| April 20, 2009 Volume XI ● Issue 8 News From CCPH Membership Matters Members In Action 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. | Public
Invited to Listen to DHHS Secretary's Advisory Committee Meeting on National Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020: Online Meeting Set for April 20;
Public Comments Due April 24
The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary's Advisory
Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020
will hold a meeting on the Internet on April 20 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Members of the public are invited to listen to the
online Committee meeting.
To
attend the online meeting, individuals must pre-register at the Healthy People
Web site by 9 am EDT on April 20. Participation in the meeting is limited. Registrations
will be accepted until maximum capacity is reached. For detailed instructions,
please visit: www.healthypeople.gov/hp2020/advisory/default.asp.
Registration questions may be directed to Hilary Scherer by email HP2020@norc.org,
phone (301) 634-9374, or fax (301) 634-9301.
There will be no opportunity
for oral public comments during the April 20 Committee meeting. Written comments
are welcome throughout the development process of the national health promotion
and disease prevention objectives for 2020. The DHHS Office of Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (ODPHP) is currently seeking preliminary comments on existing
Healthy People 2010 objectives as part of the process of creating an initial set
of draft objectives for Healthy People 2020. Comments may be submitted by April
24 at: www.healthypeople.gov/hp2020/comments Comments
made through the Web site will be considered in the development of the proposed
objectives for Healthy People 2020. This is a preliminary input period that will
help inform the development of a set of draft Healthy People 2020 objectives. The
existing Healthy People 2010 objectives are being used as a starting point
to develop the Healthy People 2020 objectives. A more extensive public comment
period on the draft Healthy People 2020 objectives will be conducted through the
Healthy
People web site at a
future date. Additionally,
ODPHP plans to convene three public meetings across the country in late summer
early fall to garner additional stakeholder input on the draft Healthy People
2020 objectives. Details on the meetings will be posted on the website as they
become available. For additional information
about submitting public comment, please contact Osato Iyamu (ODPHP) at osato.iyamu@hhs.gov. For
more information of the Healthy People 2020 Initiative, please visit: http://www.healthypeople.gov. 
Interagency
Committee on Disability Research Seeks Public Recommendations on Emerging Disability
Research Topics: Public Comments are due April 17;
Voting on Priorities ends April 29
This year for the first time, the federally mandated Interagency Committee on
Disability Research (ICDR) is utilizing an innovative Web-based approach to collect
online disability research comments to assist in developing a federal disability
and rehabilitation 2010 research agenda. This technology-driven approach gives
the public a three-week timeframe from March 27th through April 17th to submit
their recommendations. Additionally, registered participants will be invited to
review all comments submitted and vote on their top 10 concerns in each topic
area during the one-week period from April 22nd through April 29th. Public comments
from stakeholders are the focal point of the disability research recommendations
in the ICDR Annual Report to the President and Congress.
All disability-related research
topics are welcomed, including discussion about concerns important to the veteran
and military communities. The ICDR is seeking comments with special emphasis placed
in the following areas: - Collaboration and coordination
among federal agencies;
- Health information technology
and/or electronic health records;
- Health disparities;
- Health promotion in the workplace;
- Employment and health; and
- Other critical research issues.
The ICDR is authorized by the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973 (as amended) to promote overarching coordination and cooperation among
federal departments and agencies conducting rehabilitation research programs and
activities. Major roles of the ICDR are to identify research duplication and gaps,
secure public input and compile data to inform future research, promote communication
and coordination, and facilitate interagency collaboration. The ICDR brings together agency
representatives, policy makers, advocates and people with disabilities through
a Senior Oversight Committee (SOC) and subcommittees. The SOC is the ICDR administrative
body that spearheads interagency collaboration and research coordination. The
subcommittees represent specific areas of disability research including education,
disability statistics, employment, medical rehabilitation, and technology. The
ICDR facilitates the exchange of information on disability and rehabilitation
research programs, activities and collaborative projects among ICDR member agencies
and federal partners. For
more information, please visit: www.icdr.us/stakeholders.
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NEWS FROM CCPH |
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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 and other details are available online 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 | | |
| “Building Faculty for
the Engaged Campus” Presentation Available Online  At
this month’s Association of American Colleges & Universities Conference on
Shaping Faculty Roles in a Time of Change, Faculty for the Engaged Campus Co-Director
Lynn Blanchard and Evaluator Sherril Gelmon co-facilitated a
session on "Building Faculty for the Engaged Campus." To view or print the
presentation in PDF format, visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html
Faculty
for the Engaged Campus is a national initiative of CCPH in partnership with the
University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
that 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. To learn about the Faculty for the Engaged
Campus Initiative, click here.
To stay on top of the latest community-engaged scholarship
(CES) news, conferences and funding opportunities, subscribe to CCPH's CES
listserv. |
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Special Offer for
the Journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships
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| CCPH
Member Cassandra Ritas Creates Blog On Policy
Change Through The Eyes of a CBPR
Practitioner  Cassandra Ritas has created a
new blog to put forth ideas and raise questions for community-based participatory
research (CBPR) practitioners who are pursuing policy change in the service of
health. On her blog she writes, “Starting from the assumption that community-academic
partnerships are uniquely qualified to design, promote, and evaluate healthier
public policies, I am going to be presenting a cavalcade of concepts and strategies
to aide in that effort. This is a space to share ideas and to react to them.”
The insights and points of disagreement will be used to inform the revision of
“Speaking Truth, Creating Power: A Guide to Policy Work for Community-based Participatory
Researchers” that Cassandra authored as a 2002-2003 CCPH Fellow – see: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/2002fellows-ritas.html
Cassandra encourages CCPH members and friends to participate in the
blog’s development. “The more involvement from the field the more useful this
will be, so please sign up as a follower, comment often, and feel free to email
me directly about any topics you would like to see covered.”
To view the blog, visit: http://blog.policypeople.org/ |
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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! |
| April 2009 April 23-24, 2009
· Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center
· Loma Linda, CA CCPH Senior Consultant Sarena Seifer is facilitating a strategic planning session for
the University's new Institute for Community Partnerships. To tap into the CCPH Consultancy Network for training, technical
assistance or consultation, contact CCPH senior consultant Rachel Vaughn at sliccphuw@u.washington.edu
for more information or visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/mentor.html April 25, 2009
· Service-Learning
Symposium for Faculty in the Health Sciences · Mercyhurst College, Erie,
PA CCPH Board Member Chuck Connor
from the West Virginia
Rural Health Education Partnership will be the keynote speaker at a Service Learning
Symposium at Mercyhurst College. The Symposium will feature workshops
in service-learning and course revision. Participants will receive a $25
stipend, and a copy of CCPH’s Faculty Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher
Education, prepared for the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.
Registration is limited to 40 participants. The symposium will be offered
to faculty in PA, NY, OH and WV, and is funded by the Pennsylvania and New York
Campus Compact Consortium Learn & Serve Grant. For more information, visit: http://www.mercyhurst.edu/news/press_release/detail.php?id=1019 For additional resources on service learning, visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearningres.html Download a copy of the Faculty
Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher Education, go to: http://www.servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/HE_toolkit_with_worksheets.pdf April 30, 2009 · Wilfrid Laurier University · Waterloo, ON Canada CCPH senior consultant Sarena Seifer is facilitating a strategic
planning session for the University's Centre for Community Research, Learning
and Action. Learn more about the Centre
at http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=2615 To tap into the CCPH Consultancy Network for training, technical
assistance or consultation, contact CCPH senior consultant Rachel Vaughn at sliccphuw@u.washington.edu
for more information or visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/mentor.html |
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| May 2009 May 11-12, 2009 · International Collaboration on Community-Based Participatory
Research for Health · Toronto, ON Canada CCPH Senior Consultant Sarena Seifer will represent CCPH at this international working
meeting convened by CCPH members Wellesley Institute and WZB in Berlin.
For more information, contact Brenda Roche at brenda@wellesleyinstitute.com May 14-15, 2009 ● NIH Conference on Community Engagement in Clinical
and Translational Research ● Bethesda, MD CCPH is participating
in the conference, “Improving Health WITH Communities: The Role of Community Engagement
in Clinical and Translational Research. This is the second annual conference
to discuss, share best practices, and collaborate with communities and health
care providers to improve health. Participants will develop recommendations for
academic-community collaborations and partnerships with other community programs
to establish research agendas. This event is free and open to the public.
CCPH members are presenting on such topics as "Community and
Academic Partners for Collaborative Translation: Success Stories" and "Forming
and Maintaining Effective Community Engaged Partnerships to Influence Policy."
CCPH Board Chair Emeritus Elmer Freeman is moderating a session and CCPH Senior Consultant Sarena Seifer be presenting a poster on the Communities as Partners in Cancer Clinical Trials Initiative
cosponsored by CCPH and the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials. For more information,
visit at: www.aptrweb.org/workshop May 18 & 19, 2009 ● International Partnership Institute
● Portland, OR ● 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.” 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. CCPH Senior Consultant
Rachel Vaughn and CCPH member Zoe
Freeman will be leading a session on "Transforming
Communities & Campuses Through Authentic Partnerships: Applying Best Practices."
Registration is $200. For more 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 July 24-27, 2009 ● CCPH’s 12th
Summer Service-Learning Institute Leavenworth, WA ● Application
Deadline: May 8, 2009 Apply now for this intensive
four-day Institute – attendance is limited to 23 participants! 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 April 25, 2009 · Webinar: Dying While Black: Colorblind Policies and
Eliminating the Slave Health Deficit · The University of Dayton School of Law · https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/243926080 April 27-29, 2009
· Imagine Chicago Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)
Workshop · Chicago, IL · www.imaginechicago.org May 4, 2009 · Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship Conference: How
Technology is Knocking Down Doors and Fueling Social Innovation with the Phoenix
Project · George Washington University in Washington, D.C. · www.aseconference.org<http://www.aseconference.org/> May 26, 2009 · The International Student Workshop on the Social Economy:
Innovation & Sustainability in a Changing World - Exploring Social Economy
Alternatives · Carleton University, Ottawa,
ON, Canada · www.socialeconomyhub.ca August 11-13,
2009 · Third Annual National Conference on Health Communication,
Marketing and Media · Atlanta,
GA · www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/NCHCMM2009 September 27-30,
2009 · Fifth International Conference on Work Environment and
Cardiovascular Diseases, “New Paradigms for New Systems of Work: A Challenge for
the Quality of Work Life” · Cracow, Poland · http://old.imp.lodz.pl/english/niom.htm October 8-11, 2009
· 31st Annual Association for Integrative Studies
Conference · University of Alabama · http://www.units.muohio.edu/aisorg/ October 25-27, 2009 · 2009 Assessment
Institute: Special track for Civic Engagement · Indianapolis, IN · www.planning.iupui.edu
November 4-6, 2009 · CIRN
2009, “Empowering Communities: Learning From Community Informatics Practice” Monash University Prato Centre, Italy ·
www.ccnr.net/prato2009 November 4-7, 2009 · The North
American Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD) Annual
Conference · St. Paul, MN · http://www.ncspod.org. November 6-7, 2009 · 30th
Annual Generalists in Medical Education, “Medical Education: Maintaining Momentum
in Challenging Times” · Boston, MA · http://www.thegeneralists.org/conference.html
November
23-24, 2009 · Public Health Association of British Columbia Conference
and Annual General Meeting, "Action Towards Reducing Health Inequities"
· Vancouver, BC · www.phabc.org/modules.php?name=Contentabs
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New Web Resource
On Health Equity - Rooted in a commitment to health equity, this website
is designed to serve as a resource for understanding and overcoming those patterns
of social inequality that shape the distribution of illness, disease, and access
to care. The website includes: voices for health equity (videos, audio, articles);
resources for health and human rights (organizations, clinical and delivery models,
and other tools); Canadian resources for health equity; ongoing health struggles
in the USA; links to blogs on medicine and social justice; and news about related
events. To read the blog, visit: http://globalhealthequity.blogspot.com/ US Dept of Education
Launches Guide for Emergency Management at Institutions of Higher Education - The U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug-Free
Schools has released The Action Guide for Emergency Management at Institutions
of Higher Education. The Guide offers higher education institutions a useful resource
in the field of emergency management. Due to recent emergencies and crises, it
is critical for policies regarding campus safety to be adequately modified to
meet today's needs. To access The Action Guide and additional Emergency Planning
information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/index.html. Improved MedEd
Portal Launched
- The Association of American Medical Colleges has launched MedEdPORTAL 2.0, a
new and improved repository of high-quality, peer-reviewed educational teaching
and assessment resources for the medical and dental communities. The new Web site
features a fully integrated content and digital asset management system and additional
enhancements that allow for the direct download of nearly all materials. The new
MedEdPORTAL also features a more robust search engine as well as the capability
to collect valuable end-user data for the authors who have submitted content.
MedEdPORTAL is a free service. For more information, visit: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal
New Report on Indigenous Children's Health Documents
Health Status Disparities in Four Countries – The focus of the Indigenous
Children’s' Health Report is First Nations, Inuit, and Mtis children's health
status and assessment in Canada (ages birth to twelve years). There are
also chapters on Indigenous children's health status and assessment for Australia,
New Zealand, and the United States. The report includes not only information
describing what we know about the health of Indigenous children and how we know
this, but also best practices on how health assessment information can be applied
to improve the health of Indigenous children. Critical to the resolution of Indigenous
child health disparities is not only the generation of health information, but
also the application of this information to health policies, programs, and services.
The report is available at: http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/pdf/crich/ichr_report.pdf
Webinar on Dying
While Black: Colorblind Policies and Eliminating the Slave Health Deficit - At almost every income level,
Indigenous Black Americans are sicker than whites and dying at a significantly
higher rate. This seminar will trace current Indigenous black American health
status to slavery. It will explain why a colorblind policy approach will be ineffective
for eliminating the health deficit. Finally, the seminar will provide a comprehensive
approach focused on improving social determinants of health. This discussion is
organized by Professor Vernellia Randall, The University of Dayton School of Law.
The webinar will be held April 25, 2:00pm-4:30pm EST. Reserve your Webinar seat
now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/243926080
Journal
Supplement Examines Measures of the Food and Physical Activity Environments
- The supplement to the April 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive
Medicine reports on research in food and physical activity measurement. The papers
in the supplement focus on the proceedings of a workshop held in November 2007
and organized by the National Cancer Institute and several other partners to review
the state of the science on measures of food and physical environments, synthesize
emerging developments in measuring these environments, define gaps in existing
knowledge, and shape the future research agenda. The supplement is available at:
http://www.ajpm-online.net/issues/contents?issue_key=S0749-3797(09)X0003-6. California Breast
Cancer Research Program Offers Webinars on Applying for Community Researcher Collaboration
Funding - Are you curious about how community
members and researchers can form teams, receive funding, and conduct breast cancer
research together? Join Marj Plumb, collaborative research consultant, from the
comfort of your own desk for a LIVE, engaging, one-hour information webinar about
the Community Research Collaboration (CRC) Awards. CRC awards provide $150,000
to $600,000 of funding from the California Breast Cancer Research Program and
require a partnership of CA-based community organizations and research scientists.
Teleconferences will be held Monday, May 11, 12:00-1:00pm and Wednesday, May 13,
10:00am-11:00am, both pacific time. To sign up, please email: CRCTeleconference@cabreastcancer.org Summer Institute
of Civic Studies Offered at Tufts University College of Citizenship & Public
Service – Offered July 13-24, 2009, this institute is open to
participants from all institutions and all disciplines. Topics covered include: What kinds of
citizens (if any) do good regimes need? What should such citizens know, believe,
and do? What institutional structures promote the right kinds of citizenship?
How do individuals learn civic skills, habits, values, dispositions, and knowledge?
The Institute will conclude with a public conference on the Obama Administration's
civic agenda entitled "The Obama Administration's Civic Agenda After Six
Months". For more information, visit: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/?pid=714 Highlander Research
and Education Center Announces New Workshop Work Week - Start one of your best summers ever with Highlander
staff and people from around the country at the premiere of Highlander's new Wild
and Wonderful, Witty and Wacky Workshop Work Week, May 25-29, 2009. Spend your
morning in the idea of Highlander, learning from each other, having political
discussions, and participating in workshops on popular education, organizing,
movement building, and the history of social change. Spend the afternoon in service
to the place of Highlander. As part of a team, help clear a trail, work in the
garden, plant trees, paint a room, file in the office, or build a bench, for example.
In the evenings, sing with Guy and Candie Carawan, tell stories over homemade
ice cream, watch movement films under the stars, and square dance with a caller
and live band (lessons provided). Cost: Sliding scale $350-500. Some partial scholarships
available. How to apply: Online application form or Printable application form (PDF 16kb) For more information,
contact Highlander at hrec@highlandercenter.org
or 865-933-3443. |
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| EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Traveling Faculty - International Honors Program,
School for International Training/World Learning - The International Honors Program
(IHP), in affiliation with SIT/World Learning, offers international comparative
study abroad programs. IHP is currently seeking three or four
individuals to join two interdisciplinary teams of faculty and host country coordinators
and partners for "IHP Health and Community." Each of the four-month
programs will take approximately 32 students from upper-tier colleges and universities
to four countries to explore issues of health and community from a comparative
perspective. They are seeking a complementary team of traveling faculty members
to facilitate learning and teach one or more of the following courses: Health
and Globalization (expertise in political economy of health and aspects of globalization
that affect health, such as health care reform, trade policy, migration, occupational
health); Public Health: From Biology to Policy (public health practitioner, clinical
or biological background highly desirable, epidemiology or related field also
desirable); Health, Culture, and Community (medical anthropology or related field)
The ideal candidates should have: a.) a Ph.D. (or clinical degree/MPH equivalent)
in a related field; b) expertise in one or more of the topic areas listed above
and/or generalist knowledge across several areas; c) teaching at the college level
and commitment to alternative (non-didactic) methods of teaching (i.e. methods
that promote inquiry- and field-based learning, discussion, and self-reflection);
d) research or consulting experience with health issues in some part of the developing
world (specific experience in countries in the program, desired). More information
is available at: http://www.ihp.edu
Director of
Civic Engagement – University of Minnesota, Duluth - The University
of Minnesota Duluth is seeking applications to fill a full time Director of Civic
Engagement position available beginning July 1, 2009. The position serves the
UMD campus in the promotion of civic engagement activities for students that complement
instruction and enhance student development. The Director oversees all of the
operations of the Office of Civic Engagement, including overall program coordination,
supervision of workers and volunteers, program development and evaluation, and
funding/grants. The mission of the Office of Civic Engagement is to create a campus
of citizens who are civically aware, skilled and committed to act for the public
good. The Office of Civic Engagement accomplishes this mission through curricular
and co-curricular activities that create opportunities for citizens to find a
meaningful role in their local, regional, national, and international communities.
For a complete position description and information on how to apply, go to: http://employment.umn.edu and search for Job
Requisition 158698.
Assistant Professor, Lehman College Masters of
Public Health Program, The City University of New York - The MPH Program at Lehman College,
in collaboration with the CUNY School of Public Health, invites applications for
a tenure track position based at Lehman at the Assistant Professor rank to begin
fall 2009. In addition to offering the core MPH courses, the Lehman MPH Program
specializes in community-based public health and health equity. The Program is
committed to increasing the number of under-represented professionals in public
health and contributing to the improvement of public health in the Bronx. The
successful candidate is expected to teach and advise students, engage in scholarly
research and publication, seek outside funding, collaborate in developing a research
agenda for the Program and actively participate in Departmental and College committees
and professional organizations. Candidates must have a doctoral degree in public
health or a related field and evidence of the potential for active research and
publication in public health. They are seeking candidates who desire to contribute
to the creation of a dynamic, growing public health program with a diverse student
body and strong commitment to working with communities. For more information,
visit: http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/events/job.html#socialsciences Director, Australian Institute for Primary Care, La Trobe University
- The Australian
Institute for Primary Care (AIPC) is a diverse and dynamic research and consultancy
organization dedicated to making a significant, positive and enduring impact on
the way health and community care is delivered and accessed. Located within the
Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University, the AIPC promotes quality improvement
and best practice in all areas of primary health and community care through research,
consultancy and education activities. The Director position reports to the Dean
of the Faculty of Health Sciences and key responsibilities of the role include:
strategic and operational leadership of the Institute; attracting high level grant
and contract funded research and evaluation; research design and implementation;
leading the Institute's applied research, consulting and competitive grant activities
and providing high level consulting advice, expertise and support on research
and evaluation. Applicants should demonstrate:
Significant leadership experience in health service research, professional development
and consultancy with demonstrated ability to attract external funding; Experience
in managing research, professional development and consultancy organizations and
teams; Extensive experience in consultancy with government and health and community
services agencies; A higher degree or equivalent in health service research and
evaluation or a related area with an extensive track record of research and publications
of national and international quality. To find out more about the role, visit
www.kathleentownsend.com.au & select 'Career
Opportunities'. Tenure-Track
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor – UCLA California
Center for Population Research - The UCLA California Center
for Population Research (CCPR) is seeking candidates for a full time tenure-track
position in demography and population studies. Candidates should have an active
research program in areas related to demography and population research and the
ability to teach high quality required and elective courses. They invite applications
from candidates whose research and teaching focuses on any area of demographic
research, including the following: demographic aspects of ethnicity, discrimination,
social class, income inequality, and social and geographic mobility; economic
and social disparities in health and the effects of health on socioeconomic status;
adolescence, young adulthood, and youth at risk; aging, retirement, and the elderly
population; population and the environment. Applicants must have an earned doctorate
in a social science, public policy, public health, demography, or a related field.
For more information, visit: www.ccpr.ucla.edu. Associate Director, Kernodle Center for Service-Learning,
Elon University - One of the most widely recognized campuses
for engaged and experiential learning, Elon University is a private comprehensive
university of 5,000 students (3000 residential) located in central North Carolina.
The Kernodle Center for Service-Learning serves as the central hub of curricular
and co-curricular Service-Learning at Elon. The Center houses the Academic Service-Learning
program and Elon Volunteers! (EV!), the umbrella organization of 80 student leaders
who run Kernodle Center programs. The
Division of Student Life is looking for a dynamic and motivated professional with
prior experience leading Service-Learning programs. Responsibilities include oversight
of major components of Elon Volunteers! program; training of over 80 student leaders;
and commitment to student development, civic engagement, and global awareness.
Requirements: Master's degree and 2-5 years experience in Service-Learning,
volunteer service, and/or student personnel administration; Creativity, management
skills, and ability to relate well with students, faculty, staff, parents and
external constituencies; Experience with staff selection/training and designing/presenting
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Invites Community Colleges to Apply for Encore Career Grant –
Deadline: April 24, 2009 - The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Community
College Encore Career Project seeks to assist older adults (age 50 and older)
who want "encore careers" combining continued income, personal fulfillment,
and social impact. The Encore Career Project will award grants of up to $25,000
each to eight community colleges in the United States that are developing innovative
encore career programs for students age 50 and older in education, healthcare,
nonprofit leadership, and the environment. Accredited two-year community, junior,
and technical colleges that offer associate degrees are eligible to apply. The maximum grant to any individual community
college or college consortium will be $25,000. For more information, visit: http://www.civicventures.org/communitycolleges/
The Community Genetics Forum Host Grants –
Deadline: April 27, 2009 – The Community Genetics Forum is an engagement project sponsored
by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes
of Health. For each Forum, the NHGRI selects a different region of the country
to host the Forum activities. This current Forum seeks to engage communities
in DHHS regions VIII and IX. This region is defined to include: Colorado, Montana,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada,
American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States
of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau. The NHGRI is seeking
an organization to host, plan, develop, implement and evaluate the next Community
Genetics Forum. The Community Genetics Forum is defined as a community engagement
project, focused on developing partnerships between the NHGRI, a host organization,
and community based organizations. It culminates in a single or multiple
day public forum event, centered on topics related to genomics that are of interest
to the communities involved in its planning. For more information, please visit
http://www.genome.gov/19518473 Addressing
Asthma from a Public Health Perspective – Deadline: May 8, 2009 - CDC’s Procurement
and Grants Office has published a program announcement entitled, “Addressing Asthma
from a Public Health Perspective.” Approximately $17,500,000 will be available
to fund 26 to 61 awards. The purpose is to develop program capacity to address
asthma from a public health perspective to bring about: (1) a focus on asthma-related
activity within states; (2) an increased understanding of asthma-related data
and its application to program planning and evaluation through the development
of an ongoing asthma surveillance system; (3) an increased recognition, within
the public health structure of states, of the potential to use a public health
approach to reduce the burden of asthma; (4) linkages of state health agencies
to other agencies and organizations addressing asthma in the population; and (5)
implementation of interventions to achieve positive health impacts, such as reducing
the number of deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, school or
work days missed, and limitations on activity due to asthma. For more information,
visit: www.grants.gov Recovery Act Limited Competition: Supporting New Faculty
Recruitment
– Deadline: May 29, 2009 - This NIH Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA), supported by funds provided to the NIH under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA), Public Law 111-5,
invites applications from U.S academic institutions/organizations to support the
hiring of newly-recruited faculty to develop
research projects within the context of Biomedical Core Centers. For this announcement,
a Biomedical Core Center is defined as a community of multidisciplinary researchers
focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH, such as centers, departments,
programs, and/or trans-departmental collaborations or consortia. These awards
are designed to enhance innovative programs of excellence by providing scientific
and programmatic support for promising research faculty and their areas of research.
Specifically for the purposes of this announcement, Core Center Grants are institutional
awards that provide funding to hire, provide appropriate start-up packages, and
develop research projects for newly independent investigators, with the goal of
augmenting and expanding the institutions community of multidisciplinary researchers
focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH. To read the full RFP, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-005.html Community-Based
Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform
Policy (R03) – Deadline: June 16, 2009 - The purpose of this funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) issued by the NICHD is to enhance childhood obesity research
by fostering the formation of local, state, or regional teams consisting of researchers,
policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., community representatives,
public health practitioners or officials, educators) in order to identify research
questions and hypotheses, design and implement the relevant research, and translate
the research into evidence relevant to potential policy efforts in this area.
The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and
feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained
research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new
research technology. The R03 is intended to support small research projects that
can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. For more
information, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-140.html
Community-Based
Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform
Policy (R21) – Deadline: June 16, 2009 - The purpose
of this funding opportunity issued by the NICHD is to enhance childhood obesity
research by fostering the formation of local, state, or regional teams consisting
of researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., community
representatives, public health practitioners or officials, educators) in order
to identify research questions and hypotheses, design and implement the relevant
research, and translate the research into evidence relevant to potential policy
efforts in this area. This FOA will use the NIH Exploratory/Developmental (R21)
grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope,
PA-09-140, that encourages applications under the NIH Small Research Grant (RO3)
award mechanism. The R21 is not renewable. For more information, visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-141.html
US Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services Call
for Grant Proposals for Hispanic Health Services Research – Deadline: June
24, 2009 - The purpose of the Hispanic grant program is to implement Hispanic
American health services research activities to meet the needs of diverse CMS
beneficiary populations. The grant program is designed to: 1) Encourage health
services and health disparities researchers to pursue research issues which impact
Hispanic Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program health
services issues, 2) conduct outreach activities to apprise Hispanic researchers
of funding availability to conduct research-related issues affecting Hispanic
American communities to expand the pool of applicants applying for such grants,
3) assist CMS in implementing its mission focusing on health care quality and
improvement for its beneficiaries, 4) support extramural research in health care
capacity development activities for the Hispanic American communities, 5) promote
research that will be aimed at developing a better understanding of health care
services issues pertaining to Hispanic Americans, and 6) foster an network for
communication and collaboration regarding Hispanic health care issues. Funding
is available for grants to implement research related to health care delivery
and health financing issues affecting Hispanic American communities, including
issues of access to health care, utilization of health care services, health outcomes,
quality of services, cost of care, health and racial disparities, socio-economic
differences, cultural barriers, managed care systems, and activities related to
health screening, prevention, outreach, and education. For more information, visit:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ResearchDemoGrantsOpt/ Legion
Child Welfare Foundation Offers Support for Projects to Benefit Children in the
United States – Deadline July 15, 2009 - The American Legion Child
Welfare Foundation works to provide other nonprofit organizations with the means
to educate the public about the needs of children across the United States. The
foundation accepts funding proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects
that meet one of the foundation's two basic purposes: 1) to contribute to the
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination
of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed
to benefit youth; and 2) to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge already possessed
by well-established organizations to the end that such information can be more
adequately used by society. Grants must have the potential to help American children
in a large geographic area (more than one state). Grants will be awarded to nonprofit
tax-exempt organizations only. Grants are not made for any of the normal day-to-day
operating expenses of the grantee or special operating expenses connected with
the grant. Grants are awarded for
one year. In past award cycles, grants have ranged from $1,500 to $70,000 each.
For more information, visit: http://www.legion.org/cwf/?section=grantseekers |
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Associated for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Early Career
Research Award – Deadline:
April 20, 2009 - The award recognizes outstanding early career contributions to
scholarly endeavors addressing service-learning and community engagement. It is
designed to encourage research that systematically addresses the exploration and
understanding of the field. This award is intended to recognize researchers
who have distinguished records of research and scholarly contribution early in
their careers. Individuals who have received a terminal degree in their discipline
or profession within the past seven years are eligible to apply. The recipient
is expected to make a presentation at the annual research conference that relates
to his/her research, taking place October 9-12, 2009 in Ottawa, ON Canada. For
more information, visit: http://www.researchslce.org/Files/2009Conference/Documents/EarlyCareerAward2009.pdf
Global
Impact Corps Unite for Site Fellowship – Deadline:
Ongoing - Unite
For Sight engage, inspire, and train high-impact volunteers who support and assist
eye clinics globally. Unite For Sight supports eye clinics worldwide by investing
human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers
to eye care. All volunteers participating in Unite For Sight's international
programs are Global Impact Fellows. The program’s goal is to build entrepreneurial
leaders who gain skills in social change through Unite For Sight's immersive global
health experience. Through hands-on, structured training, they instill in Global
Impact Fellows a thorough understanding of sustainable best practice principles
in volunteerism, global health, and international development. Global Impact
Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become new leaders in global health. For more information, visit: http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad | return to top | |
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please visit CCPH’s
CALLS FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS PAGE
| Call for Papers for 3rd International
Community Psychology Conference – Deadline: May 29, 2009
– The conference will be held
in Puebla, Mexico in June 2010. The
conference will focus on the study of the contributions the diverse community
agendas can offer to engage the pressing social problems of the world at the beginning
of the XXI Century: a) Economic polarization and impoverization, inequity, mental
and physical deterioration, environmental threats; b) Challenges related to virtual
communities and the social disparities in the information age; c) Interculturality
and its difficulties regarding discrimination, renewed racisms, and migration;
d) Politicization of violence and phenomena of insecurity, corruption, impunity
and fundamentalisms. For more information, visit: http://www.3iccp2010.org/en/ Call for Papers The Australian
Community Psychologist Special Issue on Psychology and Poverty Reduction – Deadline: January 15, 2010 - The first issue of 2010 will
be a special issue devoted to community critical psychology approaches to poverty
reduction. Contributions by: people with firsthand experience of poverty; poverty
activists; members of organizations committed to poverty reduction; as well as
papers by academics and researchers, are invited. Contributions which contribute,
from a community critical standpoint, towards the development and implementation
of practically effective, politically engaged, ideologically progressive reduction
or prevention of poverty or which critique the role of acritical psychology and
the psy-industry in poverty construction and maintenance are especially welcome.
This Special Issue of The Australian Community Psychologist will be one of a large
number of Special Issues of Journals around the world which will collectively
constitute a Global Special Issue on Psychology & Poverty
Reduction. Early
discussion of possible contributions with the Guest Editor of this
Special
Issue, David Fryer, is encouraged by emailing him at dafryer@csu.edu.au. Call for Contributions to the
Prevention Institutes Paper for IOM’s Roundtable on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities – Deadline: Ongoing - Prevention Institute is preparing a paper for the Institute of
Medicine's Roundtable on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. The paper will
focus on what can be done to address inequities at the state, regional and local
levels. Sharon Niryce Rodriguez from the Prevention Institute writes: “A specific
point that we want to clearly articulate upfront in the paper is why health disparities
matter to everyone and affects us all. We want to articulate this point in as
compelling a way as possible. We wanted to tap in to all of your best thinking
on this question and see how you have most successfully articulated this notion.
To stimulate your thinking, so far, we are categorizing the "case
for addressing health disparities" into the following 3 main categories:
1. Moral Imperative; 2. Health Imperative (both from a public health perspective
and a health systems perspective); 3. Economic Imperative. We welcome your compelling
arguments that may or may not fit into these 3 sections.” Please email her at:
sharon@preventioninstitute.org
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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Guide for Shaping Your School's
Culture
By Terrence E.
Deal, Kent D. Peterson In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of their
classic book, Shaping School Culture, Terrence Deal and Kent Peterson address
the latest thinking on organizational culture and change and offer new ideas and
strategies on how stories, rituals, traditions, and other cultural practices can
be used to create positive, caring, and purposeful schools. This new edition gives
expanded attention to the important symbolic roles of school leaders, including
practical suggestions on how leaders can balance cultural goals and values against
accountability demands, and features new and powerful case examples throughout.
Most important, the authors show how school leaders can transform negative and
toxic cultures so that trust, commitment, and sense of unity can prevail. CCPH members receive a 15% discount
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| Service-Learning for Diverse Communities: Critical Pedagogy
and Mentoring English Language Learners
By
Kerry L. Purmensky, University of Central Florida
Kerry Purmensky
details a highly effective service-learning project that assists preservice teachers
in learning the value of critical pedagogy, and how mentoring English Language
Learners (ELLs) can improve Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) techniques,
impact schools, and empower ELLs using the National ESOL Standards. The project
is described in such a way that it can be replicated and implemented easily in
any educational facility that is training teachers in TESOL or has ELLs and wants
to create partnerships in the community.
The work focuses on more than
one project that addresses federal and state standards. The book is designed to
help readers understand how students in service-learning projects can learn to
think critically about issues related to our increasingly diverse communities,
to become strong advocates in empowering their ELLs to become contributing members
to the community, and to alter their thinking about their role as a teacher.
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| Globalization and
Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy By Ronald Labont
Contemporary globalization
has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume
has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global
trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of
a global research project undertaken by the Globalization Knowledge Network of
the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Chapters
examine such questions as: How has trade liberalization affected the social determinants
of health? How has globalization affected food security, nutrition and equitable
access to water and sanitation? How well do present global governance structures
take account of the health equity effects associated with the social determinants
of health? This landmark volume will be a necessary addition for researchers and
scholars studying the field of globalization, health and social policy, and public
health across the social sciences.
To order: http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Globalization-and-Health-isbn9780415993340
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