PARTNERSHIP MATTERS

Member Newsletter of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

 

Promoting health through partnerships between

communities and higher educational institutions

 

 

 

 

June 3, 2005

Volume VII ● Issue 11

 

 

Message From Our Executive Director

 

News From CCPH

 

Membership Matters

 

Upcoming Events

 

2006 Conference Update

 

Announcements

 

Employment Opportunities

 

Grants Alert!

 

Calls for Submissions

 

Publications

 

Archives

 

 

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Bureau of Health Professions Announces Achievement Awards at 1st All-Grantee Conference

CCPH Board Member Emeritus Hilda Heady Recognized for Expanding Community-Based Training in West Virginia

 

Ten outstanding individuals were recognized on June 2 for their commitment to the health professions and to helping improve access to quality health care for all.  The awards were announced at the Bureau of Health Professions’ First All-Grantee Conference in Washington, D.C.  Five award winners are profiled below and the remaining five will be featured in our next newsletter issue.

 

 

Hilda Heady was given an Achievement Award for Expanding Community-Based Education. As Executive Director of West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships (WVRHEP) and Vice President for Rural Health at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, Ms. Heady works tirelessly on behalf of rural communities across the state.  

Hilda Heady

 

WVRHEP has been nationally recognized as a model partnership between communities, higher educational institutions and government agencies by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of Rural Health. 

 

The Partnership’s outcomes are impressive: From 1999 to 2004, the number of rural physicians increased by 88 percent from 88 to 165.   In 2002, WV health professional students participating in community service activities involving more than 158,000 rural residents.   Health professional students have opportunities to serve and learn in 28 community health centers, 30 small rural hospitals, 25 dental offices, 37 pharmacies, 13 county health departments, 20 physical therapy agencies or rehabilitation centers in underserved areas, and 16 county boards of education. Nearly 700 rural field faculty are involved in health professional education.

 

At the national level, Ms. Heady is the current President of the Board of Trustees of the National Rural Health Association and was recognized in 2001 with a national leadership award for her service on the Board of Directors of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.

 

The Health Professions Distinguished Service Award was given to Dr. Louis Sullivan for his exceptional and sustained contributions to advancing the health professional workforce.  Dr. Sullivan is the founding Dean and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM).  With the exception of his tenure as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1989-1993, Dr. Sullivan was President of MSM for over two decades.  He chairs the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce.

 

An Achievement Award for Improving the Diversity of the Health Workforce was given to Dr. Billy Ballard, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Meharry Medical College (MMC).  More than 15 percent of African Americans who receive degrees in medicine and dentistry each year are MMC graduates.  Of over 3,700 living MMC alumni, 78 percent practice in lower socioeconomic and disadvantaged urban and rural communities, and more than 50 percent practice in primary care fields.  MMC alumni are faculty members at 55 U.S. medical schools, and the college educates a majority of African American medical school faculty.

 

An Achievement Award for Improving the Diversity of the Health Workforce was given to Ms. Iral Porter, Assistant Dean of the Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.  She has more than 30 years’ experience in administering programs to motivate disadvantaged students to choose health careers, including as Director of the University’s Health Careers Pathways Program and Center of Excellence for Minority Medical Education.  The former has addressed the needs of nearly 4,000 disadvantaged students seeking entry into the health professions, the latter has retained and graduated 95 percent of its minority students and increased its minority faculty from 24 in 1998 to 39 in 2003.

 

An Achievement Award for Expanding Interdisciplinary Health Education was given to Dr. Thomas Cavalieri, Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine.  In 1989, under his leadership, the School’s Center for Aging became the first osteopathic medical school to receive a federal grant to support an interdisciplinary geriatric fellowship program, involving geriatric medicine, dentistry and psychiatry.  The Center was subsequently awarded a grant to launch the New Jersey Geriatric Education Center, which has established partnerships across the state to expand interdisciplinary geriatric education opportunities for health professionals of all disciplines.

 

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MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

One year from now, at the next CCPH conference, hundreds of leaders from communities, campuses, government and philanthropy will convene in Minneapolis, MN USA to share lessons learned, disseminate promising practices and take bold actions to achieve authentic partnerships.  As with all relationships, community-campus partnerships begin

Sarena Seifer

with the leadership and action of individuals.   There

are a number of tangible and practical ways that leaders from community-based organizations and initiatives can engage campuses as partners:

 

Assess community capacity for campus engagement.  What has the history been of relationships between the community and local campuses?  Are there lessons learned from past experiences that can help to inform the development of new or improved relationships?  What opportunities exist for faculty, staff and students to contribute to the activities of ongoing community-based organizations and initiatives?   For example, are there opportunities for community service, service-learning, community-based participatory evaluation and research, training and technical assistance?  What community goals and objectives might be enhanced by relationships with local colleges and universities?  Identify those that can serve as the basis of an action plan for building campus partnerships around genuine community concerns.

 

Build upon current campus involvement.  Identify the faculty from local campuses who are already involved in community partnerships, teaching courses or conducting research in areas that might naturally lend themselves to community efforts (e.g., urban planning, community-based public health, non profit management, policy analysis).  Identify faculty, students and staff who are involved in community service and service-learning.  Explore options for their greater involvement as individuals and as links to others within their institutions.

 

Assess local campus assets and resources. Identify nearby colleges and universities that could be potential partners.  Contact their offices of community service, service-learning or outreach, degree programs in key disciplines and professions, their student service organizations, and their deans of academic and student affairs to learn about potential opportunities for faculty, staff and student involvement in communities.  Contact the senior administrators (e.g., vice presidents and provosts) who are responsible for community relations, urban and regional affairs, educational partnerships and related areas to explore the possibilities for institution-wide engagement.

 

Develop relationships with local campuses.  Invite institutional leaders, faculty and students to community meetings and use the opportunity to present the community’s goals and accomplishments, highlighting opportunities that could tap into the strengths of higher education and could further the institution’s traditional missions of teaching, research and service.

 

Host an orientation for new students faculty at the start of each academic year. New students and faculty members are often unfamiliar with the local community, the rich resources available and the opportunities for involvement.  An annual orientation can serve to introduce students and faculty to the community and plant seeds early for how they might apply their enthusiasm, knowledge and expertise to community efforts.

 

Get connected with networks of community-campus partnerships.   Connect with community-based organizations that have developed partnerships with local colleges and universities, through such organizations as Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, the Association of Community-Higher Education Partnerships, the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association and PolicyLink.

 

References:

 

Seifer SD. (2000). Engaging colleges and universities as partners in healthy communities initiatives. Public Health Rep 115: 234-237.

 

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NEWS FROM CCPH

 

Community-Based Participatory Research Listserv Surpasses 1,750 Subscribers

as it Marks First Year of Operation

 

The Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) listserv was launched in June, 2004, by CCPH and the Wellesley Central Health Corporation to serve the growing network of people involved and interested in CBPR and other types of community-academic research partnerships. Now over 1,750 subscribers strong, the listserv is recognized as a resource for sharing CBPR knowledge and experience, strengthening the CBPR field, and ultimately improving the health of communities. Tap into other CBPR resources

 

 

Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative Holds Teleconference on Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Scholarship

 

The Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative held a teleconference entitled "Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Scholarship: Clarifying our Meanings when Using These Terms" on May 18, 2005. On this call, speakers Barbara Holland, Director of the National Service Learning Clearinghouse, and Collaborative team member Robert Bringle, Director of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Service and Learning, discussed what defines and differentiates community engagement and community-engaged scholarship, examples of both, and implications for review, promotion, and tenure policies and practices.

 

 

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about

Community-Engaged Scholarship

 

Answers to frequently asked questions about community-engaged scholarship are now available on the CCPH website; find the FAQ under “What’s New.” This document was developed by CCPH staff in response to questions raised by members of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative. It provides standard definitions of community engagement and community-engaged scholarship based on the report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions, and also highlights other relevant articles, initiatives, and resources related to the efforts of academic institutions to promote and reward community-engaged scholarship.

 

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MEMBERSHIP MATTERS

 

June Book Sale!

 

CCPH members receive a greater-than-usual discount on two of our most popular publications!

 

Don't delay in ordering:

 

v       Advancing the Healthy People Objectives through Community-Based Education: A Curriculum Planning Guide

 

v       Toolkit for Achieving the Nation's Health Objectives through Community-Campus Partnerships

 

For details, see "What's New" at www.ccph.info.

 

 

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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!

 

 

CCPH 8th Summer

Service-Learning Institute

 

June 17-20, 2005

Cascade Mountains of Washington State

 

Application Information

 

 

 

CBPR Skill Building Institute

for Partnership Teams

 

August 5-8, 2005

Cascade Mountains of

Washington State

 

Additional Information

 

 

CCPH 9th Conference

 

May 31-June 3, 2006

Minneapolis, MN USA

 

Save the date!

 

Additional Information

 

June 1-3, 2005 ● Bureau of Health Professions First All-Grantee Conference, Washington, DC. CCPH executive director Sarena Seifer will be presenting the findings and recommendations of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions on Friday June 3 from 10-11:30am. CCPH will also be exhibiting. Stop by and see us at Booth #18. Additional information about the conference. To learn more about the Commission and its report on Linking Scholarship and Communities, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.html

June 22-23, 2005 ● CCPH Consultant Margot Stein will facilitate a Service-Learning Workshop for faculty, students and community partners of the University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry in San Juan. Margot is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry and has served as Curriculum Director for the school’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Pipeline, Profession and Practice Project for the past three years. This project has developed community partnerships for educating dental students in community-based settings, and for recruiting a more diverse applicant pool into dentistry.   Contact CCPH to arrange a customized workshop or consultation through the CCPH Consultancy Network.  Learn more about service-learning in dental education.

June 27-July 1, 2005 ● CCPH Executive Director Sarena Seifer will be leading a workshop during the National Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Organization Leadership Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The workshop, "Becoming an Engaged Institution: A Strategic Approach to Community-Campus Partnerships," will take place on Thursday, June 30, from 8:30 to 11:45 AM. Learn more about engaged institutions.

September 19-21, 2005 Community Based Collaborative Research Conference, Portland, OR.  CCPH is a co-sponsor. The Call for Proposals is due July 1. Call for Proposals

 

 

New Event Listings

For details on these new listings and all previously listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s CONFERENCE PAGE

 

June 14, 2005 ● 12:00 p.m. Eastern   Interview and Live Webcast with NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni

 

June 16, 2005 ● 12:00 p.m. Eastern   ACHI Education Audio Conference: Outcomes from a Logic Model: A Collaborative Success with Kathy Tiernan, 2004 CCPH Award Recipient

 

June 21, 2005 ● 8:00 p.m. Eastern   Showtime for Education: Tune in to Service-Learning

 

August 4-6, 2005 ● National Conference on Volunteering and Service, Washington, DC

 

October 28-29, 2005 ● Optimizing Global Health through Nursing Science in Chicago, IL

 

December 4-6, 2005 ● Second Annual International Conference on Social Science Research, Orlando, FL

 

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2006 CCPH CONFERENCE UPDATE

Walking the Talk: Achieving the Promise of Authentic Partnerships

May 31-June 3, 2006 ● Minneapolis, MN USA

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/savethedate.html

 

 

Announcing CCPH Conference

Keynote Speaker:

 

Angela Glover Blackwell

 

We are delighted to announce that Angela Glover Blackwell has accepted our invitation to be a keynote speaker for the CCPH 2006 conference. Ms. Blackwell is founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research,

communications, capacity-building, and advocacy organization. She describes its mission as “advancing a new generation of policies to achieve economic and social equity, based on the wisdom, voice, and experience of local leaders who are shaping successful solutions to national problems.” PolicyLink is committed to “Lifting Up What Works.” Since its inception in 1999, PolicyLink has been a leading advocate in the nation’s growing community-building movement. PolicyLink has partnered with a cross-section of stakeholders to ensure that questions of equity receive the highest priority in addressing major policy issues, including: urban sprawl and smart growth, reinvestment in low-income communities, bridging the digital divide, responsible policing, and eliminating racial health disparities.

 

Ms. Blackwell founded PolicyLink after serving as senior vice president for the Rockefeller Foundation for three-and-a-half years. She directed the Foundation’s domestic and cultural divisions and developed the Next Generation Leadership and Building Democracy program, centered on issues of inclusion, race, and policy. She is also co-author of Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America. She is a frequent guest in the media and her appearances include ABC’s Nightline and National Public Radio. She has been published in the opinion pages of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

The May 2005 issue of Physical Therapy Magazine features an article on service-learning in physical therapy education that highlights many CCPH member programs. The article is posted on CCPH's service-learning resources page along with examples of service-learning programs and course syllabi in physical therapy and other health professional fields.


The European Forum for Primary Care was initiated in early 2005 by a group of interested parties from Belgium, the UK and the Netherlands. It quickly expanded to include representatives from France, Estonia, Italy and Denmark. Among which are practitioners and management, policymakers and researchers. The Forum seeks to expand its membership and thereby to become a leading force for in Primary Care in Europe. If you would like to find out more about the European Forum for Primary Care please have a look on our website: www.euprimarycare.org. Via the website you can register as member of the Forum. If you would need further information, please to not hesitate to contact them: info@euprimarycare  

Making Sense of Mental Health

Want to keep up on the latest mental health news, research, and policy? Subscribe to the weekly e-mail briefing "Making Sense of Mental Health" by writing to Tanya Ott, the WBHM news director. The weekly is sponsored by public radio station WBHM-FM in Birmingham, Alabama and is part of a larger collaboration among WBHM, The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, and Oasis Women's Counseling Center. Its purpose is to increase awareness about mental health issues. Learn more online about this Sound Partners' project.

 

Bid on a Beautiful Quilt and Support Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network

To help raise money for our organization, the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network, Steering Committee member Judith Allen, DMD, designed, quilted and donated A fabulous work of art. You may bid for the quilt on eBay. Bidding is already underway and continues until this Saturday morning, June 4, at 9:30 AM eastern time.

 

NIH Announces New Clinical and Translational Sciences Initiative

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have introduced an initiative to enhance the discipline of clinical and translational sciences. The NIH National Center for Research Resources sought the advice of the biomedical research community on ways the NIH can foster the clinical and translational sciences into a new academic discipline, promote the training of clinical and translational investigators, expand resources for clinical and translational research, and improve inter-institutional collaborations. Additional information

 

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

 

Senior Program Officer/Specialist, Governance, Equity and Health – International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

IDRC's Governance, Equity and Health programme initiative supports research in developing countries to promote equitable provision of public health and health care services. The programme includes research on financing, delivery, access and governance challenges across a number of themes and regions. They are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated colleague to complement their team's strong public health, governance and social science capacity with knowledge in health or social sector financing and economics. The successful candidate will work across regions and thematic areas addressed by the programme, but will be particularly involved in developing their portfolio on fair financing of health and social services, including political and governance dimensions, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Additional information.

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GRANTS ALERT!

 

New Grants Alert announced in this newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*)

 

* Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program – Deadline: June 8 (LOI) - Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-AA030 - The purpose of this program is to establish demonstration programs to increase population-based CRC screening among persons 50 years and older in geographically defined areas and to focus screening efforts on person with low incomes and inadequate or no health insurance coverage for CRC screening.  Full Announcement

 

Grants Available to Youth – Deadline: June 13 – Youth Service America and Youth Venture are teaming up to make everyday National Youth Service Day by providing start-up funds for sustainable projects to youth. Application and information

 

* Community-Based Abstinence Education Program – Deadline: June 20 - Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2005-ACF-ACYF-AE-0099

The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications to

provide support to public and private entities for the development and implementation of the Community-Based Abstinence Education Program for adolescents, ages 12 through 18, in communities across the country. Full Announcement

 

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Funding Announcement – Deadline: June 22 - AHRQ has announced ongoing extramural grants for research, demonstration, dissemination, and evaluation projects.  For more information, please click here. AHRQ has a database at through which you may access abstracts for active AHRQ grants in your state.

 

* Health Promotion and Diabetes Prevention Projects for American Indian/Alaska Native Communities: Adaptations of Practical Community Environmental Indicators – Deadline: June 23 (LOI) - Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-AA029 - The purpose of the program is to strengthen local capacity of American Indian/Alaska Native communities in implementing limited practical community environmental interventions for health promotion and diabetes prevention. Full Announcement.

 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Initiative Funding Partners Program - Deadline: June 30 - Local Initiative Funding Partners is a partnership program between RWJF and local grantmakers that supports innovative, community-based projects to improve the health and health care for society's most vulnerable people. Complete information

 

Grants to Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Migrant Programs for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Programs – Deadline: July 5 – The funds must support more effective and comprehensive child abuse prevention activities and family support services, including an emphasis on strengthening marriages and reaching out to include fathers, that will enhance the lives and ensure the safety and well-being of migrant and Native American children and their families. Additional information

 

Call for Applications – ETA to Award Grants to Help Colleges Train Workers for High-Growth Jobs – Deadline: July 6The federal Employment and Training Administration will be awarding $125 million in grants to community colleges who partner with employers and others to train more people for high-growth fields, such as health care. The Community-Based Job Training Grants will be used to build the capacity of community colleges to train workers to develop the skills needed to succeed in high-growth occupations and fields where demand for qualified workers is outstripping supply. The funds will support both capacity building and training activities. Details

 

* Projects that Improve Child Well-Being by Fostering Healthy Marriages within Native Communities Grant – Deadline: July 8 - The primary objectives of these projects are pre-marital education, marriage education and relationship skills for youth, adults, and couples. Project components may include but are not limited to: healthy relationship skills, communication skills, conflict resolution, foster parenting, marital counseling, abstinence education, and fatherhood accountability. Additional information

 

* Call for Applications from ENACCT – Deadline: July 11 - The Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) announces the launch of its Pilot Education Program (PEP), a new funding opportunity for cancer clinical trials education efforts. With funding from the Lance Armstrong Foundation, ENACCT will award a total of $450,000 to 3 community based Partnerships to develop unique approaches to foster awareness about cancer treatment clinical trials; enhance their acceptability; and improve access to them. The Partnerships will receive ongoing technical assistance, evaluation and training services provided by ENACCT staff. The preliminary application, as well as promotional material about the grant program can be found at http://www.enacct.org/appguide.

 

Call for Proposals: Substance Abuse Policy Research Program – Round X – Deadline: August 23 - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s program is designed to encourage experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology and other behavioral and policy sciences to address issues related to substance abuse. Additional information

 

Women Helping Others (WHO) Foundation Grants – Deadline: Sept 13 – WHO supports grass-roots charities serving the overlooked needs of women and children. Specific projects and programs addressing health, education and social service needs are the priority of the WHO Foundation. The Foundation recognizes the value of new programs created to respond to changing needs and will consider funding projects of an original or pioneering nature within an existing organization. Additional information

 

The Charles Frueauff Foundation 2005 Grants - Deadline: Sept 15

The Charles Frueauff Foundation focuses on at-risk youths in all its funding categories: education, health, and social services. Tutoring, sexual-health and job-training initiatives receive preference.

 

International Research Collaboration Behavioral, Social Sciences – Deadline: Sept 21 - Funder's Fund ID:  PAR-05-073 - An important role of the Fogarty International Research Collaboration (FIC)is to foster discovery and reduce global health disparities through the support of international cooperation across the continuum of basic, clinical and applied biomedical, and health sciences. Additional information

 

Collaborative Multisite Research in Addiction (COMRAD) – Deadline: Oct 1 - The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) seeks to increase the collaboration of investigators at two or more sites in order to address critical issues in the epidemiology, services, and prevention of substance abuse and related disorders that require sample sizes greater than a single site can reasonably attain. Complete Announcement

 

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health - Deadlines: Nov 1 - The NLM Grants are awarded for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other scholarly works of value to US health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers, and historians of the health sciences. For more information, click here.

 

Cancer Education (R25E) Grants Program – Deadline: Multiple - Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-05-065 - Educational and research dissemination activities are essential components of the National Cancer Institute's efforts to reduce morbidity and mortality due to cancer. The PHS 398 application instructions are available in an interactive format. For further assistance contact GrantsInfo, Telephone (301) 435-0714.  Link to Full Announcement

 

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health – Deadline: Multiple - Funding Opportunity Number: PA-05-029 - The ultimate goal of this National Institutes of Health program announcement is to encourage the development of health research that integrates knowledge from the biomedical and social sciences. The PHS 398 application instructions are available online in an interactive format. For further assistance contact GrantsInfo@nih.gov. Link to Full Announcement.

 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH): Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research – Deadline: Open - Principal investigators holding specific types of NIH research grants (listed in the full announcement) are eligible for available funds for administrative supplements to improve the diversity of the research workforce by supporting and recruiting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented. For details, click here. 

 

Common Counsel's Grantee Exchange Fund (GXF) – Deadline: Open - GXF provides discretionary small grants to build bridges between grassroots organizations throughout the United States to encourage social change organizations to seek technical assistance from one another, and to help build regional and national networks among organizations. Complete information.

 

Community Participation in Research – Deadlines: May 17, 2006, 2007 - A number of federal agencies, including NIH, CDC and AHRQ have collaborated in the release of program announcement PAR-05-026 on Community Participation in Research. The goal of this PAR is to support research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers. Click here for details.   To view the edited notes and audiofile from a technical assistance conference call for prospective applicants held on January 28, 2005, click here.

 

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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

New Calls for Submissions announced in this newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*)

 

* Hispanic Health Professions Students Wanted for CDC Internship Program – Deadline: June 5 - The Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS) are accepting applications for nine available positions in the 2005 HSHPS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Student Internship Program. This eight-week internship experience is intended to equip Hispanic health professions students with research and clinical experiences directed at improving the health of Hispanic populations. Additional information

 

Call for Entries for Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Innovations in Medical Education Exhibits – Deadline: June 10 - The AAMC is seeking submissions to be showcased Nov. 6-7, 2005 in conjunction with the association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The exhibits provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and activities in medical education, and serve to encourage communication among colleagues. Additional information or contact Caroline Ford Coleman.

 

* Call for Abstracts for Optimizing Global Health through Nursing Science Conference – Deadline: June 15 - Abstracts may be submitted on any global, global-relevant, or cross-cultural local health and nursing topic.  Presentation and poster sessions plus think tankgroup sessions will be held. Any questions may be directed to: Olga Sorokin. Additional information

 

* HEART Call for Applications - Deadline: June 15 - The Humanistic Elective in alternative medicine, Activism and Reflective Transformation (HEART), will provide 25 fourth-year medical students demonstrating an aptitude and interest in complementary and alternative medicine, social justice and activism, intentional community building, humanism and/or personal growth a unique and wonderful way to conclude their medical school career and prepare for residency. Additional information

 

Call for Abstracts for 2nd Annual Asian American Health Conference – Deadline: June 15 – The New York University Center for the Study of Asian American Health is currently seeking abstracts for the conference that will take place September 23-24, 2005 in New York City. Contact Sapna Pandya, MPH or Noilyn Abesamis for details.

 

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Seeks Award Nominations – Deadline: June 15 - The ACGME is seeking nominations for a new annual award to honor an outstanding designated institutional official (DIO). The Courage to Lead Award will recognize a DIO who has demonstrated excellence in overseeing residency programs at his or her sponsoring institution. Nominees must have at least five years of experience. Additional information

 

*Proposal Reviewers Sought for New Grant Program – Deadline: June 17 - The Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) is now seeking individuals with experience and expertise in community outreach, community partnerships, community-based participatory research and clinical trial education to voluntarily serve as proposal reviewers. The selected reviewers will have a unique opportunity to apply their experience and expertise, enjoy an intellectual challenge and strengthen their proposal development skills while assisting an important new initiative to invest public resources wisely. CCPH is a partner in the program. For more information about being a proposal reviewer, including key dates related to the review process and expectations of reviewers, please email ccphuw@u.washington.edu.

 

Request for Proposals: 2005 AIDS Community Information Outreach – Deadline: June 17 - The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced the solicitation of proposals from community-based organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers. Additional information

 

Call for Papers for Encyclopedia on Racial and Ethnic Social Justice – Deadline: June 30 - Proposed entries requested for a two-volume encyclopedia on racial and ethnic social justice in the United States. Contact A. Aguirre Jr.

 

* National Governors Association (NGA) Request for Applications: Improving Outcomes for Young Adults with Disabilities Policy Academy – Deadline: July 1 - The NGA Center for Best Practices invites states to apply for its upcoming policy academy on improving outcomes for young adults with disabilities, aged 14 to 30.  This academy will provide teams of leaders from six states a special opportunity to identify weaknesses in their state's current policies and practices and to develop and begin implementing realistic strategies for improvement.  Contact: Lindsey Woolsey.

 

Call for Proposals for Community Based Collaborative Research Conference – Deadline: July 1 – The conference will take place September 19-21, 2005 in Portland, OR and is sponsored by the Northwest Health Foundation, co-sponsors include Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Call for Proposals

 

* Call for Abstracts for 4th International Conference on Urban Health – Deadline: July 29The conference will take place October 26-28, 2005 in Toronto, ON, Canada. This year’s conference theme is Achieving Social Justice in Urban Communities. Information on submitting an abstract.

 

* Has Your Research Made a Difference? AcademyHealth Requests Nominations for HSR Impact Award - Deadline: July 29The Award recognizes outstanding research that has been successfully translated into

health policy, management, or clinical practice and, as a result, had a positive impact on health and health care. Additional information

 

2005-2006 CDC/SOPHE Fellowships in Injury and Violence Prevention - Deadline: July 31 - One year fellowships. Fellows will work at their own institutions on research or practice-based projects that consider unintentional injury prevention or violence prevention from the perspectives of health education or behavioral science.  Additional information

 

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2005 Physician Faculty Scholars Program – Deadline: August 1 - To strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care. Funding: Up to $300,000 over three years. For more information, click here.

 

Fulbright Scholar Program for Faculty and Professionals Public Health Awards – Deadline: August 1 - Research, lecturing, and lecturing-research awards are being offered in public health for academic year 2006-2007.  Specific "Public Health" awards are available in Canada, China, Hungary, India, and Ukraine. Public health is also among the requested specializations for awards in the social sciences or sciences, public administration, and mountain studies in other countries, and in the multi-country regional research programs in Africa and the Middle East/South Asia. Visit the CIES for more information. Request an application.

 

The Clarence H. Moore Award for Voluntary Service – Deadline: August 15 - To recognize the benefits that the voluntary/non-governmental sector contributes to the public health mission and to improving the lives of the peoples of the Americas, the Pan American Health and Education Foundation established the Clarence H. Moore Award. This award calls attention to the achievements of NGOs operating in Latin America and the Caribbean in public health, and celebrates these achievements. Additional information

 

Community Colleges Invited to Apply for MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Award - Deadline: August 31 - The Award celebrates and highlights the accomplishments of colleges that are helping less-advantaged youth and adults succeed and advance in college and careers. The award recognizes community colleges whose policies and practices provide pathways to opportunity for large numbers of individuals. Visit the Jobs for the Future for details.

 

Call for Nominations for the Fifth Annual Delta Omega Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum – Deadline: Sept 2 – As part of its efforts to promote excellence in public health education, research and practice, Delta Omega created this award to highlight public health courses that are integrative, practice-oriented, and multi-disciplinary. Additional information

 

* Award Available for Best Medical Student Paper in Preventive Medicine – Deadline: Sept 20 - The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is offering an award for the best paper on preventive medicine written by a medical student. The winning paper will be published in the American Journal of preventive Medicine. The author will receive a $1000 prize and will be honored at the ACPM's annual meeting. All prevention-related topics will be considered. Additional information, contact: Erica Frank.

 

Journal of Interprofessional Care (JIC) Call for Papers - A Competition for Students – Deadline: Sept 30 - JIC invites teams of student authors from pre and post-licensure programs in any country to submit manuscripts to be considered for publication in a special supplement. CCPH's executive director Sarena D. Seifer serves on the Journal's North American editorial board. Journal's Notes for Contributors Questions? student.competition@ubc.ca

 

* Call for Papers: The International Journal of Public Sector Management Special Issue on Knowledge Management and Mobilization: Emergence, Experiments, Incentives, Infrastructure and Strategies - Deadline: Oct 31 - Issues of importance, addressed at an international, national, regional or provincial, or local level. Guest editor: CCPH Member Peter Levesque, Knowledge Exchange Specialist, Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada. Details

 

* Call for Papers: Action Research Special Issue: Insider Action Research - Deadline: Nov 1 - Seeking contributions from people who have undertaken action research in their own organizational systems (organization, association, community, family). Seeking contributions from across organizational sectors including business, education, healthcare, nursing, social work, voluntary, aid and development, arts, public service, community development, and from any position on a hierarchical ladder. Details

 

Call for Papers for the National Civic Review - Deadline: Ongoing – The journal publishes essays and reports written by civic activists, community practitioners, theorists, and scholars in the fields of public administration, community building, political reform, government, and social problem solving. Additional information  

 

Call for Papers for COMM-ORG – Deadline: Ongoing - COMM-ORG is the On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. Are you writing a paper, thesis, or dissertation on: community organizing, community development, community planning, community-based research, and/or a related area? COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page.  To submit a paper, contact the editor, Randy Stoecker. You can also find out more by clicking here.

 

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PUBLICATIONS

 

CCPH Members receive discounts on publications by Jossey-Bass as well as all CCPH publications

 

Kids Count Data Book with Rural and Urban Info

 

From the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a new report is now available that uses 10 key measures of child well-being to track the conditions of children living in the rural (non-metropolitan) portion of each state as well as 71 large cities across the country. The 10 indicators of child well-being address poverty, family structure, parental employment, housing affordability, and education. A "Rural KIDS COUNT Pocket Guide" and a "City KIDS COUNT Pocket Guide" are also available to accompany the Data Book.

 

 

Two New Publications on AmeriCorps and National Service

 

The AmeriCorps Experiment and the Future of National Service is published by the Progressive Policy Institute. The book includes a variety of perspectives on AmeriCorps' performance over its first decade, and offers alternative visions for national service's growth and evolution. For information on obtaining print copies of this book, please contact the Progressive Policy Institute's publications department.

 

 

Innovations in Civic Participation has released a publication called Transforming Communities Through Service: 51 of the Most Innovative

AmeriCorps Programs in the United States.   The book provides brief descriptions of innovative AmeriCorps programs selected by state commissions, their key innovative elements, and examples of the program's success.

 

A PDF version can be downloaded from the ICP website.

 

 

Accountability Guide for

Academic Medical Centers

 

Academic medical centers have a special responsibility to be accountable to the public, according to "Achieving Accountability: A Proactive Process for Academic Medical Centers," new publication available from the AAMC. As a primer to the proactive process necessary for achieving accountability, this publication presents a template to distinguish and define different levels of accountability and identifies the specific categories of accountability for academic medical centers. It establishes a roadmap for providing internal and external accountability, and outlines the administrative steps required to implement the process, including a suggested organizational chart.

Achieving Accountability: A Profile Process for Academic Medical Centers

 

Additional Information

 

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