Public health touches everyone, everywhere; for this reason, this event is open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, community members, Public Health practitioners, health insurers, healthcare organizations, community organizations, and state agencies and organizations invested in advancing population health.

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Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023 at 5pm

Conference: Monday, March 27, 2023 at the UK Gatton Student Center 

For those working with undergraduates in any area of substance use, the Substance Use Research Priority Area (SUPRA) is happy to announce that we have partnered with the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) to award up to 5 undergraduate student summer fellowships through the Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) program. This program will provide $5000 summer stipend. Information for students, staff, and faculty that have interest in the CURE Fellowship, including the application portal, can be found here: https://our.uky.edu/CURE-Fellowship.

The submission deadline is March 1, 2023.  

UKinSPIRE (Seeding Partnerships for International Research Engagement) internal funding opportunity for all UK faculty.

UKinSPIRE is jointly funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) and the UK International Center (UKIC). It is intended to stimulate high-impact research projects in any discipline linking UK faculty and international collaborators, to establish collaborations with new international partner institutions, or add greater depth to existing institutional partnerships.

The inaugural call for proposals for UKinSPIRE grants is now open, and will be accepting applications through March 6, 2022. We anticipate making award decisions by mid-April, with project funds disbursed on or after July 1 for use in the coming fiscal year. Interested faculty are encouraged to download and review proposal guidelines, a sample proposal form, and recommended templates for supporting documents at

 UKinSPIRE Proposal Supporting Documents.

The online application form can be accessed here: https://forms.office.com/r/Ekp8V31tr4; proposers must be logged into their UKY MS Office accounts to submit the form and requested attachments.

Using Social Media in Research

February 15, 2023 | 12-1PM

Presenters:

• Alicia Gregory, Research Communications
• Carolyn Lauckner, Behavioral Science, Center for Health Equity Transformation
• Diane Francis, Communication

This is part of the VPR Lunch & Learn series.

Registration is not required.

Only available by Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/j/87433212500

In collaboration with the UK Centers listed below, we are now accepting applications for pilot awards in the following categories.  

CCTS/Markey Cancer Center

One award of up to $50,000, in total direct cost, will be made available to support a meritorious project that addresses cancer control, prevention, and/or community engagement topics that focus on the high incidence of cancer in Appalachian Kentucky. Potential studies could focus on psychosocial, behavioral, health policy, health services, cancer health equity, and other areas addressing cancer disparities in the region. Award duration is 12 months.

CCTS/Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Center

One award of up to $50,000, in total direct cost, will be made available to support a meritorious project that addresses basic and clinical translational aspects of diabetes and/or obesity.

Award duration is 12 months.

CCTS/Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center

One award of up to $50,000, in total direct cost, will be made available to support a meritorious project that addresses basic and clinical translational aspects of injuries to the spinal cord and brain that result in paralysis or other loss of neurologic function.

Award duration is 12 months.

CCTS/Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

One award of up to $50,000, in total direct cost, will be given to a meritorious project that focuses on innovative basic, translational and clinical studies relevant to aging and/or Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Award duration is 12 months. Funding for this award will begin July 1, 2023.

• Basic science proposals with a focus on translational research relevant to AD are strongly encouraged and of particular interest.
• Clinical proposals that investigate risk factors, prevention, preclinical AD, caregiving, minority populations, vascular cognitive impairment, cognitive processes, and neuroimaging are also encouraged.

In addition, researchers are encouraged, where possible, to incorporate and communicate with investigators in the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging existing Cores (Clinical, Neuropathology, Data Management & Statistics, Biomarker and Outreach & Recruitment) in order to strengthen their research plan.

The applicant must clarify how the pilot funding will potentially lead to major support to sustain the research efforts after the end of the one-year grant.

Letters of intent are due February 13, 2023. 

Full applications will be due April 3, 2023. 

There is an interesting opportunity to access a hyper-local dataset, for those interested. They’ll even give you a $250 grant to work with it. CivicLex is offering $250 grants for Lexington Residents to Explore the data they gathered during On the Table in more detail. Any Lexington Resident can use this application to apply for a microgrant on one of the topics listed here. Applications are rolling - apply anytime. Questions? You can contact Kit Anderson at [email protected]. 

Description: This funding opportunity will support the development and national dissemination of best practices to strengthen the capacity of child abuse hotline staff to distinguish between poverty and willful neglect. More than 60 percent of maltreatment determinations are for neglect without abuse (Children’s Bureau , 2021). There has been a growing national interest to encourage mandated reporters to become “mandated supporters,” whereby equal importance is placed on supporting families who would benefit from economic and concrete supports to avoid unnecessary contact with the child welfare system.

This funding will support building a national messaging campaign regarding how individuals can become a source of support to families in their community by acknowledging the impact of racial inequities and seeking solutions that can help mitigate child safety concerns before they rise to the level of crisis. Funding will also focus on the development of best practices for training and equipping child abuse hotline staff to navigate complex and wide-reaching needs such as understanding the distinction between poverty and willful neglect, implicit bias, addressing social and behavioral health needs, how and when to report child abuse, and providing warm hand offs to local resources whenever possible. Applicants must demonstrate the capacity and a plan to coordinate with the National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP), Child Welfare Information Gateway, and other hotlines administered by the Administration for Children and Families.

Announcement Number: HHS-2023-ACF-ACYF-CA-0015

Closing Date: March 13, 2023

Purpose: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (RCORP-NAS). The purpose of this program is to reduce the incidence and impact of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in rural communities by improving systems of care, family supports, and social determinants of health.

Over the course of a three-year period of performance, RCORP-NAS award recipients will form multi-sectoral consortia to achieve the following goals within a HRSA- designated rural service area:

1. Reduce structural- and systems-level barriers (e.g., transportation challenges, limited workforce, reimbursement issues, etc.) to
2. Increase access to behavioral health care, especially substance use disorders, including opioid use disorder (SUD/OUD), services for rural pregnant and postpartum persons and their families; and
3. Address community risk factors and social determinants of health.

Award recipients will implement activities in support of these goals that target rural individuals with SUD/OUD who are at risk of becoming pregnant, are currently pregnant, and/or have recently given birth, as well as their families.

Funding Amount/Project Period: up to $500,000 per year for 3 years

Institutional Limit: 1

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 7, 2023:

1. Names and departments/affiliations of the applicant 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

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

Description: The purpose of the Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models activity is to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models. Projects supported under this activity should be collaborative in nature and depend for their advancement on the coordinated interaction of two or more PIs/co-PIs, with balanced participation from both the mathematical sciences and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Additional participants from other disciplines, especially the biological sciences, are also welcome.

Each project should focus on a significant and well-delineated research challenge that integrates behavioral and social processes into mathematical epidemiological models.

Announcement Number: NSF 23-546

Closing Date: April 14, 2023

Description: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeks to decrease risk for type 2 diabetes among adults with prediabetes and improve self-care practices, quality of care, and early detection of complications among people with diabetes. Additionally, this NOFO will support implementation of evidence-based, family- centered childhood obesity interventions as a type 2 diabetes risk reduction strategy. All work supported under this NOFO will focus on reducing health disparities for priority populations, defined as those who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.

• The NOFO includes 3 components. Applicants may apply for only 1. Component A will fund 51 organizations (1 located in each state and the District of Columbia) to achieve state/district- wide reach on at least 6 strategies selected from the menu.
• Component B will fund up to 22 organizations to work in US counties identified as “high need” based on diabetes burden and social vulnerability to work on at least 4 strategies from the menu; applicants must reach a population > 350,000 across one or more of these counties.
• Component C will fund up to 4 multisectoral partnership networks to collaboratively address 4 aspects of work proven necessary to scale and sustain the National DPP to engage, enroll, and retain large numbers of participants.
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Announcement Number: CDC-RFA-DP-23-0020

Closing Date: March 7, 2023

Description: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support the goals and objectives of the proposed companion NOFO, CDC-RFA-DP23-2320: A Strategic Approach to Advancing Health Equity for Priority Populations with or at Risk for Diabetes. This NOFO aims to increase capacity among the companion NOFO recipients to improve equitable access to and delivery of diabetes management and type 2 diabetes prevention and risk reduction interventions for priority populations. Successful applicants will ensure companion NOFO recipients have relevant knowledge and skills by

1. obtaining and providing subject matter expertise through a network of sustainable partnerships
2. providing training and technical assistance (TA)
3. developing guidance documents and resources that inform their work.

Announcement Number: CDC-RFA-DP-23-0021

Closing Date: March 14, 2023

Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) – Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC)

Description: The purpose of this NOFO is to support an implementation research study to evaluate strategies to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among disproportionately affected populations, especially Black women in the United States. The recipient should implement evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies and evaluate the implementation strategies in healthcare clinics to increase PrEP service provision by healthcare providers and PrEP use. The recipient should assess the effectiveness of the implementation strategies using patient-level, longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) data pre- and post-implementation and should compare the effectiveness of different implementation strategies between clinics if appropriate and feasible.

The primary outcome should be increased PrEP initiation, and the secondary outcomes should be increased adherence to, and persistence with, PrEP. The recipient should evaluate the implementation strategies using an implementation science framework such as the RE-AIM framework. The recipient should also assess barriers and facilitators of PrEP initiation, adherence, and persistence among providers and women in healthcare clinics.

Announcement Number: RFA-PS-23-001

Closing Date: March 17, 2023