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Vice President for Research Lunch & Learn

Wednesday May 4, 2022 | 12:00-1:00PM

Presenters

• Trish Freeman, Director, Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Practice
• Hannah Knudsen, Professor, Behavioral Science
• Michelle Lofwall, Professor, Behavioral Science
• Katie Marks, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science
• Svetla Slavova, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
• April Young, Associate Professor, Epidemiology
• Sharon Walsh, Director, Center on Drug and Alcohol Research and Professor, Behavioral Science

Join via Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/j/9251686420

70+ courses in statistics, quantitative methods, & data analysis

• Develop the skills you need to conduct meaningful research on substantive issues. Highlights of this year's program include:
• A comprehensive curriculum, with introductory to advanced training in a wide range of techniques and methodologies. Courses include machine learning, Bayesian modeling, network analysis, data science and text analysis, SEM, and many more. 
• A fully hybrid format featuring plenty of opportunities to connect with instructors whether you're attending in-person or online. 
• Discounted registration fees if you register by May 15. We offer additional discounts for returning participants and ICPSR member institutions. 

For more information, visit icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog or contact [email protected].

 2022 UNITE Research Showcase

8:00 – 8:45 Registration and Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome Address and Irma Sarett Rosenstein Introduction –

• Eli Capilouto, DMD, ScD - University President
• Justin Miller, PhD, MSW, CSW - College of Social Work Dean

9:00 – 9:45 Irma Sarett Rosenstein Lecture –Marc Lamont Hill, PhD

10:00 – 11:15 Breakout Sessions

Advancing Health Equity with Evidence-Based Research

Moderator: Nancy Schoenberg, PhD

• Communication Strategies to Encourage Healthy Behaviors and Advance Health Equity for Black Populations- Diane Francis, PhD
• Sleep Is Not A Luxury: Leveraging Sleep As A Tool For Health Justice- Lauren Whitehurst, PhD
• Exploring Patient-Provider Communication Among Black Women Experiencing Sexual Pain- Shemeka Thorpe, PhD

Structural Racism – Impact on Economics and Neighborhoods

Moderator: Melynda Price, JD, PhD

• Environmental Justice: Causes and Consequences of Inequitable Pollution Exposure- Lala Ma, PhD
• Subcontracting Requirements and the Cost of Government Procurement- Ben Rosa, PhD
• Remote Justice in the Bankruptcy Courts- Christopher Bradley, JD, PhD

 11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break/Snack | 11:30 – 12:45 Breakout Sessions

Sustainable Social Justice Advocacy

Moderator: Christia Brown, PhD

• LGBTQ+ Mental Health & Well-Being: The Intersections of Identity and Outcomes- Keith Watts, PhD
• Community Work is Soul Work: Navigating Community-Engaged Participatory Research through a Social Justice Lens- Thais Council, PhD
• Model Minority, Inconvenient Minority, Loneliest Minority, or Perpetual Foreigners? "Asian Americans" as a category during the COVID pandemic- Keiko Tanaka, PhD

 Achieving Equitable Education: Holistic Approaches to Academic Success –

Moderator: Kenneth Tyler, PhD

• “Building Evidence to Advance Meaningful Integration in New York City”- Zitsi Mirakhur, PhD
• Contributions of Professional Associations to Advancing Social Justice and Anti-racism- Isaac Woods, PhD
• Adverse Childhood Experience and Undergraduate Student Success: A longitudinal investigation into the relationship between childhood stress and success in higher education- Sarah Cprek, PhD

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch and Keynote Introduction and Address

• Katrice Albert, PhD and Dana Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD

2:00 – 3:00 Poster Session | 3:15 – 3:45 UNITE Business Meeting

3:45 - 4:00 Closing & Poster Session Awards

2022 Sustainability Challenge Grant Program call for proposals.

Summary: The Sustainability Challenge Grant (SCG) program is requesting research, scholarship, and creative proposals for the 2022-2023 funding cycle. Sustainability, in this context, implies that the activities of the University of Kentucky are ecologically sound, socially just, and economically viable, and that they will continue to be so for future generations. A sustainability focus encourages the integration of these principles in curricula, research, and outreach. This principled approach to operational practices and intellectual pursuits prepares students and empowers the campus community to support sustainable development in the Commonwealth and beyond.     

Proposal submissions are due by May 11, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Submissions and questions should be submitted by email to [email protected]. The project period for this call is July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.

Funding: All awards are subject to the availability of funds, quality of the proposals submitted, and other applicable considerations. For 2022-2023, a total of $200,000 is expected with a maximum award of $50,000 per project. In previous years, the SCG program has awarded 6-8 projects.

Purpose: The Health Resources and Services Administration Community Health Worker Training Program (CHWTP) provides funding to support programs to train new community health workers (CHW) and enhance the knowledge/skills base of current CHWs and other health support workers and equip them with the skillsets needed to provide effective community outreach build trust with communities, support connections to and retention in care and support services, and other strategies to increase access to care and to assist individuals in prevention services, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies in underserved communities. 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: up to $3,000,000 total costs over 3 years. HRSA expects to make 75 awards.

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process, please upload the following, assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by May 3, 2022:

1. Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;
2. Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;
3. Brief project description (2 pages maximum);
4. Brief biographical sketch

 A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox ([email protected]), or call 257-2861.

Agency Deadline: June 14, 2022

Agency: NIH

Description: OJP’s Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs, including efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations (CBOs), law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.

Announcement Number: O-BJA-2022-171282

Closing Date: June 16, 2022

Agency: Department of Justice (DOJ) - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

Description: The goal of this program is to prevent sexual reoffending by youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior, promote healing, and provide services for victims and families/caregivers. This program will assist applicants in developing comprehensive, multidisciplinary approaches to provide a continuum of intervention and supervision services for adolescents with illegal sexual behavior and children with problematic sexual behavior; and treatment services for child victims and their families/caregivers.

The objectives of this program are to:

1. Improve family and system responses for youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior as well as child victims and their families/caregivers.
2. Increase protective factors in targeted youth to prevent sexual reoffending or continued problematic sexual behavior.
3. Enhance existing community/system response by filling identified gaps in service provision/programming.

Announcement Number: O-OJJDP-2022-171269

Closing Date: June 6, 2022

Agency: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Description: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2022 Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Regional Centers (ROTA-R) cooperative agreements. The purpose of this program is to implement regional centers of excellence to develop and disseminate training and technical assistance addressing opioid and stimulant misuse affecting rural communities. Recipients are expected to facilitate the identification of model programs, develop and update materials related to the prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery activities for opioid use disorder (OUD) and/or stimulant use disorder, and ensure that high-quality training is provided.

Recipients may use cooperative agreement funds to provide any allowable activities, if it does not interfere or prevent the recipient from performing all required activities and serving the total number of unduplicated individuals each year of the cooperative agreement.

Announcement Number: TI-22-012

Closing Date: June 14, 2022

Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) - Office of Minority Health (OMH)

Description: This notice solicits applications for projects from eligible public and non-profit entities to demonstrate the effectiveness of general health and wellness policies in improving Black youth mental health, including suicide prevention. For the purpose of this initiative Black youth is defined as children ages 10-17 years old, who are African American, or from the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, and other parts of the world with African ancestry who are living in the United States.

OMH anticipates the availability of $3,000,000 to support up to 8 awards, ranging from $350,000 to $400,000 annually for a project period of up to three years.

OMH encourages applicants to partner with a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) for community engagement and quality improvement.

Announcement Number: MP-CPI-22-001

Closing Date: June 22, 2022

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports the development of cancer-relevant technologies suitable for use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Specifically, the FOA solicits applications for projects to adapt, apply, and validate existing or emerging technologies into a new generation of user-friendly, low-cost technologies for preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and/or treating cancers in people living in LMICs. Applicants should have a working assay or device prototype (not necessarily already capable of cancer applications). The U01 project includes studies to both adapt this technology as well as demonstrate technical functionality and clinical performance for use of the device or assay in specific LMIC settings by meeting objective performance milestones followed by improvements and validations of the technologies in the LMIC settings. Projects proposed in response to this FOA will require multidisciplinary efforts to succeed; therefore, all applicant teams must include expertise in engineering/assay/treatment development, oncology, global healthcare delivery, and business development. Investigators responding to this FOA must consider affordability and cost-effectiveness as well as usability at the point-of-need as part of their design criteria. This funding opportunity is part of a broader NCI-sponsored Affordable Cancer Technologies (ACTs) Program.

Activity Code: U01 Research Project – Cooperative Agreements

Announcement Number: RFA-CA-22-020

Closing Date: June 17, 2022