Due to an increase in Other Support requests from other colleges, the CPH Research team wants to send a reminder that if a faculty member receives an Other Support request for a proposal, JIT request, RPPR, etc., tplease forward that request as soon as it is received. You can forward the request to Elizabeth Crolley, Doris Castellanos, Krys Lynam, and Jeff Kurz. Keeping the Research Team involved from the beginning of the Other Support process ensures that we maintain compliance with sponsor and University guidelines regarding Other Support.

If you have any questions regarding Other Support or the process, you can read more about it here or contact the CPH Research team.

Learn about types of agreements, when an agreement is needed, and how to obtain each agreement.

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 –10:30am-12:30pm ET: Live session via Zoom

through Friday, July 22, 2022- 1:30pm-3:00pm ET: Live session via Zoom

A 4-day livestream seminar taught by Nick Huntington-Klein, Ph.D.

This course offers an overview of difference-in-differences (DID) methodology. DID compares before/after differences for a treated group against before/after differences for a group that did not receive treatment at that time to estimate a causal effect of treatment.

Difference-in-differences can be applied in many settings, and is probably the most-used quasi-experimental design in the modern quantitative social sciences. Learning to use and evaluate DID designs is crucial for policy evaluation and understanding the applied causal inference literature. 

After this course, you will be able to:

• Understand difference-in-differences designs and when to use them.
• Estimate DID models.
• Evaluate the plausibility of DID assumptions.
• Use popular extensions to DID, such as rollout designs.
• Understand related methods like synthetic control and matrix completion

This seminar will use R for the empirical examples and exercises. Code files will also be available for Stata.

The NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases, in collaboration with the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) announce the availability of limited funds to support pilot projects focused on research examining obesity-associated diseases. Emphasis for support will be placed on pilot projects that examine the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, COVID-19, cancer, or neurodegenerative diseases.  These pilot grants are intended to assist investigators new to this area of research to generate sufficient data to be competitive for extramural funding. 

**This is the final year of the Obesity-related Phase III COBRE so there is a strong chance that this will be the last Pilot Call under this mechanism. 

Funding Amount: Individual project awards (up to $50,000 in direct costs only) will be made on a competitive basis and must be spent by July 31, 2023.

Eligibility is limited to full-time regular, special, and clinical title faculty as well as full-time research faculty of the University of Kentucky. Junior faculty members are especially encouraged to apply.

Investigators in training including residents, post-doctoral fellows, and clinical fellows are not eligible to serve as PIs but may be co-investigators.

Timeline: Applications are due by 5:00 PM, Thursday, June 30, 2022.

Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) – Office of Minority Health (OMH)

Description: This notice solicits applications from public and non-profit private entities to be demonstration sites that identify and implement innovative strategies to enhance language access services through: (1) policy development and implementation; (2) technology utilization; (3) education for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP); and (4) education for providers, including medical support staff.

Award recipients under this announcement should meet each of the below expectations in the execution of their funded projects: environmental scan; internal written organizational policies and procedure;

identify, develop, and test evidence-informed methods; expand and increase the utilization of language access services; develop and implement an evaluation plan; dissemination of findings; disparity impact statement.

Announcement Number: MP-CPI-22-005

Closing Date: July 15, 2022

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to support studies that aim to better understand and/or address survivorship needs for individuals living with likely incurable cancer. This group is heterogenous in terms of cancer type, treatments received, prognosis, and outcomes. Specifically, this RFA is intended to solicit applications proposing 1) observational studies to understand the trajectory of physical and psychological symptoms, patterns of care, and unmet needs; and/or 2) the development and testing of interventions to improve the delivery of comprehensive survivorship care in this group of cancer survivors.

Announcement Number: RFA-CA-22-027

Closing Date: September 30, 2022; September 29, 2023