You are invited to submit a poster abstract to showcase your work!

There will be a student poster competition with cash prizes for Undergraduate/Graduate/PhD Categories.

The 2023 Public Health Showcase will take place Monday,

April 10, 2023, 8 AM-5 PM in-person at the UK Gatton Student Center. 

Click to Submit an Abstract

The College of Public Health Research Day will take place at the CCTS 2023 Spring Conference and is a valuable opportunity to present your research during the oral and poster sessions.

Join us for the 18th Annual CCTS 2023 Spring Conference: "Translating Equity into Action." Monday, March 27, 2023, 11:30 AM-3:30 PM in-person at the UK Gatton Student Center. 

Hundreds of participants attend this event annually, including investigators, research staff, trainees, students, and community partners. It's an opportunity to share findings, build collaborations, and provide mentorship. 

Submit an abstract by February 21st, 2023, at 5PM

Register to attend by March 20, 2023

The TCOM conference will be held on October 4 – 6, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Lexington, located in the Historic Downtown Lexington

All students, staff, and faculty of the College of Public Health are invited to submit proposals for review and for an opportunity to present your work.

The deadline for submissions is March 3, 2023.

Considering the (unusual) minimal traveling required time for this year's conference makes it a great fit and a rare opportunity for our local collaborators, faculty, and students to attend (in person) and benefit from this national conference.

Program Overview

The Summer Internship Academy is a structured 10 week program that allows current or recent students to explore what it is like to work in at the Virginia Department of Health. You’ll work directly with a program or health district on projects that immerse you in what it would be like to be a member of our team.

The academy is looking for interns to work hand in hand with not only Public Health programs but their Financial team, Human Resources, Communications, and Technology areas. The academy will be placing interns in locations across the state, including the Central Office located at the Madison Building in Richmond, VA, and Health Districts and Departments located in every county across the state.

Applications are now open and are due February 15, 2023.

Applicants should expect to hear back by April 2023.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants are ineligible for the academy and will not be considered in the selection process unless they meet the following criteria:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Legally eligible for employment in the United States in compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act. 
• Be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program, a Master’s or terminal degree candidate at a College or University (in state or out of state)
• Graduated with a Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s or terminal degree program at a College or University (in state or out of state) within the last 12 months,
• Have a 3.0 cumulate minimum GPA
• Ability to pass a criminal background check with the Virginia State Police

The Kentucky Innovator Challenge brings together leaders from business, service organizations and higher education for a one-day summit to identify the most pressing challenges facing Kentucky and discuss collaborative solutions through research and innovation.

UK Innovate is hosting this in-person event, which aims to forge new relationships and lay the groundwork for innovative solutions addressing the problems of our business partners.

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH), Office of Health Equity (OHE) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity designed to ensure that all marginalized and vulnerable populations receive equitable access to healthcare services to optimize Kentuckian’s health outcomes and reduce healthcare system barriers. 

This RFA focuses on the creation of formal collaborations between critical partners actively working in communities. Direct funding will be available to existing and new community partners who serve high-risk and underserved populations. Funds may be awarded to support the expansion of existing operations or the creation of new operations that support the proposed project goals. 

Deadline is March 1, 2024 (or until funds are exhausted)

Markey Women Strong is a philanthropic initiative of the Markey Cancer Foundation, comprised of community members who are interested in making a meaningful difference in cancer research by funding female researchers focused on cutting-edge cancer research at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. In 2023, Markey Women Strong will have raised $600,000 in support of cancer research at the Markey Cancer Center. The committee members each contribute a $1,000 donation annually to The Markey Cancer Foundation to fund the program. The collective pledges from the members fund two Markey Women Strong Distinguished Researcher awards of $50,000 each.

The funding period for this award is one year. The Markey Cancer Center Director can grant a one-year extension at his discretion, but after that time, any remaining funds will be returned to the Markey Cancer Foundation. 

Applications to this funding opportunity should include the following material assembled into a single PDF file.

• Title page. Include your name, degree(s), academic rank, department, and college.
• Lay abstract. Limit 30 lines. The abstract should be sufficient to inform Markey Women Strong committee members about the research conducted by the applicant. Please remember that the Markey Women Strong committee is composed of community members / laypeople. Please use language to describe your research that the general public would be able to comprehend. This will greatly increase your chances of success with this application.
• Brief description of your current research priorities and impact. Limit one page.
• A detailed budget for one year of proposed work. Faculty effort must be included.
• One week prior to the application deadline, please send budgets to Rachel Grace LeComte at [email protected] for compliance review.
• Performing this review with RCO staff will help identify any budgetary issues that would prevent your project from starting in a timely manner, should it be selected for funding.
• Short biography. In 250 words or less, summarize your experience and positions, honors and/or awards.
• Current NIH biosketch.

Additional eligibility requirements

• Applicants must be female researchers who are University of Kentucky faculty. Any type of cancer research is eligible.
• Applicants must be available to attend a virtual Meet the Researchers event on April 13, 2023, 6 pm to 7 pm as well as a reception on May 11, 2023, TBD. The Meet the Researchers event will allow you to present your research to the members and for them to be able to ask questions. For the applicants who are invited to present their proposed research project at the Meet the Researchers event, it is highly recommended to request a consultation with the MCC Community Outreach & Engagement (COE) office. The Markey Women’s Strong committee that selects the applicants to be funded is comprised of lay community members. The MCC COE can provide guidance to help researchers ensure that their presentations use language and visuals containing data or research-related images that the public will understand. Consultation requests must be submitted by April 5, 2023. For questions, contact, Caree McAfee, [email protected] The reception will provide the opportunity to honor the awardees and meet members of the Markey Women Strong committee and key Markey Cancer Center leadership.
• Applicants must not have been a Markey Women Strong Awardee in the last five years.
• Awardees will be required to submit a one-year progress report on their research activities, and may be asked to meet with Markey Women Strong representatives to discuss their work and progress on initiatives that were funded by their Distinguished Researcher award.

Application Deadline: Thursday March 22,2023

Email your application to J. Bybee ([email protected])  

Description: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is intended to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data. The primary motivation of the FOA is to understand the consequences of natural and human-made disasters, emerging environmental public health threats, and policy changes in the U.S. and abroad. A distinguishing feature of an appropriate study is the need for rapid review and funding, substantially shorter than the typical NIH grant review/award cycle, for the research question to be addressed and swiftly implemented. The shortened timeframe will be achieved by more frequent application due dates and expediting peer review, council concurrence and award issuance. The entire cycle, from submission to award, is expected to be within 4-6 months.

Announcement Number: RFA-ES-23-004

Closing Dates:

February 27, 2023; April 03, 2023; June 01, 2023; August 01, 2023; October 02, 2023; December 01, 2023;

February 01, 2024; April 01, 2024; June 03, 2024; August 01, 2024; October 01, 2024; December 02, 2024;

February 03, 2025; April 01, 2025; June 02, 2025; August 01, 2025; October 01, 2025; December 01, 2025

Agency: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Description: This initiative will support intervention research that addresses structural racism and discrimination (SRD) in order to improve minority health or reduce health disparities.

Health research and interventions need to routinely incorporate constructs and measurement of SRD across multiple socioecological domains and levels of influence in order to improve minority health, promote health equity, and eliminate health disparities. Examples of domains in which SRD may occur include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Organizational/Institutional: Organizational-level climate; workplace hiring, promotion, or disciplinary practices; academic tracking, stigmatization, school disciplinary and admission practices; tolerance of abuse/harassment; health care system practices.
• Neighborhood/Community: Housing or lending practices and property value assessments; zoning laws; neighborhood distribution of public transportation, green spaces, grocery stores, hospitals and emergency departments, and ambulatory health clinics; resource allocation for schools through local tax base; location of cellular towers for mobile access, highways and major thoroughfares, and industrial or waste sites; criminal justice profiling; police-involved violence; targeted social marketing of harmful or ineffective products; hate crimes.
• Societal: Criminal justice policies and sentencing practices, land/water use rights, self-governance or political representation for tribal communities and US territories, immigration and asylum policies and procedures, gerrymandering, voter suppression laws or practices, religious and cultural discrimination, depiction or representation in national media and social media.

This initiative will support intervention research to address the impact of SRD on minority health and health disparities. Research projects must address SRD in one or more NIH-designated populations with health disparities in the US and should address documented disparities in health outcomes. Applications are expected to provide a justification for why the specific types of SRD included constitute SRD, such as how the racism or discrimination is structural rather than reflecting individual-level behavior and how the SRD results in differential treatment or outcomes for less advantaged individuals, groups or populations. Applications are also expected to provide a conceptual model identifying hypothesized pathways between the SRD and health outcomes. Potential health outcomes may reflect health status; health condition-specific or all-cause disability, quality of life, mortality and morbidity; biological measures that reflect cumulative exposures to and effects of SRD; health behaviors; or access to, utilization of, or quality of health care.

Research designs should allow for the assessment of mechanisms through which the intervention modifies SRD and how these changes result in improvement in the targeted health outcomes. Mechanisms of interest related to SRD include changes to behaviors, environments, or policies at the interpersonal, organizational, neighborhood/community, or societal level.

Application budgets are limited to $500,000 direct costs annually, not including consortia F&A. The maximum project period is 5 years.

Announcement Number: PAR-23-112

Closing Date: March 24, 2023; October 10, 2023; October 9, 2024

Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to support resource projects to enable Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) communities to openly develop, extend, adapt, or refine data and metadata standards as well as associated tools to implement standards. The initiative is intended to catalyze community-driven standards development and related implementation in environmental health. Projects can support activities at any point in the data standards lifecycle and should build on existing resources, infrastructure, and partnerships whenever possible. The standards, software, best practices, or other tools developed should be broadly disseminated for adoption by the relevant biomedical communities.

Announcement Number: RFA-ES-23-002

Closing Date: May 10, 2023