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Volume VII, Issue 4, February 18,
2005
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FEATURED ARTICLES
PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTERS PROGRAM CELEBRATES
20 YEARS OF SUCCESS:
CCPH Board Member and CCPH Partner Recognized
with Leadership Awards
Two decades
of accomplishments by the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Prevention Research
Centers (PRC) Program were recognized in a ceremony and reception at the Washington,
D.C., Convention Center, following the opening of the 132nd Annual Meeting
of the American Public Health Association. The PRC Program brings academic
researchers, community members, and public health agencies together to collaborate
on developing effective strategies, tested and applied in the field, to prevent
and control the leading causes of illness and disability in the United States,
such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Since funding the first three
centers in 1986, the PRC Program has evolved into a national network of 33
academic-based research centers from coast to coast. The work celebrated has
had an impact on not only community health strategies, but also on reducing
health disparities. Through partnerships with a wide range of institutions
and community organizations, the PRCs have undertaken research activities
in communities that are home to some of the nation's most disadvantaged populations.
Those communities have included residents of rural Appalachia as well as people
living in urban public housing, Mexican Americans on the U.S.-Mexico border,
American Indians in New Mexico, and African Americans and Latinos in Harlem.
At the
event, George Mensah, M.D., Acting Director, NCCDPHP, remarked that "No
other program explicitly requires researchers, public health professionals,
and community members to work together as equals to develop and prove disease
prevention and health promotion strategies and move them into widespread practice."
Commenting on the PRC Program's unique configuration and the effect of the
work, Mensah added that the celebration was not "simply about 20 years
of research [but] an inestimable number of years of life saved and an unquantifiable
number of people who will not become ill or disabled because the research
collaborators found ways to prevent disease and protect health and the quality
of life." During his comments, Mensah recognized Mike Gemmell, Executive
Director of the Association of Schools of Public Health from 1978 to 2001.
Gemmell was one of four public health leaders-the others, Drs. Robert Day,
D.A. Henderson, and William Bridgers, were unable to attend-whose foresight
encouraged Congress to mandate prevention research to improve the nation's
health. Mensah also welcomed five new Prevention Research Centers to the family
(see sidebar).
During
the event, Georges Benjamin, M.D., Executive Director of the American Public
Health Association, expressed his admiration for research that actively promotes
better health. "I support the ways in which this flagship program of
the CDC engages communities in studying research strategies, helping people
to be informed and make good choices, and most important, to have a sense
of confidence that they can take control of their own well-being," he
said. Benjamin added that public health can take greater responsibility for
embracing and disseminating proven strategies, such as those the PRCs design,
test, and package. To acknowledge the community as an integral part of the
program, participants from three PRC projects were invited to share personal
accounts of their involvement. Willie Smith, Jr. and his 10-year-old son Willie
Smith, III enrolled in the University of Michigan Prevention Research Center's
Fathers and Sons Project. The project explored whether frequent, positive
contact between African-American preadolescent boys and their non-resident
fathers can increase healthy behaviors in both groups and prevent substance
abuse, violent behavior, and early sexual initiation among the boys. "Because
of the research project, I was able to do things with my son that I otherwise
may not have because I don't live with him," said the elder Smith.
Steven
Najera, a School Food Service Coordinator in Brownsville, Texas, explained
how the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) program
has grown from its inception. CATCH, an elementary school health program designed
to help children improve their diet and increase their physical activity,
now reaches more than 750,000 school children throughout Texas as well as
school children in seven other states and those attending one of the U.S.
Department of Defense's 320 overseas elementary schools. The program's dissemination
is attributable to the Prevention Research Center at the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston.
Veronica
Oates, a fellow with the CDC-Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
Prevention Research Centers' Minority Fellowship Program, described her work
in a faith-based setting served by the Prevention Research Center at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In introducing a colorectal cancer screening
project in a minority community, Oates found testimonials from community members
to be most powerful in reducing the barriers that discourage many people from
obtaining early detection tests.
Dixie
Snider Jr., M.D., M.P.H., Chief of Science of CDC/ATSDR, then spoke and emphasized
how PRC is a vital extension of CDC. According to Snider, the program's application
and dissemination of research results contributes to CDC's goal of using science
to address health problems, while simultaneously creating valuable partnerships
for participatory research crucial to improving health outcomes. "The
Prevention Research Centers are themselves partnerships that bring organizations
and communities into partnership with CDC, extending the agency's reach in
ways that are sometimes hard to do, particularly in underserved communities
where health disparities are yet to be solved," he said.
On behalf
of CDC, Snider presented awards to members of the PRC network. First, he presented
an Award of Honor to CCPH Partner E.
Yvonne Lewis and CCPH Board Member
Ella Greene-Moton, Chair and Chair-Elect, respectively, of the PRC National
Community Committee (NCC), for having given of their knowledge and expertise
as well as of themselves in developing the committee since 1999. The NCC,
which comprises a member of each PRC's community committee, advises the program,
facilitates training of community members, and advocates for prevention research.
The awardees received a crystal flame engraved, "For your dedicated effort
and significant contributions to the development and sustainability of the
Prevention Research Centers National Community Committee." Ms. Greene-Moton
accepted for herself and Ms. Lewis, and briefly addressed the audience expressing
her appreciation as well as continued commitment to community participation
in research. Both are involved in the ASPH/CDC project Examining Community-Institutional
Partnerships for Prevention Research being coordinated by CCPH.
Snider
then presented honors to five PRCs for outstanding accomplishments in extramural
research. The award winners, selected by external peer-reviewers from among
nominations, were as follows:
·
Innovation in Prevention Research - West
Virginia University, Centers for Public Health Research and Training, for
the Not on Tobacco project;
·
Excellence in Community-Based Prevention
Research - Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center for its
Community Coalition Board;
·
Excellence in Research Translation - University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, for
promoting the adoption and maintenance of the Coordinated Approach to Child
Health (CATCH) Program;
·
Excellence in Training and Technical Assistance - University of South
Carolina Prevention Research Center for providing training and technical assistance
through courses in physical activity and public health; and
·
Service to a Partner Community - Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center,
a partnership of the Harvard Prevention Research Center, for implementing
and facilitating activities that have extended the capacity of the PRC partner
community, which includes the Maine Bureau of Health and the Maine Center
for Public Health.
The event
was hosted by Dr. Carol Bryant, Co-Director of the Prevention Research Center
at the University of South Florida, and Dr. Eduardo Simoes, PRC Program Director.
Following the formal program, attendees visited with the speakers and other
guests, viewed exhibits of the PRCs' work, and shared refreshments. Visit
the PRC
Program website to learn more.
NEW STUDY NAMES TOP HOSPITALS FOR COMMON
PROCEDURES
Patients
needing a heart bypass or hip replacement would do well to choose one of the
229 hospitals named in a new report that identifies the top 5 percent of hospitals
in the nation in clinical quality. The report, released by the health care
quality company HealthGrades, Inc. on Jan. 24, ranks the top hospitals based
on the death and complication rates of Medicare patients undergoing procedures
for 28 common conditions, including heart attack, pancreatitis, stroke, pneumonia,
back surgery and others. The HealthGrades researchers collected data on nearly
5,000 hospitals between 2001 and 2003. In particular, they found that complication
and death rates were "significantly lower" at the top hospitals
after a heart bypass, heart attack, pneumonia or stroke, compared to the rest
of the hospitals in the study. For instance, a heart bypass patient at one
of the top hospitals had a 15 percent better chance of survival than a patient
who received a bypass at an average hospital.
For many
procedures, the chances of survival were 12 percent to 20 percent better in
these top five percent hospitals, despite the fact that they treated more
and sicker patients, the HealthGrades team found. "Because of the variation
in quality from one hospital to the next, which HealthGrades has been documenting
for eight years now, patients need to do their research before choosing a
local hospital," Samantha Collier, M.D., HealthGrades' vice president
of medical affairs says. Based on population numbers from the 2000 U.S. Census,
the Great Lakes region has the highest concentration of top hospitals per
capita, while the West Coast has the lowest concentration, according to the
report.
The HealthGrades
authors note that Medicare, Medicaid and most private health insurers do not
offer financial incentives to hospitals with a record of quality care, a system
they say "flies in the face of market economics in other sectors, including
those contracted by the federal government." "A consumer would not
pay the same for a Mercedes S-Class Sedan and a used Ford Focus because the
quality difference is obvious," the report authors write. "In healthcare,
these 'products' cost the same, thereby eliminating the financial rewards
for quality providers and exacerbating the quality improvement problem."
To download a PDF copy of the complete report, go to http://www.healthgrades.com/media/DMS/pdf/DHPCEStudy2005.pdf.
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MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
In
2005, the WK Kellogg Foundation is celebrating its 75th anniversary. To highlight this important milestone in the
Foundation’s history, the health division sponsored a 75th anniversary
seminar entitled “Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Schools of Public
Health Respond as Engaged Institutions.” 163 leaders in academic public health, community-based public health,
government and philanthropy gathered in Texas from February 9-11, 2005 to:
The seminar
began with a conversation on health as a basic human right. President Jimmy Carter, a champion for social
justice, urged the audience to take on “the biggest challenge, which is the
growing chasm between the rich and the poor, both globally and at home.”
He noted that health equity was his “earliest and most intense commitment,”
having had a mother who was a nurse and having witnessed the health problems
of black sharecroppers in Georgia that stemmed in part from lack of access
to basic health care. Through his work at the Carter Center, he has
mobilized leaders from business, universities and the media to address the
needs of the 500,000 poorest people in 20 Atlanta communities. “Having the university immersed in the community
is as good for the community as it is for the university,” he noted.
“We tend to separate ourselves from people who are suffering.
If we get to know them, we feel responsible.”
Carter vigorously defended health as a basic human right and called
upon schools of public health to elevate their commitment to eliminating racial
and ethnic health disparities to a top priority.
In describing
the magnitude of the problem of racial and ethnic health disparities, Institute
of Medicine President Harvey Fineberg noted “No one institution, profession
or person has the answers.” The Institute of Medicine’s 2002 report on The Future of Public
Health in the 21st Century makes a compelling case for the ecological
approach to eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities – one in which
multiple strategies are developed to impact the multiple determinants of these
disparities. These determinants include
innate individual traits; individual behavior; social, family and community
networks; living and working conditions; broad social, economic, cultural,
health and environmental conditions; and policies at the global, national,
state and local levels.
The seminar
demonstrated the power of theatre in conveying the urgent need for action
with the world premiere performance of “A Right to Care.” The Foundation specifically commissioned Sarah
Jones, an Obie Award-winning playwright, actor and
poet, to write and perform this one-woman tour-de-force. In the span of an hour, Ms. Jones portrayed
the lives of nearly a dozen people affected by the inequities in our health
care system, beginning with an African-American homeless woman who proclaimed
“I may be poor, but I’m not stupid.” By
vividly capturing their accents, mannerisms and stories, she brought many
in the audience to tears over the injustices that people suffer every day
in this country, particularly in communities of color.
CCPH board chair Elmer Freeman, Executive Director of the Center
for Community Health Education Research and Service in Boston, joined Bill
Richardson, CEO of the Foundation and Linda Rosenstock, Dean of the UCLA School
of Public Health, for an interactive panel discussion about community-academic
partnerships as a strategy for eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. Mr. Freeman highlighted the importance of respecting
the knowledge that communities have. He urged health professional schools to embrace values of health
equity and social justice, and to instill and reinforce these values in their
students through service-learning experiences and mentoring by community members.
Students should gain “practical skills in engaging with communities”
as an integral component of their education.
In her
remarks, Dr. Rosenstock made a plea for authentic community engagement. “The old model is outreach and service,” she
noted. “The community isn’t interested
in being outreached to.” To fully
realized a new model of genuine partnerships with communities, she said, “we
need transformation, we need radical change” in how academic institutions
do business. “We need to bring the
community into the school, not just on advisory committees” but as core partners
in the curriculum, in research, in decisions about strategic direction.
“We need to become engaged institutions.”
Mr. Freeman urged participants not to “shy away from the tough conversations”
about racism, power and privilege that are fundamental to authentic community-campus
partnerships.
During
the seminar, participants developed provocative propositions to pledge their
individual and collective commitments to eliminating racial and ethnic health
disparities. These included, for example,
working towards a constitutionally guaranteed right to health, engaging an
entire campus in the goal of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities,
infusing a social justice orientation throughout a school’s curriculum, changing
faculty promotion and tenure policies to recognize and reward community-engaged
scholarship, and building the capacity of community-based organizations to
be fiscal agents for community-based participatory research grants. At
CCPH, we pledge to help build the capacity of communities and academic institutions
to form authentic partnerships that take an ecological approach to eliminating
racial and ethnic health disparities. Only
by working to address the multiple determinants of disparities simultaneously
can we hope to achieve and sustain health for all.
Please
visit these websites for more information about resources mentioned in this
article:
WK Kellogg
Foundation’s 75th anniversary, http://75.wkkf.org/Default.aspx
The
Carter Center, www.cartercenter.org
The
Institute of Medicine report, vhttp://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=4304
Sarah
Jones, www.sarahjonesonline.com
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NEWS FROM CCPH
Apply now for CCPH's 8th Summer Service-Learning
Institute, to be held June 17-21, 2005 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington
State. Applications must be received
by April 15, 2005. Combining
the best of CCPH's past introductory and advanced institutes, this summer's
institute features two tracks designed to meet the needs of both novice and
experienced service-learning practitioners in the health professions. Application materials and other details are
available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html.
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MEMBERSHIP MATTERS
Congratulations to Ingrid Sheets, the winner of the “Member-Get-A-Member” Campaign.
As her prize, she will receive $100 CCPH dollars. These dollars can
be used to purchase CCPH products, such as publications, registrations for
CCPH events and additional memberships. Thanks to all of the CCPH members
who participated!
Did you know that CCPH Members are eligible to receive
discounts on all of the publications available for sale by CCPH? To find out more about
these valuable resources, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/guide.html#Publications.
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UPCOMING EVENTS!
JOIN
CCPH AT THESE UPCOMING EVENTS
For more event listings, visit CCPH’s website conference
page.
March
1-3, 2005: Visit the CCPH exhibit (Booth #44) 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
and Communities Joined in Action 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.
June 17-20, 2005:
CCPH’s 8th Summer Service-Learning Institute
in Leavenworth,
Washington. Combining the best of CCPH's past introductory and advanced institutes,
this summer's institute features two tracks designed to meet the needs of
both novice and experienced service-learning practitioners.
Applications must be received by April 15, 2005. For details, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html. To receive an application by email, please
send your request to ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
NEW
EVENT LISTINGS
For details on all upcoming event listings, CCPH’s website conference
page
March
1, 2005: Volunteers
in Healthcare (VIH) Teleworkshop on Clinician Volunteerism: Yesterday's Lessons, Tomorrow's Questions
at 2:00pm Eastern Time.
March
29-30, 2005: A National
Call to Action: Minority Faculty Development Leadership Summit in Washington,
DC.
March
30-April 1, 2005: Rural
Public Health Institute in Effingham, Illinois.
April 14-16, 2005:
Pedagogies of Engagement: Deepening Learning In and Across the Disciplines
in Bethesda,
Maryland.
May
23-25, 2005: Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development,
Social Justice, and Smart Growth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
May
26-27, 2005: Interprofessional Education: Grounding Action in Theory
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
November 3-5, 2005:
Where’s
the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education? Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
February is Children’s Dental Health Month
The American Dental Association produces a program planning kit for
its state and local societies and dental alliances to assist them in local
promotional efforts. Planning kits include a poster, planning workbook, suggested
resources, reproducible handouts, and publicity information. Posters are also
available to the dental societies for use in classroom visits. For more
information, visit http://www.ada.org/public/news/ncdhm/index.asp#top
StreetWorks Collaborative Wins National
Partnership Award
The 2004
Mutual of America Community Partnership Award was given to StreetWorks Collaborative,
an outreach program designed to help at-risk and homeless youth in the Twin
Cities by providing the necessary resources, services and skills to get off
the streets. A video documenting this award-winning program is available upon
request. http://www.mutualofamerica.com/MOAframe.asp?Main=about/Description.asp&ButHit=about
Michigan Health System Wins Foster McGaw
Prize
Henry
Ford Health System in Detroit has won the 2004 Foster G. McGaw Prize for excellence
in community service, the American Hospital Association and other sponsors
of the award announced. The health system was recognized for the breadth and
depth of its health care initiatives for Southeast Michigan's minorities and
disadvantaged residents, among other programs. The Baxter International Foundation
and Cardinal Health Foundation co-sponsor the award, which each year presents
$100,000 to an organization committed to providing innovative programs and
services that promote the health and well-being of its community. Harlem Hospital
Center, New York; Saint Francis Medical Center, Grand Island, NE; and St.
Joseph's/Candler in Savannah, GA were named finalists for 2004, and will receive
$10,000 each. http://www.aha.org/aha/press_room-info/jsp/releasedisplay.jsp?dcrpath=AHA/Press_Release/data/PR_050209_Foster&domain=AHA.
Coverage Expansion Resource Center
The California
Healthcare Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Institute have
developed the Coverage Expansion Resource Center, an on-line resource that
provides a tool for assessing and comparing proposals aimed at expanding health
care coverage for the uninsured. The resource center also provides a description
of California’s present health insurance system and five alternatives: expansion
of Medi-Cal and Healthy Families, a simple tax credit, an enhanced tax credit
with an individual mandate, a pay-or-play employer mandate, and a single payer
approach. http://www.chcf.org/topics/healthinsurance/coverageexpansion/index.cfm
Reviewers sought for Council on Linkages
Award
The Council
on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice is looking for volunteers
who would be willing to serve as reviewers for the Council's 2005 Linkages
Awards and for the Association of Schools of Public Health's (ASPH) 2005 Award
for Student Excellence in Public Health Practice. Reviewing the Linkages Award
would require about 2-3 hours in mid-April to early May. The ASPH Award takes
approximately an hour in the first three weeks of April. ASPH is looking for
reviewers from the practice community. For more information, and to volunteer,
please contact Jessica Kronstadt.
In A Healthier Nation, Disparities Persist,
CDC Says
Americans
overall are becoming healthier, but the poor and racial and ethnic minority
groups still lag behind the rest of the population in many key indicators
of health, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC)
28th annual report to Congress and the President on the state of the nation's
health. Poor people are more likely than others to say they are in bad health,
to use many types of health care and to report "severe psychological
distress," the CDC study concludes. Infant mortality rates among blacks
and American Indians are higher than in whites, and rates of obesity and diabetes
also vary by race. The CDC report also notes that Latinos and American Indians
are more likely to have no health insurance than other racial and ethnic groups.
The two reports are available online. Health, United States, 2004
and Health Disparities Experienced by Black or
African Americans --- United States.
Report on Behavioral Science at NIH
Behavioral
science research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) suffers from a
lack of funding and prestige, according to an article in the January 2005
issue of the American Psychological Society's (APS) Observer. Authors Michael
Stefanek, Stephanie Hess, and Wendy Nelson, all of the Basic Biobehavioral
Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute, surveyed behavioral science
research among all the NIH institutes and centers. To read the full article,
go to http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1707.
EngAGEment Initiative Announced
Grantmakers
In Aging has announced the planning of its two-year EngAGEment Initiative
aimed at promoting grantmaking and encouraging new funding to philanthropy
focused on aging issues. The initiative’s key objective is to identify and
create the tools and resources communities need to grow giving as it relates
to older adults. For more information, contact Cort Eiken.
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GRANTS ALERT
For a complete listing of all current
Grant Announcements, click here.
Koster Insurance Innovative Practices in
College Health Fund Grant – Deadline: March 1
Koster
Insurance established this fund through the American College Health Foundation
in order to provide financial support to student health centers and their
staff for the development of innovative practices that improve access to quality
health care for students. ACHA Institutional or Individual Members are eligible
to apply. http://www.acha.org/about_acha/koster_fund.cfm
Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
(AFI) – Deadline(s): March 1, June 15, November 1
AFI is
a Federal grant program that explores ways to help low-income people become
economically self-sufficient. AFI provides grants of up to $1,000,000 to nonprofit
and government agencies that provide financial education to clients and assist
them with saving money in Individual Development Accounts for the goal of
acquiring one of three long-term assets (a first home, post-secondary education,
or small business capital). http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2004-ACF-OCS-EI-0027.html
Independent
Investigator Awards – Deadline: March 4
Applicants for the 2005 Independent Investigator Awards from the National
Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. The awards support
research into the causes, cures, treatments, and prevention of severe psychiatric
brain disorders. http://www.narsad.org/research
Prescription for Health Program Grants –
Deadline: March 7
Proposals
requested for grants from the Prescription for Health program, sponsored by
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality. The grant will support two years of practice-based, primary-care
research networks in developing creative, practical strategies for advocating
positive health-related behaviors among patients. Projects should focus on
preventing sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy diets, tobacco use, and risky use
of alcohol. http://www.prescriptionforhealth.org
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement
Program (MSEIP) – Deadline: March 21
Funding
Opportunity Number: ED-GRANTS-020305-002. The MSEIP is designed to effect
long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly
minority institutions and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic
minorities, particularly minority women, into scientific and technological
careers. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/ED/HRO/DCMGC/ED-GRANTS-020305-002/Grant.html
Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration
for Ethnic and Racial Minorities – Deadline: March 22
Funding
Opportunity Number: CMS-5036-N. These demonstration projects will focus on
new and innovative intervention models that improve the quality of items and
services provided to target individuals in order to facilitate reduced disparities
in early detection and treatment of cancer; improve clinical outcomes, satisfaction,
quality of life, and appropriate use of Medicare-covered services and referral
patterns among those target individuals with cancer; eliminate disparities
in the rate of preventive cancer screening measures, such as pap smears and
prostate cancer screenings, among target individuals; and promote collaboration
with community-based organizations to ensure cultural competency of health
care professionals and linguistic access for persons with limited English
proficiency. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/demos/CPTD/default.asp
Massage Therapy Foundation Grants – Deadline:
April 1
Applications
are being accepted for community-service grants from the Massage Therapy Foundation.
One-year grants will support organizations that provide massage-therapy treatment
alternatives to communities that have little or no access to such services.
http://www.massagetherapyfoundation.org/grants_community.html
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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
For a complete listing of all current
Calls For Submissions, click here.
Community College National Center for Community
Engagement (CCNCCE) 14th Annual Conference Call for Proposals –
Deadline: March 1
CCNCCE
invites you to submit a proposal to present at its 14th Annual Conference,
May 25-27, 2005, to be held in Phoenix, Arizona. The theme for this year's
conference is "Community Dialogue and Engagement -Valuing Our Partners."
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement/2005Conf/CallForProposals.jsp
International Health-Promoting Universities
Conference Call for Abstracts – Deadline: March 31
The conference will take place
October 3-6, 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will promote a comprehensive
approach to the creation and maintenance of health-promoting universities
and colleges from the perspective of people in all areas of campus life. The
conference will profile research, programs, and projects that contribute to
healthy work, study, and living environments at universities and colleges.
http://www.healthyuconference.ualberta.ca/
2005
Mutual of America Community Partnership Award – Deadline: April 1
The aim of the Community Partnership Award is to spotlight the important
contributions that nonprofit organizations, in partnership with public, private
and other social sector organizations, make to society. Each of the award
recipients must demonstrate the difference the partnership has made, show
the ability of the partnership to be replicated and to stimulate new ideas
in addressing social issues, as well as illustrate the partnership’s commitment
to advancing the mission and principles of the organization. http://www.mutualofamerica.com/MOAframe.asp?Main=about/Description.asp&ButHit=about
Health
Professional Education Call for Abstracts – Deadline: April 30
Patient/client centered care has become an espoused rule for 21st
century health care. Health Professional Education needs to reflect this partnership.
Join your interprofessional colleagues at this important conference to establish
a vision for health professional education in which patients play an active
role that models trends in practice. Participants are invited to present examples
of collaborative projects between educators and patient/community groups at
the “Where’s the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education?” Conference
to be held November 3-5, 2005 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.health-disciplines.ubc.ca/DHCC
Call
for Papers – Deadline: June 30
Proposed entries requested for a two-volume encyclopedia
on racial and ethnic social justice in the United States. Contact A. Aguirre
Jr. at Aguirre@citrus.ucr.edu.
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PUBLICATIONS
Does the Built Environment Influence Physical
Activity? Examining the Evidence
This
Institute of Medicine report, issued jointly with the National Academies'
Transportation Research Board, explores the link between the "built"
environment--buildings, roads, parks, and other structures that physically
define a community--and physical activity levels. http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=24476
Influence of community Factors on Health:
An Annotated Bibliography
The development
and production of the document was funded by the California Endowment. It
provides insight into the findings of researchers who have investigated community
effects on health, and the program and policy implications that can be drawn
from their work. The bibliography, which was developed by PolicyLink, contains
summaries of more than 150 articles, reports and books on how environmental,
social and economic conditions of community life affect health. http://www.policylink.org/chb/
Service-Learning Guide & Journal, Higher
Education Edition, by Robert Schoenfeld, will help students
organize their Service-Learning project and facilitate their growth in the
knowledge and skills they need to help them become civically engaged, productive
and fulfilled citizens. The Service-Learning Guide & Journal will aid
students in their pursuit of scholastic achievement while guiding and inspiring
them to take their service to their community and the nation to a higher level
of achievement. http://www.servicelearninghighered.com/
Shortchanging America's Health: A State-by-State
Look at How Federal Public Health Dollars are Spent
By Hearne SA, Elliott K, Juliano C
and Segal LM. This report examines how money from many federal health programs
is allocated to states at per-capita levels and then compares the states'
key health and wellness indicators. While state governments bear the primary
responsibility for delivering public health services, the federal government
also plays an important role, especially by funding state public health activities.
This report examines states' funding per person from the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
State health statistics highlighted include percent of adults and children
with chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes, percent of obese adults
and overweight children, adult cancer rates and rate of low birth weight in
babies. Overall, the report finds that the United States is falling short
of achieving the national health improvement and disease prevention objectives
for health outlined in Healthy People and that sufficient funding or strategies
to achieve those goals have not been enacted. The United States needs to develop
a proactive approach to health, focusing on prevention of illness and injury.
According to the report, this type of approach would save lives and money
and improve overall health. Full paper available at http://www.rwjf.org/research/researchByArea.jsp?title=Public+Health&id=000008&detailID=1680
Federal Policy for Immigrant Children: Room
for Common Ground?
Policymakers
and analysts agree on the need to improve the well-being of children in immigrant
families in the United States-for example, in the areas of public benefits,
education, and economic mobility-but disagree about how to address the problems.
The authors of this policy brief are no exception. Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow
at the Brookings Institution and Senior Editor of The Future of Children,
seconds the decision of Congress in the 1996 welfare reform law to make noncitizens
ineligible for public assistance and Medicaid. He emphasizes the need to tie
public benefits for immigrant families to work through such policies as education
and training and the earned income tax credit for families with children.
Mark Greenberg, Director of Policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy,
and Shawn Fremstad, Deputy Director of the Welfare and Income Support Division
at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, argue that noncitizen families
should have the same eligibility for public assistance as citizen families
and support greater financial aid for early childhood education and other
forms of schooling. The hope of all three authors, however, is that researchers
and public officials will continue to search for common ground to improve
life for children of immigrant families, most of whom will grow up as Americans.
http://www.brookings.org/es/research/projects/wrb/publications/pb/foc_14_2.htm
The Hispanic Challenge? What We Know About Latino Immigration
This
booklet is the proceedings of a conference held March 29, 2004 and is available
online at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=5949.
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CONTACT EDITOR
Email the PM editor: ccphpm@u.washington.edu
PARTNERSHIP
MATTERS
Edited
by Annika Robbins
Copyright
©2005 by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
All rights
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COMPLETE LISTING OF
ALL CURRENT GRANTS ALERT
New Grants Alert announced in this
newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
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
* Koster Insurance Innovative Practices in College Health Fund Grant
– Deadline: March 1 Details
* Assets for Independence Demonstration Program (AFI) – Deadline(s):
March 1, June 15, November 1 Details
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
*
Independent Investigator Awards – Deadline: March 4 Details
* Prescription for Health Program Grants – Deadline: March 7 Details
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Prescription for Health - Round 2 – Deadline:
March 7
The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation has announced Round 2 of funding for Prescription
for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks.
This five-year national program is designed to develop, test, evaluate and
disseminate creative, practical strategies to promote healthy behaviors in
primary care practices by targeting four behaviors: lack of physical activity,
poor diet, tobacco use and risky use of alcohol. The program is in collaboration
with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Up to nine 24-month grants of up to $300,000
will be awarded in this round of funding.
For more information about Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks
and eligibility, please visit http://www.prescriptionforhealth.org
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
* Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) – Deadline:
March 21 Details
* Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration for Ethnic and Racial
Minorities – Deadline: March 22 Details
Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration for Ethnic and Racial Minorities
– Deadline: March 22
Funding
Opportunity Number: CMS-5036-N. The Department of Health and Human Services,
Centers for Medicare and Medcaid Services, is soliciting proposals from interested
parties to implement and operate cooperative agreement demonstration projects.
These demonstration projects will focus on new and innovative intervention
models that improve the quality of items and services provided to target individuals
in order to facilitate reduced disparities in early detection and treatment
of cancer; improve clinical outcomes, satisfaction, quality of life, and appropriate
use of Medicare-covered services and referral patterns among those target
individuals with cancer; eliminate disparities in the rate of preventive cancer
screening measures, such as pap smears and prostate cancer screenings, among
target individuals; and promote collaboration with community-based organizations
to ensure cultural competency of health care professionals and linguistic
access for persons with limited English proficiency.
Each project will stress the use of evidence-based, culturally competent
models that will target efforts to decrease risk factors and increase screening
rates and access to treatment and survival for cancers of the breast, cervix,
colon, or prostate. For details, visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/demos/CPTD/default.asp
Youth Violence Prevention through Community-Level Change – Deadline:
March 30
Funding
Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-CE05-020 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
(CDC) Procurement and Grants Office has published a program announcement entitled,
Youth Violence Prevention through Community-Level Change. The purpose of the
program is to assess the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions designed
to change community characteristics and social processes to reduce rates of
youth violence perpetration and victimization. For complete program details,
please see the full announcement on the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/grantmain.htm.
* Massage Therapy Foundation Grants – Deadline: April 1 Details
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research – 2005 – Deadline: April
1
The Investigator
Awards in Health Policy Research program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) funds highly qualified individuals to undertake broad studies of America's
most challenging policy issues in health and health care. Grants of up to
$275,000 are awarded to investigators from a variety of disciplines. Successful
proposals combine creative and conceptual thinking with innovative approaches
to critical health problems and policy issues. Applicants must be affiliated either with educational
institutions or with 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located in the United
States. For more information, please visit http://www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/rwjf/call_for_applications.asp
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
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants for Scholarly Works in
Biomedicine and Health - Deadlines: 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
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Funding Announcement
– Deadline: June 22
AHRQ
has announced ongoing extramural grants for research, demonstration, dissemination,
and evaluation projects. For more
information, please visit http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/AHRQ/AHRQ/PA-00-111/Grant.html. AHRQ
has a database at http://www.gold.ahrq.gov/ through
which you may access abstracts for active AHRQ grants in your state.
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health – Deadline: Multiple
Funding
Opportunity Number: PA-05-029 The ultimate goal of this National Institutes
of Health program announcement is to encourage the development of health research
that integrates knowledge from the biomedical and social sciences. This announcement
invites applications to (a) elucidate basic social and cultural constructs
and processes used in health research, (b) clarify social and cultural factors
in the etiology and consequences of health and illness, (c) link basic research
to practice for improving prevention, treatment, health services, and dissemination,
and (d) explore ethical issues in social and cultural research related to
health. - This program announcement is a re-issuance and revision of PA-02-043.
The PHS 398 application instructions are available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html in an
interactive format. For further assistance contact GrantsInfo, Telephone (301)
435-0714, E-mail: GrantsInfo@nih.gov. Link
to Full Announcement http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-029.html
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COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
New Calls for Submissions announced
in this newsletter are noted with an asterisk (*).
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
Call for Abstracts: International
Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services (ICSBHS) - Deadline: February 28
The ICSBHS is a biennial conference
series that began in the United Kingdom, and has since been hosted by the
Netherlands, Canada, Australia and the United States. The conference returns
to Canada in 2005 and will be in Montreal, September 18-20, 2005, hosted by
the Canadian College of Health Service Executives. The series provides an
international forum for the exchange of health services research and experience
to improve access to and the quality of healthcare systems. Its focus is on
the process of promoting the use of scientific evidence for clinical practice,
health services management and health policy. The Theme of the 2005 conference
is: Improving Health by Advancing Healthcare: Linking Research, Policy and
Action. To learn more, please visit http://www.icsbhs.org/abstracts.html.
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/
* Community College National Center for Community
Engagement (CCNCCE) 14th Annual Conference Call for Proposals –
Deadline: March 1 Details
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
2005 State Health Research & Policy
Interest Group Meeting Call for Case Studies – Deadline: March 4
The Meeting
will take place June 25 in conjunction with the 2005 AcademyHealth Annual
Research Meeting, June 26-28 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Call for Case Studies
offers researchers, policymakers, and practitioners the opportunity to share
their experiences in order to advance the translation of research into policy
and practice within the state setting. They are looking for cases that demonstrate
success in the translation and/or implementation of research into policy and
practice on a state, local, or organizational level. Cases can approach this topic from either (1)
the perspective of research being moved into policy and practice or (2) the
perspective where good research was sought to make a policy or implementation
decision. The goal of these cases is to share with others *tool kits* or *how
to* scenarios that can be replicated across states and help both researchers
and decision makers have practical examples of effective translation strategies.
http://www.academyhealth.org/interestgroups/shrp/callforcasestudies.htm
* International Health-promoting Universities
Conference Call for Abstracts – Deadline: March 31 Details
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
* 2005 Mutual of
America Community Partnership Award – Deadline: April 1 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
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.
Articles on Social Exclusion, Gender and
Conflict Needed for International Development Journal – Deadline: April 15
Women
for Women International, a non-profit, humanitarian organization, seeks submissions
for the autumn 2005 edition of its bi-annual academic journal, Critical Half,
about economic, social, and political issues as they relate to women in international
development and post-conflict societies. This issue of the journal will focus
on the manifestation of social exclusion during and after conflict with special
attention to gender issues. It is important to understand the role that gender
plays in social exclusion and the effect that it has on women, as they understand
women's experiences to be a barometer for the rest of society. They will look
at various manifestations of exclusion in conflict and post-conflict settings:
economic, social, cultural, and political, as well as strategies designed
to extend opportunities for participation that are shared equitably between
men and women. For more information, visit www.womenforwomen.org or contact Corey Oser.
Abraham Horwitz Award for Leadership in
Inter-American Health – Deadline: April 15
The Foundation is accepting nominations
for the Horwitz Award. Nominees must be individuals whose professional achievement
in any field of inter-American health stimulates excellence, and has impacted
the health of populations across the borders of the Americas. They may be
active in their careers, active though in formal retirement or retired having
demonstrated an outstanding lifetime career. The complete call for nominations
can be found at http://www.paho.org/English/PAHEF/horwitz.htm. To make a nomination, please submit
and address a letter of introduction on official letterhead and a completed
nomination form http://www.paho.org/English/PAHEF/2005horwitzform.doc. For more information, email: info@pahef.org.
* Health Professional
Education Call for Abstracts – Deadline: April 30 Details
*
Call for Papers – Deadline: June 30 Details
Calls for Submissions for Joint Conference – Deadline: Multiple, see
below
The National Association of
County and City Health Officials and the Association of State and Territorial
Health Officials have announced their 2005 Joint Conference July 12-15 in
Boston, Massachusetts. Particular
attention will be focused on the prevention of obesity and related chronic
diseases. Call for Panels in Public Health Systems Research – Deadline: February
18. Abstract submissions – Deadline: March 4. More information is available
at http://www.astho.org and
http://www.naccho.org.
Call for Papers for COMM-ORG – Deadline:
Ongoing
COMM-ORG
is the On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. Are you
writing a paper, thesis, or dissertation on: community organizing, community
development, community planning, community-based research, and/or a related
area? COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page. All papers are posted on the COMM-ORG website
and announced on its accompanying list-serve, which reaches over 1000 people
across more than a dozen nations. They welcome discussion of all papers on
the list-serve and encourage our members to also send comments directly to
authors. To submit a paper, contact the editor, Randy Stoecker, at randy@comm-org.utoledo.edu. You can also find out more
at http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/callpapers.htm
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