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As part of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine's Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, the Neuroscience RPA and Donna Wilcock, PhD are excited to host Lisa L. Barnes, PhD for her talk, "Epidemiology of cognitive aging in older African-Americans". on January 25, 2022 at 8am. 

 The Lecture will be presented virtually, in conjunction with UK Neurology Grand Rounds:

 https://uky.zoom.us/j/81749382834

Lisa L. Barnes, PhD, the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, is a cognitive neuropsychologist in the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Her work is focused on the epidemiology of aging and racial differences in chronic diseases of aging. Dr. Barnes received her PhD in biopsychology from the University of Michigan and completed a 3-year NIH post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. She is the Principal Investigator of three community-based cohort studies of older African Americans, and the Director of the Rush Center of Excellence on Disparities in HIV and Aging (CEDHA). Dr. Barnes is internationally recognized for her contributions to minority aging and minority health. She has published extensively on cognitive aging in older African Americans, and has received numerous awards and honors for her work in minority communities. 

The CCTS Spring Conference will be held on April 5, 2022 at the Gatton Student Center on Campus. This is an in-person event and not hybrid.

Our theme this year is Climate and Health; our Co-Chairs are College of Public Health's Dr.’s Erin Haynes and William (Bill) Haneberg.

Posters will be on display and presented in person! The poster session will begin at 3pm. All Abstracts will be Due March 4th, 2022 5pm EST 

Agency: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Description: Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from nonclinical, research-focused disciplines in which policy is a key lever for change (e.g., urban planning; political science; economics; anthropology; education; social work; sociology). HPRS is designed for students who are committed to ensuring their research is aligned with the health needs of communities. The program is focused on doctoral students who want to improve health, well-being, and equity; challenge long-standing, entrenched systems; exhibit new ways of working; collaborate across disciplines and sectors; and bolster their leadership skills. By providing training in health policy, how to think strategically, and how to craft an actionable research question that can inform solutions to advance health equity—as well as mentorship, career and leadership coaching—HPRS will develop a new cadre of research leaders who will build a Culture of Health in their disciplines and communities.

Award: Stipend: $30,000 per year for up to four years or until you complete your doctoral program (whichever is sooner). 

Closing Date: March 16, 2022

Purpose: The purpose of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network Program (RPHWTN) is to expand public health capacity by supporting health care job development, training and placement in rural communities. HRSA will support rural health networks (which may be composed of, but are not limited to, minority-serving institutions, community colleges, technical colleges, rural hospitals, community health centers, nursing homes and substance use providers) to address the

critical need for more trained health professionals, which has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is done through the establishment of networks to develop formal training/certification programs in order to help professionals in the following workforce training tracks:

Track #1 - Community Health Support (Community Health Workers)

Track #2 - Health IT and/or Telehealth Technical Support

Track #3 - Community Para-Medicine

Track #4 - Case Management Staff and/or Respiratory Therapists

The RPHWTN Program goals are to:

1. Establish a strong network of local health care and social service providers and educational institutions to create training programs focused on addressing the rural workforce needs in four critical public health tracks.
2. Develop innovative workforce approaches to expand health care capacity affected by COVID-19 (including long COVID), such as cross-training (new and current) staff to help support business operations and equipping public health professionals with the skills to engage in population health.
3. Identify formal and sustainable pathways with rural health facilities to eventually employ or rely on the public health professionals who complete the RPHWTN funded training/education to obtain high-quality, good-paying jobs.
4. Design or expand culturally and linguistically appropriate workforce trainings that will enhance the competency of the rural health workforce in order to improve health care in rural communities. 5) Develop approaches in training current/existing staff to maximize their clinical/operational capacity.

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 February 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 ([email protected]), or call 257-2861.