Offer Newsletter: Issue 99

Issue No. 99                                                                      December 21, 2021

Highlighted News and Announcements

CLIME Grand Round Session: 
Bias in Assessment – when to accept bias, minimize bias (and how), or throw the assessment out?
January 21, 2022, 1:00-2:00pm
Even the best designed assessment cannot escape bias. What we don’t know is when does a difference between subgroups indicate bias and can that bias be minimized? Furthermore, how much bias must be mitigated before we stop using scores from the assessment in decision-making? In medical education there are many high stakes decisions based on assessment performance so it is important to ensure assessments measure each trainee’s true ability.

Special Funding Opportunities
EarthLab 2021 Innovation Grants
LOI Deadline: 1/27/2022
The Innovation Grants Program is seeking proposals for research at the intersection of climate change and social justice that will generate equitable and actionable science and knowledge (i.e., science that is usable and used). EarthLab has increased the total amount of funding available for the 2021 Innovation Grants Program from $300,000 to $450,000.

Investing in Social Work’s Future: Collaboration, Innovation, Impact
Deadline: February 14, 2022
The New York Community Trust’s Investing in Social Work’s Future: Collaboration, Innovation, Impact initiative seeks to address the contemporary challenges and opportunities facing the field and profession of social work and to recognize the racial and social justice issues that will increasingly define social work in the 21st century

New Publications

Young, D. S., Trawver, K. R., Harris, A. N., & Jacob, D. (2021). Integrating smart decarceration content across social work curricula. Journal of Social Work Education.

Bailey, C., Shaw, J., & Harris, A. N. (2021). Mandated reporting and adolescent sexual assault. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 

Scott, J. C., McDermott, E. R., Harris, A. N., Johnson, K. G., Pinderhughes, E. E., & Spencer, M. B. (2021). Looking through a kaleidoscope: The phenomenological ethnic‐racial socialization conceptual model and its application to U.S. Black and Latino Youth and families. Journal of Social Issues.

Selected Funding Opportunities
List of all active NIH grant opportunities

Notice of Special Interest: Navigating Pediatric to Adult Health Care: Lost in Transition
Deadlines: January 5 (R41, R43), February 5, 2022 (R01), February 16, 2022 (R21) (can submit on future NIH deadlines through January 8, 2024)
This notice encourages applications in high-priority research areas related to pediatric health care transition for youth with chronic physical/medical conditions or intellectual/developmental disabilities. Research applications that will advance our understanding of promising practices designed to facilitate successful health care transitions (HCT) from pediatric to adult care settings as well as barriers and facilitators to such transition are encouraged.

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
Deadline: January 12, 2022
The William T. Grant Foundation is funding major research grants (up to $600,000) and small research grants (up to $50,000) with a focus on building, testing, or increasing understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the U.S.

Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
Deadline: January 12, 2022
The William T. Grant Foundation has launched a program supporting research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25.  What is required to create structural and social conditions that support research use? What infrastructure is needed, and what will it look like? What supports and incentives foster research use? And, ultimately, how do youth outcomes fare when research evidence is used?

UW Population Health Initiative Interdisciplinary Grant Program
Deadlines: January 14 (Tier 2), February 1, 2022 (Tier 1), April 1, 2022 (Tier 3) (can submit on future deadlines through October 2, 2023)
The Population Health Initiative at UW seeks to create a world where all people can live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The Initiative is pleased to offer population health pilot research grants that are intended to encourage the development of new interdisciplinary collaborations among investigators – and with community-based partners – for projects that address critical challenges to population health.

Field Initiated Projects Program (Development)
Field Initiated Projects Program (Research)
Deadline: January 24, 2021
The purpose of the Field Initiated Projects programs at the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research is to generate new knowledge through research or to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and self-sufficiency of people with disabilities, especially people with the highest support needs.

Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01)
Deadline: January 26, 2021 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through September 26, 2023)
The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist. Applications submitted to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) must not include preliminary data. Clinical trials not allowed.

Extramural Small Grant on Poverty, Retirement, and Disability Research
Deadline: February 3, 2022
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) in collaboration with the Center for Financial Security (CFS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has funding to support the study of economically vulnerable populations related to poverty, retirement, and disability policy. Applicants can propose research projects that address any area of relevance to retirement and disability research.

*Newly Added*
Notice of Special Interest: Research to Improve the Interpretation of Patient-Reported Outcomes at the Individual Patient Level for Use in Clinical Practice
Deadlines: February 5, 2022 (R01), February 16 (R21) (can submit on future NIH deadlines through May 8, 2023)
The focus of this NOSI is on self-report (PRO) measures that: a) have already been developed and validated for use in clinical research and have strong, demonstrated psychometric properties, and b) are currently being used, or could have utility, in clinical practice. Specifically, this Notice calls for methodological studies that provide meaningful interpretation of PRO scores collected and acted upon at the individual patient level for use in clinical decision-making.

Measures and Methods to Advance Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities-Related Constructs (R01)
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through February 5, 2024)
This initiative will support research to improve the measures and methods for complex social constructs that capture the lived experience of populations that experience health disparities.  Projects are expected to examine the performance and utility of specific measurement and/or methodological approaches.

Patient-Clinician Relationship: Improving Health Outcomes in Populations that Experience Health Care Disparities (R01)
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through October 5, 2024)
This funding opportunity supports innovative multi-disciplinary and multi-level (e.g., patient, clinician, interpersonal, health care system, community) research designed to understand how optimizing patient-clinician communication and relationship affects health care outcomes in patients from populations with health care disparities. Information sessions will be held on November 30, December 9, and January 5.

Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials of Complementary and Integrative Interventions Delivered Remotely or via mHealth
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through May 8, 2023)
This funding announcement encourages applications for investigator-initiated fully remotely delivered and conducted clinical trials to assess the efficacy or effectiveness of complementary and integrative health interventions.

The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. 
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through June 5, 2024)
This funding opportunity supports innovative population-based research that can contribute to identifying and characterizing pathways and mechanisms through which work or occupation influences health outcomes and health status among populations with health and/or health care disparities, and how work functions as a social determinant of health.

Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize Longer Term Outcomes
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through February 5, 2024)
The National Institute of Mental Health seeks applications for research projects to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic and service delivery interventions for the post-acute management of mental health conditions affecting youth, adults, and older adults.

Notice of Special Interest: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Underserved and Vulnerable Populations
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through September 8, 2024)
The purpose of this Notice is to highlight interest in research regarding the impact of COVID-19 on populations that experience health disparities (racial and ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, underserved rural populations, and sexual and gender minorities) and other populations with medical or social vulnerabilities.

Comprehensive Care for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from Populations with Health Disparities
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through June 5, 2024)
This award will support innovative multidisciplinary and multi-level research designed to develop and/or test interventions to optimize care of persons with Type 2 diabetes from populations with health/health care disparities, including racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, and underserved rural populations.

Addressing Health Disparities among Immigrant Populations through Effective Interventions
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through January 5, 2023)
This announcement calls for multidisciplinary/multilevel research focusing on the design and implementation of effective interventions that will address immigrant-specific factors to reduce health disparities, particularly among migrant workers, recent and 1st generation immigrants.

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03)
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21)
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01)
Deadlines: February 5, 2022 (R01), February 16, 2022 (R03, R21) 
These FOAs invite applications that will identify, develop, test, evaluate, and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices (e.g. behavioral interventions; prevention, treatment and disease management interventions) into public health, clinical practice, and community settings.

Notice of Special Interest: NIH R01 Applications from Individuals from Diverse Backgrounds, Including Under-Represented Minorities
Deadline: February 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through May 8, 2023)
NIH seeks to promote diversity in all of its research programs and to increase the participation of underrepresented groups. this notice is being issued to highlight interest in receiving research project applications submitted by investigators from diverse backgrounds.

Maximizing the Scientific Value of Secondary Analyses of Existing Cohorts and Datasets in Order to Address Research Gaps and Foster Additional Opportunities in Aging Research
Deadlines: February 5, 2022 (R01), February 16, 2022 (R21) (can submit on future NIH deadlines through September 8, 2023)
This notice encourages the use of existing cohorts and datasets for well-focused secondary analyses on: (1) aging changes influencing health across the lifespan (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD)), (2) diseases and disabilities in older persons, and/or (3) the changes in basic biology of aging that underlie these impacts on health. Applicants should use the parent R01 and parent R21 application materials.

*Newly Added*
Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
LOI Deadline: February 8, 2022
PCORI aims to fund studies that address high-priority methodological gaps in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). Programmatic priority areas include: use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in clinical research, methods to improve study design, methods to support data research networks, and methods related to ethical and human subjects protections issues in PCOR/CER.

*Newly Added*
Prevention, Early Identification, and Treatment of Delirium in Older Adults
LOI Deadline: February 8, 2022
PCORI is seeking to fund high-quality, comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects that focus on the prevention, early identification, and treatment of delirium in older adults. PCORI is particularly interested in multisite randomized controlled trials. Observational studies may be considered. Applications focused on the needs of underserved, underrepresented, or historically excluded populations within hospital and long-term care settings are encouraged.

*Newly Added*
Brief Interventions for Adolescent Alcohol Use
LOI Deadline: February 8, 2022
PCORI is seeking to fund studies that compare brief interventions for adolescent (ages 12-17) alcohol use. PCORI is particularly interested in studies comparing primary care or school-based interventions adapted to increase reach, engagement, and/or effectiveness for adolescents. PCORI is also interested in studies comparing brief interventions tailored to historically excluded, under-researched, and/or under-resourced adolescent populations.

*Newly Added*
Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions Targeting Mental Health in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
LOI Deadline: February 8, 2022
PCORI is seeking to fund randomized controlled trials or observational studies that focus on comparative clinical effectiveness of interventions targeting mental health in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Proposed studies should compare the effectiveness of pharmacological, behavioral, other nonpharmacological or combination interventions for mental health concerns administered via appropriate delivery modalities (e.g., telehealth, family based, group, or individual).

Dementia Care and Caregiver Support Intervention Research (R01)
Deadline: February 10, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through February 13, 2024)
This funding opportunity solicits mechanism-focused dementia care and caregiver support intervention development research to address the care needs and promote the health, function, and well-being of persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (ADRD) and of those providing their care.

Pragmatic Trials for Dementia Care and Caregiver Support (R61/R33)
Deadline: February 10, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through February 13, 2024)
This funding opportunity supports pilot research that will:  (1) improve quality of care of persons with dementia; (2) improve quality of life for persons with dementia and their informal caregivers; (3) deliver more patient-focused, cost-effective care across multiple settings; and/or (4) reduce disparities in dementia care.

Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Treatment, Preventive, and Services Interventions
Deadline: February 15, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through February 15, 2024)
This funding opportunity supports clinical trials to establish the effectiveness of interventions and to test hypotheses regarding moderators, mediators, and mechanisms of action of these interventions to prevent or treat mental illness.

AHRQ Small Research Grant Program (R03)
Deadline: February 16, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through July 7, 2022)
This R03 grant mechanism supports different types of health services research 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.

NIMHD Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21)
Deadline: February 16, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through May 8, 2023)
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites applications for short-term exploratory or developmental research projects that have the potential to break new ground in the fields of minority health and/or health disparities that can directly contribute to improving minority health and/or reducing health disparities in the U.S.

PAR-19-394: Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36)
Deadline: February 16, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through January 8, 2023)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide dissertation awards in all areas of research within the National Institute on Aging’s (NIA’s) strategic priorities to increase the diversity of the scientific research workforce engaged in research on aging and aging-related health conditions.

Pilot Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize Longer-term Outcomes (R34)
Deadline: February 16, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through February 16, 2024)
This FOA supports pilot research to evaluate the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability, safety and preliminary indications of effectiveness of post-acute phase intervention approaches and inform the design of definitive effectiveness trials.

Understanding the role of Bilingualism in Cognitive Reserve/Resilience in Aging and AD/ADRD (R01)
Deadline: March 3, 2022
This funding opportunity supports research studying the role of bilingualism as it relates to cognitive reserve/resilience in healthy aging and in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (ADRD). There is a need for more prospective, hypothesis-driven research to build a theoretical framework and identify the extent to which acquiring a second language impacts human brain function.

Biopsychosocial Factor of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery (R01) 
Deadline: May 21, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through June 22, 2024)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites research projects that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in human health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing. Also see related R01s here and here.

*Newly Added*
Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2022 (can submit on future NIH deadlines through February 5, 2025
The goal of this initiative is to support family level health observational and intervention studies in the biomedical, clinical, population, behavioral or social sciences. Projects must include a focus on families from one or more populations that NIH designates as experiencing health disparities in the US and territories, which include Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, underserved rural populations, and sexual and gender minorities (SGM).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity
Deadline: Rolling
This funding is focused on studies about upstream causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Research should center on the needs and experiences of communities exhibiting the greatest health burdens and be motivated by real-world priorities.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
Deadline: Rolling
Pioneering Ideas seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

Events and Lectures

How to Build a Research Budget
January 12, 2022, 12:00-1:30pm
This online event, hosted by ITHS, shows to break down a research plan into digestible, cost-driving components, and how best to estimate appropriate levels of effort. We will cover the basics of developing an agile budgeting tool, including tips and tricks for modifying a budget template for different applications. Other topics will include typical sponsor critiques, downsizing, and common pitfalls in research budgeting.

*Newly Added*
Webinar: Research to Improve the Individual-Patient Level Interpretation of Patient-Reported Outcomes for use in Clinical Practice
January 13, 2022, 11:00am-12:00pm
You are invited to attend a webinar focused on this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) calling for research to improve the interpretation of patient-reported outcomes at the individual patient level for use in clinical practice. Webinar speakers will provide a wide range of information, including examples of topics that are responsive to the NOSI, methodologic approaches that might be considered in addressing individual-level score interpretation, and information about receipt dates. The session will end with a panel discussion with colleagues from across NIH responding to audience questions.

Responding to Reviewer Comments: Turning your Good Manuscript into a Great Publication
January 19, 2022, 12:00-1:30pm
Rejection of your manuscript is just the first step on the path to publication of your research report. In this seminar, hosted by ITHS, we will provide a road map and chart alternative routes to acceptance, pointing out landmines along the way.

Getting Ready  for Sustainability Planning
January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2022
This 7-week distance learning series offers an interactive experience for participants to explore how to develop a sustainability plan. Sustainability planning is an intentional process of looking critically at your current prevention infrastructure, strategic planning process, and strategies to sustain meaningful prevention outcomes beyond current funding. Registration required.

NIH UNITE Listening Sessions to Discuss Racial & Ethnic Equity
January 26, 2022 (Students and Trainees)
January 27, 2022 (Research Staff- Assistants, Associates, Technicians)
February 1, 2022 (Colleges and Universities)
UNITE was established to identify and address structural racism within NIH-supported entities and the greater scientific community. NIH acknowledges the experiences of those affected by race and ethnicity-based discrimination and is committed to eliminating racial and ethnic inequities within NIH, as well as the NIH-supported external scientific workforce, and the NIH-funded research portfolio. These listening sessions are one component of UNITE’s efforts to listen and learn.

*Newly Added*
Request for Information: Research Challenges and Needs in the Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Aggression
Deadline for Responses: January 31, 2022
The NIH is interested in mechanisms related to the processes and outcomes associated with both aggression perpetration and the impact of aggression on victims. This Request for Information (RFI) is specifically requesting information to gain feedback, comments, and novel ideas from members of the scientific community to help identify the gaps and opportunities for research on the biobehavioral mechanisms of aggression and its interactions with other health risks.

*Newly Added*
Networking to Enhance Development (NED) Conference
February 17, 2022, 11:00am-1:00pm
The NED Conference is an annual professional development conference for research coordinators. Participants will expand their knowledge and skills and get a chance to develop contacts, share ideas, and learn from peers.

Conferences, Workshops, and Training Opportunities

Translational Research Training Program
Application Deadline: January 14, 2022
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences is offering a one-year Translational Research Training Program for predoctoral students. The program creates a cross-disciplinary community of emerging researchers and provides them with training, career development opportunities, and team science skills.

*Newly Added*
Mixed Methods Research Training Program
Application Deadline: January 14, 2022
The Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences is funded by the National Institutes of Health through the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR). Selected scholars have access to webinars, resources, come to an in-person retreat to discuss their research project, and are matched with mixed methods expert consultants.

Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference
January 12-16, 2022, Washington, D.C. (Live-streaming also available)
SSWR’s annual conference, “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice”, offers more than 500 symposia, workshop, roundtable, and paper and poster presentations that reflect a broad range of research interests, from workshops on the latest quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and grant writing to symposia featuring studies in child welfare, aging, mental health, welfare reform, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS. Early bird registration is due by December 10, 2021.

Getting Ready for Sustinability Planning
January 20, 2022-March 3, 2022
This 7-week distance learning series offers an interactive experience for participants to explore how to develop a sustainability plan. Sustainability planning is an intentional process of looking critically at your current prevention infrastructure, strategic planning process, and strategies to sustain meaningful prevention outcomes beyond current funding.

2022 Summer Institute on Randomized Behavior Clinical Trials
Application Due Date: February 15, 2022
Sponsored by OBSSR and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the Summer Institute will provide an intermediate/advanced course in planning, designing, and conducting high-impact randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions. It emphasizes programmatic research and prepares fellows to lead or collaborate on rigorous, high-impact behavioral trials and on systematic efforts to develop and improve health-related behavioral interventions.

National Organization of Forensic Social Work Annual Conference
June 14-16, 2022
The theme of this conference is Social Justice and Unjust Systems: Strategies to Advance Structural Change. Topics will include: understanding clients’ intersectionality in order to provide more inclusive and equitable services; disaggregating data and reporting outcomes with context; and developing theories of structural/systems change to support long term transformation and justice.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Annual Conference
June 15-18, 2022
As one of the largest community-driven gatherings of mental health advocates in the U.S., NAMI’s annual national convention connects and inspires people looking for resources, research, support and programming. NAMICon as a hybrid event in 2022, combining an in-person convention experience with select events and sessions streaming online.

American Society on Aging and the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology Online Gerontology Courses
Course dates Summer- Fall 2020 Online
The American Society on Aging and the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology are offering four different five-week online gerontology courses. The online learning curriculum will expand your knowledge of aging issues with in-depth information and insights.CE credits are offered from select accreditation providers.

Boston University School of Social Work’s Center for Aging & Disability Research & Education (CADER)
Ongoing
Prepare for the challenges of a rapidly changing society with CADER state-of-the-art online training programs. All CADER courses cover content areas related to legal and ethical considerations, cultural competence, person-centered approaches, health literacy, and strategies for communicating effectively in difficult situations. These online courses are available separately or as part of a certificate program, are self-paced, and can be taken anytime, and provide continuing education credits.

Arizona Rural Women’s Health Network: Sexual Violence Training for Community Health Workers
Ongoing-online (CHEHs)
The Arizona Rural Women’s Health Network offers a free 4 hour course that provides an introduction to basic knowledge and skills useful in assisting and responding to victims of sexual violence. The online course includes self-paced modules, a workbook, and a simulated role-play scenario.

Junior Investigator Group: Quantitative Research Methods for Behavioral research around HIV and Mental Health
The UW BIRCH Methods Core is seeking a handful of early stage investigators to join a junior investigator group focused on quantitative research methods for behavioral research around HIV and mental health. The group will meet monthly and will focus on quantitative methods topics to assist participants in securing funding, actively publishing, and otherwise advancing in their careers.

Junior Investigator Group: UW/Fred Hutch Behavioral Science Core
The UW/Fred Hutch CFAR’s Behavioral Science Core supports an ongoing “Junior Investigator Group” or JIG that is open to new members for the next academic year. Co-facilitated by Drs. Deepa Rao, Judith Tsui, and Jane Simoni, the JIG assists early stage investigators who are interested in research on the behavioral aspects of HIV. The group meets monthly and assists members in securing funding, actively publishing, and otherwise successfully advancing in their careers.

Postdoctoral Fellowships and Research Job Opportunities

Research Scientist Position at SDRG
The Social Development Research Group (SDRG) at UW is seeking Research Scientists (PhD required) to work on grant projects funded by the NIH. SDRG is home to several longitudinal studies broadly focused on testing long-term effects of substance use prevention systems and interventions and understanding substance use (including e-cigarette use) across adolescence, young adulthood, and extending into middle-age. We are seeking research scientists to help us meet existing study aims, develop new research projects, and write grants. Responsibilities are primarily conducting quantitative data analysis and writing for publication as part of a team. For additional details, email Martie Skinner at skinnm@uw.edu

HHS COVID-19 and Health Equity Impact Fellowship
Deadline: January 4, 2022
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is offering a mentored fellowship opportunity located in Washington, D.C. to conduct policy research and participate in quantitative data analyses on topics such as social determinants of health; health equity; access to healthcare services for at risk populations; and analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency care services, maternity care, and/or the HIV population.

Penn State Child Maltreatment Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: January 14, 2022
Penn State University’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network (solutionsnetwork.psu.edu) is now accepting applications for our 2-year NICHD-funded T32 (solutionsnetwork.psu.edu/t32-grant) post-doctoral fellowship in child maltreatment science. The training will allow fellows to specialize in several training tracks including a) Biology and Health, b) Developmental Processes, c) Prevention and Treatment, and d) Policy and Administrative Data Systems.

*Newly Added*
Harold A. Richman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 15, 2022
The University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice invites application for the Harold A. Richman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This program is aimed at strengthening the intellectual and research qualifications of scholars interested in applied research careers focusing on child, youth, and family well-being. The selected candidate will be provided with time and resources to explore and develop independent research ideas and with mentoring by nationally recognized research leaders.

SRCD U.S. Policy Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 24, 2022
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) is seeking applications for its prestigious fellowship programs for the 2022-2023 academic year. Goals of the program include providing fellows with experience in federal or state policymaking, implementation, and evaluation.

*Newly Added*
Postdoctoral Research Scientist: Columbia University School of Social Work
Deadline: February 1, 2022
We welcome applications from new doctoral degree recipients to join us as a postdoctoral research scientist. This three-year position provides new doctoral degree recipients with dedicated time and support to develop as independent scientists and scholars. The postdoctoral research scientist would collaborate and receive guidance from a senior faculty member at CSSW.

Deadline: Rolling 
Dr. Megan Moore at SSW is hiring for a Research Assistant/Coordinator position to assist with a qualitative study to understand the impacts of COVID on stakeholder engagement as part of a larger PCORI-funded study of a transitions of care model with patients and family members who have sustained a traumatic brain injury. for more information, please email Dr. Moore at mm99@uw.edu or Leslie Kempthorne (ette@uw.edu).

*Newly Added*
Postdoctoral Associate Positions in Research on Issues Related to Interpersonal Violence: Rutgers School of Social Work
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Center on Violence Against Women & Children (VAWC) at the Rutgers School of Social Work is seeking two postdoctoral scholars interested in gaining further experience related to issues of interpersonal violence. Two postdoctoral scholars are currently sought to focus on 1) assessing campus climate related to interpersonal violence and 2) interpersonal victimization of Latinos.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social-Emotional Learning and Substance Abuse Prevention
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Innovation in Child and Family Wellness Research Group of Virginia Commonwealth University is accepting applications for a postdoctoral position to examine the efficacy of a trauma-informed, social- emotional learning program to reduce adolescent substance use. This is a 1-year fellowship, with the option to renew for an additional year.

Postdoctoral Position at Penn State University
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Context and Development Lab (CDL) at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a Post-doctoral Scholar position to begin July or August, 2022 (preferred, but negotiable). The goal of our research is to elucidate the development of adolescents, with particular attention to contextual supports and an examination of the ways in which cultural values and norms associated with race and/or ethnicity and socioeconomic status influence youth development and family practices.

Call for Papers and Abstracts

Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting
Deadline: January 15, 2022
SSSP is seeking papers to be presented at the SSSP Annual Meeting, which will be held on August 5-7, 2022.

Network for Social Work Management: Transforming the Workplace of the Future: A Commitment to Wellbeing and Inclusion
Deadline: January 24, 2022
This year’s theme, Transforming the Workplace of the Future: A Commitment to Wellbeing and Inclusion, challenges the public and non-profit organizations to (re)imagine, define and lead in shaping a future workplace that empowers individuals to reach their fullest potential.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Annual Meeting
Deadline: January 31, 2022
NAMI seeks proposals that encourage mental health education and innovation and are well-versed in theory, research and practice for their annual conference, which will be held June 15-18.

Healthcare Special Issue “Youth Mental Health and Family Support”
Deadline: January 31, 2022
This Special Issue focuses on innovation in community-based care for young people aged 6–29, and on identifying supportive approaches that foster their success in school, higher education, employment, and social relationships. Of particular interest are services focused on youth aged 14–29 who need support to successfully transition to adulthood.

Families in Society Special Issue: Mental Health: Learning Locally to Impact Globally
Deadline: February 1, 2022
In this special issue of Families in Society, we are actively seeking articles and research centering on global mental health though innovative local treatment, services, interventions, and perspectives.

Reimagining Supports for Youth Involved with Public Systems in the Transition to Adulthood
Deadline: February 1, 2022
Youth who depend on service systems before and during the transition to adulthood, such as those experiencing homelessness, foster care, juvenile justice, and special education tend to have worse educational, employment, and health outcomes than their non-system involved peers. This special issue encourages innovative thinking and focuses on papers that contribute to improving outcomes for system-connected youth by shifting our focus or reimagining services and supports for youth in the transition to adulthood.

Advancing Interdisciplinary Research on Foster Care and Higher Education
Deadline: February 11, 2022
The National Research Collaborative for Foster Alumni and Higher Education (NRC-FAHE) is seeking manuscripts for an interdisciplinary special issue focused on postsecondary education for youth in foster care and college students with a history of foster care. The special issue will be published in Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

National Organization of Forensic Social Work 2022 Conference Call for Abstracts
Deadline: February 15, 2022
NOFSC is seeking abstracts that highlight programs, policies and activities that present solutions (proven or in development) to current challenges faced by forensic social workers in their practice. Abstracts will be presented at the 2022 conference, which focused on social justice and unjust systems.

*Newly Added*
International (Virtual) Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG)
Deadline: February 18, 2022
The International Association for SocialWork with Groups invites proposals for the IASWG 2022 Virtual Symposium. Proposals are welcomed in all areas of group work, especially related to group work practice with populations in a variety of settings, multicultural practice, group work in developing countries or underserved communities, community development, activist group work practice, group work, research and training. For more information, click here or visit: www.iaswg.org.

Children Special Issue: Family Risk and Protective Factors and Child Development
Deadline: February 20, 2022
Although there is a growing body of research on family risk and protective factors, much remains to be learned about the ways in which various family risk and protective factors interact with each other to shape child development over time. This Special Issue will be devoted to understanding the unique and combined effects of family risk and protective factors on child development across multiple dimensions of functioning (e.g., physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, social, cognitive).

Global Social Welfare: Research, Policy Practice Special Call for COVID Research
Deadline: Ongoing
Global Social Welfare is inviting authors to contribute research articles sharing experiences and results (both positive and negative) with our readers who can use this information to inform the development and implementation of future social work, social policy and public health programs.

The database for BIPOC-Authored Social Work Papers
Deadline: Ongoing
The BIPOC-Authored Papers for Social Work database was created in an effort to amplify BIPOC voices and perspectives, and to increase the representation of BIPOC authors across social work curriculum. As faculty engage in critical analysis of their syllabi and curricula, the availability of BIPOC-authored materials is an essential element of dismantling the white supremacy embedded in social work and transforming social work education and practice. As a crowd-sourced database, this collaborative endeavor has the potential to elevate academic excellence and enhance a diverse, inclusive, values-based learning environment.

Call for Papers Related to COVID-19
Deadline: Rolling Submission
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing health disparities experienced by traditionally oppressed groups including older adults, low-wage workers and those living in poverty, and people with underlying health conditions. Public policies and practices that intentionally or unintentionally favor positive outcomes for certain groups over others violate human rights and must be rectified. As a result, rather than a one-time special issue of the journal, we invite authors to contribute relevant articles on a rolling basis for peer review.

Congratulations to David Takeuchi!

David Takeuchi has been appointed by the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as a member of the workshop planning committee on Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity. In this role, he will contribute to DBASSE’s mission to provide independent, objective advice to federal agencies, Congress, foundations, and others.

David will also be joining the Ford Foundation predoc and postdoc selection committee focusing on Sociology. Many congratulations to David for these importan.

Research Resources

Research Resources for Investigators studying American Indian/Alaska Native Populations
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protections has made available several materials from a recent workshop for those interested in conducting research involving AI/AN populations.

ITHS Scientific Success Committee
ITHS has created a Scientific Success Committee, a group of experienced investigators, statisticians and bioethicists who provide feedback on study design, strategy or feasibility from early stages of development until implementation of a study. The committee meets monthly, and requires a brief application for consideration.

ITHS Career Development Series
The ITHS Career Development Series consist of monthly lectures and workshops designed to provide junior faculty and investigators with tools, a forum for discussion, and learning opportunities to help advance their careers.

Below you will find all the seminars we have recorded, so you can tap into this knowledge when ever you need to! Topics include: How to write Specific Aims, study recruitment strategies, grant writing skills, and responding to reviewer comments.

Video Guide: Overview of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards, especially the Individual Fellowships (F awards) and Institutional Training Grants (T awards)
In this video, NIH’s Dennis Twombly and Lisa Moeller will take you through an overview of these two types of awards, providing some tips along the way.

All About Grants Podcasts
The Office of Extramural Research (OER) at NIH hosts a series of podcasts relating to NIH grants that is designed for investigators, fellows, students, and research administrators. Episodes cover topics such as grant preparation, developing successful grant applications, advice for new and early career scientists, submitting your application, the peer-review process, and post-award activities and requirements. The latest episode focuses on the newly required Diversity Plans for conference applications. Episodes are available as mp3s for download, and via iTunes. To access mp3s and transcripts of each podcast, click here.

Process for submitting a grant application through SSW
OFFER has created a new proposal timeline, a step by step guide outlining all the steps involved from starting through completing the research grant application process at SSW. This form, along with a sample proposal checklist and other useful information can be accessed through MySSW/ProposalDevelopment/Getting Started.

We encourage our readers to submit postings to be included to help us stay relevant to the broad range of social work research interests. Please email Tasha Murphy at tbmurphy@uw.edu to circulate information on funding opportunities, publications, and events.

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