Announcements
ATTENTION: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS...
Taking it to the Curbside: Engaging Communities to Create Sustainable Change
for Health
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Please join us in Boston, MA for a one-day northeast regional workshop for investigators and community partners to address issues of sustainability and capacity building related to community health. The workshop will focus on how academic and community partners can work together using research to foster sustainable health interventions. We will be accepting an even number of investigators and community partners, and spots are limited, so REGISTER NOW (pre-registration is required).
The workshop, sponsored by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, will be hosted by Harvard Medical School & The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (Harvard Catalyst), with support from the Institute for Community Health. It will be held at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston.
Co-sponsors include: Boston University, City of Lawrence Mayor's Health Task Force, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Common Pathways, Harvard University Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, Harvard School of Public Health, Immigrant Services Provider Group for Health, Massachusetts Cancer Prevention and Research Control Network, Tufts University, and University of Massachusetts, Boston/Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Comprehensive Cancer Partnerships
Program.
The Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Nina Wallerstein, Professor, Department of Community & Family Medicine, University of New Mexico and the Panel Facilitator will be Dr. Sarena Seifer, Executive Director of CCPH.
We are currently accepting abstracts for poster presentations to be held during a lunch networking session at the workshop. We are looking for presentations on projects that illustrate collaborative efforts between researchers and
community partners in capacity building and work towards sustainable health interventions. We want to provide an opportunity for people to share both the challenges they have faced and the strategies they have found successful. In your abstract, please specify how your project addresses the above goals and the academic-community partnership.
If you are interested in presenting a poster at the workshop, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words describing your project by FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 5:00 pm EST. The abstract should be submitted by email to Dr. Ann DiGirolamo at: adigirolamo@challiance.org. You will be notified about acceptance of your presentation by Friday, February 26, 2010.
For more information and to register, please visit
http://www.aptrweb.org/prof_dev/community10_harvard.html
or contact Dr.Ann DiGirolamo at adigirolamo@challiance.org.
GLIOMA SPORE APPLICATION
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Developmental Research Projects
The CNS Cancer program of DF/HCC is in the planning stages for a SPORE grant application focused on adult gliomas to be submitted in September 2010 http://spores.nci.nih.gov/index.htm. The application will include 2 Developmental Research Projects (DRP). These projects are intended to serve as pilot studies with translational potential. Successful DRPs may eventually evolve into major projects within the SPORE. The funding period for a DRP is 1-2 years with direct cost support of ~$100,000 per year.
In order to assist in the selection of DRPs for this application we are issuing a request for proposals. The proposal should consist of a 1-page description that should outline a hypothesis, supporting data and relevance to adult gliomas. The objective of major projects in the SPORE is to move from a laboratory-based study to a human intervention study within the 5-year time frame of the grant. Thus, a DRP should have a human intervention study (trial, diagnostic test, etc) as an ultimate objective.
The 1-page (Font size 12) proposals should be submitted to Deborah Goff (Deborah_goff@dfci.harvard.edu) by 5:00 PM on February 17.
The proposals will be reviewed by the Glioma SPORE Committee and two projects will be selected for inclusion in the grant application.