NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunities

The following funding opportunities from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest
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NIH Guide Notice:
• NOT-EB-11-007: Notice of Correction for PA-11-148 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine (R01)
• NOT-HL-11-155: Frequently Asked Questions for RFA-HL-12-027, Reducing the Impact of Hypertension in Low and Middle Income Countries (U01)
Program Announcement (PA):
• PAR-11-284: Health Promotion for Children With Physical Disabilities Through Physical Activity and Diet: Developing An Evidence Base (R21)
• PAR-11-288: Health Promotion for Children With Physical Disabilities Through Physical Activity and Diet: Developing An Evidence Base (R01)

Please note that most links to RFAs, PAs, and Guide Notices will take you to the NIH Web site. RFPs will take you to FedBizOpps. Links to RFPs will not work past their proposal receipt date. Archived versions of RFPs posted on FedBizOpps can be found on the FedBizOpps site using the FedBizOpps search function. Under “Document to Search,” select Archived Documents.

How Do You Create a Movement?

It starts with one community at a time. With the Healthy People 2020 topic areas and objectives in place, we can now provide data and tools to enable States, cities, communities, and individuals across the country to combine their efforts to achieve them. Start with MAP-IT: A Guide To Using Healthy People 2020 in Your Community.

The MAP-IT framework can be used to plan and evaluate public health interventions to achieve Healthy People 2020 objectives. The guide walks you through how to Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, and Track Healthy People 2020 in your community. It also includes resources on how to use Healthy People to make the case for funding. Even if you aren't able to use MAP-IT, you can still help implement Healthy People 2020 by sharing one of our MAP-IT Web badges on your site. Let's get Healthy People underway and reach our 2020 goals!

Get Startet with MAP-IT

Affordable Care Act to improve data collection, reduce health disparities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces new draft standards to improve the monitoring of health data by race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status, and begins planning for the collection of LGBT health data

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced new draft standards for collecting and reporting data on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability status, and announced the administration’s plans to begin collecting health data on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) populations. Both efforts aim to help researchers, policy makers, health providers and advocates to identify and address health disparities afflicting these communities.

“Health disparities have persistent and costly affects for minority communities, and the whole country,” Secretary Sebelius said. “Today we are taking critical steps toward ensuring the collection of useful national data on minority groups, including for the first time, LGBT populations. The data we will eventually collect in these efforts will serve as powerful tools and help us in our fight to end health disparities.”

Under the plan announced today, HHS will integrate questions on sexual orientation into national data collection efforts by 2013 and begin a process to collect information on gender identity. This plan includes the testing of questions on sexual orientation to potentially be incorporated into the National Health Interview Survey. The department also intends to convene a series of research roundtables with national experts to determine the best way to help the department collect data specific to gender identity.

“The first step is to make sure we are asking the right questions,” Secretary Sebelius said. “Sound data collection takes careful planning to ensure that accurate and actionable data is being recorded.”

Read the entire release at http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/06/20110629a.html

United Way Common Good Forecaster

Common Good Forecaster

The United Way and the American Human Development Project have created a tool to forecast how the outlook changes when educational outcomes are better. Users can enter their states and counties to see what factors such as high school and college completion can do to improve such areas as health, finance and community involvement.

A tool to estimate how educational attainment affects health, SES, and community involvement.

http://liveunited.org/sites/commongood/index.php/pages/common-good-forecaster

Healthy People 2020 Community Innovations

The Healthy People 2020 Community Innovations Project is being administered by John Snow, Inc. (JSI) as part of a contract it has with the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP). It will fund non-profit, community-based organizations with budgets less than $750,000 to implement projects that address Healthy People 2020 overarching goals, topic areas and objectives and integrate at least one of the following Healthy People 2020 Community Innovation Project priorities: environmental justice, health equity, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. As many as 170 projects will be given between $5,000 to $10,000 to conduct projects between December 1, 2011 and May 31, 2012.

The deadline for submitting an application in response to this Request for Proposal (RFP) is Friday, August 5, 2011. More details are included in the attached Healthy People 2020 RFP, which is also available online at http://1.usa.gov/kSzpXs

A conference call for prospective applicants will be held on Monday, June 27, 2011 - see the RFP for details.

http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/healthpolicy/Documents/HP2020CommunityInnovationsRFP.pdf

Why Place and Race Matter – New Report Released Today

Where you live impacts how you live. But, too often, policy makers don’t recognize that your race affects your health, too. From heart disease to cancer to child mortality to asthma, people of color are more likely to face significant health challenges – and more likely to die from those challenges. A new report we are releasing today, Why Place and Race Matter, makes the undeniable case that race must be central to the decisions made by policymakers, advocates, and community leaders if we ever hope to close the racial health gap. Download Why Place and Race Matter

Young Black Children and Children of Single Mothers Fare Worst in 2009 Rural Poverty Rates

Measuring by race, place, and family, poverty rates are highlighted for two rural groups--young lack children and children of single mothers--who each face rates around 50%.

Read the brief Beth Mattingly and Jessica Bean:
The Unequal Distribution of Child Poverty

Visit the Carsey Institute

Prevention Institute has launched Communities Taking Action

Profiles of Health Equity http://preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/communities-in-action-profiles-of-health-equity.html, an online database that highlights successful community efforts to increase health equity. The profiled communities promote racial and social justice through initiatives to prevent chronic disease, violence, and injury. The database includes 64 profiles in total, all plotted on an easy-to-browse google map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&source=embed&msa=0&msid=110686189629189089017.00048607df7316976662d&ll=40.979898,-97.207031&spn=39.578687,54.492188&z=4.

Together, the profiles demonstrate how strong leadership, community engagement and advocacy, and changes in local policies and institutional practices can lead to healthier, more equitable community environments. The Communities Taking Action Profiles http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/communities-in-action-profiles-of-health-equity.html provide strategies for community efforts to build health and equity. The profiles also provide media and policymakers with on-the-ground examples that illustrate effective cross-sector community prevention efforts.

Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) Resources from Candada

Addressing health disparities in health care service delivery and planning requires a solid understanding of key barriers to equitable access to high quality care and the specific needs of health-disadvantaged populations. And this requires an array of effective and practical planning tools.

HEIA is one part of the repertoire of equity-driven planning tools. It analyzes the potential impact of service, program or policy changes on health disparities and/or health-disadvantaged populations. It can both help to plan new services, policy development or other initiatives or assess existing programmes.

HEIA is not for all purposes -- for example, it is not as well suited for needs assessment, measuring and tracking action on equity, programme and service evaluation, or strategic planning. Rather, HEIA is often seen as ‘first-pass’ screening tool.

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Implementing the Health Equity Impact Assessment

HEIA--Potential For LHINs Oct 09

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