. The Collaborative is already working to implement many of the Commission’s recommendations. Learn more about the Collaborative.
The Commission is eager to work with health professional schools, their
national associations, and other interested stakeholders to support the
implementation of its recommendations, and welcomes inquiries and suggestions
on how best to facilitate such support. Questions and comments may be directed to program
director, Jen Kauper-Brown, 206/543-7954, or by mail:
UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809.
The full press release and Commission report are available
at www.ccph.info To order a hard copy of the report, download
an order form.
Additional information is
available on the Commission.
For more information on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, visit www.wkkf.org
Stay
connected with the Commission and related work through the Community-Engaged
Scholarship electronic discussion group.
FEDERAL FUNDING ANNOUNCED FOR
COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
The
federal government has three open funding announcements for community-based
participatory research - see details below. More resources on CBPR.
Community Participation in Health
Disparities Intervention Research
Deadlines: Letters of Intent March 14 –
Applications April 14
The NIH
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities has released a request for applications for
RFA-MD-05-002, Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention
Research. Letters of Intent are due
March 14, 2005 and Applications are due April 14, 2005.
The ultimate
goal of this RFA is to support intervention research on health disparities that
is jointly conducted by communities and researchers.
This
RFA is inviting applications for a three-year planning grant proposal. The
first year of the grant is devoted to partnership development, community needs
assessment, identifying the disease/condition for intervention research, and
planning the intervention methodology with substantial input from the
community. During the second and third year, a pilot intervention research
study will be conducted with community participation. This RFA will utilize the
NIH resource-related research projects (R24) grant award mechanism. The total
amount to be awarded is $4.5 million. The anticipated number of awards is 5-10.
Click here for details.
Centers of Excellence In Partnerships for
Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training
Deadlines: Letters of Intent March 14 –
Applications April 14
The NIH
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities has
released a request for applications for RFA-MD-05-003 Centers of Excellence In
Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and
Training (Project EXPORT Establishing Exploratory Centers). Letters of Intent
are due March 14, 2005 and Applications are due April 14, 2005.
The
Project EXPORT Centers of Excellence initiative is using the P20 mechanism to:
·
advance the science directed toward reducing,
eliminating, or preventing health disparities
·
accelerate the discovery of new interventions and
expand the utilization/adaptation of existing evidenced-based interventions for
preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities
·
increase the number of researchers and
professionals from minority and medically underserved populations trained in
biomedical and behavioral research
·
increase the quality of the training provided to
biomedical and behavioral researchers and professionals conducting research on
health disparities
·
increase public trust and the dissemination and
utilization of scientific and health information relevant to health disparity
populations.
Click here for details.
Community Participation in Research –
Deadlines: May 17, 2005, 2006, 2007
A
number of federal agencies, including NIH, CDC and AHRQ have collaborated in
the release of program announcement PAR-05-026 on
Community
Participation in Research. The goal of this PAR is to support research on
health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities
that
is jointly conducted by communities and researchers. This PAR invites NIH
research project grant (R01) and exploratory/developmental grant (R21) award
mechanisms. Proposals will be accepted once a year - with deadlines on May 17,
2005, 2006 and 2007.
Click here for details.
Edited notes and an audiofile of a
technical assistance call for prospective applicants
JOSIAH MACY, JR. FOUNDATION FUNDS
MULTI-PROFESSIONAL PREVENTION EDUCATION PROJECT
The
Healthy People Curriculum Task Force was awarded a three-year grant from the
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation of New York to expand multiprofessional
communication and cooperation in the training of clinical health professionals.
Grant support will be used to promote a Clinical Prevention and Population
Health Curriculum Framework, to develop an online Prevention Education Resource
Center, and to convene a national, state-of-the-science conference focused on
interprofessional teaching, practice and research in clinical prevention and
population health.
Seven
health profession education associations are represented on the Task
Force. Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health and the Association of Schools of Public Health have served as
resource organizations to the Task Force since its inception. During the past two years, the Task Force
developed the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework,
recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, which
provides a structure for organizing curriculum, monitoring curriculum, and
communicating within and between disciplines. It is designed to serve as a
guideline for teaching prevention and population health to students in the
clinical health professions disciplines.
The article on the Curriculum Framework is
available in full-text.
The
online Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC) will allow health
professional faculty to search for teaching materials that are relevant to
particular domains of the Curriculum Framework and applicable to specific
clinical health professions disciplines.
PERC will also provide for communication across schools and faculty for
enhanced program content and curriculum design. The Healthy People Curriculum
Task Force is convened by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine
and the Association of Academic Health Centers with initial financial support
from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion. CCPH Senior
Consultant Suzanne Cashman serves as CCPH's representative to the Task Force.
Since
its inception in the 1930's, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation focused its
resources specifically on improving the education of health professionals. The activities funded through this award
support two of the foundation's major areas of emphasis: improving medical and
health professional education in the context of the changing health care system
and demonstrating or encouraging ways to increase teamwork between and among
health care professionals.
Visit
the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force
Website
Learn more about Suzanne Cashman.
COLLEGE STUDENTS LAUNCH MONTH OF
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CIVIC ACTION
Students
across the country are taking part in Raise
Your Voice - A Month of Action, an event that last year engaged more than
100,000 college and university students on 250 campuses in political and
service activities. This year, the events were be launched on February 23rd,
near Presidents Day, with an interactive national teleconference hosted by
North Carolina students that will involve more than 60 campuses and 3,000
college students around the country.
During
the following weeks, students will participate in such activities as dialogues
on public issues, days with legislators, and alternative spring breaks in more
than 30 states. These students are sustaining the energy of voter education and
mobilization activities that were organized on campuses leading up to the 2004
election. They will have a chance to connect with opinion leaders on issues
that are critical to their campuses, their communities, and the country at
large.
The
Month of Action is part of Campus Compact’s Raise Your Voice campaign, a
national non-partisan effort that has already connected more than 300,000
students to support student civic engagement and address public issues crucial
to our democracy.
Click here to read the full story.
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MESSAGE FROM OUR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
With CCPH members literally all over the world, we have come to rely on telephone,
e-mail and the World Wide Web as important tools for communicating, sharing
knowledge and building relationships.
Although these technologies cannot replace the connections that can be
made when spending time together face-to-face, they are essential to our
work. If you have visited our homepage
lately at www.ccph.info, you will see that we are conducting a user survey
to help us improve the look, feel and content of the CCPH website. We have also established a number of electronic
discussion groups so that individuals with common interests can more
easily communicate with one another. We also
recently sponsored a web-conference
and teleconference
on community-based participatory research.
We offer these resources freely as a core part of
our mission to promote health through partnerships between communities and
higher educational institutions. If you
have found helpful information on the CCPH website, if you have learned about a
new opportunity through one of the electronic discussion groups, if you have
had questions answered promptly by CCPH staff, I invite you to support CCPH by
becoming a member and by encouraging colleagues to become members, too. Your modest investment in CCPH helps us to
continue to serve as a resource for service-learning, community-based participatory
research and community-campus partnerships more broadly that are working to
improve health professions education, civic engagement and the health of
communities. Becoming a member of CCPH has tangible benefits, too:
- Be the first to hear about
funding opportunities and other important news through Partnership Matters, emailed every other
Friday to CCPH members
- Pursue professional
development opportunities at discounted rates. Our conferences and institutes consistently get rave
reviews.
- Receive useful publications - for free or at a
discount. CCPH member also receive
substantial discounts on Jossey-Bass & Wiley publications.
- Connect with colleagues from
across the country, and increasingly the world through our member directory, conferences and programs.
- Access low cost, high-quality
training and technical assistance through the CCPH Consultancy
Network of trainers and consultants.
- Influence policy on issues you
care about, including funding for community-campus partnerships, Healthy
People 2010 objectives and faculty promotion and tenure.
Why join CCPH?
See
what some of our members have to say.
To learn more about CCPH membership, visit these pages on our website:
Frequently
Asked Question about Membership
We welcome your questions, comments and suggestions about CCPH, and of
course we are always delighted to hear stories about ways that CCPH members
have found membership in the organization to be worthwhile. Please feel free to contact me directly at sarena@u.washington.edu.
NEWS FROM CCPH
CCPH Website Users
Survey! We want to
hear from you! Help us make sure you're getting the most out of CCPH resources
by taking a five minute survey about CCPH's website. Click
here to take the survey now. This is an anonymous survey. Click here to return to the CCPH Homepage.
The Commission on
Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions Has Released Its Report,
Linking
Scholarship and Communities
The report advances a national strategy for closing the gap between the
promise of health professional schools as community-engaged institutions and
the reality of how faculty members are typically judged and rewarded. The report contains detailed recommendations
for action by health professional
schools and their national associations that can support community-engaged
scholarship and cites promising practices that illustrate their implementation. To
read the report and press release, visit www.ccph.info. To order a hard copy of the report, download
an order form.
Save the Date! Developing and Sustaining Partnerships for Community-Based
Participatory Research: A Skill-Building Institute for Partnership Teams to be held August 5-8, 2005 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. The institute
is based on the training curriculum developed by the Community-Institutional
Partnerships for Prevention Research Group to build the capacity of
communities, public health agencies and academic institutions to engage in
CBPR. Applications will be available in mid-March. To receive an
application by email, please send your request to ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
Apply now for CCPH's
8th Summer Service-Learning Institute, to be held June 17-20, 2005 in the
Cascade Mountains of Washington State - Applications must be
received by April 15, 2005. 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 in
the health professions. Application materials
and other details are available by clicking here.
JOIN CCPH AT THESE UPCOMING EVENTS
For more event listings, visit CCPH’s website
conference page.
March 3-5, 2005:
Community Health Solutions- Keeping the Drive Alive,
the second joint conference of the Association for Community Health Improvement
and Communities Joined in Action 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.
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. Applications must be received by April 15, 2005. To
receive an application by email, please send your request to ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
August 5-8, 2005: Developing and Sustaining Partnerships for Community-Based
Participatory Research: A Skill-Building Institute for Partnership Teams in Leavenworth, Washington. The
institute is based on the training curriculum developed by the Community-Institutional
Partnerships for Prevention Research Group to build the capacity of
communities, public health agencies and academic institutions to engage in
CBPR. Applications will be available in mid-March. 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
March
10-12, 2005: The
Council of Academic Societies -- 2005 Spring Meeting on Tomorrows Doctors,
Tomorrows Cures: Envisioning the Future in Tucson, Arizona.
March
29-30, 2005: A
National Call to Action: Minority Faculty Development Leadership Summit in Washington,
DC.
March
31-April 3, 2005: National
Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Ninth Annual Conference “Medical Practice
for the 21st Century: Enhancing Quality Care and Health Literacy” in Los Angeles, California.
April
5, 2005: Global
Health Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
April
6-8, 2005: Gulf-South
Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
April
7-10, 2005: 3rd
Bi-annual Harvard Macy Institute Symposium, "A Global View of Medical
Education” in Washington, DC.
April
10-13, 2005: Association of Program Directors of
Internal Medicine -- Spring Conference in San Francisco,
California.
April
12-15, 2005: 2005
Priester National Extension Health Conference Call to the Post: Translating
Research into Policy and Practice for Healthier Communities in
Lexington, Kentucky.
Education Network to Advance Cancer
Clinical Trials (ENACCT) Seeking Program Evaluator
The mission
of ENACCT is to identify and implement evidence-based approaches to effective
cancer clinical trials education, outreach and recruitment in order to enhance
accrual to these trials. Through their Pilot Education Program, they will be
funding 3 community based organizations to demonstrate the impact of a
comprehensive, community-driven outreach and education program to increase
awareness about cancer clinical trials, enhance their acceptability, and
improve access to them, ultimately increasing patient accrual to cancer
clinical trials. They would like to find out if any CCPH members are qualified
and interested in serving as the program’s external evaluator. They will be
only asking for bids from those with appropriate experience. Please email Margo Michaels regarding your interest and
qualifications.
YouthNet Invites You to Participate in an
Online Discussion
YouthNet
invites you to participate in an online discussion, "Youth Forum on
Pregnancy Prevention in a Time of AIDS," to be held March 15 - April 15,
2005. You can share your experiences
and lessons learned, along with guest experts from the United Nations and other
international agencies. To sign up,
send an e-mail with "Youth Forum" in the subject
line, and include your name and the country in which you work. You will receive an e-mail response
explaining how the forum will work. For
more information, click here. The forum is
sponsored by YouthNet and the INFO Project, in conjunction with the
Implementing Best Practices in Reproductive Health (IBP) Initiative, which is
coordinated by the World Health Organization.
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Calls for Modest Increase in Medical School Enrollment
Concerned
that America may experience a physician shortage in the next few decades, the
AAMC recommended last week that enrollment in U.S. medical schools be increased
15 percent by 2015; this would result in an additional 2,500 M.D. graduates per
year. The association also recommended the removal of the current restriction
on the number of residency and fellowship positions funded by Medicare in order
to ensure that the new U.S. medical school graduates can complete their
graduate medical education. A survey of medical school expansion plans,
conducted by the AAMC's Center for Workforce Studies in late 2004, shows that
many medical schools have already begun to increase their class sizes. Of the
118 allopathic schools that responded to the survey, 31 percent indicated that
they were "definitely" or "probably" going to boost
first-year enrollment over the next several years. The Center for Workforce
Studies will continue to monitor and analyze changes in the physician supply,
and will sponsor the first annual Physician Workforce Research Conference, May
5-6 in Washington, D.C. For more information click here.
Website and Reports: College Graduation
Rates
The
Education Trust released a new online database called College Results Online.
The interactive Web tool allows users to examine graduation rates at virtually
any four-year college and university in the nation, broken down by students'
race, ethnicity and gender. The Education Trust also released two reports
accompanying the release of the online tool. The first report, One Step from
the Finish Line: Higher College-Graduation Rates are Within Our Reach, explains
College Results Online, guides readers on how to use the Web tool and
highlights the strategies of some successful colleges and universities. The
second report, Choosing to Improve: Voices from Colleges and Universities with
Better Graduation Rates, analyzes the data from College Results Online. Click
here to access the tool and read the reports.
Summer Research Internship for Students
Interested in Studying Neighborhood Poverty and its Impact on Adolescent Behavior
The
Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Alabama is
offering a summer research internship for students interested in studying
neighborhood poverty and its impact on adolescent behavior. Students who
participate in the internship, which is in its 8th year, will conduct a survey
of adolescents living in public housing and other very low-income neighborhoods
in Mobile and Prichard, Alabama. Interns, who may be either undergraduate or
graduate students, will be required to live in Mobile between May 16, 2005 and
August 5, 2005. For more information, please contact John
Bolland. Interested students should send a note indicating their
interest and a resume (with names of three references) by April 1, 2005. Interested faculty should also contact John
Bolland.
New Science.gov
Service Delivers Science Information to Desktops
Science.gov, a
Web portal for federal science information, now provides a
free "Alert" service that delivers information about the most
current science developments right to desktops each Monday. Science.gov is made
possible by the Science.gov Alliance, a collaboration of 12 federal agencies,
including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy,
Health and Human Services and the Interior, as well as the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the Government Printing Office, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, with support from
the National Archives and Records Administration. To sign up click here.
Forum on Securing
Funding for Public Health Systems Research (PHSR)
Read about the fourth
annual Public Health Systems Research Leadership Forum-convened by the Council
at the 2004 APHA Annual Meeting-which focused on how those who conduct,
consume, and fund PHSR can collaborate to assure that vital questions are
studied. Click here
to read about the Forum.
International Clinical Rotation
Opportunities from Child Family Health International (CFHI)
Medicine in Mexico: Indigenous &
Modern Culture Collide
Spend
4 or 8 weeks with physicians in Southern Mexico through CFHI’s Clinical
Rotation in Oaxaca, Mexico. The city of Oaxaca is host to an amazing mix of
cultures and traditions - all reflected by the way that healthcare is practiced
and experienced. Spanish courses integrate into the program to bring you closer
to understanding medical norms in Mexico, while the proximity to both mountains
and beaches make Oaxaca an ideal place to travel after your rotations are
complete. Rich in cultural tradition and history, the state of Oaxaca also is
one of the poorest in terms of access to healthcare for its citizens. Read more about this program &
eligibility here.
Healthcare in Ecuador: from Amazon to Beaches
Do
clinical rotations in a variety of hospitals and clinics through CFHI's
Clinical Rotation in Quito, Ecuador. This program is designed to give you
insight into the way healthcare is practiced in a developing country. With
approx. 80% of Ecuador's population living below the poverty line, the
healthcare system is stretched to its max, serving the incredibly diverse
communities that make up this geographically stunning and varied country. Read more about this program &
eligibility here.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research
Assistant
2 Yr Term Appointment; start date on or
about September 1, 2005 Research and Evaluation (Full-Time)
Under supervision of the Research
Officer, performs a range of research and analytical roles supporting the work
of professional staff and affords an excellent opportunity for the incumbent to
learn about the fields of health and health care and about health policy and
philanthropy. Essential Duties: Assists in analysis of health-related data. Prepares
literature searches and reviews to supplement staff presentations and
publications. Assists in the
preparation of oral presentations/speeches, written reports and peer-reviewed
publications. Assists in preparation of annual RWJF Anthology and
organizational performance assessment (Scorecard). Prepares background research
for development of new grant-related initiatives. Conducts library and Internet
research on national health and health care issues as well as subjects of
particular interest to the Foundation. Synthesizes research for internal as
well as external use. Click here to read the full
job description. Please e-mail your resume, including salary history, and
interest letter to our Human Resources Center.
For a complete listing of all
current Grant Announcements, click here.
Community Participation in Health
Disparities Intervention Research
Deadlines: Letters of Intent March 14 –
Applications April 14
The NIH
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities has released a request for applications for
RFA-MD-05-002, Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention
Research. The ultimate goal of this RFA
is to support intervention research on health disparities that is jointly
conducted by communities and researchers. This RFA is inviting applications for
a three-year planning grant proposal. The first year of the grant is devoted to
partnership development, community needs assessment, identifying the
disease/condition for intervention research, and planning the intervention
methodology with substantial input from the community. During the second and
third year, a pilot intervention research study will be conducted with
community participation. This RFA will utilize the NIH resource-related
research projects (R24) grant award mechanism. The total amount to be awarded
is $4.5 million. The anticipated number of awards is 5-10. Click here for details.
Centers of Excellence In Partnerships for
Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training
Deadlines: Letters of Intent March 14 –
Applications April 14
The NIH
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities has
released a request for applications for RFA-MD-05-003 Centers of Excellence In
Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and
Training (Project EXPORT Establishing Exploratory Centers). Letters of Intent
are due March 14, 2005 and Applications are due April 14, 2005.
The
Project EXPORT Centers of Excellence initiative is using the P20 mechanism to:
·
advance the science directed toward reducing,
eliminating, or preventing health disparities
·
accelerate the discovery of new interventions and
expand the utilization/adaptation of existing evidenced-based interventions for
preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities
·
increase the number of researchers and
professionals from minority and medically underserved populations trained in
biomedical and behavioral research
·
increase the quality of the training provided to
biomedical and behavioral researchers and professionals conducting research on
health disparities
·
increase public trust and the dissemination and
utilization of scientific and health information relevant to health disparity
populations.
Click here for details.
Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration
for Ethnic and Racial Minorities – Deadline: March 23
This
grant program is primarily to reduce disparities and improve early detection
and treatment for cancer for American Indian (including Alaskan Native, Eskimo
and Aleutian), Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black, and Hispanic
Medicare beneficiaries. Demonstration sites will provide services to facilitate
cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment, helping minority beneficiaries
"navigate" the healthcare system in a more timely and informative
manner. Screening and diagnosis facilitation services will target four
cancers--breast, cervix, colon/rectum and prostate. Treatment facilitation
services will target these four cancers and lung cancer. To view the program
announcement, click here. For more
information, click here. Please address
any questions about this matter to CPTDEMO@cms.hhs.gov.
Department of Education's 2005 Grant
Competition – Deadline: March 25
The
U.S. Department of Education is accepting applications for the 2005 Grant
Competition to Prevent High-Risk Drinking or Violent Behavior Among College
Students. The goal of this grant program is to provide funds to develop or
enhance, implement, and evaluate campus- and/or community-based prevention and
early intervention strategies to prevent high-risk drinking or violent behavior
on campus. The Department anticipates awarding an estimated 20 new awards, at
an average level of approximately $100,000 to $150,000 per year depending on
the scope of work. Projects will be funded for one year with an option for an
additional year, contingent upon substantial progress by the grantee and the
availability of funds. Please see the Federal Register, the Department's Web
site, or the Grant Opportunities page of the Higher Education Center's Web site
for more information.
CIRCLE (Center for Information and
Research on Civic Learning and Engagement Announces Grant Competition –
Deadline: March 31
CIRCLE
has announced a new grant competition for community research conducted by young
people. Teams of youth researchers
working in affiliation with a community organization or institution are invited
to apply. Research teams can investigate a community issue of their choice.
Topics should be chosen by youth researchers and should be responsive to
something they think is important and has implications for the community at
large. Teams must have a plan for disseminating their findings and an audience
(or audiences) they want to target. Visit the CIRCLE
Web site for complete
program information and application procedures.
Fannie Mae Foundation Affordable Housing
Fellowship Program – Deadline: April 1
The
Fannie Mae Foundation, in partnership with the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University, is offering the Fannie Mae Foundation
Affordable Housing Fellowship Program to support the professional development
of senior public and nonprofit officials committed to affordable housing in the
United States. The foundation sponsors up to 35 fellowships for elected and
appointed officials, as well as senior mangers in the Program for Senior
Executives in state and local governments. The three-week summer program is
intended to enhance management and decision-making skills of leaders
experienced in managing housing and community development programs. For more
information, go to the Fannie Mae Foundation website.
Mini-Grant from the National Association
of Secondary School Principals – Deadline: April 16
The
National Association of Secondary School Principals is inviting proposals from
public middle level and high schools serving large numbers of low-income
students and underrepresented minorities (greater than 40% of student body) to
apply for a $5,000 mini-grant to implement a special initiative aimed at
strengthening ties between their schools and their students' neighborhoods and
communities. They invite principals to submit a proposal that will build
bridges between their school faculty and the surrounding community. For more
information, click here.
The American Nurses Foundation (ANF)
Research Grants Program – Deadline: May 2
Each
year, through the Nursing Research Grants program, ANF provides funds to
beginner and experienced nurse researchers to conduct studies that contribute
toward the advancement of nursing science and the enhancement of patient care.
Awards are given in all areas of nursing, including healthy patient outcomes,
health care policy development, critical care, gerontology, women’s health,
community and family intervention. The application materials are available here or in PDF form.
Office of Child Support Enforcement;
Special Improvement Project (SIP) Grants – Deadline: May 3
This
grant program is primarily to fund a number of special improvement projects,
which further the national child support mission to ensure that all children
receive financial and medical support from their parents and which strengthen
the ability of the nation's child support programs to collect support on behalf
of children and families. View the program announcement.
Community Participation in Research –
Deadlines: May 17, 2005, 2006, 2007
A
number of federal agencies, including NIH, CDC and AHRQ have collaborated in
the release of program announcement PAR-05-026 on
Community
Participation in Research. The goal of this PAR is to support research on
health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities
that
is jointly conducted by communities and researchers. This PAR invites NIH
research project grant (R01) and exploratory/developmental grant (R21) award
mechanisms. Click here for details.
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
For a complete listing of all
current Calls For Submissions, click here.
Call for Proposal Submissions for 2005 Aboriginal
Education Research Forum – Deadline: March 15
The Conference theme is “What is Aboriginal research, and:
What does it mean to Aboriginal communities?” and will take place June 1-3,
2005 in Winnipeg, Canada. Invited
proposal topics include: Sharing/collaborative and/or linking partnership
approaches to Indigenous research, Community benefits from research processes,
Discussions of Research Methodologies that engage Aboriginal peoples and
communities. Click here
to visit the Conference website link.
Physician Training Award in Preventive
Medicine: American Cancer Society – Deadline: April 1
The
American Cancer Society, the largest not-for-profit funding source for cancer
research in the United States, invites applications from qualified institutions
for the Physician Training Award in Preventive Medicine. This award is designed
to support the training of physicians in preventive medicine with an emphasis
on cancer prevention and control. The objective of the award is to increase the
number of preventive medicine residency programs offering high quality training
in cancer prevention and control, and, ultimately, the number of preventive
medicine specialists engaged full or part-time in cancer prevention and control.
To
apply online and for complete program details, please click here.
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
(CBCF ) Urban Health Policy Fellowship – Deadline: April 1
The CBCF is currently
accepting applications for the 2005-06 Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy Program
(CBCF-LSUHPFP). CBCF-LSUHPFP is a leadership development program designed for
health policy professionals who, through original research, advanced
legislative training and health policy analysis, will significantly aid efforts
to eliminate health disparities in the United States and abroad. The primary
aims of CBCF-LSUHPFP are to: Increase the pool of qualified ethnic health
policy professionals by targeting the next generation of leaders. Facilitate
the collaboration of health organizations and governmental agencies to develop
health policy and legislation designed to eliminate health disparities. Inform
the Congressional Black Caucus and United States House of Representatives
Health Agenda about issues related to and ways to address health disparities.
To request an application, visit the CBCF website or contact Judy
Lubin.
Call
for Abstracts for the 2005 Linkages Award - Deadline: April 8
Through the annual Linkages Award, the
Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice recognizes
exemplary community-based collaborative activities between public health
practice agencies and institutions of higher learning. This year's award is
focused on efforts to better recruit and retain public health workers. Eligible
awardees are involved in a partnership between an academic institution and a
public health agency or organization and have worked collaboratively to
encourage individuals to pursue public health careers. Call for Abstracts
American Geriatrics Society Announces
Education for Specialty Residents - Deadline: April 8
The American Geriatrics Society, in
keeping with its efforts to help develop leaders in the geriatrics aspects of
their disciplines, is seeking proposals for the Geriatrics Education for
Specialty Residents (GESR) component of its Increasing Expertise in Geriatrics
for Surgical and Related Medical Specialties project. The program, which is
funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, addresses the urgent need
to create a structure for developing leaders in geriatrics in academic surgery
and related medical specialties. For additional information and to download an
application form, visit the AGS Web site.
CUexpo2005 Call for Session Proposals –
Deadline: April 29
The
conference theme is Community-University Research Partnerships, Leaders in
Urban Change and will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on September 15
- 18, 2005. The conference is hosted by the Winnipeg Inner City Research
Alliance and Quest. CUexpo2005 will seek to strengthen the understanding of,
and support for, the unique and diverse nature of action-oriented research
involving innovative collaboration between University and community partners. They
are currently accepting applications for breakout session proposals, from a
wide range of participants, on a wide variety of issues, taking diverse
approaches to sharing ideas and information. The Call for Session Proposals and
Application may be found on the website. Winnipeg Inner city Research Alliance
PUBLICATIONS
Afterschool Nutrition Education Curricula
The Food Research and Action Center
has new afterschool which has a list of nutrition education curricula and
includes local models. Almost all of
them are available on the web for free.
Center for Health Care Strategies Library
The Center for Health Care
Strategies promotes high quality health care services for low-income
populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Check out their
newly published bibliography of papers produced for community based
organizations, state health care purchasers, and managed care organizations.
All publications listed have a summary and are available as pdf files.
Housing and Urban Development's 10th
Anniversary Publication Available
The
10th anniversary publication of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development's Office of University of Partnerships is now out and on the web.
The
publication is titled "The Power of Partnership: Celebrating 10 Years
1994—2004 Community Outreach Partnership Centers." Topics covered in the publication include: 1.
Empowering Local Communities; 2. Improving Local Communities; 3. Improving the
Quality of Education; 4. Helping HUD Fulfill Its Mission; and 5. Improving
Relations Between Campus and Community. For more information, click here.
Journal Examines Racial and Ethnic
Differences in School Readiness
The Spring 2005 issue of the Future
of Children, titled School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps, focuses
on children's lives before they begin school in an effort to understand how to
close racial and ethnic gaps in educational outcomes. The volume is the first
joint publication of the Future of Children by the Brookings Institution and
the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University. The journal articles discuss the following eight topics as they
relate to school readiness: (1) testing of children at school entry, (2) family
socioeconomic resources, (3) genetics, (4) neuroscience perspectives, (5) low
birthweight, (6) health disparities, (7) parenting, and (8) early childhood
care and education. The executive summary and full text
are available. For pdf version, click here.
National Partnership to Help Pregnant
Women Smokers Quit - Focus on Native American Community
For Native American women,
tobacco's ceremonial role in the community plays a large part in their decision
to begin smoking. American Indians/Alaska Natives have the highest rates of
smoking during pregnancy than any other ethnic group in the United States. That
said, there is a critical need to reach these women with effective tobacco
cessation interventions. The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
is committed to reaching out to Native American communities to increase
cessation training for providers and to make resources available where they are
needed the most. Recently, the National Partnership's Healthcare Provider
working group completed a needs assessment with American Indian/Alaska Native
healthcare providers to gather information on the types of culturally
appropriate cessation materials they are using. The results of the needs
assessment will be highlighted in an upcoming Action Plan for providers who
work with Native Americans. The Action Plan will include case studies from
model Tribal cessation programs across the country, and results from focus
groups with both pregnant women and clinicians. There also will be a resource
CD featuring culturally appropriate brochures, posters, and other educational
materials for use in the Native American community. More than 5,000 of these
posters have been distributed since March 2004 - evidence that there is a
significant need for materials that speak directly to the Native American
Community. For more information on the National Partnership's outreach to
Native Americans, contact Catherine Rohweder.
New Tool Identifies Key Elements of
Effective Treatment for Adolescents with Alcohol Problems
What to Look for in a Treatment Program:
Nine Elements of Effective Alcohol Treatment for Adolescents
identifies common themes among treatments that are most effective in helping adolescents
with alcohol problems. The research-based information tool was published by
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems at the George Washington University
Medical Center with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The information was
drawn from an evaluation of a broad spectrum of treatment programs and
approaches conducted by Data Strategies. The tool presents a discussion of the
approaches used by a Wisconsin treatment program, followed by a description of
nine key elements of effective treatment identified by Data Strategies. The
nine elements include (1) assessment and treatment matching, (2) comprehensive
integrated treatment approach, (3) family involvement in treatment, (4)
developmentally appropriate program, (5) engage and retain adolescents in
treatment, (6) qualified staff, (7) gender and cultural competence, (8)
continuing care, and (9) treatment outcomes. The tool is intended for use by
policymakers, employers, and others to help curb the avoidable health care and
other costs associated with alcohol use and to improve access to treatment. The
tool is available online or as a pdf. More information about
different adolescent treatment
programs is available. More information
about the risks posed by adolescent
alcohol problems is available.
Report Focuses on the Health and
Well-Being of Young Children in Immigrant Families
The
Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants examines research on the
health and well-being of children ages 6 and younger in immigrant families
(those with at least one parent born outside the United States). The report was
published by the Urban Institute with support from the Foundation for Child
Development and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It is divided into six broad
sections: ( 1) immigration trends and impacts; (2) poverty, family structure,
and parents' work; (3) risk factors for poor school performance among young
children of immigrants; (4) hardship and benefit use among young children of
immigrants; (5) health status and insurance coverage; and (6) child care
arrangements. The report offers several
conclusions and raises issues for further research. A summary, notes, references,
figures, and tables are also presented. The report is available also available as a pdf.
CONTACT EDITOR
Email the PM editor: ccphpm@u.washington.edu
PARTNERSHIP
MATTERS
Edited by
Annika Robbins
Copyright
©2005 by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
All rights
reserved.
COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL
CURRENT GRANTS ALERT
New Grants Alert announced in this
newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
Prescription for Health Program Grants – Deadline: March 7
Proposals
requested for grants from the Prescription for Health program, sponsored by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality. The grant will support two years of practice-based, primary-care
research networks in developing creative, practical strategies for advocating
positive health-related behaviors among patients. Projects should focus on
preventing sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy diets, tobacco use, and risky use of
alcohol. http://www.prescriptionforhealth.org
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
* Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research
- Deadlines: Letters of Intent March 14 – Applications April 14 Details
* Centers of Excellence In Partnerships for Community Outreach,
Research on Health Disparities and Training - Deadlines: Letters of Intent
March 14 – Applications April 14 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
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) –
Deadline: March 21
Funding
Opportunity Number: ED-GRANTS-020305-002. The MSEIP is designed to effect
long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly
minority institutions and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic
minorities, particularly minority women, into scientific and technological
careers. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/ED/HRO/DCMGC/ED-GRANTS-020305-002/Grant.html
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
* Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration for Ethnic and Racial
Minorities – Deadline: March 23 Details
* Department of Education's 2005 Grant Competition – Deadline: March
25 Details
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.
* CIRCLE (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement Announces Grant Competition – Deadline: March 31 Details
* Fannie Mae Foundation Affordable Housing Fellowship Program –
Deadline: April 1 Details
Massage Therapy Foundation Grants – Deadline: April 1
Applications
are being accepted for community-service grants from the Massage Therapy
Foundation. One-year grants will support organizations that provide
massage-therapy treatment alternatives to communities that have little or no
access to such services. http://www.massagetherapyfoundation.org/grants_community.html
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
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
* Mini-Grant from the National Association of Secondary School Principals
– Deadline: April 16 Details
* The American Nurses Foundation (ANF) Research Grants Program –
Deadline: May 2 Details
* Office of Child Support Enforcement; Special Improvement Project
(SIP) Grants – Deadline: May 3 Details
* Community Participation in Research – Deadlines: May 17, 2005, 2006,
2007 Details
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
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
COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
New Calls for Submissions announced
in this newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
* Call
for Proposal Submissions for 2005 Aboriginal Education Research Forum –
Deadline: March 15 Details
International Health-Promoting
Universities Conference Call for Abstracts – Deadline: March 31
The conference will take
place October 3-6, 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will promote a comprehensive
approach to the creation and maintenance of health-promoting universities and
colleges from the perspective of people in all areas of campus life. The
conference will profile research, programs, and projects that contribute to
healthy work, study, and living environments at universities and colleges. http://www.healthyuconference.ualberta.ca/
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
* Physician Training Award in Preventive
Medicine: American Cancer Society – Deadline: April 1 Details
* Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF ) Urban Health Policy
Fellowship – Deadline: April 1 Details
2005
Mutual of America Community Partnership Award – Deadline: April 1
The aim of the Community Partnership Award is to spotlight the important
contributions that nonprofit organizations, in partnership with public, private
and other social sector organizations, make to society. Each of the award
recipients must demonstrate the difference the partnership has made, show the
ability of the partnership to be replicated and to stimulate new ideas in
addressing social issues, as well as illustrate the partnership’s commitment to
advancing the mission and principles of the organization. http://www.mutualofamerica.com/MOAframe.asp?Main=about/Description.asp&ButHit=about
* Call for Abstracts for the
2005 Linkages Award - Deadline: April 8
Details
* American Geriatrics Society Announces
Education for Specialty Residents - Deadline: April 8 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.
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.
* CUexpo2005 Call for Session Proposals –
Deadline: April 29 Details
Health
Professional Education Call for Abstracts – Deadline: April 30
Patient/client centered care has become an espoused rule for 21st
century health care. Health Professional Education needs to reflect this
partnership. Join your interprofessional colleagues at this important
conference to establish a vision for health professional education in which
patients play an active role that models trends in practice. Participants are
invited to present examples of collaborative projects between educators and
patient/community groups at the “Where’s the Patient’s Voice in Health
Professional Education?” Conference to be held November 3-5, 2005 in Vancouver,
BC, Canada. http://www.health-disciplines.ubc.ca/DHCC
Call
for Papers – Deadline: June 30
Proposed entries requested for a two-volume
encyclopedia on racial and ethnic social justice in the United States. Contact
A. Aguirre Jr. at Aguirre@citrus.ucr.edu.
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