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July 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 prevention@nih.gov.
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Call for Papers: Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities
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 I am proud to announce a call for abstracts for a supplemental issue of the journal Prevention Science, the official publication of the Society for Prevention Research, which will be sponsored by the ODP. The forthcoming issue will be entitled “Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities.”
We invite you to review the Submission & Review Process and Manuscript Details, and submit a two-page manuscript precis to ODP-Director@mail.nih.gov by September 1, 2022.
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Announcing a New Version of the Prevention Research Expertise Survey
 The ODP recently released an updated version of the Prevention Research Expertise Survey (PRES), and we encourage everyone—especially anyone with methodological and analytical expertise—to participate. This voluntary survey now better captures the current designs, methods, and topics that investigators are working in, and the experience that the NIH is looking for when identifying peer reviewers.
To ensure that NIH-supported research is both rigorous and reproducible, study sections need reviewers with relevant methodological expertise who can evaluate if research applications are using appropriate methods. PRES provides researchers, statisticians, and others in prevention science with an opportunity to share that expertise with us.
PRES takes approximately 15–25 minutes to complete and covers areas from research methods, study designs, and health topics, to working with different populations in different settings. Based on your responses, skill set, and interest, NIH staff may contact you about serving on a study section or giving a talk on your area of expertise.
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Prevention Research Funding Opportunities
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Decision Support Tool: Features to Consider in Determining if a Clinical Trial is Phase II or Phase III (PDF) NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
A resource to help investigators, program officers, and reviewers determine if a behavioral or social science study is better characterized as a Phase II or a Phase III clinical trial. NIH policy requirements vary based on the phase of a clinical trial.
Move Your Way ® Community Resources U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
A variety of free implementation resources for the Move Your Way campaign, which aims to help people live healthier lives through increased physical activity.
Youth Compendium of Physical Activities National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research
A list of 196 common activities in which youth participate and the estimated energy cost associated with each activity.
What Works Fact Sheet: Skin Cancer Prevention Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF)
A summary of CPSTF recommendations and findings for what works in public health to prevent skin cancer.
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2021 Community Preventive Services Task Force Annual Report to Congress
 The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) released its 2021 Annual Report to Congress. The report includes nine recommendations and findings for community intervention approaches that address heart disease and stroke prevention, HIV prevention, nutrition, and physical activity. It covers three economic reviews for recommended interventions addressing asthma, health equity, and heart disease and stroke prevention. The report also features children’s mental health and highlights CPSTF recommendations for school-based cognitive behavioral therapy programs that can help improve children’s access to mental health services.
The ODP is an official liaison for CPSTF and works to make sure that CPSTF recommendations represent the views, concerns, and needs of the NIH and our constituents. ODP and NIH staff serve on systematic review teams and help translate CPSTF recommendations into action.
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Staff Publications
Life expectancy by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000-19: a systematic analysis of health disparities
GBD US Health Disparities Collaborators [incl. Murray DM]. The Lancet. 2022 Jun 16;S0140-6736(22)00876-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00876-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35717994.
Emerging approaches to multiple chronic condition assessment
Suls J, Salive ME, Koroukian SM, Alemi F, Silber JH, Kastenmüller G, Klabunde CN. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2022 Jun 14;1‐10. doi: 10.1111/jgs.179141. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35699153.
Two weights make a wrong: Cluster randomized trials with variable cluster sizes and heterogeneous treatment effects
Wang X, Turner EL, Li F, Wang R, Moyer J, Cook AJ, Murray DM, Heagerty PJ. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2022 Mar;114:106702. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106702. Epub 2022 Feb 2. PMID: 35123029.
Staff Achievements
New Staff
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