Issue No. 123 June 7, 2022
Highlighted News and Announcements
Report: Improving Representation in Clinical Trials and Research
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has published a congresionally mandaded report urging representation of racial and ethnic minority groups and other underrepresented populations in clinical trials and research. You can read the report here.
National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities
NIMHD held the 60th meeting of the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NACMHD) on May 24, 2022. The NACMHD advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the NIH Director, and the NIMHD Director on matters related to the Institute’s mission. You can watch a video of the meeting here.
Grant Writer’s Boot Camp
The ALACRITY Center and the IMPACT Center at UW are offering a free boot camp to provide guidance and instruction to faculty submitting grant proposals to NIH in how to submit successful proposals focused on behavioral interventions and implementation strategies. Sessions are as follows:
June 15, 2-3:30pm: Methods and Analysis
June 22, 12:00-01:30pm: Forms G/biosketch pointers
June 27, 3:30-5:00pm: Mock Review
July 21, 2:00-3:30pm: Responding to Reviewers
Click here to register (space is limited). Please direct any questions to katieost@uw.edu
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, contact Tasha Murphy by sending an email to tbmurphy@uw.edu (please put “OFFER eNews” in the subject line} with information on your publications or grants awarded in the last month, research funding opportunities, and upcoming research events. Thank you!
New Publications
Quinn, C. R., Johnson, S., Jones*, K., Parekh*, R., Munshi*, A., & Boyd, D. (2022). Social work and the next frontier of justice: Using COVID-19 as a vehicle for healing. Social Work in Public Health. 1-16.
Funding Announcements
Social Workers: Check out the National Institute of Nursing (NINR) for for your funding!
NINR (National Institute of Nursing Research) has just announced a new strategic plan, which emphasizes issues of health equity and social determinants of health.
National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council Partnership
The National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council are forming a partnership to identify and jointly support research that advances knowledge about the impact of public health guidance. Multiple funding programs have been identified. Click the link above to learn more.
NIH Notice of Special Interest: Increasing Uptake of Evidence-Based Screening in Diverse Populations Across the Lifespan
The Office of Disease Prevention and participating NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices are issuing this NOSI to encourage applications proposing to test strategies and interventions to improve the uptake of evidence-based screening services across the lifespan and in populations including those experiencing health disparities. Studies addressing efficacy, effectiveness, dissemination and implementation research, and studies seeking to understand and address barriers to screening are encouraged.
Selected Funding Opportunities
List of all active NIH grant opportunities
Young Scholars Program
LOI Deadline: June 9, 2022
Application Deadline: October 13, 2022
The Young Scholars Program (YSP) supports scholarship for early-career researchers. The program funds implementation research that is policy- and practice-relevant and that examines the preparation, competency, compensation, well-being, and ongoing professional learning of the early care and education (ECE) workforce.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01)
Deadline: June 15, 2022 (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.
Demonstrating Policy Effectiveness to Promote Black Youth Mental Health
Deadline: June 22, 2022
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) solicits applications for projects for the Demonstrating Policy Effectiveness to Promote Black Youth Mental Health Initiative. This initiative seeks to identify health and wellness policies that are successful in improving Black youth mental health, including suicide prevention.
Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program
Deadline: June 24, 2022
The NIH has created the Lasker Clinical Research Scholars (Lasker Scholars) program that will offer applicants the opportunity to compete for a unique combination of intramural and extramural resources for clinical research. The program will support a small number of exceptional clinical researchers in the early stages of their independent careers to promote their development as fully independent scientists. The program combines a period of research experience as a tenure-track Investigator in the IRP with additional years of independent financial support.
William T. Grant Scholars Program
Deadline: July 6, 2022
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.
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Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplement for Research Efforts that Illuminate Fundamental Processes Underlying Behavior Change, Maintenance, and Adherence
Deadline: July 15, 2022
This administrative supplement NOSI is designed to provide support to NIH-funded investigators to add assessments to their currently funded project to help illuminate the mechanisms of action, processes, and contextual variables to help better understand why an intervention works or does not work initially and over time. Applicants may propose new analyses that will use the parent project’s existing data and, potentially, complementary data with the potential to illuminate mechanisms of action (MOAs) so long as such data remain within original scope of the parent project.
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Promoting Equitable Access to Language Services in Health and Human Services
Deadline: July 15, 2022
Populations with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) experience significant barriers to accessing health care services and understanding health information. The Office of Minority Health has released a new funding opportunity to support the implementation of effective policies, programs, and processes to increase the use of prevention services through enhanced language access resources for individuals with LEP. Applicants should address health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations and demonstrate the impact of those efforts on outcomes and the overarching goal of advancing health equity.
NSF CAREER Program
Deadline: July 27, 2022
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Emergency Awards: HEAL Initiative- New Innovator Award
Deadline: August 22, 2022
The Helping End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) New Innovator Award supports a postdoctoral or newly independent Early Stage Investigator of exceptional creativity who proposes novel, original and insightful research concepts with the potential to produce a major impact, test scientific paradigms, or advance key concepts on broad, important problems in biomedical research related to pain, opioid use disorder (OUD), and/or overdose (OD). Applications proposing unexpected convergence of disciplines, new scientific directions, or the use of novel methodologies are encouraged.
Transition to Aging Research for Predoctoral Students (F99/K00)
Internal UW Deadline: 9/7/2022
Sponsor Deadline: 10/21/2022
This FOA seeks to foster the development of research and clinician scientists in the following areas: genetic, biological, clinical, epidemiological, neuroscientific, behavioral, social, and economic research on aging, both basic and translational. Successful applicants will be awarded the Transition to Aging Research Award, whose purpose is to facilitate the transition of outstanding and committed graduate students into aging-focused post-doctoral positions. UW will support 1 application for this FOA. If interested, please submit a 1-page LOI with a description of proposed aims and approach and a biosketch/CV of the applicant research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, September 7, 2022.
Understanding Suicide Risk and Protective Factors among Black Youth
Application Deadline: September 18, 2022
This funding announcement aims to advance translational research to better understand factors that confer risk and resilience for suicide among Black youth.
This FOA encourages research that is designed to identify neurobiological, behavioral, social, and structural/systemic mechanisms underlying risk and protective factors for suicide among Black youth, with consideration for identification of novel targets for future development of prevention and intervention efforts.
PCORI Engagement Award: Capacity Building
LOI Deadline: September 29, 2022
Application Deadline: January 11, 2023
The Engagement Award: Capacity Building opportunity funds projects that build communities prepared to participate in patient-centered outcomes research and clinical effectiveness research (PCOR/CER). These awards support organizations with strong ties to patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other stakeholders who have a connection to a research focus area and seek to better equip stakeholders to engage as partners in PCOR/CER.
PCORI Engagement Award: Dissemination
LOI Deadline: September 29, 2022
Application Deadline: January 11, 2023
The Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative funding opportunity aims to support projects that help organizations and communities plan for or actively bring pertinent PCORI-funded research findings to their specific audiences, including relevant patients, clinicians, communities, and others, in ways that will command their attention and interest and encourage use of this information in their healthcare decision making.
Leveraging Health Information Technology to Address and Reduce Health Care Disparities (R01)
Deadline: October 5, 2022 (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.
Notice of Special Interest: Epidemiologic studies in Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
Deadline: October 5, 2022; NOTE: Due date may differ by institute (expires November 19, 2024)
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.
Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01)
Deadline: October 5, 2022 (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).
Notice of Special Interest: Research to Improve the Interpretation of Patient-Reported Outcomes at the Individual Patient Level for Use in Clinical Practice
Deadlines: October 5, 2022 (R01), October 16 (R21) (expires 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.
Patient-Clinician Relationship: Improving Health Outcomes in Populations that Experience Health Care Disparities (R01)
Deadline: October 5, 2022 (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: October 5, 2022 (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.
Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials of Complementary and Integrative Interventions Delivered Remotely or via mHealth
Deadline: October 5, 2022 (expires 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.
Comprehensive Care for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from Populations with Health Disparities
Deadline: October 5, 2022 (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.
Notice of Special Interest: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Underserved and Vulnerable Populations
Deadline: October 5, 2022; NOTE: Due dates vary by institute (expires 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.
The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S.
Deadline: October 5, 2022 (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.
Addressing Health Disparities among Immigrant Populations through Effective Interventions
Deadline: October 5, 2022 (expires 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.
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: October 5, 2022 (R01), October 16, 2022 (R21) (expires 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.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03)
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21)
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01)
Deadlines: October 5, 2022 (R01), October 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.
Addressing Mental Health Disparities Research Gaps: Aggregating and Mining Existing Data Sets for Secondary Analyses
Deadline: October 18, 2022
This initiative encourages research projects that aggregate existing data sets to examine mechanisms by which factors at multiple levels (e.g., policy, society, community, school, family, individual) contribute to, exacerbate, or reduce disparities across development in order to inform understanding of disparities in risk and etiology of mental disorders, to facilitate the development of preventive and therapeutic interventions, and/or to inform targets and timing of services interventions to address disparities in access, engagement, quality and outcomes of mental health services.
Understanding Suicide Risk and Protective Factors among Black Youth (R01)
Deadline: October 19, 2022, June 20, 2023
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aims to advance translational research to better understand factors that confer risk and resilience for suicide among Black youth. This FOA encourages research that is designed to identify neurobiological, behavioral, social, and structural/systemic mechanisms underlying risk and protective factors for suicide among Black youth, with consideration for identification of novel targets for future development of prevention and intervention efforts.
Understanding Suicide Risk and Protective Factors among Black Youth (R21)
Deadline: October 19, 2022, June 20, 2023
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aims to advance translational research to better understand factors that confer risk and resilience for suicide among Black youth. R21 exploratory grant awards in response to this FOA are intended to conduct preliminary work regarding the assessment and characterization of risk and protective factors, with consideration for the identification of novel targets for future development of prevention and intervention efforts.
Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements for Research on Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
First Available Due Date: January 31, 2023 (expires February 1, 2024)
This NOSI calls for research that will enrich scientific understanding of how sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or being born with differences/disorders in sex development (DSDs) or intersex characteristics relate to health outcomes, health risks, health behaviors, perceptions and expectations about health, and access to health-related services or associated barriers.
Measures and Methods to Advance Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities-Related Constructs (R01)
Deadline: February 5, 2023 (expires 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.
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
June 9, 2022, 8:00am-9:30am
The Center for Global Mental Health Research within the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is hosting a series of webinars focused on writing, submitting, and managing global National Institutes of Health (NIH) mental health research grants. This webinar focuses on funding opportunities from NIH for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in global mental health research.
Team Science Workshop 2022
June 13-17, 11:30am-1:30pm daily (virtual)
The Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) at UW is offering a workshop for new and established research teams who wish to improve their team functioning, communication, project management, and role alignment. Participating teams will be introduced to best practices of high functioning research teams and strategies to address common team challenges. Registration required.
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How to Expand Your Professional Connections
July 8, 2022, 12:00-1:30pm
Join the Institute for Translational Health Sciences for a discussion about how to establish and foster professional connections outside of your institution over the course of one’s career. In our ever more connected world, a successful, productive, and satisfying career in biomedical research and care can be accelerated and enhanced by building these professional relationships.
Mental Health Research Webinar: Training Mechanisms for Early Career Scientists in Global Mental Health Research at NIH
July 26, 2022, 6:30am-8:00am
The Center for Global Mental Health Research within the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is hosting a series of webinars focused on writing, submitting, and managing global National Institutes of Health (NIH) mental health research grants. This webinar focuses on research career development awards from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for early career scientists in global mental health.
Health Equity Conversations
Ongoing
The Department of Medicine health systems team at UW is supporting Health Equity Conversations, a new limited series podcast hosted by Joshua Liao, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) and associate chair. The podcast features people and groups around the country working on payment and other systems change efforts to improve health equity. The series builds off a prior call to action and efforts to raise awareness about these issues in peer-reviewed and other venues.
Conferences, Workshops, and Training Opportunities
Online Certificate in Mixed Methods Research
Mondays and Wednesdays in June 2022, 3:00-5:00pm, Online
This 30-hour program is designed for researchers and practitioners who are interested in learning more about the integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods and data, commonly used data collection methods and procedures, popular data analysis techniques used in the applied professions, and effective approaches to research conducted in practice settings.
University of Michigan Online Certificate in Mixed Methods Research
Mondays and Wednesdays in June 2022, 3:00-5:00pm, Online
This 30-hour program is designed for researchers and practitioners who are interested in learning more about the integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods and data, commonly used data collection methods and procedures, popular data analysis techniques used in the applied professions, and effective approaches to research conducted in practice settings.
*Newly Added*
Accelerating the Use of Findings from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Clinical Practice to Improve Health and Health Care
June 9, 2022, 5:00am-9:30am (virtual)
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is offering a series of public workshops that will explore potential ways to accelerate the use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings in clinical practice to improve health and health care. This is the first workshop in the series. Registration Required.
Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities
June 10, 2022, 8:00am-1:00pm
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders will host a virtual workshop exploring the current scope of activities, gaps, challenges, and opportunities to prevent death by suicide in Indigenous communities. Registration required.
Network for Social Work Management’s 2nd Annual Forward Thinking Summit
June 14-16, 2022
Registration is now open for The Network for Social Work Management’s 2nd Annual Forward Thinking Summit in partnership with Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. This year’s theme, Transforming the Workplace of the Future: A Commitment to Inclusion and Wellbeing is more relevant than ever. Registration required.
International Association for Social Work with Groups- Virtual Symposium
June 16-18, 2022
The IASWG believes in social group work’s practical and powerful ways to bring people together – in small or large groups – to make a difference for individuals, communities and the wider society. Join us virtually from 16-18 June 2022 to share your knowledge, innovations, research and experiences, and to feel our own sense of solidarity.
ICPSR Summer Program
First Session: June 20-July 15; Registration Deadline: June 12
Second Session: July 18-August 12; Registration Deadline: July 10
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is offering 4-week sessions consisting of more than 20 courses featuring intensive instruction in quantitative methods and statistical techniques such as “Bayesian Modeling for the Social Sciences” and “Race, Ethnicity, and Quantitative Methodology”. Courses will be offered in a hybrid format, including both in-person instruction in Ann Arbor, MI and Zoom.
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.
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Accelerating the Use of Findings from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Clinical Practice to Improve Health and Health Care: Workshop #2
June 17, 2022, 5:00am-9:30am (virtual)
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is offering a series of public workshops that will explore potential ways to accelerate the use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings in clinical practice to improve health and health care. Registration Required.
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Population Health Funding and Accountability to Community: A Workshop
June 22, 2022, 8:00am-1:30pm
Join the National Academies for a discussion of approaches to financing population health improvement efforts, including activities that target social, economic, and environmental factors that shape health and health equity. This event will include presentations about accountability frameworks that link investments to community needs and endeavor to track and improve health outcomes.
Using Innovative Data Science Approaches to Identify Individuals, Populations, and Communities at High Risk for Suicide: A Workshop
June 30, 2022, 8:00am-1:00pm
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders will host a public 3-part webinar series on Innovative Data Science Approaches to Assess Suicide Risk in Individuals, Populations, and Communities: Current Practices, Opportunities, and Risks
UT ITHS Clinical Research Boot Camp (virtual)
July 19-23, 12:00-1:00pm
July 26-30, 12:00-1:00pm
ITHS is excited to announce dates for our upcoming Clinical Research Boot Camp, designed to help faculty, research staff, and post-doctoral fellows learn how to design and manage clinical trials. This year’s format will be different than before, as attendees will listen to and engage with panels of experts who will share lessons based on their real-life experience in the field.
National Latinx Social Work Conference 2022
October 6-7, 2022
Hosted by SSW, this conference provides a great opportunity for social workers to network, share, and learn. Many nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and faith based organizations have had to change their systems in order to meet the needs of Latinx children, families, and individuals during the pandemic. We encourage social work faculty, social workers, and allied health professionals to share their research, expertise, and programming which has been effective in meeting the needs of the Latinx community.
American Society on Aging and the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology Online Gerontology Courses
Course dates Summer- Fall 2022 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.
American Public Health Association Conference
November 6-9, 2022
The American Public Health Association is celebrating its 150th year, and is hosting its annual meeting and expo in Boston, MA. This year’s theme is “150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the Path Toward Equity”.
Cannabis Pharmacology for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners Course
Ongoing
Cannabis Pharmacology for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners is a 4.5 hour self-paced course that provides important information on what prevention professionals need to know about cannabis. This 3-part series will cover the Effects of Cannabis, Cannabis and the Adolescent Brain, and Cannabis Pharmacology.
Pharmacology for Prevention Specialists (4-part series)
Ongoing
Explore the basics of how substances impact major brain regions and the acute and chronic symptoms associated with different substances. Topics include Basics of Pharmacology and Alcohol, Opioids, Psychostimulants, and Cannabis.
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, Internships, 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
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 Scholar: NIH Research Workforce Diversity Initiative
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The BUILD EXITO project at Portland State University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position focusing on a mixed-methods study of a comprehensive research training intervention for undergraduates historically underrepresented in clinical, social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Applicants should have a commitment to advancing equity in higher education for students marginalized due to race, disability, and social/economic adversity.
NIH-Funded Postdoctoral Position at Harvard Medical School
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School is looking to hire a postdoctoral fellow to coordinate a 5-year longitudinal study focused on perceptions of racial discrimination among Chinese American adolescents, racial socialization processes that take place within parent-, peer-, and social media contexts, and impacts to mental health.
Postdoctoral Researcher Needed at Vanderbilt University
Deadline: Open Until Filled
The Center for Research on Families and Comunities 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.
Science Advocacy Internship
Deadline: Rolling
The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) is offering an internship for undergraduate and graduate students. The purpose of the position is to expand awareness and commitment to leveraging evidence-based prevention approaches for reducing social ills (e.g., crime, poverty, trauma) and saving taxpayer dollars. The student will work with senior prevention scientists to translate research into products that are readable by a lay audience. Start date is flexible. For more information, please email Tasha Murphy (tbmurphy@uw.edu).
SSW Research Assistant/Coordinator Position
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).
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.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston College
Deadline: Open Until Filled
Boston College School of Social Work invites applications to a post-doctoral fellowship focused on issues of relevance to maternal and child health and health equity, with a special focus on child abuse prevention. This position will offer many professional growth opportunities including manuscript, report, and conference presentation writing and development; data management and analysis; grant writing; translation and dissemination of study findings; supervision and mentoring.
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.
Call for Papers and Abstracts
Call for Proposals: Latino Social Workers Organization National Latinx Conference
Deadline: June 11, 2022
The Latino Social Workers Organization invites proposals for the 2022 National Latinx Social Work Conference, which will be held in Seattle at SSW. Presentations are encouraged to advance knowledge and skill in the areas of research, clinical practice, community intervention, and advocacy related to social work practice within Latinx communities. Of special interest are proposals focusing on the pandemic, as well as the use of technology/online applications/social media in social work practice.
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Call for Workshops: Data 4 Black Lives’ Annual Conference
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Every year, the Data 4 Black Lives conference brings together hundreds of leaders from around the country and the world to discuss the role data could and should play in Black communities. D4BL is seeking applications to facilitate a workshop for the third annual Data 4 Black Lives conference, which will be held September 23-25 in New York City. Approximately four workshops will be offered.
Special Issue: The Future of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Social Work: Challenges and Opportunities
Manuscript Deadline: September 15, 2022
the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work is publishing a special issue and is looking for papers that helps to create an intellectual space for us to imagine what the future of race, ethnicity and culture would look like in relation to social issues and problems that we are facing now.
Special Issue in Clinical Social Work Journal: Clinical Social Workers at Work
Deadline: September 15, 2022
This special issue of Clinical Social Work Journal will provide a forum for non-research oriented clinical social workers to share the work they do in the field with other practitioners. The aim of this special issue is to provide a platform where clinical social workers who do not normally publish in academic journals can share with others the innovative work they are doing with clients.
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Deadline: October 1, 2022
Special Issue in the Clinical Social Work Journal: Life After the MSW
This special issue of the Clinical Social Work Journal aims to offer practical advice to newer professionals in the field of social work. We hope that the articles within this special issue can be used by faculty members and supervisors who are helping to train new social work practitioners, as well as by the graduates/students themselves.
Special Issue in Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
Deadline: Rolling
This special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development seeks to feature works that further develop a good understanding of the practice research in, about and for social work and development across the countries of Asia and the Pacific, which have their origin in government agencies, non-government organizations, or community development projects.
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work Articles on COVID 19
Deadline: Rolling
Everyone’s well-being, livelihood, and human rights are at risk as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, however it has exacerbated existing disparities experienced by traditionally oppressed groups. The Journal of Human Rights and Social Work invites authors to contribute relevant articles examining human rights issues including but not limited to violations of the human rights to health and medical care, education, free speech, and a fair trial.
Notes from the Field: Narratives in Social Work
Deadline: Open Until Filled
For academics and practitioners who have social work direct practice experience with clients AND have experience with or are interested in writing creative non-fiction: Notes From the Field comprises essays (about 2,000 words) that encapsulate social problems through work (not office-based psychotherapy but other kinds of social work practice) with individuals, groups, families, or communities. Culturally diverse authors are particularly encouraged. If interested and to get more information, please contact Jacqueline Corcoran at cojacq@upenn.edu.
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.
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!
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.
To access an array of research resources, including guiding principles, proposal development, sample grant applications, human subject reviews and more go to MySSW. For information on the latest COVID-19 research opportunities, go here.
