2022 CPH Research Day activities will be in conjunction with the 17^th Annual Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences Spring Conference

The conference will be in person at the Gatton Student Center on

April 5^th, 2022 8AM-5PM

Registration deadline for the Conference is March 25^th

Deadline for abstract submission is March 1^st

Submit your abstract and select “College of Public Health” under session category using this LINK.

Awards will be given at the CPH Award Ceremony on April 5, 2022 as part of National Public Health Week.

Undergraduate students can have one poster printed for free each semester https://our.uky.edu/posters. The Office of Research can assist with the cost of poster printing printing for others. Please email and send any questions to CPHResearch@uky.edu

A group of UK faculty are working to “revision” the Center for Health Services Research (CHSR). CHSR’s leadership left UK in September, and we see this as an opportunity to rethink and reorganize. Our overarching goal is to create a “CHSR 2.0” that is more inclusive of health services/health policy researchers across campus, is better connected to our educational programs, and offers a real value-add to researchers and the stakeholders we (can) serve.

If you consider yourself to be a health services researcher or just have an interest in HSR, we want to hear from you! Click the bold link below o RSVP for the session (and generate a zoom/outlook invite). 

Virtual focus group/listening sessions in the next few weeks: 

• Health Services Research Listening Session#2 

Friday, February 25, 2022 – 1-2pm 

• Health Services Research Listening Session#3 

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 – 2-3pm

Questions during these sessions will focus on:

• What value could a “CHSR 2.0” bring that would be meaningful to you?
• With your current HSR-related research projects, what services, resources, expertise, or education/training would be helpful?
• What is the next HSR project do you want to be involved with?
• What else should we be thinking about as we rethink and reorganize?

Thanks in advance for your input! 

Teresa Waters, Jeff Talbert, Virginia Valentin 

New NIH Administrative Supplements Available to Support Diversity Mentorship

New NIH administrative supplement recognizes the crucial role outstanding mentors play in fostering future leaders in the biomedical research enterprise. Qualified investigators can now submit proposals in response to the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity led Notice of Special Interest NOT-OD-22-057: Administrative Supplements to Recognize Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Mentorship.

Proposals are due by April 7, 2022.

Salary Cap Guidance

New salary levels for the Executive Pay Scale went into effect January 2022

Seeking Feedback on NIH-Wide Strategic Plan Framework for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility

Your input on the framework is welcomed as the plan is developed, which will help us ensure that DEIA principles continue to be embraced and integrated across NIH going forward. 

Please submit your comments by April 3, 2022.

Call for Application-Alliance LIFT members

The goal of Leveraging clinical, behavioral, biomedical, and policy Innovations to Facilitate Tobacco treatment in Kentucky (LIFT KY) is to drive the growth of innovative, multidisciplinary clinical, behavioral, biomedical, and policy-related research with the aim of reducing tobacco use in rural Kentucky and beyond.

To facilitate this goal, the LIFT, KY Alliance supports two grant programs.

1. Pilot Grant Program will provide up to $25,000 for data collection that will serve as pilot data for a competitive grant application submitted in 2022-2024.
2. Rapid Response Grant Program will provide up to $10,000 for data collection that will serve as pilot data for a resubmission of a grant submitted in 2022-2024

Guidelines

• Full-time faculty at the University of Kentucky are eligible for the pilot grant program. Faculty salary support may not be charged to the grant.
• Pilot Grants will not exceed $25,000, and the project must end by June 30, 2023.
• Rapid Response Grants will not exceed $10,000 and the project must end by June 30, 2023.
• Applications involving human subjects must obtain approval from the University of Kentucky’s Institutional Review Board before the seed grant is awarded.
• Applications are due by midnight, April 30, 2022.

Purpose: The purpose of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) RCORP–Behavioral Health Care Support (RCORP-BHS) is to advance RCORP’s overall goal by improving access to and quality of substance use disorder (SUD) and other behavioral health care services in rural communities. For the purposes of this NOFO, improving rural behavioral health care service delivery includes increasing access to and utilization of prevention, treatment, and recovery services to improve the care for those affected by behavioral health conditions, which may include substance use and mental health disorders.

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 March 8, 2022:

• Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners
• Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number
• Brief project description (2 pages maximum)
• 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 (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

Agency Deadline: April 19, 2022 

Related Announcements

PA-18-793- AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)

PA-18-794- AHRQ Small Research Grant Program (R03)

PA-18-795- AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)

PA-21-202 - AHRQ/PCORI Learning Health System Small Grant Pilot Program

PA-21-266 - Patient Safety Learning Laboratories: Advancing Patient Safety through Design, Systems Engineering, and Health Services Research (R18)

PA-21-267 - Making Health Care Safer in Ambulatory Care Settings and

Long-term Care Facilities (R18)

NOT-HS-16-011 - Innovative Research in Primary Care

NOT-HS-16-013 - Optimizing Care for People Living with Multiple Chronic Conditions through the Development of Enhanced Care Planning

Purpose: This Special Emphasis Notice (SEN) informs the research community that AHRQ is interested in receiving health services research grant applications to develop models of care that improve access, quality, and outcomes of care related to COVID-19 and post-acute sequalae from COVID-19.

Agency: American Cancer Society

Description: A call for research that evaluates the impact of the many changes now occurring in the healthcare system with a particular focus on cancer prevention, control, and treatment. Efforts focusing on improving access to care may also impact inequities that contribute to health disparities. New health public policy initiatives such as the new federal and state marketplaces that have expanded insurance coverage, as well as Medicaid expansion in some states, create natural experiments ripe for evaluation. Research to be funded by this RFA should focus on the changes in national, state, and/or local policy and the response to these changes by healthcare systems, insurers, payers, communities, practices, and patients.

Closing Date: April 1, 2022 and October 15, 2022