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February 6, 2009 Volume XI ● Issue 3 News From CCPH Membership Matters Featured Member Upcoming Events Announcements Employment Opportunities Grants Alert! Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships Calls for Papers & Presentations Publications Archives Community-Campus Partnerships for Health c/o Medical College of Wisconsin
Public and
Community Health
Attn: Alicia Witten
UW Box 354809
Seattle, WA 98195-4809 Tel. (206) 666-3406 Fax. (414)
456-6431 ccphuw@u.washington.edu www.ccph.info Partnership Matters newsletter is a member benefit
of Community- Campus Partnerships for Health Find out more about membership
benefits and how you can join CCPH today! Newsletter Co-Editors Jessie Tobin Alicia Witten Contact us: jtobin@mcw.edu ©2009 Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health Partnership Matters Newsletter Submission Guidelines We welcome
announcements, comments and questions from you! Please forward them to the PM
Editor at ccphpm@mcw.edu.
Submission Guidelines: • Please limit announcements and
questions to not more than 100 words. As for articles and editorials, not more
than 200 words; • Provide the names of all authors,
their current institutional affiliations and/or photos; • Explain all abbreviations and
unusual terms when first used. | SIX UNIVERSITIES AWARDED GRANTS TO BUILD CADRE OF COMMUNITY-ENGAGED
FACULTY National Initiative Aims to Demonstrate Campus-Wide, Competency-Based
Models of Faculty Development Faculty for the Engaged Campus is pleased to announce that it has made grants
to six universities to design, implement and evaluate innovative
faculty development programs that advance community-engaged scholarship.
Each grant is for $15,000 over a two year period.
The funded institutions are North Carolina State University, Northwestern
University, Ohio University, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Brief descriptions of their programs appear
in our press release at: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/fec-pressrelease-012109.pdf The
six institutions were among twenty that convened in Chapel Hill, NC in May 2008
for an intensive charrette to design campus-wide, competency-based models of faculty
development that support community-engaged careers in the academy. Institutions participating in the charrette
were invited to submit proposals to implement and evaluate their designs.
Each proposal was assessed by three reviewers, including community partners. Grantees will share progress and address challenges through conference
calls and meetings, access technical assistance facilitated by the Faculty
for the Engaged Campus leadership team and consultants, and participate in
an evaluation of the process and impact of their programs.
Reflecting on
the grantees and their proposed programs, Faculty
for the Engaged Campus Director Sarena Seifer observes, “We have a great deal
to learn about the most effective strategies for preparing and supporting community-engaged
faculty members. By grounding their programs in core competencies that community-engaged
faculty need to be successful and involving community partners as peers, these
grantees are poised to each serve as models.” Faculty
for the Engaged Campus Co-Director Lynn Blanchard, Director of the Carolina
Center for Public Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
adds, “We sought in this initiative to go significantly beyond the occasional
faculty development workshop to support strategic, sustainable, campus-wide approaches.
The grantees comprise a learning community with enormous potential to inform the
emerging field of community-engaged faculty development.”
Faculty for the Engaged Campus is a national initiative of Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health, based at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in partnership with the
University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy by
developing innovative competency-based models of faculty development, facilitating
peer review and dissemination of products of community-engaged scholarship, and
supporting community-engaged faculty through the promotion and tenure process.
The initiative is supported in part by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education. For more information, contact Faculty for the Engaged Campus Deputy
Director Piper McGinley at ccphfipse2@mcw.edu
or visit the initiative homepage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/faculty-engaged.html Stay
connected with the initiative and related work through the Community-Engaged Scholarship
electronic discussion group at http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm-engagedscholarship WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD RECOMMENDS RESOLUTION ON REDUCING HEALTH INEQUITIES
THROUGH ACTION ON THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
At
the 124th Session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive
Board last month, the Board recommended that the World Health assembly adopt a
resolution by the World Health Assembly on reducing health inequities through
action on the social determinants of health. The recommendation comes in response to the
2008 Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, “Closing
the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants
of Health.” The Commission’s report makes three overarching recommendations: 1)
Improve daily living conditions, including the circumstances in which people are
born, grow, live, work, and age; 2) Tackle the inequitable distribution of power,
money and resources – the structural drivers of those conditions – globally, nationally,
and locally; and 3) Measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of
action. The full report can be found at: http://www.who.int/social_determinants/final_report/en The
Resolution put forth by the WHO Executive Board includes the following excerpts:
".........Confirming the importance of addressing the wider determinants
of health and considering the actions and recommendations set out in the series
of international health promotion conferences, from the Ottawa Charter on Health
Promotion to the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World making
the promotion of health central to the global development agenda as a core responsibility
of all governments (resolution WHA60.24);
"........URGES Member
States:
(1) to develop and implement goals and strategies to improve
public health with a focus on health inequities;
(2) to take into account
health equity in all national policies that address social determinants of health
and to ensure equitable access to health promotion, disease prevention and health
care;
(3) to ensure dialogue and cooperation among relevant sectors with
the aim of integrating a consideration of health into relevant public policies;
(4) to increase awareness among public and private health providers on how
to take account of social determinants when delivering care to their patients;
(5) to contribute to the improvement of the daily living conditions contributing
to health and social well-being across the lifespan by involving all relevant
partners, including civil society and the private
sector;
(6) to
contribute to the empowerment of individuals and groups, especially those who
are marginalized, and take steps to improve the societal conditions that affect
their health;
(7) to generate new, or make use of existing, methods and
evidence, tailored to national contexts in order to address the social determinants
and social gradients of health and health inequities;
(8) to develop,
make use of, and if necessary, improve health information systems in order to
monitor and measure the health of national populations, with data disaggregated
according to the major social determinants in each context (such as age, gender,
ethnicity, education, employment and socioeconomic status) so that health inequities
can be detected and the impact of policies monitored in order to devise appropriate
policy interventions to minimize health inequities The
full resolution is available at: http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-en.pdf.
It
is also available in French at: http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-fr.pdf
and in Spanish at: http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-sp.pdf
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NEWS FROM CCPH |
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| International Partnership
Institute May 18 & 19,
2009 Portland, OR Call for Proposals Deadline: March 9, 2009 CCPH is cosponsoring this institute
and we encourage your participation! INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE "Reciprocal Partnerships: Transforming Higher
Education and Community for the Future" Registration: $200 Developing
and sustaining reciprocal partnerships is the basis for effective campus-community
engagement. Yet, despite the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's (and others') national
call to focus on partnerships a decade ago, this foundational work remains elusive
for many campuses and communities. Join community and campus practitioners and
scholars to deeply explore engaged teaching, research and service partnerships
- their proven mechanisms and strategies for success, persistent challenges, and
the scholarship of partnerships. To
view the Call for Proposals and registration information: www.pdx.edu/cae/partnership.html To
learn more about PSU's Partnership Initiative: http://www.pdx.edu/cae/partnershipinitiative.html |
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| CCPH Student-Authored Conference
Abstracts published in the Journal Context! 
Context, the
Journal of Health Students Taking Action Together shares in CCPH’s goals and has
partnered with CCPH in order to provide its readers with new and exciting research
from the 2007 CCPH conference. Abstracts that highlight student reflections on
their community experiences are currently published online. To read these abstracts
or learn more about Context, please visit:
http://contextjournal.org/category1.php. |
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| Apply Now for the
CCPH 12th Summer Service-Learning Institute! Application Deadline:
May 8, 2009  Apply now to attend the CCPH 12th Summer Service-Learning Institute
held July
24-27, 2009, in
the Cascade Mountains of Washington State! The Institute is designed for
both new and experienced service-learning practitioners (faculty, staff and community
partners). It is
taught by national experts in service-learning, including health professional
faculty and community leaders who have developed successful service-learning partnerships.
A unique and effective component of the institute is a mentoring model in which
participants work in small groups and as individuals with mentors (institute instructors)
to further shape their own action plans for service-learning.
Application
materials for the CCPH 12th Summer Service-Learning Institute are now available
at: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html.
Applications
are due May 8, 2009 and applicants will be notified of decisions by May 22, 2009.
Questions about the CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute or the application
process? Please e-mail sliccphuw@u.washington.edu.
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Offer for the Journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships
Available to CCPH Members!  One of CCPH’s publishing partners; Johns Hopkins
University Press has a special offer exclusive to CCPH members in subscription prices for a limited time
only! Currently, CCPH members are eligible for a 20% discount on subscription
prices to the JHUP Journal Progress in Community
Health Partnerships as a benefit of CCPH Membership. However, for a limited time, JHUP
would like to EXTEND this discount by offering issue 2.2 of Progress in Community Health Partnerships
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To
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| Are You Enjoying ALL of the Benefits CCPH Membership Offers? Join a CCPH Member Interest Group Today! Member
Interest Groups (MIGs) are designed to mobilize CCPH members for collaborative
problem-solving and collective action around priority topics of shared interest.
Current MIG topics include: v
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& Indigenous Peoples' Health v
Community-Academic
Partnerships in HIV/AIDS v
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& Health v
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| FEATURED MEMBER! DR. MARK DEHAVEN Combining Clinical
Science, Collective Responsibility, and Informed Social Action for
Health CCPH
Member Dr. Mark DeHaven is Professor and Chief of the Division of Community Health
Sciences in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center. Guided by his understanding
that most health-related suffering is preventable and unnecessary, Mark and his team are developing and refining
innovative community-based participatory research (CBPR) models and programs for
improving health outcomes and life chances among those at greatest risk of preventable
disease. Currently,
Mark is engaged in a faith-health collaborative, GoodNEWS (Genes, Nutrition, Exercise,
Wellness, and Spiritual growth), which is funded by a 5-year grant from the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Through the collaborative relationships
and partnerships his Division has developed over the past ten years, GoodNEWS
is collaborating with African-American congregations who are committed to better
understanding the true causes of disease and developing means for eliminating
disease causality. To read more about Mark's work, his
views on health disparities, and his passions and inspirations, click here.
To read about previous Featured Members,
click here. If
you would like to be a Featured Member, or would like to refer a colleague, please
email CCPH at ccphuw@u.washington.edu. |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS For details on these new listings
and all previously listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s
CONFERENCE PAGE Join CCPH at these Upcoming Events! |
| February 2009 February 24, 2009, 9:10-10:10 am ● Association for
the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) Annual Meeting
● Los Angeles, CA You are invited to attend CCPH’s presentation “Enhancing Community
Involvement in the IRB Review Process” at the Annual AAHRPP meeting this month. The session will include CCPH senior consultant
Sarena Seifer, in addition to Stacy Collins from the Education Network to Advance
Cancer Clinical Trials (www.enacct.org)
and Eric Wat, Data Manager, Special Service for Groups (www.ssgmain.org) The presentation
will highlight the following CCPH projects: Communities as Partners in Cancer Clinical Trials www.communitiesaspartners.org Understanding Community-Based Processes for Research Ethics Review http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/researchprojects.html#CommBasedProcesses Community-Based Participatory Research & Research Ethics http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/irbhome.html More information on the AAHRPP Meeting is available at: http://www.aahrpp.org |
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| May 2009 May 18 &
19, 2009 ● International
Partnership Institute ● Portland, OR ● Call for Proposals
Deadline: March 9, 2009 CCPH is cosponsoring this institute
and we encourage your participation! Portland State University (PSU) is hosting an International Partnership
Institute with the theme "Reciprocal Partnerships: Transforming Higher Education
and Community for the Future." Developing and sustaining reciprocal partnerships
is the basis for effective campus-community engagement. Yet, despite the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation's (and others') national call to focus on partnerships a decade
ago, this foundational work remains elusive for many campuses and communities.
Join community and campus practitioners and scholars to deeply explore engaged
teaching, research and service partnerships - their proven mechanisms and strategies
for success, persistent challenges, and the scholarship of partnerships.
Registration is $200. To view the Call for Proposals and registration information: www.pdx.edu/cae/partnership.html To learn more about PSU's Partnership Initiative: http://www.pdx.edu/cae/partnershipinitiative.html |
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| JULY 2009 Apply now! July
24-27, 2009 ●
CCPH’s 12th
Summer Service-Learning Institute ●
Leavenworth, WA. Application Deadline: May 8, 2009 Mark your calendars now for this intensive four-day
Institute. The Institute is taught by national experts in service-learning, including
health professional faculty and community leaders who have developed successful
service-learning partnerships. A unique and effective component of the institute's
is a mentoring model in which participants work in small groups and as individuals
with mentors (institute instructors) to further shape their own action plans for
service-learning. Application materials are
available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html.
Applications are due
May 8, 2009 and applicants will be notified of decisions by May 22, 2009. Questions
about the CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute or the application process? Please
e-mail sliccphuw@u.washington.edu. |
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Event Listings For details on these new listings and all previously
listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s CONFERENCE
PAGE February 14-15,
2009 · 5th Annual Amizade Institute for Global Service-Learning
· Carlow University, Pittsburgh,
PA · http://www.amizade.org/resources/service-learning_institute_sechdule.html February 19, 2009 · RE-AIM Workshop · The LA Basin Clinical and Translational Science Institute, USC's
Galen Center · http://www.labctsi.org/index.php/site/news/using_re_aim_to_enhance_the_impact_of_your_intervention/ March
8-13, 2009 · Community Based Cancer-Control: A Seminar for American
Indian and Alaska Native Community Health Advocates · Portland, OR · http://www.npaihb.org/images/calendar_docs/2009/CBPR_Brochure_All.pdf March 24-29, 2009 · Strengthening
and Expanding Health Centers: NACHC Policy and Issues Forum · Washington, D.C. · www.nachc.com/policy-and-issues-forum.cfm April 5-17, 2009 · First IEA Capacity Building conference for the global
South · Jaipur, India · http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/Welcome.htm
May 18-19, 2009 · International Partnership Institute · Portland, OR · http://www.pdx.edu/cae/partnershipinitiative.html May 28-29, 2009 · Fourth Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities
· Fort Worth, TX · http://www.hsc.unt.edu/HealthDisparities/conference.html June 8-12, 2009 · IMPACT HIA Training
· University of Liverpool, England
· www.healthimpactassessment.co.uk June 9-11 2009 · International Society for Equity in Health Conference:
Social and Societal Influences on Equity in Health · Crete, Greece · http://www.iseqh-conference2009.com/ June 15-27, 2009 · National Faith, Justice, and Civic Learning Conference
· DePaul University - Chicago, IL · www.nfjcl.org June 17-20, 2009 · XV Conference of the International Association of Health
Policy: Health Care, Marketising Reforms and the Media · Coventry University, UK · www.healthp.org |
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Video
Resource on Peer Review at NIH - The Center for Scientific Review at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has produced a video of a mock study section meeting
to provide an inside look at how NIH grant applications are reviewed for scientific
and technical merit. The video shows how outside experts assess applications and
how review meetings are conducted to ensure fairness. The video also includes
information on what applicants can do to improve the chances their applications
will receive a positive review. To make the video both authentic and authoritative,
real reviewers volunteered to review real but altered and disguised applications.
NIH staff members also volunteered to participate in this video, which was developed
in collaboration with the NIH Office of Extramural Research. Details at:
http://cms.csr.nih.gov/ResourcesforApplicants/InsidetheNIHGrantReviewProcessVideo.htm New
Routes Uses Immigrant-Made Media to Improve Immigrant Health - New Routes to Community Health is a new approach for
improving the health of immigrants through immigrant-created media. Eight diverse
immigrant-led collaborations across the United States have received three-year
grants to create locally-focused media and outreach campaigns that speak directly
to immigrants’ health concerns. They feature public and commercial
TV and radio, as well as theater, digital stories, social marketing campaigns,
and articles by our grantees. To learn more, visit: http://newroutes.org./ Youth
InfoNet Available Online - The Interagency Youth Working
Group (IYWG) is pleased to announce Youth InfoNet 52. This month's issue
of the e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 17
program resources with Web links, and 13 journal article summaries on research
from Brazil, China, Haiti, India, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, United States,
and the southern Africa region. Issues available at: http://www.youthwg.org/pubs/YouthInfoNet/YIN52.shtml Lack
of Accessibility and Affordability are Linked to Under-Diagnosis of Chronic Disease
in Blacks and Hispanics - A new study links lack of accessibility,
affordability, and continuity of medical care to underdiagnosis of chronic medical
conditions among Blacks and Hispanics. The researchers correlated self-diagnosis
of chronic medical and mental health conditions among 287 black and Latino heads
of households in 3 urban public housing communities in Los Angeles County with
a physician's diagnosis of the conditions. The findings suggest that for patients
with a similar health condition, those with better access to medical care are
more likely to be diagnosed by physicians. The study was supported in part by
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. More details are available at:
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/dec08/1208RA18.htm Children's Dental
Health Knowledge Path Resource Available - The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
(OHRC) in collaboration with the Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown
University released a new edition of the knowledge path about oral health for
infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women. This electronic guide points
to resources that analyze data, describe programs, and report on policy and research
aimed at improving access to and the quality of oral health care. The knowledge
path contains sections with resources for professionals, resources for consumers,
and resources on specific aspects of oral health. Topics include child care and
Head Start, dental sealants, early childhood caries, fluoride varnish, K-12 education,
pregnancy, school-based care, school evaluation mandates, and special health care
needs. The knowledge path is available at: http://www.mchoralhealth.org/knwpathoralhealth.html Amizade International
Service Learning Courses Available for Students - Amizade empowers individuals
and communities through worldwide service and learning. There are many opportunities
available for students who are interested in intellectually engaging and exciting
courses in the context of community-driven service and intercultural immersion.
Programs include spring and summer break options as well as semester programs
in Bolivia and Brazil. For more information, visit: http://amizade.org/service_learning/courses/upcoming_courses.html
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| EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES  Faculty of Dentistry– McGill University Social
Aspects of Health Care Services - The Faculty of Dentistry, the strongest
research dental faculty in Canada, envisions a healthy and equitable society.
It is committed to the promotion of oral health and quality of life in the whole
population, with emphasis on the needs of under-served communities and
individuals. The Faculty of Dentistry invites applications for a tenure-track
position in the Social Aspects of Health Care Services. Requirements for a tenure-track
position include a PhD or equivalent degree and the ability to conduct independent
research in a relevant field. We encourage people with a background in social
sciences and an interest in underprivileged populations to apply. Health and/or
social service experience working with underprivileged groups will be at an asset.
Responsibilities will include research, teaching and administrative work to support
these activities. A working knowledge of French will be advantageous. Applications,
including a curriculum vitae, a statement of research and
teaching interests and the names and postal and e-mail addresses of three referees, should be sent to the
address below. The selection process will commence on April 1, 2009. Dr. Christophe
Bedos, Chair, Search Committee Office of the Dean Faculty of Dentistry McGill
University 3640 University Street, Room M/30 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B2
Christophe.bedos@mcgill.ca
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GRANTS ALERT! Listed below are  announcements only. To view
all previously listed grant alerts, please visit CCPH’s FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Healthy Eating Research– Deadline: February 24, 2009
- Healthy Eating
Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The
program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential
to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially
among low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings
will advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
To apply, visit: www.healthyeatingresearch.org
RWJF
Healthy Eating Research 2009 New Connections- Deadline: February 24, 2009 - Are you a diverse researcher
interested in funding, mentoring and training opportunities? Have you completed
your Ph.D. in the last 7 years (after November 1, 2002)? If this sounds like you,
this funding opportunity is a collaborative between New Connections and the Healthy
Eating Research program. New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming
is a fabulous opportunity for early-mid career researchers from historically underrepresented
backgrounds funding opportunities, as well as a community of support, advice,
and collaboration. New Connections aim to give diverse researchers the necessary
opportunities to impact change. These grants are for individuals who are in the
early stages of an independent research career. Please visit the Healthy Eating
Research Web site for more details at: www.healthyeatingresearch.org Academic-Community
Partnership Conference Series (U13) – Deadline:
March 2, 2009 - This announcement solicits NICHD Cooperative Agreement Conference
(U13) applications to conduct health disparities-related meetings, workshops,
and symposia. The objectives of these meetings will be to establish academic-community
partnerships, identify community-research priorities, and develop long-term collaborative
agendas. Areas of focus for these partnerships may include one or more of the
following community-health issues infant mortality; sudden infant death syndrome
(SIDS); violence prevention; techniques for outreach and information dissemination;
childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; health literacy; uterine fibroid
tumors; and pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention. For more information,
visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-092.html
RWJF Investigator Awards in Health Policy
Research – Deadline: March 25, 2009 - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator
Awards in Health Policy Research funds highly-qualified individuals to undertake
broad studies of the most challenging health policy issues facing America. We
will award approximately 10 grants of up to $335,000 each to investigators from
a variety of disciplines to support projects that combine creative and conceptual
thinking with innovative, policy-relevant approaches. We welcome applications
from investigators in the health, social and behavioral sciences as well as other
fields. We seek a diverse group of applicants, including minorities, early-career
investigators and individuals who work in nonacademic settings such as research
firms and policy organizations. Applicants must be affiliated either with educational
institutions or with 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located in the United States
or its territories. The complete call for applications is available at www.investigatorawards.org
. Tools
to Mitigate and Understand the Mental Health Effects of National Disasters: SBIR
[R43/R44] – Deadline:
April 5, 2009 - This funding opportunity
announcement solicits Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications
from small business concerns (SBCs) for support of research and development of
novel, or the enhancement of existing, commercializable products to mitigate (e.g.,
tools to be used in assessment, preventive or treatment interventions, and information
dissemination) or understand (e.g., research tools) the mental health effects
brought on or exacerbated by the aftermath of national disasters, such as Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita, including victims and those who responded to their needs. These
tools might be used by researchers, mental health professionals, other health
care providers, as well as by those in the broader community, including educators,
day care providers, family members of victims, etc. These tools must take into
account the cultural context of the target population to assure their effectiveness
and validity. For more information, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-335.html
Children’s
Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers Formative Centers
(P20) – Deadline: April 30, 2009
- This program will support the development
of an integrative research environment to sustain a multidisciplinary program
of basic and applied research which examines the effects of environmental threats
to childrens health and well-being. Research conducted as part of the CEHC Formative
Centers should include new and emerging areas of science in childrens health while
incorporating innovative technologies and approaches in the pursuit of developing
a strong base of science. This opportunity will allow development of new research
teams, connections with communities and other stakeholders, and will obtain preliminary
data on childhood diseases and disorders where the evidence of an environmental
contribution has yet to be fully established or appreciated. For more information,
visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-08-004.html
NIH
Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13/U13) – Deadline May 7, 2009 - The purpose of the NIH Research
Conference Grant Program (R13 and U13) is to support high quality conferences/scientific
meetings that are relevant to the scientific mission of the NIH and to the public
health. A conference/scientific meeting is defined as a gathering, symposium,
seminar, scientific meeting, workshop or any other organized, formal meeting where
persons assemble to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information or to explore
or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge. Each NIH Institute
and Center (IC) has a scientific purview and different program goals and initiatives
that evolve over time. Prior to preparing an application, it is critical
that all applicants consult the appropriate IC representative listed in the R13/U13
Website (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/r13/) to obtain current information
about IC specific program priorities and policies. For
more information, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-149.html
Community Participation in Research (R01)
– Deadline: June 5, 2009 - This Funding Opportunity Announcement
solicits grant applications that propose intervention research on health promotion,
disease prevention, and health disparities that communities and researchers jointly
conduct. For the purposes of this FOA, intervention research is quasi-experimental
research projects that seek to influence preventive behaviors, treatment adherences,
complementary behaviors, and related attitudes and beliefs. Natural experiments
also may fall under the interventions rubric. Examples include, and are
not limited to promotion of physical activity friendly neighborhoods; tobacco,
alcohol and drug abuse prevention among youth; a community-led action plan for
cancer, hypertension and cardiovascular disease prevention and control in minority
populations; establishing safer work practices among agricultural workers in rural
areas; nutrition and reducing childhood obesity; HIV/AIDS and STD prevalence among
young adults; promoting infant mental health; and reducing health disparities. For more information, visit: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-074.html#PartII | return to top
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all previously listed announcements, please visit CCPH’s AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS,
& SCHOLARSHIPS PAGE
| Call for Applications: Cancer-Control Seminar for
American Indian and Alaska Native Community Health – Deadline: February
6, 2009 - The goal of this program is to provide community members with the
tools to approach researchers, identify research questions, write grants and collaborate
on projects that address cancer health disparities. This training seminar
is open to tribal community members with an interest in improving cancer prevention,
screening, and treatment in his or her community. Throughout the week, participants
will become familiar with elements of writing a winning community-based grant.
Seminar topics will cover the following grant-writing basics: where to locate
funding sources, how to establish grant-writing goals and objectives, how to develop
a budget, and more. Successful applicants receive a scholarship covering travel,
hotel, per diem meal allowance, and course materials. The Program will be March
8-13, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit: http://www.npaihb.org/images/calendar_docs/2009/CBPR_Brochure_All.pdf Call for Nominations for Community College Collaboration
Awards – February 20, 2009 - The Community College National Center
for Community Engagement wishes to celebrate outstanding campus-based service-learning
and civic engagement programs that have developed partnerships outside their institutions.
The Center seeks nominations for the following awards: Collaborations with Social
Agencies; Collaborations with Business and Industry; Collaborations with K-12
Schools; Collaborations with Universities; International Service Learning. This
award is open to all two-year colleges who collaborate through service-learning
and civic engagement with social agencies, business and industry, K-12, universities,
or internationally. For More Information, visit: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement/CollaborationAwards/CollabAwardInfo.shtml
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| CALLS FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS Listed below are announcements only. To view all previously listed announcements,
please visit CCPH’s
CALLS FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS PAGE
| Community-Based Public Health Caucus
of the American Public Health Association Call for Abstracts - Deadline:
February 11, 2009 – Community-Based Public Health (CBPH) Caucus 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 (CBPR) to policy change and decision-making at the local, state, and
federal level. The APHA conference will be November 7-11, 2009 in Philadelphia,
PA. CCPH is a founding member of the CBPH
Caucus and we encourage you to get involved! For more information, visit:
http://apha.confex.com/apha/137am/oasys.epl
National Faith,
Justice, and Civic Learning Conference Call for Papers and Program Proposals Deadline: February 26, 2009 – The conference will be held June 25-27, 2009 at DePaul University
in Chicago, IL. The conference organizing committee is interested in papers, posters,
roundtable discussions and workshops around the fruitful intersection of faith,
justice, and civic learning. We encourage contributions from a broad range of
perspectives on these topics. For the Call for Papers and Program Proposals,
please visit: www.nfjcl.org
International
Society for Equity in Health Conference Call for Abstracts – Deadline: February 28, 2009
- The 5th International Conference
of the International Society for Equity in Health will be hosted June 9-11, 2009,
by the Greek School of Public Health in Crete. The Conference will explore the
theme: Social and Societal Influences on Equity in Health through a varied program
of plenary sessions, forums, poster sessions and scientific sessions. There is
a special interest in abstracts that reflect a multidisciplinary conceptualization
of health equity; that analyze or compare rather than just describe; are not limited
to one measure of health, one age group, or one population subgroup; address issues
of generalizability of findings beyond the particular population studied; include
and compare different age groups and both genders; address access/utilization/appropriateness
of health services for meetings different levels of needs within and across populations.
For more information, visit: http://www.iseqh-conference2009.com/ Journal of Community Practice Call for Abstracts
for a Special Issue “Service Learning: Integrating Teaching, Research, and
Service Through Community Engagement and Partnership”– Deadline: February 28,
2009 - Service learning as an educational
strategy has tremendously expanded its reach to colleges and universities nationally
and internationally. The Editors of the Journal of Community Practice request
empirical-based research, rigorous case studies, and conceptual papers based on
theory or models of practice. Abstracts for this special issue should build on
the literature and address one or more areas related to the service learning theme:
1) Service Learning that enhances community engagement and partnerships; 2) Service
Learning that incorporates community-based participatory research; 3) Service
Learning that advances cross-cultural experiences through both local and international/global
engagement. Authors should send an extended abstract (2 to 3 pages: 750-100 words)
and bibliography that describes their proposed contribution. For more info, visit:
http://www.acosa.org/jcpsub.html International Association of Health
Policy in Europe Conference on “Health Care, Marketising Reforms, and the Media”
Call for Papers – Deadline: March 2, 2009 - It’s our pleasure to invite
you to submit a paper and attend the XVth conference of the International Association
of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE), to be held in Coventry University, UK on June
17-20 2009. We invite academics, students, journalists, campaigners and health
workers to submit abstracts for papers or posters on topics related to any of
the following six themes: 1) The impact of the credit crunch; 2) Primary care;
3) Acute hospital care; 4) Public health; 5) Media coverage of health and health
policy, and the public right to know; 6) Elderly care and Mental Health: Markets
versus equity. Abstracts should be not more than 200 words, identifying
which theme the paper will address, and accompanied by a brief note on the author(s),
and their academic or professional affiliation. For more information, visit: www.healthp.org Ninth International Research Conference
on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Call for Proposals – Deadline:
March 6, 2009 - The 2009 conference will be held October 9th to 12th at the
Westin Ottawa hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The theme of the conference is
“Research for What? Making Inquiry Matter.” This conference will address
the goals underlying the research on service-learning and community engagement,
the most effective means of achieving them, and the implications of such goals
for a wide range of constituencies. The contributions of a variety of research
approaches will be emphasized. The conference brings together scholars and
practitioners to discuss research topics in the study of service-learning and
community engagement. Conference information and the Call for Proposals are available
online at: http://www.researchslce.org/Files/2009Conference/Conference_Main.html International
Partnership Institute Call for Proposals – Deadline: March 9, 2009
– The Institute will be held
May 18-19, 2009 in Portland, OR with the theme, "Reciprocal Partnerships:
Transforming Higher Education and Community for the Future." Join community
and campus practitioners and scholars to deeply explore engaged teaching, research
and service partnerships - their proven mechanisms and strategies for success,
persistent challenges, and the scholarship of partnerships. Partnerships must
be at the center of all proposals submitted. To be sufficiently competitive, proposals
that focus on program descriptions, program evaluations, or "how-to"
strategies must describe how the topics discussed will advance the nature, quality,
and/or quantity of partnerships. More information is available at: http://www.pdx.edu/cae/partnership.html Human Development and Capability Association
International Conference on Participation, Poverty, and Power Call for Papers
– Deadline: March 15, 2009 - The International Conference of the Human Development
and Capability Association (HDCA) will be September 10-12, 2009 in Lima, Peru. The Conference has as a main purpose
the analysis and deeper understanding of how power structures can be changed in
order to advance the capabilities of the poor, particularly in contexts where
there is ethnic, racial, regional, or religious diversity. There will be an emphasis
on the role of political participation by the deprived. It is hoped that papers
presented will analyze power and participation in relation to the capability approach
from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Continuing the established tradition
of the HDCA conferences, papers are also welcomed which advance conceptual clarification
of the capability approach (in relation, for example, to agency, rights, entitlements
etc.); which include empirical work (including research methods to capture situations
and social practices contributing to the wide range of valued capabilities (political,
family, religion, education, etc.); and which are from a range of disciplines
(including economics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science,
theology, law). For more information, visit: http://www.capabilityapproach.com/
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PUBLICATIONS CCPH
Members receive discounts on publications by Wiley/Jossey-Bass Publishers,
Johns
Hopkins University Press, West Virginia University Press,
Fieldstone Alliance, and
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| Healing Traditions
The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada By Laurence J. Kirmayer and Gail
Valaskakis
Aboriginal
peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common
social and political
challenges that have contributed to their
experiences of health and illness.
This collection addresses the origins
of mental health and social problems
and the emergence of culturally
responsive approaches to services and health
promotion. Healing
Traditions is not a handbook of practice but a resource
for thinking
critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous
peoples.
The book is divided into four sections: an overview of the mental
health
of Indigenous peoples; origins and representations of social suffering;
transformations of identity and community; and traditional healing and
mental
health services. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of
colonialism,
sedentarization, and forced assimilation; the importance of
land for indigenous
identity and an ecocentric self; notions of space and
place as part of the
cultural matrix of identity and experience; and
processes of healing and spirituality
as sources of resilience.
Offering a unique combination of mental health
and socio-cultural
perspectives, Healing Traditions will be useful to all
concerned with the
wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples including health professionals,
community
workers, planners and administrators, social scientists, educators,
and
students.
To order, visit the University
of British Columbia press at: http://www.ubcpress.com/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299172422
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| Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of
Transformation and Forgiveness
By Kenneth
Cloke, Joan Goldsmith Learn
how personal and organizational conflicts can be resolved by listening closely
to the 'stories' people tell when they are in conflict, understanding why people
tell their stories in the ways they do, and creating a third story that brings
them together. This visionary book is written by Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith,
two renowned mediators, who have used the narrative structure method successfully
in their own mediation practice to move people in conflict from stubbornness,
hostility, and fear to openness, collaboration, and forgiveness. Focusing on the
transformative power of stories, Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict
includes an array of case studies from the authors' first-hand experience with
thousands of clients. These case studies include the perspectives of all the parties
in the conflict and cover a wide range of conflicts and disputes. |
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