Offer Newsletter: Issue 157

Issue No. 157                                                                      February 21, 2023

Highlighted News and Announcements

$25 Million Grants: Racism is a Public Health Crisis
The Gathering Collaborative along with King County government invites you, our community and business partners across the region to join us in continuing the critical work to undo the harms of systemic racism, which was declared a public health crisis by King County in 2020. We encourage all applicants to read over the Grant Program Overview and the Invitational Document in order to get grounded in this work.

NIH Grants Conference Videos Available
The NIH has published session recordings and resources from the Virtual NIH Grants Conference that was held February 1-2.

NIH Request for Information: Violence Against Women Research
This RFI is intended to gather public input on priority scientific directions in violence against women (VAW) research. This includes cisgender, transgender, and gender-diverse persons who identify as a woman or girl, as well as other individuals assigned female at birth but who may not identify as a woman or girl. VAW includes: domestic or intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual assault and rape, dating violence and abuse, peer violence, physical and mental abuse, sexual coercion, stalking, homicide, and elder mistreatment. Responses must be submitted by March 31.

NIH Request for Information: Peer Review Scoring
NIH is soliciting public input on a proposed revised framework for evaluating and scoring peer review criteria for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research project grant (RPG) applications. NIH is proposing to revise its policy of how peer reviewers score the criteria, and how NIH organizes the criteria for review purposes. Responses must be submitted by March 10.

NIH Seeking Input 
The NIH is seeking input about potential or existing primary or secondary preventive intervention strategies addressing social determinants of health to prevent mental health problems in populations experiencing health disparities. Responses must be submitted by March 1.

PCORI Seeking Advisory Panel Members
PCORI is looking for individuals to join its five advisory panels: 1. Clinical effectiveness and decision science; 2. Clinical Trials; 3. Healthcare delivery and disparities research; 4. Patient engagement, and 5. Rare disease. Application deadline is March 31, 2023.

Contact the Editor
The mission of the OFFER newsletter is to inform members of our social work community about a broad range of research-related events and opportunities with the goals of both encouraging and informing social work research activities. To assist us in providing this information, email Tasha Murphy at tbmurphy@uw.edu (please put “OFFER eNews” in the subject line) with details about your publications or awarded grants, research funding opportunities, and upcoming research events. Thank you!

New Publications

Berridge, C., Zhou, Y., Robillard, J., Kaye, J. (2023). Companion robots to mitigate loneliness among older adults: Perceptions of benefit and possible deception. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.

Kelly, A. B., Munnings, A., Zhao, X., Rowland, B., Laurens, K. R., Campbell, M., Williams, J., Bailey, J. A., Killingly, C., Abimanyi-Ochom, J., Kremer, P., & Toumbourou, J. W. (2023). Polydrug use in Australian 12-14 year olds from 2006 to 2017: An examination of drug use profiles, emotional control problems, and family relationship characteristics. Australian Journal of Psychology, 75, 2174705.

Funding Announcements
Notice of Special Interest: Addressing the Etiology of Health Disparities and Health Advantages Among Immigrant Populations
This NOSI calls for multidisciplinary and multilevel research to understand the interplay of multiple factors that cause health disparities or health advantages among underserved immigrant populations and the mechanisms through which they operate.

Notice of Special Interest: Addressing Health Disparities Among Immigrant Populations Through Effective Interventions
This NOSI calls for multidisciplinary and multilevel research focusing on the design and implementation of effective interventions addressing immigrant-specific factors to promote health advantages and reduce health disparities, particularly among migrant workers, recent and 1st generation immigrants.

Notice of Special Interest: Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care
This NOSI encourages research grant applications focused on palliative care in geriatric populations, including both prospective studies and analyses of existing datasets, health and medical records, claims data, or other sources. Leveraging ongoing cohorts, intervention studies, networks, data and specimen repositories, and other existing research resources and infrastructure is encouraged. Study designs may include observational approaches, quasi-experimental designs, and interventional studies.

Intent to Publish FOA on Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health intends to publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit R01 and R21 applications for research on bidirectional influences between social media use and adolescent mental health, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology. The FOA is expected to be published in January 2023 with an expected application due date in March 2023.

Notice of Special Interest: Health Services and Economic Research on the Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use Disorders
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has announced special interest in grant applications to conduct rigorous research on maximizing the availability and delivery of efficient, effective drug, alcohol, and tobacco treatment and recovery support services. Examples of such research include: clinical quality improvement, implementation science, effectiveness, and development or improvement of research methodology, analytic approaches, and measurement instrumentation.

NIH Notice of Special Interest: Research on the Health of Women of Understudied, Underrepresented and Underreported Populations
The Office of Research on Women’s Health announces the availability of administrative supplements to support research highlighting health inequities among women in the United States who are understudied, underrepresented and underreported (U3) in biomedical research. This NOSI will support projects highlighting common sources of inequities in women and girls’ health, with a specific emphasis on those that integrate measures beyond the individual level and consider perspectives from multiple disciplines.

NIH Notice of Special Interest: Research on the Health of Bisexual and Bisexual+ People
Although there has been an overall increase in research focused on the health and well-being of sexual and gender minorities, there are fewer projects related to bisexual and bisexual+ (bi/bi+) health despite bi/bi+ people accounting for the largest proportion of the population of LGBTQI+ individuals in the U.S. This NOSI is specifically intended to stimulate investigation into the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social processes that affect the health and welfare of bi/bi+ individuals, and the development of acceptable, appropriate, and relevant interventions, preventive strategies, and service delivery methods.

Notice of Special Interest: Epidemiologic studies in Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to stimulate novel epidemiological research to address key knowledge gaps within and between subpopulations of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. These populations are frequently aggregated in research, potentially masking important social and health differences.

NIH Notice of Special Interest: Research on the Health of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations
Although there has been an increase in SGM-focused health research in recent years, there remains a need for further research on the health of these populations. This Notice encourages research that describes the biological, clinical, behavioral, and social processes that affect the health and development of SGM populations and individuals and their families, and that leads to the development of acceptable and appropriate health interventions and health service delivery methods that will enhance health and development of these populations.

Notice of Special Interest: Research to Improve the Interpretation of Patient-Reported Outcomes at the Individual Patient Level for Use in Clinical Practice
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.

Notice of Special Interest: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Underserved and Vulnerable Populations
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.

NIH Notice of Special Interest: Stimulating Research to Understand and Address Hunger, Food and Nutrition Insecurity
The Office of Nutrition Research and participating NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices are issuing this NOSI to encourage research on the efficacy of interventions that address nutrition security and the mechanisms of food insecurity on a variety of health outcomes. It also calls for the development of new measures for nutrition security and assessment of food insecurity that are broadly applicable.

Selected Funding Opportunities
List of all active NIH grant opportunities

Royalty Research Fund
Deadline: March 6, 2023
The UW Office of Research invites applications to the Spring 2023 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. The purpose of the RRF is to advance new directions in research, particularly a.) In disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal; b.) for faculty who are junior in rank, and c.) when funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding.

NIA Multi-site Clinical Trial Implementation Grant (R01)
Deadline: March 7, 2023 (expires October 5, 2025)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for implementation of investigator-initiated multi-site interventional clinical trials (all phases). The trials should be hypothesis-driven, milestone-defined, and related to the National Institute on Aging’s research mission.

Rapid Translation of Epidemiological Findings into Interventions to Prevent Substance Use and Addiction
Deadline: March 15, 2023
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports research led by multidisciplinary teams to advance translation of epidemiological research into interventions to prevent substance use and addiction.The goal of this initiative is to incentivize cross-disciplinary collaboration by inviting applications that employ a multiple principal investigator structure and include both an epidemiological component (in the R61 phase) and a prevention intervention component (in the R33 phase).

Addressing the Impact of Structural Racism and Discrimination on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01)
Deadline: March 24, 2023 (expires January 8, 2026)
This initiative will support intervention research to address the impact of structural racism and discrimination on minority health and health disparities. Research projects may focus on health promotion, prevention services, and/or treatment of chronic condition. Interventions may focus primarily on addressing SRD to improve health outcomes, or SRD may be included as one of several determinants of health addressed to improve health outcomes.

Health Services Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Deadline: March 27, 2023
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the improvement of minority health and/or the reduction of health disparities at the health care system-level as well as within clinical settings.

HIPRC Rivara Endowment Injury Research Award
Deadline: March 31, 2023
The Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC) Rivara Endowment Injury Research Award program is designed to provide resources to graduate and professional students, postdoctoral scholars and GME fellows looking to conduct an injury-related project. A maximum of $3,000 (direct costs) is available to be used towards the work.

W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System
Deadline: April 10, 2023
The National Institute of Justice seeks applications for funding for investigator-initiated research examining how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy interventions at any point during the administration of justice. Awards will be made to Scholars (researchers advanced in their careers) and Fellows (early career researchers).

Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
Deadline: April 13, 2023
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects in four topical areas: 1) evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults (age 60 years or above); 2) research on individuals who abuse older adults; 3) research on polyvictimization in older adults; and 4) research on fraud and financial exploitation of older adults.

Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime
Deadline: April 13, 2023
NIJ seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in three topical areas: 1) evaluation of programs that provide services for victims of crime; 2) research on supporting victims of community violence; and 3) financial costs of crime victimization.

Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Deadline: April 17, 2023
This RFA is to support courses for skills development in cross-cutting methodologies and analytics that are needed to advance behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR) but are not well-addressed by existing educational programs widely available to the BSSR community. Methodological domains of focus include but are not limited to innovative data collection methodologies and analytic techniques, analysis and linking of big data, or needed but underutilized designs to advance research across the translational spectrum.

William T. Grant Foundation: Improving the Use of Research Evidence
Deadlines: May 3, 2023, August 2, 2023
Research evidence can be a powerful resource for policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, and others who make high-stakes decisions that shape youth-serving systems. The Foundation is particularly interested in research on ways to improve the use of research evidence by state and local policymakers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries. Investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education are encouraged.

William T. Grant Foundation: Reducing Inequality
Deadlines: May 3, 2023, August 2, 2023
This program supports research to build, test, or increase 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 United States. The Foundation welcomes descriptive studies (i.e., clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality; elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality), intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality, and measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.

Research Opportunities for New and “At-Risk” Investigators to Promote Workforce Diversity (R01)
Deadline: May 5, 2023 (expires September 8, 2025)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits R01 grant applications that propose independent research projects that are within the scientific mission areas of the participating NIH Institutes or Centers. This program is intended to support New Investigators and At-Risk Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the health-related sciences.

Formative and Pilot Intervention Research to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes (R34)
Deadline: May 9, 2023 (expires January 10, 2026)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites applications for Research Project Grants (R34) that propose formative research, intervention development, and pilot-testing of interventions; formative implementation research to inform adaptation of evidence-based interventions; or development or selection of implementation strategies. Primary scientific areas of focus include the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of novel or adapted interventions that target HIV prevention or treatment, or implementation outcomes using implementation science approaches.

Innovations to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes (R21)
Innovations to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum (R01)
Deadline: May 9, 2023 (expires January 10, 2026)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites applications for Research Project Grants (R21) that advance innovative research to optimize HIV prevention and care. Applications may include novel basic or applied behavioral and social science to better understand a step or steps in the HIV prevention or care continuum, and/or preliminary research to identify and advance innovative intervention approaches.

Investigator Initiated Extended Clinical Trial (R01)
Deadline: May 15, 2023 (expires January 14, 2023)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for implementation of investigator-initiated clinical trials requiring an extended project period of 6 or 7 years. The trials can be any phase, must be hypothesis-driven, and related to the research mission of the participating IC.

Behavioral Interventions Scholars
Deadline: May 19, 2023
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) anticipates soliciting applications for Behavioral Interventions Scholars grants to support dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are using approaches grounded in behavioral science or behavioral economics to examine specific research questions of relevance to social services programs and policies.

Leveraging Health Information Technology to Address and Reduce Health Care Disparities (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires May 5, 2025)
This funding opportunity announcement seeks to support research that examines the impact of leveraging health information technology (health IT) to reduce disparities in access to and utilization of health care services, quality of care, patient-clinician communication, and health outcomes for populations that experience health disparities in the U.S.

Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires 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).

Patient-Clinician Relationship: Improving Health Outcomes in Populations that Experience Health Care Disparities (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires 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.

Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize Longer Term Outcomes
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires 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.

Comprehensive Care for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from Populations with Health Disparities
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires 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.

The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. 
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires 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.

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires February 5, 2025)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies. Studies that promote equitable dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions among underrepresented communities are encouraged.

Early and Late Stage Clinical Trials for the Spectrum of Alzheimer’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Related Dementias and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires October 5, 2024)
NIH invites applications that propose to develop and implement early to late-stage clinical trials of promising pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for cognitive and neuropsychiatric changes associated with age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related Dementias across the spectrum from pre-symptomatic to more severe stages of disease, and 2) stimulate studies to enhance trial design and methods.

Health Care Models for Individuals with Multiple Chronic Conditions From Populations Experiencing Health Disparities (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires June 5, 2024)
This funding opportunity solicits applications to support innovative, multidisciplinary, and multi-level and/or multi-component research to study existing or newly proposed health care models designed to optimize the care of persons with multiple chronic conditions from U.S. populations that experience health disparities.

Effectiveness of Implementing Sustainable Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices in Low-Resource Settings to Achieve Mental Health Equity for Traditionally Underserved Populations (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires June 5, 2024)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages studies that develop and test the effectiveness of strategies for implementation and sustainable delivery of evidence-based mental health treatments and services to improve mental health outcomes for underserved populations in low-resourced settings in the United States.

Innovative Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023 (expires June 5, 2024)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage innovative, non-clinical trials research that will inform and support the delivery of high-quality, continuously improving mental health services to benefit the greatest number of individuals with, or at risk for developing, a mental illness. Applicants can submit quasi-experimental studies, survey or qualitative research methods, clinical epidemiology, and development and evaluation of new research methods, measures, financing approaches, or statistical approaches related to mental health services research.

Multisite Clinical Research: Leveraging Network Infrastructure to Advance Research for Women, Children, Pregnant and Lactating Individuals, and Persons with Disabilities (U01)
Deadline: June 5, 2023
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for multisite clinical trials and observational studies developed in conjunction with NICHD Networks that will be conducted using NICHD-supported Network infrastructure. The goal is to operationalize previously reported NICHD guiding principles for multisite clinical trials.

Prevention Services Evaluation Partnership Grants: Building Evidence for Mental Health, Substance Abuse, In-home Parent Skill-based, and Kinship Navigator Programs and Services
Deadline: June 11, 2023
ACF plans to solicit applications for grants intended to build evidence of effectiveness of a mental health, substance use, in-home parent skill-based, or kinship navigator program or service. The grants will support collaborations among evaluators and partnering Title IV-E agencies, community entities, and/or other researchers to conduct well-designed and rigorous evaluations of programs and services intended to provide enhanced support to children and families as well as prevent child abuse and neglect and foster care placements.

AHRQ Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01)
Deadline: June 12, 2023 (every February 12, June 12, October 12, annually)
This AHRQ program provides support and “protected time” to individuals with a research doctoral degree for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in health services research. The K01 award can be used both by individuals who propose to newly embark in health services research training and those who had a hiatus in their research careers because of illness or family circumstances.

Implementing and Sustaining Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices in Low-Resource Settings to Achieve Equity in Outcomes (R34)
Deadline: June 16, 2023 (expires June 16, 2024)
This funding opportunity supports pilot work for subsequent studies testing the effectiveness of strategies to deliver evidence-based mental health services, treatment interventions, and/or preventive interventions (EBPs) in low-resourced mental health specialty and non-specialty settings within the United States, particularly settings where EBPs are not currently delivered or delivered with fidelity.

Innovative Pilot Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R34)
Deadline: June 16, 2023 (expires March 16, 2025)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage innovative pilot research that will inform and support the delivery of high-quality, continuously improving mental health services to benefit the greatest number of individuals with, or at risk for developing, a mental illness.

NIMH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21)
Deadline: June 16, 2023 (expires May 8, 2024)
The National Institute of Mental Health Exploratory/Developmental Grant program supports exploratory and high-risk research projects that fall within the NIMH mission by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methods, measures, models, or strategies, or to the generation of pilot or feasibility data.

Pilot Studies for the Spectrum of Alzheimer’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (R61)
Deadline: June 19, 2023 (expires October 18, 2024)
NIH invites applications that enable the collection of pilot data to support early stage testing of promising pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for cognitive and neuropsychiatric changes associated with age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related Dementias across the spectrum from pre-symptomatic to more severe stages of disease, and 2) stimulate studies to enhance trial design and methods.

Career Pathways Secondary Data Analysis Grants
Deadline: June 22, 2023
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) plans to fund Career Pathways Secondary Data Analysis Grants to support secondary analysis of data collected to rigorously evaluate a collection of career pathways programs.

Galvanizing Health Equity through Novel and Diverse Educational Resources (GENDER) Research Education (R25)
Deadline: June 27, 2023
This funding opportunity aims to support creative educational activities with a primary focus on courses for skills development (particularly courses that develop skills in multidimensional and intersectional health-related research and healthcare delivery) and curriculum/methods development (specifically, innovative curricula or methods at the undergraduate level or higher that integrate knowledge of sex and gender influences into health-related training or enhance understanding of sex and gender influences on health).

William T. Grant Scholars Program
Deadline: July 5, 2023
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Researchers interested in applying must select one of the following focus areas: Reducing Inequality or Improving the Use of Research Evidence.

*Newly Added*
Community Level Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities
Deadline: July 7, 2023
The purpose of this initiative is to support research to develop and test community-level interventions to improve minority health and reduce health disparities.

Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Data (R21)
Deadline: August 9, 2023 (expires November 16, 2024)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications proposing innovative analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative, and neuroimaging data to study the etiology and epidemiology of substance using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, prescription, and other substances) and related disorders, prevention of substance use and HIV, and health service utilization.

The Intersection of Sex and Gender Influences on Health and Disease (R01)
November 22, 2023 (expires November 23, 2024)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite R01 applications on the influence and intersection of sex and gender in health and disease, including: (1) research applications that examine sex and gender factors and their intersection in understanding health and disease; and (2) research that addresses one of the five objectives from Strategic Goal 1 of the 2019-2023 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women’s Health Research “Advancing Science for the Health of Women.”

Measures and Methods to Advance Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities-Related Constructs (R01)
Deadline: 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.

Events and Lectures

*Newly Added*
Evans School Research Seminar
February 22, 11:30am, Location: PAR 360
The Evans School is pleased to host Eric Chyn from the Department of Economics at UT-Austin, who will be giving a talk is entitled, “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux.” This talk will discuss new evidence on the long-run effects of residential racial desegregation programs by studying the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program, which assisted thousands of Black families in relocating to predominately White, mostly suburban neighborhoods during the 1970’s-90’s.
Advancing Community Prevention Efforts in an Era of Scientific Distrust
February 23, 2023, 11:00-12:30pm
Advancing your Coalition’s prevention efforts through this era of widespread scientific distrust can feel maddening! How do you respond when decision-makers insist that up is down and left is right? This webinar will explore strategies for determining your community’s readiness to engage with data and prevention messaging, and also consider techniques that will help to break down resistance to your work.

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
February 23, 9:00am-10:00am
The William T. Grant Foundation is offering an informational webinar for scholars to learn more about applying for a research grant on reducing inequality. Topics will include the background and goals of the program, eligibility details, required materials, and review criteria. Registration required.

Science Communication from a Writer’s Perspective
February 23, 2023, 9:00-10:00am
The Seattle Assocation for Women in Science is hosting a webinar on science communication. Everyone can benefit from learning how to communicate more clearly, especially in writing. Good writing is clear thinking. Freelance scientific editor Ellen Kuwana will provide insight into what a career in science writing looks like and how to get there. Registration required.

UW Medical Data Science Symposium
February 27-28, 2023
The UW Medical Data Science Symposium will bring together those studying artificial intelligence and data science in medicine and digital health for a day and a half of presentations from local and national leaders. Registration required.

Leveraging Digital Health Technologies to Address the Needs of Underserved Populations
February 28, 2023, 11:30am-1:00pm
This AHRQ webinar will include presentations on reducing health disparities and improving the quality of care for diverse patients through innovative digital health interventions (including telepsychiatry consultations with automated interpreting for patients with limited English proficiency; innovative artificial intelligence communication systems to identify and mitigate health risks, and an electronic social needs screening tool). Registration required.

Conferences, Workshops, and Training Opportunities

NIMH Intramural Research Program Training Opportunities
March 7, 2023, 10:00am-12:00pm
June 8, 2023, 12:00-2:00pm
August 30, 2023, 9:00-11:00am
December 5, 2023, 11:00am -1:00pm
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is hosting virtual information sessions about their Intramural Research Program. These sessions are open to undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and anyone else interested in learning more. The sessions will provide information about a variety of National Institutes of Health (NIH) training programs, exciting research being done in NIMH IRP laboratories, and give attendees a chance to chat with current NIMH staff and trainees.

Health Disparities Research Institute
Application Deadline: March 13, 2023
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) August 7 – 11, 2023. HDRI supports the career development of promising early-career minority health and health disparities research scientists. The program will feature lectures, mock grant review, seminars and small group discussions, and opportunities to engage in sessions with NIH scientific staff. Applications will only be accepted from extramural scientists who meet NIH’s early-stage investigator (ESI) eligibility criteria.

Workshop on Inclusive Participation in Clinical Research
March 30-31, 2023, 8:00am-2:00pm
Join the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for a workshop on improving implementation of evidence-based best practices for inclusive participation in clinical research. This workshop will cover every stage in the research process: before the study, during the study, and after the study. Additionally, on the second day, attendees will participate in a special session with representatives from an array of fields that support and conducting clinical research.

ResilienceCon 2023
April 16-18, 2023
ResilienceCon™ is a new approach to conferences that offers a variety of traditional and innovative formats. It is an international conference that offers opportunities to interact with colleagues who are interested in strengths-based approaches to understanding, preventing, and responding to violence and other adversities.

National Organization of Forensic Social Work Virtual Conference
June 6-8, 2023
NOFSW’s 39th Annual Conference “Forensic Social Work: Leadership in the Age of Conflict” will bring together social workers, attorneys, judges, law enforcement officers, healthcare workers, child welfare professionals, and more. Plenaries, workshops and research sessions will explore how to promote client and community well-being, develop and disseminate effective programs and interventions, advocate for laws and policies that challenge social injustice, and address the needs of vulnerable, marginalized, and court-involved populations.

American Public Health Association Annual Conference
November 12-15, 2023
APHA’s annual conference “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Overcoming Social and Ethical Challenges” will bring together more than 12,000 public health professionals from across the world to engage, collaborate and grow through educational and networking opportunities.

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.

Postdoctoral Fellowships, Internships, and Research Job Opportunities

AHRQ Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships
Deadlines: April 8, August 8, December 8, 2023
The overall goal of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation’s health services research and behavioral research needs.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Maryland
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Lavender Lab, located in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, is seeking a full-time Post-Doctoral Associate. The Lavender Lab conducts NIH-funded research on the psychological, social, and cultural determinants of health for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals and Black, Indigenous, and People of color (BIPOC).

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Community Living and Participation for Individuals with Disabilities
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) is seeking social work scholars for a new postdoctoral fellowship funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). These 2-year fellowships provide an opportunity to gain expertise and experience in disability- or rehabilitation-focused health services research.

Fellowship in Community Living and Participation for Individuals with Disabilities
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) is seeking social work scholars for a new postdoctoral fellowship funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).  Increasingly, schools and programs of social work are including curriculum on disability and focusing on individuals with disability as an unserved/underserved population.

Mental Health Services & Implementation Science Postdoctoral Training
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Center for Mental Health Services Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, invites applications for postdoctoral training in mental health services research. We invite applications from individuals who will have earned a Ph.D. or M.D. by July, 2023. Members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

Northwest PTTC Prevention Fellowship Opportunity: Now Recruiting!
Deadline: ASAP/ Open Until Filled
The Northwest PTTC Fellowship program is a 10-month paid fellowship program, designed to expand the field of substance use disorder prevention and build capacity within prevention coalitions in communities in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington). The fellowship occurs in four phases: Phase 1 (1 month) with NW PTTC team; Phase 2 (3 months) in Region 10 state at a state agency; Phase 3 (3 months) in an existing substance misuse prevention coalition community, serving as a mentee under a current Prevention Coordinator; and Phase 4 (3 months) in a high-need community in a Region 10 state working with the community to begin building a prevention coalition.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Research on Social Determinants of Health
Deadline: Open Until Filled
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work announces a postdoctoral fellowship in the areas of research on social determinants of health and prevention sciences. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in behavioral interventions to promote child and family well-being. For questions, ask Dr. Sunny Shin (sshin@vcu.edu), Director of the Innovation in Child and Family Wellness(Innovative Wellness) Research Group.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Community-engaged Behavioral Intervention Research
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Innovation in Child and Family Wellness Research Group of Virginia Commonwealth University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join a research team in exploring the roles of behavioral interventions to enhance child well-being, maternal health and family wellness. This fellowship is designed to prepare a postdoctoral fellow for excellence in community-engaged behavioral research as well as a leadership position in academic and research institutions.

Postdoctoral Position at John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Deadline: Open Until Filled
Work with Dr Kelly Dunn, Ph.D., MBA on randomized trials related to opioid use disorder. Postdoctoral fellows are financially supported for 2-3 years by a prestigious T32 training award. Job responsibilities include training in the management and supervision of trial conduct, data analyses, manuscript preparation and submission, and presenting at national conferences.

Postdoctoral Scholar: Body Image, Sexuality, and Health
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Body Image, Sexuality, & Health (BISH) Lab in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University will be hiring 1 full-time Postdoctoral Research Scholar (remote work possible; in-person preferred). The postdoc will primarily be working on the Pride Body Project (under the direction of PI: Aaron J. Blashill, PhD, and Project Director: Jaclyn Siegel, PhD). This research project focuses on testing the efficacy of a group-based, peer co-led, eating disorder prevention program for young sexual minority men (e.g., men who are gay, bisexual, or sexually attracted to men).

Postdoctoral Researcher Needed at Vanderbilt University
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Center for Research on Families and Communities Engagement to Address Health and Educational Equities (Center for RFACE-HEE) at Vanderbilt seeks a postdoctoral researcher with interest in research, preventive interventions and policies targeting African American parents/caregivers and youth for a 2-year appointment.

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Implementation Research in Suicide Prevention
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Innovation in Suicide Prevention Implementation Research (INSPIRE) Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to begin in Summer or Fall 2022. This interdisciplinary training program provides an opportunity for social scientists to improve their knowledge of implementation science, health information technology, participatory design, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and how to conduct research that can improve outcomes for our most vulnerable citizens.

Call for Papers and Abstracts

The State of Palliative Social Work Across the Globe
Deadline: March 1, 2023
This special issue of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care endeavors to represent palliative social work from a global perspective. The aim of this issue is to represent the scope of palliative social work practice, including settings and how it is financed, administered and valued in countries across the world.

Large Families: Prevalence, Poverty, and Policy
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2023; Full paper deadline: July 1, 2023
This issue of the International Journal of Social Welfare aims to challenge our understanding of the contemporary large family and offers alternative policy discussion to an area overlooked altogether or divided by stigma and stereotypes. By highlighting the social circumstances of these families and the prevalence of children growing up in poverty, the special issue also gives a voice marginalized and hidden families through robust empirical studies.

Trauma-informed Hospice and Palliative Social Work
Deadline: March 15, 2023
The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care seeks submissions that can demonstrate what trauma-informed care looks like for hospice and palliative care social workers: what problems are encountered in daily practice, which trauma-informed interventions are utilized and what are others being developed. Manuscripts might include theoretical discussions, practice or policy issues, and empirical work that builds our understanding of experiences at individual, community, organizational, national and global levels.

New Perspectives on Trauma-Responsive Care
Deadline: March 23, 2023
Behavioral Sciences welcomes contributions on the following topics (among others): new and emerging perspectives on mezzo and macro trauma-responsive care (TRC); thoughts on the measurement practices of TRC; the effectiveness of existing trauma-responsive policies; thoughts about the current availability and focus of funding to develop effective mezzo and macro trauma-responsive interventions. Research-based and thoughtful conceptual manuscripts that contribute to the development of the field are welcome.

Call for Abstracts: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Deadline: March 31, 2023
APHA invites abstract submissions for presentations for the 2023 Conference in Atlanta, GA (November 12-15). Abstracts should be based on original research that has implications for Public Health Social Work practice, policy, and leadership. Abstracts can be proposals for oral presentations, poster presentations, symposia, or roundtables. MSW/MPH dual degree students are also encouraged to submit abstracts for several Public Health Social Work ‘Student-Only’ Sessions.

Effects of Race, Racism, Social Justice, and Health Equity in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Deadline: June 1, 2023
The Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry will publish a series of papers on the effects of race, racism, social justice, and health equity in child and adolescent psychiatry. Authors are invited to submit proposals for consideration in this special review series.

Special Issue: Equitable Access to Early Care and Education in the U.S.
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Many families with young children in the United States do not have access to early care and education (ECE) that is affordable, convenient, and matches their preferences and needs. This special issue in Early Childhood Research Quarterly aims to advance the knowledge base on policy solutions and practices that improve equitable access to affordable and high quality ECE from both the family and provider perspectives.

Equitable Access to Early Care and Education in the U.S.
Deadline: June 1, 2023
This special issue of Early Childhood Research Quarterly aims to advance the knowledge base on policy solutions and practices that improve equitable access to affordable and high quality ECE from both the family and provider perspectives.

Special Issue in Youth
Deadline: August 25, 2023
Submissions are invited for a Special Issue in ‘Youth’ titled “Promoting Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Minoritized Youth”. This Special Issue aims to highlight the groundbreaking scholarship focused on the inclusion of diverse and minoritized youth to achieve various types of health equity. Research is encouraged from fields, including, but not limited to, social work, public health, education, psychology, sociology, and medicine.

Health Equity Open Access Journal Call for Papers
Deadline: Rolling
Health Equity publishes fully open access peer-reviewed articles meeting the urgent need for authoritative information about health disparities and health equity among underserved and vulnerable populations with the goal of providing optimal outcomes and ultimately health equity for all.

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.

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.

Data Resources

AHRQ Healthcare database
A new AHRQ-funded database, the National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems, 2017-2018, provides public access to a subset of survey items that cover mental and behavioral health, information collection for quality improvement, Accountable Care Organization participation and other topics.

National Inpatient Sample database
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) announces the release of the National Inpatient Sample, the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient healthcare database in the U.S. It includes around 7 million hospital inpatient records from 48 States and the District of Columbia, covering 98 percent of the U.S. population.

The database for BIPOC-Authored Social Work Papers
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.

Research Resources

NIH Grants YouTube Channel
The NIH hosts a YouTube channel where you can learn about NIH fundamentals, peer review, NIH policy, compliance, special funding programs, and more!

NIH Webinar on Human Subjects Research Policies, Clinical Trials, and Inclusion
NIH experts address questions about how to prepare proposals and inclusion plans and provide resources and guidance on human subjects in this 2-part webinar series.

NIH All About Grants Podcasts
NIH staff members present topics about the ins and outs of NIH funding. Topics include grant preparation, grant submission, advice for new and early career scientists, post award activities and requirements, and more.

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.

UW/Fred Hutch Behavioral Science Core
The UW/Fred Hutch CFAR’s Behavioral Science Core provides resources to catalyze behavioral science research related to HIV prevention and care. they offer research consultation services and research methods workshops, provide ongoing “Junior Investigator Group” sessions and quantitative stigma working group meetings, and host an annual behavioral science symposium.

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.

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.

 

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