Issue No. 129 July 19, 2022
Highlighted News and Announcements
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. The last session is:
July 21, 2:00-3:30pm: Responding to Reviewers
Click here to register (space is limited). Please direct any questions to katieost@uw.edu
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Levin Award
SDRC is now accepting applications for the 2022 Victoria S. Levin Award for Early Success in Young Children’s Mental Health Research. The award aims to foster early career success in achieving federal funding for research informed by developmental science that addresses concerns affecting the foundations of children’s mental health. The award provides up to $25,000 to pre-tenured, early-mid-career investigators. Applications are due October 1, 2022.
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
Haggerty, K. P., Barkan, S. E., Caouette, J. D., Skinner, M. L., & Hanson, K. (2022). Two-year risk behavior outcomes from Connecting, a prevention program for caregivers and youth in foster care. Prevention Science, Advance online publication
Funding Announcements
NIH Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements to Support Research on Preventive Interventions with Populations that Experience Health Disparities
Application Deadline: August 1, 2022
This NOSI is designed to support NIH grantees who can add, enhance, or strengthen preventive intervention research with NIH-designated populations that experience health disparities (Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, underserved rural populations, and sexual and gender minorities). Supplements up to $250,000 direct costs for 1 year may be requested.
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NIH Notice of Special Interest: Research on Addressing Violence to Improve Health Outcomes
First Application Deadline: September 7, 2022
This NOSI highlights interest in addressing the role of violence in health outcomes and integrating violence-related screening and interventions into health care settings. The purpose is to encourage intervention research focused on addressing exposure to violence – including but not limited to child maltreatment, intimate partner violence/teen dating violence, elder mistreatment, peer violence/bullying, and community violence – to improve individual-level health processes and outcomes.
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NIH Notice of Special Interest: Alzheimer’s-Focused Administrative Supplements for NIH Grants Not Focused on Alzheimer’s Disease
Application Deadline: October 1, 2022
This NOSI invites applications to expand existing awards that are not currently focused on Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias to allow the research to develop such a focus.
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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.
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.
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
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.
2022 Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association Research Award
Deadline: August 1, 2022
The SFBTA Research Award aims at fostering the growth of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy by encouraging original research in solution-focused practices. The award will provide up to $4,000 to support ongoing or proposed project(s). Priority will be given to research that supports empirical evidence of SFBT practices, mechanisms of change, meta-analyses on SFBT interventions or other research, which could directly or indirectly investigate the effectiveness of SFBT.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award
Deadline: August 1, 2022
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is seeking proposals to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it. The program supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills.
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
LOI Deadline: August 3, 2022
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. We prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
LOI Deadline: August 3, 2022
This program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We want to know what it takes to produce useful research evidence, what it takes to get research used, and what happens when research is used. We welcome letters of inquiry for studies that pursue one of these broad aims. NOTE: For the August deadline, the foundation has announced a special interest in applications that use secondary data.
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.
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W.T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant
Deadline: September 14, 2022
The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Proposals from teams with African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American members in leadership roles are encouraged.
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.
Notice of Special Interest: Alzheimer’s-Focused Administrative Supplements for NIH Grants that are Not Focused on Alzheimer’s Disease
October 1, 2022
Participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) are inviting applications to expand existing awards that are not currently focused on Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias (AD/ADRD)—frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID), and multiple etiology dementias—to allow the research to develop such a focus.
PCORI Healthy Aging: Optimizing Physical and Mental Functioning Across the Aging Continuum
LOI Deadline: October 4, 2022
Application Deadline: January 10, 2023
The Healthy Aging Targeted PCORI Funding Announcement will solicit applications for CER studies that focus on different phases of the aging continuum and aim to achieve one or more of the following four goals: 1.) maintaining function and independence; 2.) facilitating chronic disease management; 3.) supporting individuals with significant functional impairment; and 4.) reducing caregiving burden and improving quality of life.
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.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01)
Deadline: October 5, 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.
New Epidemiological Cohort Study among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: Coordinating Center (U24)
Deadline: October 13, 2022
This Funding Opportunity invites applications for a Coordinating Center (CC) to establish a new population-based cohort study to address key population research gaps in the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. This epidemiological cohort study will enable the enrollment, initial examination, and follow-up activities of approximately 10,000 participants from multiple immigrant generations.
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.
The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grant
Deadline: December 1, 2022
The Horowitz Foundation makes approximately twenty-five grants each year. Awards are granted for policy-related research in all major areas of the social sciences. Only doctoral students whose dissertation proposals have been approved by their committees are eligible to apply. Awards are for $7,500; proposals in certain targeted areas receive additional amounts.
BIRCH Trainee Support Grants
Deadline: December 5, 2022
The UW BIRCH Trainee Support Grants help fund a variety of activities for doctoral students, fellows, and junior faculty which are directly relevant to their career development. The program provides $1,000 to enhance career development of trainees and junior investigators pursuing research careers in integrating mental health into HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment.
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Injury Control Research Center Grant
Deadline: January 6, 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is accepting applications for injury control research centers. Injuries and violence remain among the top 10 leading causes of causes of death in the United States. Applicants are expected to focus on populations who are disproportionately affected by injury and violence, and to consider the underlying social and structural conditions that contribute to inequities in risk for, and public health burden of, injury and violence.
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
Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for Older Adults
July 21, 2022, 8:30am-3:30pm
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a free public workshop that will be accessible via live webcast. The event will bring together experts and key stakeholders to examine the current scientific landscape and research opportunities for improving diagnosis in older adults within the U.S. health care system
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.
Transforming the Narrative on Latino Populations: When & How to Use Comparison Groups in Research
July 26, 2022, 9:00-10:00am
Join the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families for a webinar to discuss things to consider when deciding whether and how to conduct comparison group research with Latino populations. Panelists will share their expertise and insights on how comparison group research has evolved over time and highlight how they have used comparison groups in their own work focused on Hispanic populations.
Elevating Prevention Voices in Region 10: Opioid Settlement Decisions
July 27, 2022, 11:30-1:00pm
In late February 2022, several pharmaceutical companies reached a $26 billion settlement to compensate state and local governments for the costs they incurred as a part of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Join Northwest PTTC Co-Directors Drs. Kevin Haggerty and Brittany Cooper to learn more about the status of opioid settlements and their distribution for each state in our region, and how, as a united community of prevention professionals, we can elevate prevention voices in this conversation.
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
Clinical Research Boot Camp
July 18-29, 12:00-1:00pm
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences is offering a clinical research boot camp. During this year’s online series, you’ll listen and learn from a panel of experts who will share lessons based on their real-life experiences and challenges in the field. Instead of registering for a whole week of investigator or research staff-focused sessions, you’ll be able to choose and attend the events that are most relevant to you.
William T. Grant Foundation Early-Career Reviewer Program
Deadline: July 27, 2022
The early-career reviewer program recruits early-career researchers to serve as peer-reviewers of grant proposals submitted to the William T. Grant Foundation for studies on improving the use of research evidence. Altogether, this professional development program aims to build early-career researchers’ understanding of the proposal evaluation and peer-review process for research grants in order to strengthen their own proposal writing skills and ultimately advance their careers.
UW Certificate in Gerontology
Deadline: September 14, 2022
The University of Washington Certificate in Gerontology Program, sponsored by the School of Social Work, is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 academic year. In this three-course certificate program, participants will examine the specific challenges and opportunities involved in supporting older adults and their family members. We will look at the relevant psychological, biological and social factors that affect the aging process so participants have the knowledge you need to better serve older adults in fields such as human services, health and wellness, nursing, social work, housing and recreation.
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”.
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Workshop on Housing and Obesity
November 14-15, 2022
This multi-agency sponsored workshop will explore the role of housing insecurity in obesity-related health disparities, the evidence base for housing-related interventions to address obesity disparities, and future directions to advance health equity for all. The workshop will emphasize existing research that connects housing policies and programs with obesity and also address methods for housing and obesity research, including study design, measures, data linkages and analytic approaches.
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 Researcher at Vanderbilt University
Deadline: Open Until Filled
Postdoctoral researcher position for a two-year appointment, with interest in research, preventive interventions and policies targeting African American parents/caregivers and youth. Our work focuses on examining the influence of a variety of factors and processes (e.g., parenting, neighborhood, individual differences, schooling, etc.) on the well-being of families, youth, and communities, in both rural and urban settings.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
