[ECPN] Grand Opportunity Initiative of NIH - UPDATE from Dr. Tony Biglan

[DEEJAY GARRINGO]

Dear ECPN members: 

 

The response to my email has been substantial-and inspiring. I realized that in addition to having a
relatively small number of early career people have significant fte on the project, we should have
the project serve the needs of all early career preventionists who are working to (or want to)
implement and evaluate interventions in high-poverty communities. 

 

So I am adding to the proposal some conferences that will be designed to help early career
scientists who are interested in developing research in high-poverty communities develop research.
My notion is that researchers would bring one or two representatives of one or more high-poverty
neighborhoods to a conference where they would get technical assistance in planning interventions
and their evaluations. 

 

Here are some things that it would be helpful to know from each of you

 

1.    Would you be interested in attending such a conference? 

2.    What high-poverty neighborhoods have you worked in?

3.    What ones might you work in in the future? 

4.    What kinds of interventions would be interested in implementing and evaluating? 

5.    What other ideas do you have for how to get high quality research that translates what we know
into improvements in wellbeing in high-poverty neighborhoods? 

 

____________________________ 

Anthony Biglan, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Oregon Research Institute

1715 Franklin Blvd.

Eugene, OR 97403-1983

Phone: 541-484-2123

Fax: 541-484-1108

 

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