The National Science Foundation’s newest environmental synthesis center, the Environmental Data Innovation and Inclusion Lab at UC Boulder, seeks proposals for interdisciplinary working groups blending diverse forms of environmental and social data to advance basic scientific understanding and enable informed environmental decision and policy making. A description of the ESIIL working group program can be found here, and the request for proposals can be found here.
Working groups are funded to meet in Boulder, CO, and virtually for several years, and are provided with world-class logistical and computational and analytic support. Proposals are short – 5 pages or fewer.
Please pass this opportunity on to anyone that you believe might benefit from it. The deadline is Nov 1, 2023.
The Office of Research Central has opened up their submission portal for The Bridge Funding Program, which provides funding to support faculty to span a temporary funding gap in critical research programs. A maximum of $50,000 may be applied for through the Provost. All funding requests must be matched 1:1 by the applicant’s college/school.
Eligibility Criteria
- Faculty with a track record of extramural funding who have lost all of their research support at the time of the Bridge application, or who will lose all of their research support within six months of the Bridge application deadline. Exceptions will be made for faculty who have lost or will lose 50% or more of their salary support. Such faculty are eligible for Bridge Funding even though they have existing funding. In addition, faculty members who have a grant that is restricted to pay only their salary (such as some NIH K awards) are eligible if they have no other research funding.
- Junior faculty with a record of productivity who have exhausted their startup funds, but who have not yet obtained their first research funding (including an RRF award) either as a PI or as a co-investigator.
- A facility providing a key resource to multiple faculty that has lost extramural support. One faculty member should submit the proposal on behalf of the team.
- Faculty who hold an RRF award are eligible if the amount of the award remaining at the time of Bridge Funding application is less than $30,000. Please note that applicants who apply to both programs (Bridge and RRF) simultaneously will only be given one award. If an individual holds a Bridge Funding award and subsequently receives an RRF award of $30,000 or more, any remaining Bridge monies must be returned.
At the time funding is established or re-established, unspent funds will be returned to the Bridge program so that others can benefit. These programs are not intended to initiate new research projects. For those needs, researchers should apply to the Royalty Research Fund.
If you have any questions, please contact Karen Luetjen or visit our web site for guidance and FAQs.
The Advancing Workforce Analysis and Research for Dementia (AWARD) Network is pleased to announce a Request for Applications (RFA). Pilot Awards are intended to support early-stage research on the workforce that serves people living with dementia. This research can be qualitative, quantitative, or use mixed methods, can be national, regional, or local in scope, and can focus on any topic related to the workforce and care for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Preliminary data is encouraged but not required for this application. Priority will be given to projects that focus on the direct care workforce, include aims specifically related to health equity and/or health disparities, and are designed to help the applicant collect the data and research skills needed to submit a strong NIH K-award or R-award application. We are particularly interested in supporting promising post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty, but applicants may be of any rank from a US-based institution. Read more here!
CSDE Affiliate Dr. Anna Zamora-Kapoor (Sociology and Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences at Washington State) has received the AIM-AHEAD Fellowship Program in Leadership, to master new skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve health equity. Dr. Zamora-Kapoor plans to use this opportunity to partner with Hispanic-serving clinics and understand their attitudes towards artificial intelligence and machine learning. This first step is critical to develop future studies that can leverage the strengths of artificial intelligence and machine learning in clinical settings and improve health outcomes among Hispanics in Washington state.
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CSDE Affiliate Erin Blakeney (UW School of Nursing, UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences) led a study with co-authors, published in Frontiers in Medicine titled “How and why might interprofessional patient- and family-centered rounds improve outcomes among healthcare teams and hospitalized patients? A conceptual framework informed by scoping and narrative literature review methods“. Poor communication within healthcare contributes to inefficiencies, medical errors, conflict, and other adverse outcomes. A promising model to improve outcomes resulting from poor communication in the inpatient hospital setting is Interprofessional Patient- and Family-Centered rounds (IPFCR). IPFCR brings two or more health professions together with hospitalized patients and families as part of a consistent, team-based routine to share information and collaboratively arrive at a daily plan of care. A growing body of literature focuses on implementation and outcomes of IPFCR to improve healthcare quality and team and patient outcomes. Most studies report positive changes following IPFCR implementation. However, conceptual frameworks and theoretical models are lacking in the IPFCR literature and represent a major gap that needs to be addressed to move this field forward. The purpose of this two-part review is to propose a conceptual framework of how IPFCR works. The goal is to articulate a framework that can be tested in subsequent research studies. Published IPFCR literature and relevant theories and frameworks were examined and synthesized to explore how IPFCR works, to situate IPFCR in relation to existing models and frameworks, and to postulate core components and underlying causal mechanisms. A preliminary, context-specific, conceptual framework is proposed illustrating interrelationships between four core components of IPFCR (interprofessional approach, intentional patient and family engagement, rounding structure, shared development of a daily care plan), improvements in communication, and better outcomes.