Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed)

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-21-021.html

The Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity initiative is soliciting applications to support collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in developing, implementing, or disseminating innovative and effective interventions to prevent, reduce, or eliminate health disparities and advance health equity. No preliminary data are required. Projects must clearly demonstrate, based on the strength of the logic, a compelling potential to produce a major impact in addressing health disparities and inequities.

Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed)

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-21-022.html

The Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions initiative is soliciting applications to support collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in developing, implementing, or disseminating innovative and effective interventions to prevent, reduce, or eliminate health disparities and advance health equity. No preliminary data are required. Projects must clearly demonstrate, based on the strength of the logic, a compelling potential to produce a major impact in addressing health disparities and advancing health equity.

Purpose

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities with other NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications on (1) observational research to understand the role of structural racism and discrimination (SRD) in causing and sustaining health disparities, and (2) intervention research that addresses SRD in order to improve minority health or reduce health disparities.

Key Dates

Release Date: February 23, 2021
Estimated Publication Date of Funding Opportunity Announcement: April 09, 2021
First Estimated Application Due Date: August 20, 2021
Earliest Estimated Award Date: April 01, 2022
Earliest Estimated Start Date: April 01, 2022

For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MD-21-016.html

WHEN: February 1 (12:15 – 1:45 PM CT)  
WHERE: Online (Zoom Link)
COST: Free

The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research. Seminars are held during both the fall and spring semesters. For a full list of our spring seminars, visit https://pop.umn.edu/events/seminar-series. All of MPC’s seminars are virtual and open to the public.

Presenters in this webinar include:
Rachel Hardeman – School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Hedwig Lee – Sociology, Washington University
Maeve Wallace – Tulane School of Public Health
Alyasah “Ali” Sewell – Sociology, Emory University

WHEN: January 28, 2021 (12:00 pm-1:00 pm EST)
WHERE: Online (REGISTER)
COST: Free

The Social Demography Seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS), provide a forum for social science scholars to discuss in-progress research that touches on timely topics such as health and social inequalities, race and ethnicity, aging and life course, gender, immigration and migration, and other population health themes. In the wake of COVID-19, these seminars are transitioning to an online format this fall, and can now reach a much wider audience.

The presenter, Christina Cross, is a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of sociology (beginning 2022), Harvard University.

The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program builds on PRB’s 40-year legacy of training researchers to bridge the gap between research findings and the policy development process. While research often has profound practical implications, it must be communicated effectively to a variety of nontechnical audiences to influence policy and programmatic change. The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program prepares researchers to influence policy and practice through effective communication.

Through the U.S. Policy Communication Training Program, participants will:

• Understand the process by which research informs the policy environment.
• Learn various ways to communicate findings to U.S. and international policy audiences.
• Improve their ability to communicate in written and verbal formats.

Core training sessions cover the research to policy gap, communication strategies to link research to policy, writing for policy and nontechnical audiences, and effective content for and delivery of presentations. Training sessions may be either in-person or remote, depending on 2021 COVID-19 guidelines.

This program is made possible by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

For more information and to apply: https://www.prb.org/work-with-us/fellowships/u-s-policy-communication-training-program/