This funding opportunity announcement invites research projects that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in human health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing. Types of projects submitted under this FOA include studies that prospectively assign human participants to conditions (i.e., experimentally manipulate independent variables) and that assess biomedical and/or behavioral outcomes in humans to understand fundamental aspects of phenomena related to social connectedness and isolation. NIH considers such studies as Basic Experimental Studies with Humans (BESH) that are prospective basic science studies involving human participants that meet the NIH definition of basic research and fall within the NIH definition of clinical trials (see, e.g., NOT-OD-19-024). Applications should not propose a goal of clinical outcomes or products.
The link to the call is here.
The Russell Sage Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation seeks to support research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture, and public policy on outcomes for immigrants to the U.S. and for the U.S.-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. This initiative is part of RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program which invites proposals on a broader set of issues. Funds can support research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time. Letters of Inquiry are due on June 24th. See more details on the grant here.
CSDE Affiliate Carmen Gonzalez (Communication) co-authored an article in the Journal of Rural and Community Development, titled “Community-Identified Approaches to Improve Access to Telehealth in Rural Communities“. Despite a rapid growth in telehealth adoption in recent years, rural and remote communities still struggle with adoption. To address this issue, authors explored community-identified approaches to improving telehealth access in rural Washington State. Participants described a variety of solutions, prioritizing those that involved training/awareness efforts and healthcare systems engagement. The study’s findings provide insight into potential interventions to improve telehealth access in rural communities, considering their potential impact, feasibility, and cost.
Join us for CSDE’s annual closing reception on Friday May 31st at 12:30PM! We’ll present Demographic Methods Certificates and celebrate the end of a successful academic year. Please join us in recognizing all of these accomplishments! Every member of the CSDE community plays an important role in our broader research network and training program.
We will also select winners of the punch-card raffle!
CSDE Trainee Zeruiah Buchanan (Epidemiology) and CSDE Affiliate Alison Fohner (Epidemiology) released an article with colleagues in Public Health, titled “Electronic health record reveals community-level cardiometabolic health benefits associated with 10 years of community-based participatory research“. While a major goal of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is to improve community health, it is unclear how to measure longstanding success of CBPR. Authors sought to determine the impact of ongoing CBPR on cardiometabolic health in participating communities, including in people not directly participating in research. They used linear mixed-effects modelling with electronic medical records from 2002 to 2012 from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, which provides health care to all Alaska Native people in southwestern Alaska, to compare rates of change in cardiometabolic risk factors between communities that did and did not participate in ongoing CBPR beginning in 2003.
CSDE is happy to welcome Amy Bailey who will be at CSDE for the 2024-2025 academic year! Amy has also been a CSDE external affiliate since 2008 when she received her PhD in Sociology at UW. Dr. Bailey’s research focuses on racial inequality – specifically, the contemporary consequences of historical racial violence, the contextual factors associated with increased risk of lethal mob violence, and the characteristics of people who were targeted and killed by lynch mobs. Bailey’s earlier scholarship finds links between the local religious marketplace and the incidence of lynching, and that a higher percentage of potential lynchings were prevented in Southern counties with greater reliance on “New South” economic structures. Her work also demonstrates that Black and multiracial men who were killed by lynch mobs differed in important, status-linked, ways from other Black and multiracial men living in their counties. An additional line of scholarship examines the links between the US military and multiple forms of inequality, including incarceration, the community features associated with high levels of enlistment, and elevated rates of migration among veterans. Dr. Bailey will be sitting in CSDE, participating in CSDE events, and is happy to meet with any member of the CSDE community who also shares her research interests!