January 2023

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.

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Spotlight on 2022

Request for Information: Innovative Approaches To Promote Mental Wellness in Populations That Experience Health Disparities

Are you a health care provider, researcher, or mental health advocate? Do you have experience with preventive intervention strategies that move beyond the traditional approach of providing mental health treatment and that instead address social determinants of health to prevent the development of mental health problems in populations that experience health disparities? If so, NIH wants to hear from you! As part of the new ADVANCE: Advancing Prevention Research for Health Equity initiative, NIH is seeking information about successful strategies from a variety of contributors, including but not limited to health care providers/organizations, complementary and integrative health clinical institutions, mental health clinics, mental health advocacy organizations, schools/educational institutions, community- and faith-based organizations, state or local governmental organizations, and researchers. Input from community-based service providers and other community-based organizations about promising or successful approaches in their communities is particularly encouraged. Find more information about potential topics of interest and learn how to submit a response in NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-23-030.

New Publications: Using Provider-to-Provider Telehealth To Improve Health Outcomes in Rural Settings

Several new publications based on the NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication are now available:

• Independent Panel’s Final Report: Summarizes the workshop and outlines research gaps
  • A plain language summary (PDF) of the panel’s recommendations is also available on the ODP website.
• Systematic Evidence Review: Synthesizes published research related to the workshop key questions
   
• Federal Partners Meeting Report (PDF): An action plan for addressing the panel’s recommendations

Featuring upcoming funding opportunities in tobacco regulatory science and multimorbidity. Find more than 300 other funding opportunities on our website related to topics and research methods in the field of prevention.

Career Development Awards in Tobacco Regulatory Research
First application due dates: February 21, 2023
Resources: Frequently Asked Questions (PDF), K01 and K99/R00 Mechanisms Fact Sheet (PDF), Pre-Application Webinar
 

• Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K01 — Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) [RFA-OD-22-023]
   
• Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K01 — Independent Clinical Trial Required) [RFA-OD-22-024]
   
• Pathway to Independence Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K99/R00 — Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) [RFA-OD-22-025]
   
• Pathway to Independence Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K99/R00 — Independent Clinical Trial Required) [RFA-OD-22-026]

Notice to extend the expiration date for funding opportunities to better understand, measure, and intervene on multimorbidity (PAR-20-179 and PAR-20-180) [NOT-OD-23-033]
New expiration dates: January 8, 2024
Resources: Frequently Asked Questions (PDF), Pre-Application Webinar

Connect & Explore Webinar Series
National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research
A webinar series featuring leading national and international experts presenting on emerging developments, opportunities, and challenges in childhood obesity prevention research, practice, and policy.

Health Disparities Research Institute
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
NIMHD’s Health Disparities Research Institute supports the career development of promising early-career minority health and health disparities research scientists, and stimulates research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science. Applications are due by March 13, 2023.

Hear Her Campaign
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Resources to improve maternal health outcomes by raising awareness of life-threatening warning signs during and after pregnancy and improving communication between health care providers and their patients.

ODP Events

February 27, 2023, 10:00 a.m. ET
Why You Should Consider Using Randomization Tests To Analyze Your Stepped Wedge Trial

Methods: Mind the Gap Webinar Jennifer Thompson, Ph.D. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Partner Events 

February 9–10, 2023

Bridging the Biological and Communication Sciences on Nutrients and Environmental Contaminants in Foods to Support Child Development

Sponsored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

April 4–5, 2023
NCI Symposium on Cancer Health Disparities
Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute 

Call for Papers on Advances in Social Media Research To Reduce Tobacco Use 

The Tobacco Regulatory Science Program and the National Cancer Institute are supporting a special issue of the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research focused on advances in social media research to reduce tobacco use. Manuscripts must be submitted by March 31, 2023.
 

2022 ODP Co-Funded Prevention Research

ODP helps support the work of NIH Institutes and Centers and other federal partners in prevention, particularly for collaborative initiatives or projects that address gaps in research and practice. Check out the 65 prevention research grants, workshops, and federal initiatives we helped fund in 2022!
 

Recent Webinars

Methods: Mind the Gap Webinar Series

• Toward Causal Inference in Cluster Randomized Trials: Estimands and Reflection on Current Practice
  Fan Li, Ph.D. (Yale School of Public Health)
   
• An Introduction to Cross-classified, Multiple Membership, and Dynamic Group Multilevel Models
  Donald Hedeker, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Prevention in Focus Webinar Series

• World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior for Persons with Disabilities: Process to Practice
  Catherine Carty, Ph.D. (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Munster Technological University)
  Lindsay Lee, M.P.P., M.Sc. (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital)
   
• Say “Yes!” to Health Literacy in Cancer Prevention and Control 
  Cathy Meade, Ph.D. (University of South Florida)
  Clement K. Gwede, Ph.D. (University of South Florida)
   
• Better Measurement of Multimorbidity: What’s New and What Funding is Available?
  Jerry Suls, Ph.D. (Northwell Health)
  Siran M. Koroukian, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)
  Marcel Salive, M.D., M.P.H. (NIH)

Staff Achievements

Congratulations to ODP’s NIH Director’s Award recipients! ODP staff received awards for their work in the following programs.

• Transformative Research Addressing Health Disparities and Advancing Health Equity Workgroup
  In recognition of advancing research to address health disparities: Jennifer Alvidrez, Jacqueline Lloyd, David M. Murray
   
• Racial and Ethnic Equity Plan Guidance Committee
  For outstanding leadership in Racial and Ethnic Equity Plan guidance development: Jennifer Alvidrez, Melissa Green Parker
   

Staff Publications

Analysis of multiple-period group randomized trials: random coefficients model or repeated measures ANOVA?
Moyer JC, Heagerty PJ, Murray DM. Trials. 2022 Dec 7;23(1):987. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06917-2. PMID: 36476294.

Investment in Prevention Health Care Delivery Research by the National Institutes of Health
Ganoza LF, Villani J, Klabunde CN. Medical Care. 2023 Feb 1;61(2):75-80. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001809. Epub 2022 Dec 6. PMID: 36630558.

Strategic Directions in Preventive Intervention Research to Advance Health Equity
Boyd RC, Castro FG, Finigan-Carr N, Okamoto SK, Barlow A, Kim BE, Lambert S, Lloyd J, Zhang X, Barksdale CL, Crowley DM, Maldonado-Molina M, Obasi EM, Kenney A. Prevention Science. 2022 Dec 5:1–20. doi: 10.1007/s11121-022-01462-5. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 36469162; PMCID: PMC9734404.

Tobacco promotion restriction policies on social media
Kong G, Laestadius L, Vassey J, Majmundar A, Stroup AM, Meissner HI, Taleb ZB, Cruz TB, Emery SL, Romer D. Tobacco Control. 2022 Nov 3:tobaccocontrol-2022-057348. doi: 10.1136/tc-2022-057348. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 36328589.

Thirteenth annual UPenn conference on statistical issues in clinical trials: Cluster-randomized clinical trials-opportunities and challenges (afternoon panel session)
Copas A, Murray DM, Roberts JN. Clinical Trials. 2022 Aug;19(4):422-431. Epub 2022 Aug 5. PMID: 35924779.