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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Insufficient Evidence StatementsResearch needs and gaps are identified for more than 50 clinical preventive services.
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Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Designs for Disease Prevention ResearchPresented by Monica Taljaard, Ph.D.
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Pragmatic and Group-Randomized Trials in Public Health and Medicine
This is a free, online course developed by the ODP that provides a detailed guide to designing and analyzing group-randomized trials (GRTs). The course includes video presentations, slide sets, suggested reading materials, and guided activities.
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Tobacco Regulatory Science Program (TRSP)
TRSP is a trans-NIH collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The program supports NIH research that provides the scientific evidence the FDA needs to develop and evaluate tobacco policy and regulations. TRSP issues funding opportunities in tobacco regulatory science on behalf of the FDA and participating NIH Institutes.
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Pathways to Prevention (P2P) Program
The goal of the P2P program is to host workshops that identify research gaps in a selected scientific area, identify methodological and scientific weaknesses in that scientific area, suggest research needs, and move the field forward through an unbiased, evidence-based assessment of a complex public health issue.
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Resources for Researchers
A one-stop shop for NIH disease prevention tools, Resources for Researchers includes information about NIH-funded research, prevention research needs and gaps, methods training opportunities, and dissemination and implementation research.
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Prevention Research Highlights
Research Highlights provide information about funded research, current funding opportunities, and recent advances in prevention science. Learn more about how the NIH and its federal partners are addressing such topics as Obesity, Physical Activity, and Tobacco Use.
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Medicine: Mind the Gap
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July 11, 2018
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Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
June 19, 2018
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Sponsored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
June 28, 2018
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July 10, 2018
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- Fireside Chat on Implementation Science & Surveillance Research Program (SRP) Crossroads
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Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
July 24, 2018
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Associate Director for Prevention
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USPSTF Public Comment on Draft Research Plan — Screening for High Blood Pressure in Adults
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USPSTF Public Comment on Draft Recommendation Statement and Draft Evidence Review —Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Primary Care to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults
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USPSTF Public Comment on Draft Recommendation Statement and Draft Evidence Review — Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment
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SAMHSA publishes updated toolkit to help prevent opioid overdoses
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High thyroid hormone level in early pregnancy linked to gestational diabetes, NIH study suggests
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Suicide rates rising across the U.S.
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Youth tobacco use drops during 2011-2017
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Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on 2017 National Youth Tobacco Survey results and ongoing FDA efforts to protect youth from the dangers of nicotine and tobacco products
June 7, 2018
Special Interest News
- Few Americans Receive All High-Priority, Appropriate Clinical Preventive Services
Health Affairs
June 2018 - Long-Term Effects of the Communities That Care Trial on Substance Use, Antisocial Behavior, and Violence Through Age 21 Years
American Journal of Public Health
May 2018 - The State of US Health, 1990-2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States
JAMA
April 2018
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