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April 2022
Quarterly updates from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) including upcoming events, funding opportunities, and resources to help you conduct high-quality prevention research.
We want this information to be valuable to you, so please send your feedback and suggestions to [email protected].
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A Q&A with Dr. Christine Baugh, the 2022 Early-Stage Investigator Lecture Awardee
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Each year, the ODP recognizes early-career scientists who are poised to become future leaders in prevention research. In 2022, we’re honoring Dr. Christine Baugh, who conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of health, policy, sport, and ethics. Much of her work focuses on the prevention of concussions and other sports injuries.
As we look forward to her lecture on May 11 (register to join us!), we asked Dr. Baugh to share a little bit about her background, research, and her perspective on the future of injury prevention research.
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New ODP Strategic Priority: Address Health Disparities
The ODP elevated the topic of health disparities from a cross cutting theme in its ODP Strategic Plan FY 2019–2023 (PDF) to a new Strategic Priority in 2022 (PDF).
In FY 2020, as part of a published portfolio analysis of NIH-funded prevention projects from FY 2016 to 2019, the ODP found that only 3.6% of projects included a randomized intervention to address a leading risk factor for death or disability in populations that experience health disparities. This significant research gap made it clear the NIH needs to engage in health disparities prevention efforts with a more sustained, concentrated approach.
While a health equity lens will continue to permeate activities across our other Strategic Priorities, by designating health disparities as a distinct Strategic Priority for the Office, the ODP is better positioned to facilitate and coordinate NIH-wide efforts in this area.
Announcing the Prevention in Focus Webinar Series
The ODP recently launched the Prevention in Focus Webinar Series—previously known as the Prevention Scientific Interest Group (SIG) Webinar Series—featuring talks by prevention science experts making advances in public health. Subjects range from screening and physical activity to health disparities and other topics central to the practice and science of prevention. The webinar series provides an opportunity for the broader scientific community and members of the public to learn about the latest prevention research findings directly from experts working in the field. Past webinars are now available on the ODP website.
Our next webinar is on May 20 with Dr. Lucile Adams-Campbell and Dr. Chiranjeev Dash from the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center speaking about the Focused Intervention on Exercise to Reduce Cancer (FIERCE) trial. Register to learn about their research on the effect of exercise on metabolic syndrome components, obesity, and cancer-related biomarkers among metabolically unhealthy African American women at high risk of breast cancer.
Workshop to Identify Gaps in Nutrition Research for People with Cancer
As many as 80% of people with cancer experience malnutrition, but nutritional screening and interventions aren't standard parts of outpatient cancer care in the United States. Health care providers and decision-makers need high-quality research and a comprehensive review of the evidence to inform development of clinical guidelines and services to prevent or treat cancer-associated malnutrition.
On July 26–28, the ODP, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, NIH Office of Nutrition Research, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will host the Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Health Outcomes to discuss the current evidence and help identify priorities for future research in this area.
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Prevention Research Funding Opportunities
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April 29, 2022, 1:00 p.m. ET
Choosing Sample Sizes for Multilevel and Longitudinal Studies Analyzed with Linear Mixed Models
Methods: Mind the Gap Webinar
Keith Muller, Ph.D.
Deborah Glueck, Ph.D.
May 11, 2022, 11:00 a.m. ET Understanding and Preventing Sport-Related Brain Injury Using a Public Health Prevention Framework
Early-Stage Investigator Lecture
Christine Baugh, Ph.D., M.P.H.
May 17, 2022, 3:00 p.m. ET
Robust Inference for Stepped Wedge Designs
Methods: Mind the Gap Webinar
Jim Hughes, Ph.D.
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May 18, 2022, 3:00 p.m. ET
Should Older Adults with Diabetes and Obesity Lose Weight?
Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture in Epidemiology
Rena Wing, Ph.D.
May 20, 2022, 1:00 p.m. ET
FIERCE Exercise Study: A Community-Based Cancer Prevention Trial in Metabolically Unhealthy Black Women
Prevention in Focus Webinar
Lucile Adams-Campbell, Ph.D.
Chiranjeev Dash, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.B.S.
July 26–28, 2022
Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Health Outcomes
Pathways to Prevention Workshop
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Dr. Jay Kadane from Carnegie Mellon University outlines a method to assess the accuracy of binary tests in vivo without an assumed "gold standard" test.
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Prevention in Focus Webinar – Update 2022: COVID-19, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), and the Heart
Dr. Jane Newburger from Harvard Medical School and Dr. Dongngan Truong from the University of Utah review MIS-C, the latest advances from the Long-term outcomes after the Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MUSIC) study, and the epidemiology and manifestations of COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis in this January webinar.
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NIH Research Methods Resources—New Information About Stepped Wedge Group-Randomized Trials and More
The NIH Research Methods Resources website, which is managed by the ODP, now features helpful resources for stepped wedge group-or cluster-randomized trials as well as more than 15 other study designs and methodological issues. The new section on broadly applicable methods provides information on and examples of a variety of methodological issues investigators may need to address when designing, conducting, and analyzing a study. The material includes brief overviews of these issues, links to important references, and several pragmatic examples.
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