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Notice of Pre-Application NIH Webinar for the RADx-UP Initiative

The National Institutes of Health is encouraging research to test the implementation of COVID-19 diagnostic testing in underserved or vulnerable communities through the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative.

NIH will hold two pre-application webinars covering the four RADx-UP funding opportunities: NOT-OD-20-119, NOT-OD-20-120, NOT-OD-20-121, and RFA-OD-20-013.

RADx-UP Pre-Application Webinar I
June 26, 2020 (2:00-4:00 p.m. EDT)
For more details, see NOT-OD-20-131.
Register here
Purpose: This webinar will include an overview of the RADx-UP initiative, followed by presentations on each funding opportunity (NOT-OD-20-119, NOT-OD-20-120, NOT-OD-20-121, and RFA-OD-20-013) with question and answer sessions for each. The webinar will conclude with a final, open question and answer session.

RADx-UP Pre-Application Webinar II
July 1, 2020 (3:00-5:00 p.m. EDT)
For more details, see NOT-OD-20-131.
Register here
Purpose: This webinar will focus on questions for applications for the RADx-UP Coordinating and Data Collection Center in response to RFA-OD-20-013. Questions related to the other three FOAs will also be addressed.

Questions can also be pre-submitted at RADxInfo@nih.gov by:

  • 11:59 pm local time on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, for the June 26, 2020 webinar; and by
  • 11:59 pm local time on Monday, June 29, 2020, for the July 1, 2020 webinar

Please direct all inquiries to:

Dorothy Castille, PhD
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
301-594-9411
Dorothy.Castille@nih.gov

PAA COVID-19 Webinar: Data Collection in Longitudinal Studies

WHEN: June 23, 2020 (1:00 pm-2:30 pm EDT)
WHERE: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UFcl7xniRMOGD-rr3m7Csw
COST: Free

Are you interested in doing empirical work on COVID-19? This session will detail how six existing publicly available longitudinal studies are incorporating new measures to capture peoples’ experiences of the pandemic. The panel participants and surveys include:

  • Session Organizer and Chair – Pam Herd (Georgetown University)
  • David Weir (University of Michigan): Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
  • David Johnson (University of Michigan): Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
  • Vicki Freedman (University of Michigan): National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)
  • Carolyn Halpern (University of North Carolina): National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
  • Arie Kapteyn (University of Southern California): Understanding America Study (UAS)
  • Deborah Carr (Boston University): National Longitudinal Study of Youth (1979) (NLSY)

Covid Webinar Series Organizers: Eileen Crimmins, Sara Curran, Jenn Dowd, Pam Herd, and Giovanna Merli

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar from Michael Zuletta at USC.  If you have problems with registration, please email mzuletta@usc.edu.

Register in advance: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UFcl7xniRMOGD-rr3m7Csw

NIH Virtual Workshop: Pregnancy and Maternal Conditions that Increase Risk of Morbidity and Mortality

Maternal mortality rates have increased in the United States. The purpose of this virtual workshop, co-sponsored by NICHD, is to develop a research agenda targeted at the clinical causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. An interdisciplinary team of experts will address the question of why women die from these conditions (e.g. postpartum hemorrhage, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, infection, etc.) and what can be done to identify patients at risk, and the interventions required to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.

Meeting date and time:
Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. (EDT)
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 8:15 a.m.–5:15 p.m. (EDT)

Registration:
Registration is full for this event, but non-registered participants can view the workshop on NIH VideoCast:
Day 1: https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=36359&bhcp=1
Day 2: https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=36363&bhcp=1

For more information: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/meetings/2020/051920

Research at NICHD-Funded Population Centers Can Help Inform Coronavirus Responses

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health has particular interest in studies of health patterns among vulnerable populations, including research on Americans who may be at high risk of becoming critically ill with a coronavirus infection.

PRB created a list of illustrative grants and recently published journal articles showing how NICHD-funded Population Centers are contributing to the Institute’s research goals and objectives, through research on health disparities that can help inform responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

This list is not comprehensive, but provides some recent examples of NICHD-funded grants and published research on important public health challenges.

Bowling Green State University (Grant P2CHD050959)
Childhood food insecurity is higher among children living outside of a two biological married-parent household, with rates highest among single-mother households. Balistreri KS. Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity: Evidence from the Current Population Survey. Soc Indic Res. 2018;138(3):1171‐1185.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171531/

University of Texas at Austin (Grant P2CHD042849)
Children who continuously lived in or moved to a poor neighborhood during the study face a higher risk of asthma than other kids. Cantu P, Kim Y, Sheehan C, et. al. Downward Neighborhood Poverty Mobility during Childhood Is Associated with Child Asthma: Evidence from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Survey. J Urban Health. 2019 May 2. [Epub ahead of print].
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31049846

University of Michigan (Grant P2CHD041028)
Adults tracked over 25 years tended to stay in the same health categories: 1. Normal BMI and moderate alcohol consumption, 2. Overweight, 3. Current smokers, 4. Obese, or 5. Non-drinkers. Smokers were most like to change categories, while those who were obese were least likely to change categories. Burgard SA, Lin KYP, Segal BD, et. al. Stability and Change in Health Behavior Profiles of U.S. Adults. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2020 Feb 14; 75(3):674-683.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32059056

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Grant P2CHD050924)
Hispanic/Latino renters in U.S. cities with high foreclosure risk had a higher prevalence of high blood pressure and high cholesterol than those in low foreclosure risk areas. Chambers EC, Hanna DB, Hua S, et. al. Relationship between area mortgage foreclosures, homeownership, and cardiovascular disease risk factors: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jan 17; 19(1):77.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30654781

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Grant P2CHD050924)
Uninsurance declined significantly among recently incarcerated men after Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation. Researchers also found evidence of increased health insurance coverage and increased likelihood of treatment for diabetes, high blood pressure, and mental illness among at-risk populations. Gutierrez CM, Pettit B. Employment and Health Among Recently Incarcerated Men Before and After the Affordable Care Act (2009-2017). Am J Public Health. 2020 Jan; 110(S1):S123-S129.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31967870

Brown University (Grant P2CHD041020)
Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood early in life is linked to high blood pressure and obesity in adulthood—risk factors for heart disease. Jimenez MP, Wellenius GA, Subramanian SV, et. al. Longitudinal associations of neighborhood socioeconomic status with cardiovascular risk factors: A 46-year follow-up study. Soc Sci Med. 2019 Nov; 241:112574. Epub 2019 Sep 25.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31593787

Duke University (Grant P2CHD065563)
Blacks and American Indians have two times the level of diabetes and hypertension and report greater levels of everyday stress from overwork, the neighborhood environment, and meeting basic daily needs compared with whites. Richman L, Pearson J, Beasley C, et. al. Addressing health inequalities in diverse, rural communities: An unmet need. SSM Popul Health. 2019 Apr 9; 7:100398. eCollection 2019 Apr.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011618

University of Texas at Austin (Grant P2CHD042849)
Cost containment strategies may mean that elderly, low-income, disabled Americans of Mexican origin in Texas are less likely to have full access to Medicaid benefits than their peers in California. Angel JL, Angel RJ, Cantu P. Medicaid Use among Older Low-Income Medicare Enrollees in California and Texas: A Tale of Two States. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2019 Dec 1; 44(6):885-910.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31408881

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Grant P2CHD050924)
Among African Americans, dark-skinned women have more physiological deterioration/disease risk factors and report worse health than lighter-skinned women, or black men of any skin tone. Hargrove TW. Light Privilege? Skin Tone Stratification in Health among African Americans. Sociol Race Ethn (Thousand Oaks). 2019 Jul; 5(3):370-387. Epub 2018 Sep 20.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32123694

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Grant P2CHD050924)
Low household income, childhood trauma, ethnic discrimination, and neighborhood problems (violence, litter, food deserts) are linked to both diabetes and depression in U.S. Latinos. McCurley JL, Gutierrez AP, Bravin JI, et. al. Association of Social Adversity with Comorbid Diabetes and Depression Symptoms in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study: A Syndemic Framework. Ann Behav Med. 2019 Oct 7; 53(11):975-987.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30951585

University of Pennsylvania (Grant T32HD007242)
Genetics and modifiable behavioral and lifestyle characteristics both play a role in diabetes onset among older U.S. non-Hispanic whites and blacks. Ng CD, Weiss J. Association of genetic and behavioral characteristics with the onset of diabetes. BMC Public Health. 2019 Oct 15; 19(1):1297.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31615468

University of Texas at Austin (Grant P2CHD042849)
Adverse childhood experiences (neglect, hunger, parental alcohol/drug abuse or incarceration) are linked to diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and heart disease in adult women. Cubbin C, Kim Y, Panisch LS. Familial Childhood Adversity is Associated with Chronic Disease Among Women: Data from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study. Matern Child Health J. 2019 Aug; 23(8):1117-1129.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31203522

Ohio State University (Grant P2CHD058484)
Out-of-pocket medical expenses increased to burdensome levels for some middle-income individuals with multiple chronic conditions after Affordable Care Act implementation. Xu WY, Retchin SM, Seiber EE, et. al. Income-Based Disparities in Financial Burdens of Medical Spending Under the Affordable Care Act in Families With Individuals Having Chronic Conditions. Inquiry. 2019 Jan-Dec; 56:46958019871815.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31455121

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Grant P2CHD042828)
Black-white inequality related to educational attainment, employment, and neighborhood poverty were similar in highly segregated and hyper-segregated metropolitan areas between 2012 to 2016. Hess C, Gabriel R, Leibbrand C, et. al. Does Hypersegregation Matter for Black-White Socioeconomic Disparities? Demography. 2019 Dec; 56(6):2169-2191.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31713124

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Grant T32HD007014)
Older Americans are more likely to be food insecure if they have been hospitalized frequently and depressed. Depleting financial resources is related to monthly peaks in hypoglycemia hospitalizations among those with diabetes. Bergmans RS, Mezuk B, Zivin K. Food Insecurity and Geriatric Hospitalization. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jun 28; 16(13).
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31261648

University of Maryland (Grant P2CHD041041)
A higher level of premature births among black mothers than white mothers is linked to socioeconomic factors (mother’s education, marital status, paternity acknowledgment, source of payment for delivery) and hypertension in pregnancy. Birth spacing plays a role for non-first-borns. Thoma ME, Drew LB, Hirai AH, et. al. Black-White Disparities in Preterm Birth: Geographic, Social, and Health Determinants. Am J Prev Med. 2019 Nov; 57(5):675-686. Epub 2019 Sep 25.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31561920

University of Minnesota (Grant P2CHD041023)
Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with survival after stroke. Rates of long-term mortality among stroke survivors were higher among individuals with lower SES and among those residing in neighborhoods of lower SES. Elfassy T, Grasset L, Glymour MM, et. al. Sociodemographic Disparities in Long-Term Mortality Among Stroke Survivors in the United States. Stroke. 2019 Apr; 50(4):805-812.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30852967

New NICHD Funding Opportunity for Research on the Coronavirus

This Notice of Special Interest highlights the urgent need for social, behavioral, economic, health communication, and epidemiologic research relevant to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. This Notice encourages urgent competitive supplements and administrative supplements to existing longitudinal studies that address key social and behavioral questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including adherence to and transmission mitigation from various containment and mitigation efforts; social, behavioral, and economic impacts from these containment and mitigation efforts; and downstream health impacts resulting from these social, behavioral, and economic impacts, including differences in risk and resiliency based on gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other social determinants of health.

NICHD has particular interest in COVID-19-related research on vulnerable populations falling within the NICHD scientific mission area, including pregnant and post-partum women, infants, children, and adolescents; individuals with physical and/or intellectual disabilities; and children who are homeless or in foster care.

NICHD also has particular interest in outcomes falling within its mission, including child abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence, learning outcomes, maternal, infant, child, and adolescent morbidity and mortality, changes in fertility and pregnancy outcomes, and access to health care, including reproductive health care.

Additional research topics of interest to NICHD that fall within the scope of this Notice include, but are not limited to:

  • The roles of living arrangements and family and household characteristics and processes, social and community influences, and social networks on COVID-19-related vulnerabilities, responses, and outcomes.
  • Differential impacts of and responses to COVID-19, COVID-19 mitigation efforts and downstream effects mitigation on specific subpopulations, for example, groups defined by age, race/ethnicity, urban/rural location or socioeconomic status.
  • Studies of increased usage of telemedicine for routine well baby and pediatric health and developmental screenings and their impact on immunization schedules on child and adolescent health outcomes.
  • Studies of the digital divide—children and families without reliable access to the internet now that schools and libraries have closed, and impact on health behaviors and outcomes as well as health care access.
  • Studies on increased screen time, digital media use and rapid conversion to homeschooling/distance learning on child and adolescent cognitive and social-emotional development, peer interactions and family functioning.
  • Studies examining risk factors, resilience and coping for families experiencing multiple stressors (e.g., health, economic and emotional) and symptomology (e.g., anxiety, depression) and the short and long-term sequelae for child, adolescent and family functioning.

For more information:
NOT-OD-20-097: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) regarding the Availability of Administrative Supplements and Urgent Competitive Revisions for Research on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and the Behavioral and Social Sciences
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-097.html#.XpnW4-GqhVU.twitter

COVID-19: Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients

NIH recently updated their Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients website with FAQs, new funding opportunities, and other materials.

NIH also published a notice announcing that grant applications submitted late for due dates between March 9, 2020, and May 1, 2020, will be accepted through May 1, 2020. This notice applies to all relevant funding opportunity announcements, including those that indicate no late applications will be accepted. A cover letter providing a justification is not required. NIH will be extending the expiration date of most FOAs expiring between now and May 1.

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