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Resources for ResearchersExplore NIH funding, training opportunities, and programs in disease prevention research using the ODP's collection of resources and interactive tools.
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Automating Machine Learning for Prevention ResearchPresented by Jason Moore, Ph.D.
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Total Worker Health®—What's Work Got To Do With It?New! Federal Partners Meeting Report
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Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity WorkshopNIH Main Campus, Bethesda, Maryland
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Featured Resources and Initiatives
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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.
Resources for Researchers
A one-stop shop for NIH disease prevention tools, Resources for Researchers includes information about NIH-funded research, prevention research articles, 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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ODP Events
- Automating Machine Learning for Prevention Research
- Presented by Jason Moore, Ph.D.
Medicine: Mind the Gap
August 29, 2017
Partner Events
- VA Cyberseminar: Integrating Dual Process Implications Into Implementation of Cognitive Support Designs in the Clinical Setting
- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Services Research & Development Program
August 23, 2017
12:00 noon ET
- The Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030
- Sponsored by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)
September 6–7, 2017
- A Nation Under Pressure: The Public Health Consequences of Stress in America
- Sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
September 7, 2017
11:00 a.m. ET
Director's Page
David M. Murray, Ph.D.Associate Director for Prevention
Director, Office of Disease Prevention
Announcements
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USPSTF Public Comment on Draft Research Plan – Primary Care Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
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New NIOSH Report Highlights Second Decade of the National Occupational Research Agenda
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NIDCR Requests Input on Proposed Research Initiatives for FY 2019
Public comments accepted through September 5, 2017
News Releases
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Scientists Give Star Treatment to Lesser-Known Cells Crucial for Brain Development
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Public Members Appointed to New Federal Effort To Address Serious Mental Illness
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New Report Finds That 12th Grade-Aged High School Dropouts Are More at Risk for Substance Use
August 15, 2017
Special Interest News
- Electronic Cigarette Use and Indoor Air Quality in a Natural Setting
January 2017 - Addendum Guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in the United States: Report of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-Sponsored Expert Panel
January 2017 - Tobacco Control in the Obama Era—Substantial Progress, Remaining Challenges
October 13, 2016
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