PRISE Center Postdoc Opportunity

Applications Now Open for the 2024/2025 PRISE Center T32 Postdoc Cohort

The Partnerships for Research in Implementation Science for Equity in Heart and Lung Diseases (PRISE-HL) T32 program aims to provide support to outstanding post-doctoral scholars with interdisciplinary training in implementation science and health equity approaches to help transform the uptake and delivery of evidence-based interventions for heart and lung diseases in clinical and community settings. 

We have 3 open positions in the PRISE Center sponsored T32, to start by July 1, 2024. The location for this postdoc position is University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) or University of California, Irvine (UCI). The position may be fully remote or hybrid depending on the research scope.

One-year training slots are available on a competitive basis to trainees proposing implementation science research in NHLBI priority areas (heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders), focusing on health disparities. We are accepting applications until March 1, 2024.

Please click the link below for application details and requirements. Kindly share this link with your network, and do reach out if you have any candidates who would be a good fit for the PRISE T32 program.

For inquiries: Contact PRISE Program Coordinator Tiese Etim-Inyang [Tiese.Etim-Inyang@ucsf.edu]

The CAPS Implementation Science

and Health Systems Core

and

CAPS/DPS/PRC Town Hall Present



Audrey Pettifor, PhD

Professor and Associate Chair of Epidemiology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Next Steps for Implementation Science in the

HIV Prevention Space for Adolescents and

Young Adults in Southern Africa

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

11am - Noon

In-person meeting room MH-3700, Mission Hall, 3rd Floor

(Zoom option available - register below to receive link)

This presentation will focus on gaps in the current Implementation Science (IS) research agenda with regard to HIV and care for adolescent girls and young women and provide examples of how researchers can use IS to move the prevention and care field further.

Audrey Pettifor, PhD, is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fellow in the Carolina Population Center and an Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Dr. Pettifor has conducted research on HIV prevention in Southern Africa for over 25 years. Her research focuses on structural determinants of HIV/STI infection in sub-Saharan Africa particularly in among adolescents and young women. She is co-chair of the NIH HIV Prevention Trials Network Adolescent Working Group and is a member of the NIH NIAID Advisory Council. She is MPI of a D43 in South Africa on HIV Implementation Science and a member of the Fogarty Adolescent HIV Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA).

This Town Hall is Co-Sponsored by the UCSF PRISE Center.

CVP Faculty Lecture Series



John Sauceda, PhD, MSc, MA

Associate Professor and Health Psychologist, Division of Prevention Science, UCSF Department of Medicine

The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST): A different way to streamline the building, testing, and scale-up of optimized behavioral interventions

Monday, December 18

12:10pm – 1pm

Hybrid: 1950 Pride Hall, Conference Room 1950

See Zoom Link and Access Details Below

Zoom Access Details: Meeting ID: 970 8513 8838 Password: 837000

Earlier this year, Dr. John Sauceda wrote about MOST, describing it as “an engineering-inspired framework for designing and building optimized interventions,” and detailed his use of the strategy in A factorial experiment grounded in the multiphase optimization strategy to promote viral suppression among people who inject drugs on the Texas-Mexico border: a study protocol. 

Join Dr. Sauceda's talk on December 18th to hear about his use of MOST and consider how it might serve work in your field.

Call for ImS Papers - Annals of Epidemiology

Manuscripts Due: March 15, 2024

An exciting new special issue titled "Implementation Science in Epidemiology: Measurement, Mechanisms, and Novel Methods" from Annals of Epidemiology, a journal published by Elsevier, is open for submissions. The special issue accepts research on epidemiological methods to understand issues in the field of implementation science related to measurement, mechanisms, and novel methods to measure impacts on population health. Annals of Epidemiology is the official journal of American College of Epidemiology. 

You can read the full special issue scope at the link below:

NIH Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health Funding Announcements

These FOAs encourage investigators to submit research grant applications that will identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and community settings. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. These FOAs expire in 2025. Check notice for details.

R01 Research Project Grant

R03 Small Grant Program

R21 Exploratory/Development Research Grant Award

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Dissemination and Implementation Funding Initiatives

PCORI currently offers three funding opportunities to support projects that facilitate the uptake and integration of evidence from PCORI-funded studies, in the context of related evidence, into real-world practice.

PFAs Open January 9, 2024

Letter of Intent due February 6, 2024

Applications due May 7, 2024

PCORI Engagement Award Program

The PCORI Engagement Award Program will release PFAs on January 16, 2024 for 3 different types of engagement awards: Capacity Building, Dissemination, and Convening Support. Click on the button below for more information.

PFAs Open January 16, 2024

Letter of Intent due April 4, 2024

Full proposals (invitation only) due July 10, 2024

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) pre-announcement call: Implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases

This call focuses on implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases in low and middle-income countries and/or disadvantaged populations in high-income countries.

Application portal opens early 2024

First stage proposals due May 15, 2024

Second stage proposals due (invitation only) September 18, 2024

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