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

[Penniman, Typhanye]

Hi Deejay!

If you have an NIH funded post doc, can you even aply for this?

See below answers to the questions.
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From: ecpn-bounces at preventionresearch.org on behalf of DEEJAY GARRINGO
Sent: Tue 5/12/2009 2:44 PM
To: 'Early Career Preventionists Network'
Cc: tony at ori.org
Subject: [ECPN] Grand Opportunity Initiative of NIH - UPDATE from Dr. TonyBiglan

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?

YES

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

South Los Angeles (Watts, South LA, Compton),

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

Baltimore, MD

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

Drug use interventions, mental health interventions, infectious disease prevention interventions

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?

Taking  acommunity-based approach, but this is nothing new.

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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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