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Volume VII, Issue 2, January 21,
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COMMUNITY
HEALTH LEADERS IN 9 STATES NAMED TO HIGH HONOR
Robert Wood Johnson Community
Health Leadership Program Awards $1.2 Million to Health Innovators
The Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership
Program (CHLP) named 10 people to the nation's highest honor for community
health leadership. Each will receive $120,000 for their exceptional and
effective approach to addressing the myriad healthcare challenges facing people
in communities across United States. Whether it's providing basic primary care
in non traditional settings, such as a barber shop or a bank, organizing a
coalition of chicken farmers and advocates for healthier working conditions, or
empowering very sick and dying children through Karate, the 2004 Community
Health Leaders have harnessed the power and resources within their communities
to address the needs of working poor, uninsured or otherwise vulnerable people
living there.
"These committed people have stepped into the breach,
providing services and attending to needs that our larger health care system is
unable to meet," said Catherine Dunham, program director, CHLP. "They
have the wisdom to invest in and educate their communities because they know
that the only real way to improve the health of the people in their communities
is to prevent illness and injury in the first place." The 2004 leaders
represent urban and rural areas of California, Florida, Illinois, New York,
Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin. They were nominated by
community leaders, health professionals, government officials and others inspired
by their work in providing essential health services to their communities.
"This impressive group of leaders is committed to
addressing problems that affect both the health care and health of those we
serve," said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and CEO of The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. "We celebrate their accomplishments in inspiring
and leading change, and creating solutions to challenges faced by the most
vulnerable in our nation." The program awards $1.2 million each year to
individuals who have overcome significant challenges to expand access to health
care and social services to underserved members of their communities. The
winners will be honored at a June 16 event in Washington, D.C. Each will
receive $105,000 to enhance their program and $15,000 as a personal award.
Nearly 800 nominations were submitted for this year's
honors. Since 1992, the program has given 120 awards to community leaders in 44
states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. The Community Health
Leadership Program is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving health and
health care for all Americans.
For more information, contact the program at (617)
426-9772 or visit the Community Health Leaders website.
NEW JERSEY STUDENTS REACH OUT TO
COMMUNITY GROUPS
Excerpted from an
article by Kim Krisberg in the September 2004 issue of The Nation’s Health
Public
health students in New Jersey are taking their education and skills into the
community, spreading messages of prevention and good health via an asthma
workshop. In 2003, Jaime Madrigano, an MPH student at the University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, was looking for
volunteer opportunities that would incorporate her experience as a public
health student. She decided to contact Bernadette West, PhD, assistant dean of
the School of Public Health on the Stratford-Camden campus, who had done similar
work with a medical school service group. After a brainstorming session,
Madrigano chose to organize a night for public health students to volunteer at
a soup kitchen in New Brunswick. The event was a success and the public health
student service group soon became known as Volunteer Opportunities in
Community-Engaged Service, or VOICES.
During the
summer of 2003, Madrigano began planning an outreach project that would attract
students and put their practical public health skills to work. As West had already worked with a local
transitional housing facility for women and children, called Amandla Crossing,
she recommended Madrigano begin there. Madrigano and West then met with the
director of Amandla Crossing, who suggested focusing their outreach on asthma. To
prepare for the asthma workshop, Madrigano began recruiting faculty and
students via e-mail. She also solicited donations from groups such as the New
Jersey Pediatric Asthma Coalition as well as larger companies such as Merck and
Astra Zeneca.
In the
fall of 2003, public health students and faculty gathered at Amandla Crossing
for the asthma workshop, which was designated as an interactive intervention
for mothers and their children, according to Madrigano. For the mothers,
students presented information on asthma triggers, perceptions and health care
as well as when to visit an emergency room and demonstrated asthma devices,
such as inhalers. Adolescent children were given a computer game about asthma
and the younger kids were show a Sesame Street asthma video and given coloring
pages, Madrigano said. A significant number of women and children at Amandla
Crossing that night had either had an asthma attack in the past year, had been
diagnosed with asthma or had visited an emergency room because of asthma,
according to Madrigano, who noted that many of the women may lack the
continuity of care necessary to keep their asthma under control. In a
post-workshop survey, the mothers showed a lot of improvement in their
knowledge, but the kids’ results were mixed, Madrigano said. The students also
provided dinner and babysitting during the workshop.
“This was
such a learning experience in terms of their being some simple things that you
can do to really make a difference,” Madrigano told The Nation’s Health. “One
idea can really develop into something that provides good learning experience
as well as a real help to the community. West added that volunteering in the
community gives students knowledge that’s hard to learn in a classroom. “These
are all things you learn about in the classroom, but until you do it in the
real world, it’s hard to comprehend the difficulties you might encounter,” she
said. “It’s invaluable to have that kind of practice experience in the real
world because students see how they run into unexpected challenges and have to
quickly adapt.”
For more information on Volunteer Opportunities in
Community-Engaged Service, e-mail westbm@umdnj.edu or madrigja@umdnj.edu.
MESSAGE FROM OUR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
“We envision a future when everyone with a mental illness will recover,
a future when mental illnesses can be prevented or cured, a future when mental
illnesses are detected early, and a future when everyone with a mental illness
at any stage of life has access to effective treatment and supports - essentials
for living, working, learning, and participating fully in the community.”
Vision
Statement, President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health, 2003
“Even more than other areas of
health and medicine, the mental health field is plagued by disparities in the
availability of and access to its services.”
Mental
Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, 1999
Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health has been invited to join the National Institute of Mental Health’s Outreach Partnership
Program. The program’s
objectives are to improve the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of
mental illnesses, and alleviate the effects of co-occurring alcoholism and
other substance abuse among all Americans.
As
a national partner in the program, CCPH and NIMH will be working over the
coming months to identify areas and opportunities for collaboration. If you are involved in service-learning,
community-based participatory research or other community-campus partnerships
that address mental health issues, we would like to hear from you about your
work and any ideas you may have for how CCPH and NIMH could help to support and
strengthen your efforts. Future issues
of Partnership Matters newsletter will highlight models and recommend
resources.
On a related note, a
new national demonstration program has been announced that connects engaged
forms of learning to student mental health and civic development. Preliminary proposals are due February 15 for projects
that will demonstrate what happens when colleges and universities build
capacity for engaged learning in ways that promote mental health of students
and contribute to their civic development. Funded by the Charles Engelhard
Foundation of New York, the Engaged Learning, Student Mental
Health, and Civic Development Demonstration Program is exploring
specific forms of engaged learning (including service-learning and
community-directed collaborative research) and their effectiveness as elements
of campus plans to intervene or deter alcohol abuse and depression among
students. For a copy of the RFP, please visit http://www.bringingtheorytopractice.org
or contact Jennifer Reynolds
at 202.884.0815.
CCPH Announces Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health
Collaborative
Funded by a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of
Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the
Collaborative is comprised of a diverse group of ten health professional
schools that seek to recognize and reward community engagement as central to
the role of faculty members at their own institutions and
nationally. To read the full press release and learn more about
this exciting new initiative, please visit CCPH’s what’s new. CCPH welcomes suggestions of key
articles, reports, people and programs that can inform the Collaborative’s
work. Questions and suggestions may be sent to program director Jen Kauper-Brown.
Stay connected with the project and related work through the Community-Engaged
Scholarship electronic discussion group.
What is a Science Shop?
A “Science
Shop” provides independent, participatory research support in response to concerns
experienced by civil society. Science Shops use the term “science” in its
broadest sense, incorporating the social and human sciences, as well as
natural, physical, engineering and technological sciences. There is not one
dominant organizational structure defining a Science Shop. How Science Shops
are organized and operate is highly dependent on their context. Organizations
that meet the definition of a Science Shop and do provide civil society with
knowledge and skills through research and education on an affordable basis will
be taken into account. There are forums for all parties interested in being involved
in Science Shops and other forms for community-based research. They can give
input to but also get information from the Living Knowledge discussion list,
the bimonthly newsletter or this magazine, which provide users with resources
and tools related to community-based research.
CCPH Program Director Jen Kauper-Brown
will be presenting information about CCPH and our work to advance community-based
participatory research at the Second Living Knowledge conference: Advancing Science
and Society Interactions in Seville,
Spain, February 3-5, 2005. The conference is organized by the
International Science Shop Network "Living Knowledge" and supported
by the European Commission under its Science and Society Programme. For more
information about the conference, visit http://www.scienceshop.org.
“MEMBER-GET-A-MEMBER”
CAMPAIGN ENDS JANUARY 31, 2005!
More CCPH members means
a
diversity of viewpoints, ideas and perspectives and a stronger voice to
influence policies that affect community-campus partnerships. When you recruit
new members you’ll also reward yourself. When you recruit a new CCPH member,
both you and the new member will be entered into a drawing for $100 CCPH
dollars. These dollars can be used to purchase CCPH products, such as
publications, registrations for CCPH events and additional memberships. In addition, the CCPH member who recruits
the most new members will receive $150 CCPH dollars! Start recruiting now - this special ends on January 30, 2005!
Just refer your colleagues to join online by
credit card
or by
check.
Make
sure the new member enters your name in the application section, “How did you hear about CCPH?”
If you have any questions, or would like us to send you
some CCPH membership brochures, please contact us at (206) 543-8178 or email CCPH.
CCPH member Dr. James LoGerfo,
professor of medicine and health services, has been named to the board of
directors of the Comprehensive
Health Education Foundation. The Seattle Foundation, started 30 years ago, is a
non-profit organization that promotes health and quality of life through
education. LoGerfo is also director of the UW Health Promotion Research Center
and an attending physician at the Harborview Medical Center Adult Medicine
Clinic. He is the former medical director of Harborview Medical Center.
Congratulations James!
Dear CCPH,
We are
in search of an individual/organization interested in assisting us in sending
scientific journals to libraries or researchers in Cuba or developing
countries. Do you know of someone who
can help us? Thanks so much.
Please
reply directly to Olivia Carter-Pokras.
Dear CCPH,
I am
working with a task-group at CDC to summarize current programs and policies in
heart and stroke prevention that have an international component. The
information will be used in a document entitled: A Public Health Action Plan to
Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke. I would be pleased if you could assist me to
identify relevant programs and policies in public health units or NGOs,
primarily in the USA but also Canada and UK. Thanks.
Please
reply directly to Iraj Poureslami.
JOIN
CCPH AT THESE UPCOMING EVENTS
For more event listings, visit CCPH’s website
conference page.
Technical
Assistance Conference Call for Federal Program Announcement
CCPH is sponsoring a technical assistance conference
call for prospective applicants to the federal program announcement
on Community Participation in Research (PAR-05-026). We have reached the maximum registration
capacity for the call, but you may add your name to the wait list
and submit questions by completing the registration form. For more information, see Upcoming Events. Notes from the call will be posted
afterwards on the CCPH website. To stay up on the latest community-based participatory
research (CBPR) news and announcements, subscribe to the CBPR Listserv.
More resources on CBPR
February
3-5, 2005: Second
Living Knowledge Conference: Advancing Science and Society Interactions in
Seville, Spain. This international conference provides a forum where
information on community based research, carried out in both community and
academic settings, can be shared and developed. It reflects the social impact
and scientific and democratic value of research from a range of disciplines
including social, natural, physical and technological sciences. The conference
is organised by the International Science Shop Network "Living
Knowledge" and supported by the European Commission under its Science and
Society Programme. CCPH Program Director
Jen Kauper-Brown will be presenting information about CCPH and our work to advance community-based participatory
research. For
more information about the conference, visit the Science
Shop website.
March
1-3, 2005: Visit the CCPH exhibit at the 19th National
Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Health Disparities:
Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Atlanta, Georgia.
This conference will focus on efforts to eliminate disparities and will explore
more rigorous approaches for accomplishing the Healthy People 2010 objectives.
The major goal of the conference is to accelerate the rate of progress in
improving the lives for those at highest risk for poor health, including racial
and ethnic minorities, and low-income and less educated populations. Visit the CDC Conference Website to learn more. CCPH will be leading a
workshop session on the ASPH/CDC-sponsored community-based
participatory research training curriculum.
March 3-5, 2005:
Community Health Solutions- Keeping the Drive Alive,
the second joint conference of the Association for Community Health Improvement
(ACHI) and Communities Joined in Action (CJA) in Tampa, Florida. CCPH will
be facilitating an interactive workshop entitled “Health Institutions as Economic
and Community Anchors: Case Studies and Practical Strategies” at the
conference. Visit the Community Health Conference Website
or CJA Online for the latest information and
on-line registration. Visit the CCPH Project Website
for more information on the conference presentation. being presented.
NEW EVENT
LISTINGS
For details on all upcoming event listings, CCPH’s website
conference page.
February 2-5, 2005: Nineteenth International
Self-Directed Learning Symposium in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
February 16-20, 2005: Preventive Medicine 2005 in
Washington, DC.
February 20-23, 2005: A Gathering at Two
Rivers: Energizing and Elevating Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs) in
Jackson, Mississippi.
March 17-19, 2005: 32nd Annual National Conference on
Collective Bargaining: The Future of Academic Work and Collective Bargaining in New York
City.
April 11-13, 2005: Western Region Campus Compact
Consortium Continuums of Service Conference in Portland,
Oregon.
June 13-15, 2005: 2nd Conference on Community-Based
Collaborative
Research
in Portland, Oregon.
American Heart Association 2005 Data on
US Heart Disease Includes Youth
The
American Heart Association's Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2005 Update
includes a new section on the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents that
indicates that rates of controllable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases
are increasing among America's young people. Christopher O'Donnell, M.D., chair
of the association's statistics committee, said many risk factors for heart
attacks and stroke "are common, preventable" and are "often
present early in life even before middle age, when preventative measures might
make a large difference." The study found that about 1 million 12 to
19-year-olds in the United States (or 4.2 percent overall) have MetS, with the
most common risk factor being overweight. Nearly 4 million children ages 6-11
and 5.3 million adolescents ages 12-19 were overweight or obese in 2002. More
than 10 percent of preschool children between the ages of two and five years
were overweight in 2002, up from 7 percent in 1994. Among adults, the
prevalence of diabetes has increased 61 percent since 1990. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3027696 See
the report "Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics -- 2005 Update" by
the American Heart Association http://www.heart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3000090.
Obesity Driving Up Health Care Costs
Health care costs associated with
overweight and obesity are substantial and vary according to race and age,
according to the latest American Journal of Public Health. Researchers analyzed
the relationship between adults' annual health care costs and high body mass
index (BMI). Overall, the mean per capita annual health care expenditure
(converted to December 2003 dollars) was $3338 before adjustment. For a
normal-weight white woman 35-44 years old, the adjusted expenses were $2358,
while for women with high BMI, the expenses were $3506. Health care
expenditures related to higher body-mass-index rose dramatically among Whites
and older adults but not among Blacks or those younger than 35 years.
Researchers found no relationship between BMI and gender. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/1/159
Health Leaders Chart Course to Tackle
Periodontal Disease
Oral
Health America has announced the formation of the National Periodontal Disease
Coalition. The effort grew out of a meeting attended by more than 50 business
and professional leaders to address issues surrounding periodontal disease --
an infection that afflicts most adults, but is virtually ignored outside of
dentistry. The coalition will work to make Americans start thinking about
periodontal disease and its relation to overall health. Attendees at the first
of its kind meeting included a diverse array of opinion leaders and decision
makers from practices, associations, insurance companies, pharmaceutical
companies, industry, advocacy groups, universities, government agencies, and
foundations. Oral Health America's main
objective in bringing the groups together was to investigate opportunities for
advancing a national periodontal disease agenda through social marketing
strategies -- effectively empowering health professionals and the public to be
more proactive in recognition and treatment. For more information visit http://www.oralhealthamerica.org/news/112904.html.
Unite For Sight has a New
Service-Learning Website
The
website is designed for teens. It empowers and educates youth to become
involved in the nonprofit organization Unite For Sight by starting an eyeglass
drive, raising funds for sight-restoring cataract surgeries in developing
countries, and starting a chapter of Unite For Sight at their school. Unite For Sight is a nonprofit organization
that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate
preventable blindness. www.uniteforsight.org/teens
Find A Library Service
The National
Library of Medicine "Find a Library" service designed for members of
the public seeking health information has resumed with fresh data and an
updated interface. http://nnlm.gov/members/
For a complete listing of all
current Grant Announcements, click here.
Healthy Communities Access Program (HCAP) - Deadline: March 2
The
purpose of the Healthy Community Access Program (HCAP) is to provide assistance
to communities and consortia of health care providers and others to develop or
strengthen integrated community health care delivery systems that coordinate
health care services for individuals who are uninsured or underinsured, and to
develop or strengthen activities related to providing coordinated care for
individuals with chronic conditions who are uninsured or underinsured. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-05-104/listing.html
The Charles Frueauff Foundation 2005
Grants - Deadline: March 15, Sept 15
The
Charles Frueauff Foundation focuses on at-risk youths in all its funding
categories: education, health, and social services. Tutoring, sexual-health and
job-training initiatives receive preference. Other funding priorities include
welfare-to-work programs, inadequate day-care systems, and economic-development
initiatives. http://www.frueaufffoundation.com
Peer Educator Training Sites and the
Resource and Evaluation Center - Deadline: April 1
This
cooperative agreement will be awarded to eligible entities to provide
nationwide peer education and training and other technical assistance to
increase the number of HIV/AIDS peer treatment educators within Ryan White
Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act funded programs. Funds will
also support a Resource and Evaluation Center (REC) which will coordinate and
maintain a central repository of training materials, assist in dissemination of
successful training strategies, and evaluate outcomes of the PETS program. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-05-038/Grant.html
Training and Technical Assistance
Cooperative Agreements Targeting Ryan White Care Act Title IV Grantees - Deadline:
April 2
This
Cooperative Agreement is intended to assist in providing training and technical
assistance to Ryan White CARE Act Title IV grantees and other programs with an
interest in improving access to primary medical care, research and support
services for HIV-infected infants, children, youth, and women and their
affected families. Applicants will assist the grantees in understanding and
putting into action the requirements of the CARE Act and research based best
practices for high quality, comprehensive HIV primary care and support service
delivery to people living with HIV/AIDS. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-05-042/Grant.html
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
For a complete listing of all
current Calls For Submissions, click here.
Invitation to Present: Congress in the
Classroom 2005 - Deadline: February 1
The
Dirksen Congressional Center invites proposals from scholars who would like to
present at The Center's Congress in the Classroom 2005 program. Congress in the
Classroom is a national, award- winning education program now in its thirteenth
year. It is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information on teaching
about Congress. It is a three-day
workshop for 40 high school teachers from throughout the country. All of them
teach American government, American history, civics, or a related subject. The
2005 program theme will be "Our New Congress: The 109th." http://dirksencenter.org/print_programs_CongressClassroom.htm
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity
in American Higher Education (NCORE) Call for Proposals - Deadline: February 4
The 18th
Annual National Forum on Issues of Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education will
take place May 31 - June 4, 2005 in New York City, New York. For more information,
visit http://www.ncore.ou.edu/2005/call_pres.html.
Engaged Learning, Student Mental Health,
and Civic Development Demonstration Program – Deadline: February 15
Preliminary
proposals are requested for projects (RFP) that will demonstrate what happens
when colleges and universities build capacity for engaged learning in ways that
promote mental health of students and contribute to their civic development. For
a copy of the RFP, please e-mail Jennifer Reynolds.
http://www.bringingtheorytopractice.org/pdfs/RFPNov04.pdf
Call for
2005 Award for Student Excellence in Public Health Practice - Deadline:
February 18
The Association of Schools of Public Health is soliciting nominations
for up to two masters and/or doctoral students from each of the 36 member
schools of public health. This award serves to recognize and reward
student comprehension, application, and growth regarding public health practice
as well as to encourage faculty and students to answer the “how” and “what”
questions regarding their interpretation of public health practice and the
achievement of practice. http://www.asph.org/UserFiles/ASPHStudentAward.doc
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Seeks Applicants for Post-Doctoral Program - Deadline: February 28
The
EPA’s Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental
Effects Research Laboratory is seeking applicants with a doctoral level degree
(PhD, MD, DVM) for openings in their federal post-doctoral program. These
post-doctoral candidates conduct high priority environmental research in a wide
variety of areas important to protecting human health and the environment. Post-doctoral
positions to conduct research on environmental health are anticipated for
divisions located in Research Triangle Park and Chapel Hill, NC. Post-doctoral
positions to conduct ecology research are anticipated for divisions located in
Duluth, MN; Gulf Breeze, FL; Corvallis and Newport, OR; and Narragansett, RI. http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/postdocs/
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Seeks
Pioneer Award Program Applications - Deadline: March 1-April 1
The
NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program is designed to support individual
scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major
contemporary challenges in biomedical research. The program will award grants
to individuals who intend to pursue new research directions that are not
already supported by other mechanisms. The program will fund between five and
ten awards of up to $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years. Awardees
are expected to commit the major portion (at least 51 percent) of their
research effort to activities supported by the NDPA. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-021.html
The Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) Announces Two New Opportunities
for PostDocs - Deadline: March 31
EPA's
ORD is seeking candidates to fill approximately nine federal, four-year
post-doctoral research positions. Recent initiatives at ORD facilities have
promoted the conduct of cross-cutting research across the different ORD Labs
and Centers in the areas of human environmental exposure-effects and
ecosystems. In the human health area, the overall mission for the cross-ORD
post-docs will be to move forward more quickly the development and application
of exposure, dose and health effects assessment methods or models. In the
ecosystems research area, the cross-ORD post-docs will focus on advancing the
spatial analyses methods and on their application to water quality, ecological
forecasting problems, and linkages between economic drivers and landscape
conditions. http://www.epa.gov/ord/htm/jobs_ord.htm
Minority Medical Student Fellowship
in HIV Psychiatry Application - Deadline: March 31
This
new program is intended to identify minority medical students who have primary
interests in services related to HIV/AIDS and substance abuse and its
relationship to the mental health or psychological well being of ethnic
minorities. For more information
contact Carol Svoboda at (703) 907-8642, csvoboda@psych.org
or Diane Pennessi at (703) 907-8668, dpennessi@psych.org.
http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
Call for
Proposals for Presentations at the Humanitarianism Throughout the World: The
Life, Ideas and Enduring Legacy of Dr. Albert Schweitzer Conference - Deadline:
April 15
The Conference is scheduled for October 28-29, 2005 in Hamden,
Connecticut at Quinnipiac
University. Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees and a
United Nations ambassador for peace, will deliver the keynote address. Submissions
on the topics of theology, environment, health, peace and humanitarian values
are welcome, as are papers concerning the concept of “reverence for life,” the
idea Dr. Schweitzer felt was his main contribution to the world. Send proposals
or inquires to David Ives at david.ives@quinnipiac.edu.
PUBLICATIONS
Street Saints: Renewing America’s Cities
Barbara J. Elliott’s “street saints” are people of every
race, class, and religion who use their faith to revitalize neighborhoods and
reduce the suffering of others. Ms. Elliott, founder of the Center for Renewal,
in Houston, which helps religious groups that provide social services,
chronicles the stories of such people and discusses what she believes is the
appropriate role of government in supporting their work. http://www.templeton
press.org
New Report Examines the Roles of Vice
Presidents for Research
The
Association of Academic Health Centers (AHC) has issued a report that notes a
marked trend to consolidate research administration at academic health centers
and strengthen the research infrastructure nationwide. Survey results reported
in, "The Organization and Management of the Research Enterprise: Vice
Presidents for Research," indicate that academic health center leaders are
creating vice presidents of research positions with responsibilities for
directing research for the entire academic health center. Among the AHC's findings:
Consolidation of research management at the academic health center, rather than
at the university level, occurs when most of a university's research dollars
are generated by the health center; the majority of vice presidents of research
positions report directly to the chief executive officer of the academic health
center; and basic and clinical research responsibilities are sometimes split between
two vice presidents for research. http://ahcnet.org
Special Journal Feature on
Patient-Centered Care
The January issue of Academic
Medicine includes seven articles on patient-centered care. Two of these
articles are free to non-subscribers: "Teaching the Psychosocial Aspects
of Care in the Clinical Setting: Practical Recommendations" and
"Characterizing the Patient-Centeredness of Hidden Curricula in Medical
Schools: Development and Validation of a New Measure." http://www.academicmedicine.org/
The ‘How To’ Grants Manual: Successful
Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants, Fifth Edition by David G. Bauer
This
guide, part of the American Council on Education-Praeger Series on Higher
Education, offers advice on gaining financial support for educational
activities, research, and other programs. It is designed both for first-time
grant applicants who want to better understand the process and for experienced
grant seekers who want to improve their proposal-writing skills and ultimately
win more grants. http://www.greenwood.com
Managing Risk in Nonprofit
Organizations: A Comprehensive Guide
This book
is designed to help nonprofit organizations protect their assets and meet
demands for accountability. It details risks involving property and
employees—such as injuries to clients, poor attendance at fund-raising events,
and declines in revenue following natural disasters—and describes under which
conditions organizations can be held legally liable. It gives suggestions for
appraising risks, including estimating the frequency and magnitude of potential
problems. The book also describes how to develop policies to reduce those
risks, and how to communicate the policies to employees and others. http://www.wiley.com
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COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL
CURRENT GRANTS ALERT
New Grants Alert announced in this
newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants for Scholarly Works in
Biomedicine and Health - Deadlines: Feb 1, June 1, Nov 1
The
NLM Grants are awarded for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other
scholarly works of value to US health professionals, public health officials,
biomedical researchers, and historians of the health sciences. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-025.html
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health Program Grant
Announcement - Deadline: Feb 1
The
ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage the development of
health research that integrates knowledge from the biomedical and social
sciences. For details, visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-029.html
Youth Nutrition and Fitness Programs - Deadline: Feb 1
The
goal of the General Mills Champions Youth Nutrition and Fitness Initiative is
to improve youth nutrition and fitness across the U.S. The Initiative will
award 50 grants of $10,000 each to community-based groups that develop creative
programs to help youth (ages 2-20) adopt a balanced diet and physically active
lifestyle. Grants will be awarded to programs that demonstrate significant
potential impact on youth groups that are at-risk or that have an impact on
large populations of youth. Nonprofit organizations, government agencies,
schools/school districts, and Native American tribes throughout the U.S. are
eligible to apply. Details: http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/champions.aspx
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
(BIRCWH) - Deadline: Feb 23
The
National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and
its cosponsors invite institutional career development award applications for BIRCWH
Career Development Programs. Programs will support research career development
of junior faculty members, known as Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research Scholars,
who have recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and
who are commencing basic, translational, behavioral, clinical, and/or health
services research relevant to women's health. The goal of this initiative is to
promote the performance of interdisciplinary research and transfer of findings
that will benefit the health of women, including sex/gender similarities or
differences in biology, health or disease. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-05-002.html
U.S.-Mexico
Border 2012 Program - Deadline: Feb 28
The US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, is
soliciting grant and cooperative agreement initial proposals (IP's) for
projects in the New Mexico-Texas-Chihuahua and Texas-Coahuila-Nuevo
Leo-Tamaulipaus Regional Workgroup areas that address the objectives of the
U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program. The
U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program is a bi-national collaborative effort whose
mission is to protect the environment and public health in the U.S.-Mexico
border region (100 kilometers either side of the U.S.-Mexico border) consistent
with the principles of sustainable development. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/EPA/OGD/GAD/EPA-GRANTS-122104-002/Grant.html
* Healthy Communities
Access Program (HCAP) - Deadline: March 2
Details
* The Charles Frueauff Foundation 2005 Grants
- Deadline: March 15, Sept 15 Details
* Peer Educator Training Sites and the Resource and Evaluation Center
- Deadline: April 1 Details
* Training and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreements Targeting
Ryan White Care Act Title IV Grantees - Deadline: April 2 Details
COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
New Calls for Submissions announced
in this newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
* Invitation to Present: Congress in the
Classroom 2005 - Deadline: February 1 Details
* National Conference on Race and
Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) Call for Proposals - Deadline:
February 4 Details
The American Public Health
Association's (APHA) Call For Abstracts - Deadline: Feb 10
The
APHA’s 2005 Annual Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA on November 5-9,
2005. APHA invites abstracts that
reflect a diversity of community-based public health activities, including
basic and applied research projects, interventions, teaching and service
learning projects. Of particular interest are presentations that will provide
participants with enhanced knowledge and skills to conduct community-based
public health activities, as well as those that explicitly describe the
application of community-based participatory research to policy change and
decision-making at the local, state and federal level. Abstracts will be
accepted through the APHA web site, http://www.apha.org/meetings.
* Engaged Learning, Student Mental
Health, and Civic Development Demonstration Program – Deadline: February 15 Details
Call
for Applications: The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program - Deadline:
Feb 15
This
program is designed to augment clinical training by providing new skills and
perspectives necessary to achieve 21st century leadership positions both within
and outside the walls of academia. The program stresses training in the
quantitative and qualitative sciences underlying health services research
essential to improving health and medical care systems. The program's newest iteration will also emphasize
community-based research
and leadership training. The program offers graduate-level study and
research as part of a university-based post-residency training program.
Four participating institutions will be recruiting scholars, including:
University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Michigan; the
University of Pennsylvania; and Yale University. Up to 28 scholars will
be selected in 2005 for appointments beginning in July 2006. For complete
information, see http://www.rwjf.org/cfp/clinicalscholars.
American Psychiatric Association
Scholarships - Deadline: Feb 18
The
American Psychiatric Association invites ethnic minority medical students who
have an interest in psychiatric issues to apply for the 2005 Minority Medical
Student Scholarships and Awards: Travel Scholarships for Minority Medical
Students Annual meeting. Students will attend sessions for experts and trainees
alike, and be assigned to a mentor. http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
* Call for 2005 Award for Student Excellence
in Public Health Practice - Deadline: February 18 Details
Minority Medical Student Summer
Mentoring Program Application - Deadline: Feb 28
This
program is intended to identify ethnic minority medical students who have an
interest in psychiatric issues and expose students to a setting where they can
work closely with a psychiatrist mentor for one month. http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
* The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Seeks Applicants for Post-Doctoral Program - Deadline: February 28 Details
* The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Seeks Pioneer Award Program Applications - Deadline: March 1-April 1 Details
* The Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) Announces Two New Opportunities
for PostDocs - Deadline: March 31 Details
* Minority Medical Student Fellowship in HIV Psychiatry Application
- Deadline: March 31 Details
* Call for Proposals for Presentations at the
Humanitarianism Throughout the World: The Life, Ideas and Enduring Legacy of
Dr. Albert Schweitzer Conference - Deadline: April 15 Details