[ECPN] Grand Opportunity Initiative of NIH

[Shin, Hyucksun S]

Hi Tony,

 

I hope my vitae is not too late. I am very interested in being
considered as one of the people to be involved. Thanks.

 

Sunny Hyucksun Shin, MSW, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Boston University School of Social Work

264 Bay State Rd.  |  Boston, MA 02215

617-353-7912  |  Fax: (617)353-5612  |  hshin at bu.edu

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Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 4:58 PM
To: 'Early Career Preventionists Network'
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Subject: [ECPN] Grand Opportunity Initiative of NIH
Importance: High

 

Dear ECPN member: 

 

We are putting together a proposal for the Grand Opportunity Initiative
of NIH that would develop intervention research in the nation's highest
poverty communities. As you may know, President Obama has proposed the
creation of 20 "Promise Neighborhoods" that would be modeled after the
Harlem Children's Zone.  I believe that this effort-and the needs of the
many neighborhoods that will not be among the 20-will be strengthened if
the behavioral scientist community gets significantly involved in doing
intervention research in these communities. We have the potential to
truly translate existing knowledge into broad public health benefits. 

 

Our plan involves having early career scientists funded on each of the
teams we will create. The idea is to enable them to get experience and
support in developing this work and to thereby create the infrastructure
for the next generation of prevention research. 

 

If you are interested in being considered as one of the people to be
involved, please send me your vita.  This would not require you to move.
You could work from you current position, provided that we could work
out a subcontract. 

 

This is due May 29, so if you are interested please contact me ASAP.

 

Here is an abstract for the project: 

 

               ABSTRACT

            This Grand Opportunity project will create the
infrastructure to begin research on comprehensive preventive
interventions in the nation's highest poverty neighborhoods.
Neighborhoods of concentrated poverty are a major contributor to the
high levels of drug abuse, antisocial behavior, depression, academic
failure, and intergenerational poverty in the U.S. and are thus a
critical target for public health interventions. The recent accumulation
of evidence-based preventive interventions (IOM, 2009) shows that
substantial reductions in the prevalence of these problems are
achievable. However such changes will not be achieved until existing
knowledge is translated into effective interventions in high poverty
communities. The Obama administration has called for a "Promise
Neighborhood" initiative in which twenty high poverty neighborhoods are
helped to implement comprehensive preventive interventions. However, the
scientific infrastructure to support such interventions and to do the
research needed to evaluate them and refine them does not exist. And, it
is possible to assist more than twenty such neighborhoods. 

            We therefore propose to create the Promise Neighborhood
Consortium, which will develop the infrastructure by which the
scientific community can assist America's high poverty neighborhoods in
translating existing knowledge into widespread improvements in
wellbeing, including the prevention substance abuse, antisocial
behavior, risky sexual behavior, depression, and academic failure. The
Consortium will (a) build a network of neighborhood and community
leaders and behavioral scientists; (b) define and begin to implement
measures of wellbeing and risk and protective factors that are
fundamental to evaluating preventive intervention in neighborhoods; (c)
develop research on the impact of evidence-based policies, programs, and
practices when they are implemented in high poverty communities. These
activities will be supported by a state-of-the-art website that networks
people and organizations, obtains and displays data about neighborhoods,
disseminates information about evidence-based interventions, advocates
for research and intervention in high poverty neighborhoods, and
supports intervention research in these neighborhoods. 

            Over two years this project will: (a) create a network of
high poverty neighborhoods that are linked together in systematic
efforts to implement and evaluate preventive interventions;  (b)
implement monitoring systems in these neighborhoods; and (c) develop
experimental evaluations of intervention research in these neighborhoods
that will advance the efficiency and effectiveness of efforts to reduce
intergenerational poverty in America. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony

____________________________ 

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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