| | September 2024Updates 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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Partners in Research: Communities and NIH Working Together to Promote Health for All |
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Have you heard about NIH’s innovative research program designed to create lasting change by addressing the underlying structural factors that shape health? Through the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program, NIH is directly funding research projects led by community organizations. This post, written in collaboration with the NIH ComPASS Program, highlights how ComPASS is advancing prevention research led by communities and the synergies between ComPASS and ODP initiatives. |
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Now Accepting Nominations for the 2025 ODP Early Stage Investigator Lecture
Are you or is someone you know an early stage investigator who has made innovative and significant research accomplishments in applied prevention research? Submit a nomination for the 2025 ODP Early Stage Investigator Lecture by October 25, 2024! The award is given every year to early career scientists who have made significant research contributions in prevention but who have not yet been awarded an R01 or R01-equivalent NIH research grant. The awardee(s) will share their research in an online lecture hosted by ODP. They will also have the opportunity to meet and network virtually with NIH program directors and scientists. |
New from ODP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention! The Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette SmokingODP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are seeking innovative community solutions to reduce menthol cigarette smoking among groups with high rates of use, including youth, LGBTQI+ populations, people with lower incomes, and racial and ethnic minorities. ODP and CDC will award up to nine prizes of $100,000 each to local and state organizations and agencies for promising community-led solutions that address menthol cigarette smoking. These solutions will help inform future federally funded research initiatives or demonstration projects to enhance the evidence base of interventions that can help individuals quit smoking, with a special emphasis on menthol cigarettes. Submissions open November 1, 2024, and all entries are due by February 28, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET. ODP Sponsors Journal Issue on Research Methods for Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health DisparitiesA new open-access supplemental issue of Prevention Science, “Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities,” brings together new ideas and examples of strong applications of existing design and analytic methods for studies aimed at reducing health disparities. ODP sponsored the issue to address the growing need for specialized design and analytical approaches to evaluate complex, multilevel interventions that move beyond individual factors to modify adverse social determinants that create and perpetuate health disparities. In addition, ODP created a complementary “quick guide” that investigators can use to navigate the 12 peer-reviewed articles in the issue and identify papers relevant to their work, such as power calculations and sample size, the use of simulations to inform study design, mixed methods approaches, health equity metrics or outcomes, and intervention development. Tobacco Regulatory Science Program Announces Grant to Study Public Health Communication Messaging About the Continuum of Risk for Tobacco ProductsThe Tobacco Regulatory Science Program, National Cancer Institute, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) are pleased to announce the recent award of a grant to understand the impact of continuum of risk messaging. Principal Investigators, Dr. Meghan Moran of Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Andy Tan of the University of Pennsylvania, will work collaboratively with NIH and CTP to conduct research to better understand effective communication strategies to convey the relative risks of tobacco products accurately among adults who currently use combustible tobacco and minimize the products’ appeal among youth populations. |
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A Guide to Methods for Assessing Childhood Obesity
National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research Designed to assist users in selecting the most appropriate method of measuring adiposity in children when conducting population-level research and/or evaluation on obesity. Violence Prevention Resources for Tribal Communities
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Resources, organizations, and articles that American Indian and Alaska Native communities can use to strengthen violence prevention efforts. Health Communication: Evidence-Based Resources
Healthy People 2030 Learn about proven, science-based methods to improve communication so that people can easily understand and act on health information. Use these resources to develop programs and policies that are informed by evidence on what’s effective, replicable, scalable, and sustainable. |
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Recent WebinarsMethods: Mind the Gap Webinar Series Prevention in Focus Webinar Series Community Preventive Services Task Force 2023 Annual Report to CongressThe Community Preventive Services Task Force’s (CPSTF) 2023 Annual Report to Congress summarizes the work of the CPSTF from fiscal year 2023 and includes the following: - Four recommendations and findings for intervention approaches that address cancer screening; mental health; nutrition, physical activity, and obesity; and substance use
- Two economic reviews of previously recommended interventions that address cancer screening and nutrition, physical activity, and obesity
The report lists critical evidence gaps identified for the intervention approaches and highlights the priority topics CPSTF selected to guide reviews from 2020 to 2025. CPSTF is an independent, nonfederal panel of public health and prevention experts that provides recommendations and findings on programs, services, and other interventions to protect and improve population health. |
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Call for Papers—Structural Approaches to Youth Violence Prevention: Addressing Racism and DiscriminationThe journal Prevention Science is asking for submissions for an upcoming supplemental issue on youth violence prevention. The goal of this issue is to advance work in this area by highlighting the latest advances in the conceptualization, development, testing, and dissemination of community-engaged, multilevel youth violence prevention interventions that address racism/discrimination and other structural and social determinants. This supplement aims to bring together scholars funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities initiative on youth violence prevention (RFA-MD-18-005) and other key scholars in the field of youth violence prevention to describe their work on preventive intervention development, implementation, and dissemination through an equity lens. Letters of intent are due by September 30, 2024. Request for Information on Recommendations on Re-envisioning U.S. Postdoctoral Research Training and Career Progression within the Biomedical Research EnterpriseNIH is dedicated to improving the postdoctoral experience to ensure the biomedical research enterprise can retain and attract our nation’s brightest scientific minds and remain globally competitive. A December 2023 report (PDF) from the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) is informing NIH efforts to help re-envision the postdoctoral experience. NIH is seeking your input to help implement specific ACD recommendations. Your additional suggestions, evidence-based strategies, and relevant data or related experiences will help inform NIH’s potential strategies to implement the ACD recommendations. Coming Soon: A New NIH Grants and Funding WebsiteThe NIH Office of Extramural Research is excited to announce it will be rolling out a redesigned NIH Grants and Funding website on September 24. The new design, explained in a brief video tour, was developed with the needs of the grants community in mind, based on website usage data and feedback provided through site surveys over the years. Key features of the redesign include clearer and less complex navigation, a re-envisioned NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts that will make it easier to find funding opportunities, and even a streamlined design for the How to Apply – Application Guide page. NIH Issues New Centralized Resource of Policies and Practices for Promoting Responsible Use of Artificial IntelligenceNIH recently released a centralized policy resource to help the research community understand how NIH policies guide artificial intelligence (AI)-related research. The resource illustrates the applicability of existing policies and guidance to research involving AI technologies, including policies related to participant protections, intellectual property, peer review, and many other topics. |
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Upcoming Staff PresentationsAmerican Public Health Association 2024 Annual Meeting & Expo (Minneapolis, MN) - Creating a healthier future for all: Prioritizing efforts to address research gaps in chronic disease screening and prevention
Poster presented by Jen Rodriguez, M.S.P.H., October 27, 2024, 3:00 p.m. CT
- Identifying risks and interventions to optimize postpartum health
Poster presented by Yewande Oladeinde, Ph.D. (NIMHD), on behalf of the planning team for the NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Identifying Risks and Interventions to Optimize Postpartum Health, October 27, 2024, 3:00 p.m. CT
- Health & Housing: How the NIH, HUD, and CDC are Collaboratively Identifying Research Gaps and Opportunities
Moderated by JoyAnn Courtney, Ph.D., October 28, 2024, 10:30 a.m. CT
Staff PublicationsEvaluating analytic models for individually randomized group treatment trials with complex clustering in nested and crossed designs
Moyer JC, Li F, Cook AJ, Heagerty PJ, Pals SL, Turner EL, Wang R, Zhou Y, Yu Q, Wang X, Murray DM. Statistics in Medicine. 2024 Sep 3. doi: 10.1002/sim.10206. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39225281. The burden of cirrhosis mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000–19: a systematic analysis of health disparities
Nassereldine H, Compton K, Li Z, Baumann M, Kelly YO, Motte-Kerr WL, Daoud F, Rodriquez EJ, Mensah GA, Nápoles AM, Pérez-Stable EJ, Murray CJL, Mokdad AH, Dwyer-Lindgren L. Lancet Public Health. 2024 July 14. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00131-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39004094. Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities: Rigorous Methods Are Available
Murray DM, Goodman MS. Prevention Science. 2024 Jul 1. doi: 10.1007/s11121-024-01676-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38951424. |
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