The Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health and the Washington University Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control (WashU-ISCCC) are requesting applications for their sixth annual “Next Steps in Public Health: Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Proposal Development Bootcamp.” The Bootcamp will be held on February 13th, 2020 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the […]
WU-CDTR in the News
Call for Applications: K12 MTIS Program for 2020
The K12 Mentored Training in Implementation Science (MTIS) Program is now accepting applications for 2020. Program Overview: The goal of the Mentored Training in Implementation Science (MTIS) career development program is to prepare scholars to become independent productive Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) researchers focused on Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep (HLBS) disorders. This K12 program provides […]
Call for Abstracts: Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science
The Interdisciplinary Association for Public Health Sciences calls for new abstract submissions for its 2020 conference. Abstracts may be accepted for Poster or Oral presentations. The submission deadline is March 9, 2020. To learn more about submission requirements, visit the IAPHS website.
Call for Abstracts: American Diabetes Association 2020 Scientific Sessions
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) invites all researchers and healthcare professionals involved in diabetes care and research to its 80th Scientific Sessions, which will run from June 12th to 16th, 2020 at the the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. Abstract submissions are now open and will be accepted until January 13, 2020. Visit […]
WU-CDTR member in the News: Spotlight on Dr. Ross Brownson in JPHMP
Dr. Ross Brownson, WU-CDTR Associate Director and Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis, is featured in a recent interview with the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP). In the interview, Brownson, who also directs the Prevention Research Center in St. Louis and serves as […]
Funding Opportunity: NIDDK R01 for “Food as Medicine”
Food as Medicine: Food Insecurity and HIV-related Comorbidities, Coinfections, and Complications within the Mission of the NIDDK (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks US domestic research projects that address how food insecurity affects HIV comorbidities, coinfections, and complications (CCCs) within the mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and […]
WU-CDTR Awards 3 Pilot & Feasibility Projects
The Center for Diabetes Translation Research is pleased to announce the 2019 Pilot and Feasibility Program grant recipients. Congratulations to the following three awardees! Abigail Barker, PhD– “The impact of sustained vs. temporary price changes for healthy and unhealthy foods: policy implications for low-income families” Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD– “Developing and piloting a virtual reality experience […]
ICTS NIH Mock Study Section LOI due Sept. 30th
Funding Opportunity: Public Health Cubed Seed Funding
Public Health Cubed Seed Funding (Cycle 3.0) Public Health Cubed (PH3) is a rapid seed funding mechanism for Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholars. The program nurtures novel ideas in public health research or education. It allows faculty teams to address major social problems too complex for a single disciplinary approach—and to pursue experimental ideas that […]
Funding Opportunity: KL2 Career Development Awards Program
The KL2 Career Development Awards Program at Washington University in St. Louis provides high-quality, multidisciplinary training in clinical and translational research to promote the career development of future clinical investigators. This program provides financial support and benefits that allow scholars to focus on mentored, multidisciplinary research, supplemented by applicable coursework. This multidisciplinary program reserves one […]
Call for Abstracts: Institute for Public Health 12th Annual Conference
Researchers gather in St. Louis for Tribal-Academic Partnerships in Diabetes Research and Proposal Development Workshop
On May 21st, the WU-CDTR and National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center hosted investigators for the Strengthening Tribal-Academic Partnership workshop. The day consisted of an interactive training using the Holding Spaces toolkit and grant proposal consultations. The Holding Spaces toolkit consists of resources and strategies to conduct community based participatory research and build […]
Now accepting applications for the Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) through Sunday, June 23, 2019
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in coordination with a number of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes and Centers and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), are hosting this training institute to provide participants with a thorough grounding in conducting D&I research in health across all areas of health and […]
The Next Generation of Diabetes Translation: A Path to Health Equity
A “new generation” of diabetes interventions is needed to translate evidence into practices that focus on eliminating disparities by addressing the social determinants of health, according to a leading expert from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “The past two decades have brought significant scientific advances in diabetes prevention and management, but […]
NIH Grant to Fund Study on How Communities Address Diabetes
Congratulations to Drs. Amy McQueen and Matt Kreuter who recently received an NIH grant to examine the impact of addressing unmet basic needs among Medicaid beneficiaries with diabetes. This collaborative, interdisciplinary study will involve partnering with the Louisiana Healthcare Connections, a Medicaid health plan that provides coverage to more than 465,000 in the state of Louisiana. The […]
Home-Based Lifestyle Intervention Minimizes Maternal Weight Gain
Weight gain during pregnancy and postpartum are important causes of long-term weight gain and the development of obesity-related diseases among women. A new, interdisciplinary study from Washington University in St. Louis finds providing a home-based lifestyle intervention effectively minimizes excess maternal weight gain during pregnancy and through 12 months postpartum in underserved African-American women with […]
Brownson Installed as Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor
Ross C. Brownson has been installed as the Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. A ceremony was held March 26 in the Emerson Auditorium in Knight Hall. Brownson is an international leader in public health and the prevention of chronic disease – a “leader among leaders,” said […]
Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika Receives 2019 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award
Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, a distinguished scholar in the fields of public health nutrition and health disparities research, was recently awarded the 2019 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. She currently serves as research professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health and is professor emerita of epidemiology […]
The Obesity Society: 2019 Call for Abstracts
The Obesity Society (TOS) 2019 Call for Abstracts is open from March 22 to April 22, 2019. Decisions on accepted abstracts will be emailed in late July from annualmeeting@obesity.org. Accepted abstracts will be presented on Tuesday, November 5, Wednesday, November 6 or Thursday, November 7. Please make travel plans to accommodate possible presentation times Tuesday through […]
Dr. Cynthia Herrick Featured on STL Public Radio to discuss postpartum diabetes screening
Dr. Cynthia Herrick was recently featured on St. Louis Public Radio to discuss findings from her BMC Public Health article “Postpartum diabetes screening among low income women with gestational diabetes in Missouri 2010–2015.” Dr. Herrick shared her thoughts on the racial disparities observed in gestational and emphasized the need for programs that support women from pregnancy to […]
WU-CDTR Event, May 21 | Strengthening Tribal + Academic Research Partnerships
Join the WU-CDTR and NCAI Policy Research Center for Strengthening Tribal-Academic Research Partnerships – an interactive learning experience with resources to strengthen governance, trust and culture in research partnerships. The event will feature an interactive learning experience where participants confront various challenges and decisions over the course of a 20-year timeframe. The goal of the activity is to […]
NIH Mock Study Section: Call for Abstracts
Abstracts for the ICTS NIH Mock Study Sections are due on March 25th, 2019! The event is designed to simulate an actual NIH study section, through the Research Development Program. These review sessions for clinical and translational R, K, and F series grant applications are held twice annually, in April and December. The purpose of […]
Request for Abstracts: Rural Health
Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on Rural Health, to be published in December 2019. We are grateful for the generous support of several funders (full list below). Deadline: March 25, 2019 Preparation and formatting guidelines Submit abstracts via our online submission form Queries: HealthAffairs_rural_queries@projecthope.org The issue will examine differences between rural and non-rural regions […]
Dr. Ebony Carter receives ADA Pathway Grant
On February 15th, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) announced the 2019 awardees for the Pathway to Stop Diabetes® grant program. WU-CDTR member, Dr. Ebony Carter was named a Pathway Accelerator Awardee, receiving $1.625 million over the five-year grant term. The Pathway Accelerator Award is designed to support exceptional, independent early-career researchers who have distinguished themselves […]
CRCAIH 7th Annual Summit
The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health (CRCAIH) Annual Summit provides a forum for American Indian health researchers, tribal communities, healthcare entities, and other various stakeholders to learn about innovative research being conducted in AIAN health, share challenges and lessons learned, and discover new resources and techniques. It also serves to strengthen partnerships and […]
CRISMA Conference
The Center for Social Development’s Collaboration on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America (CRISMA) will host its inaugural conference by convening scholars who study the impact of inequality and structural racism on people of color in the United States. The conference will bring together talented scholars working toward the elimination of racial inequalities in social, economic, and […]
Funding Opportunity | Research to Improve Native American Health
The National Institutes of Health invites grant applications (R21 Clinical Trials Optional) for exploratory developmental research to improve Native American (NA) health. Letters of intent are due 30 days prior to application deadline. The application deadline is May 14, 2019. For more details, click here.
Funding Opportunity | E4A: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation calls for proposals for its national program Evidence for Action (E4A). The program provides funding for research that expands the evidence base needed to build a Culture of Health. E4A supports rigorously designed quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research that yields convincing findings regarding the population health, well-being, and equity […]
Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health Summer Institute
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health will be hosting a Summer Institute with courses tailored to American Indian and Alaska Native scholars, health leaders, health professionals, and paraprofessionals serving tribal communities. The Center for American Indian Health provides financial support for interested researchers and […]
NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be hosting their Pathways to Prevention Workshop on Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services on June 19th and 20th, at 8:30 am ET. The workshop will examine current scientific evidence on achieving health equity in the use of clinical preventive services, specifically in the areas of cancer, heart […]
Save the Date: 2019 Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI)
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) from August 12-16, 2019, in Bethesda, MD. The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising minority health/health disparities research scientists early in their careers and stimulate research in the disciplines supported by health disparities […]
NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites promising, early-career minority health/health disparities research scientists to apply to the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI). The program will take place on August 12-16 in Bethesda, MD. Click here for further information on the program application and registration.
Due March 1: KL2 Career Development Awards
The KL2 Career Development Awards Program at Washington University in St. Louis provides high-quality, multidisciplinary training in clinical and translational research to promote the career development of future clinical investigators. This program provides financial support and benefits that allow scholars to focus on mentored, multidisciplinary research, supplemented by applicable coursework. This multidisciplinary program reserves one […]
Due March 15: K12 Mentored Training in Implementation Science
Application Process Applications for 2019: October 1, 2018 – March 15, 2019. Project Overview The goal of the Mentored Training in Implementation Science (MTIS) career development program is to prepare scholars to become independent productive Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) researchers focused on Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep (HLBS) disorders. This K12 program provides personalized educational […]
Dissemination & Implementation Stats Solutions Symposium
February 4, 2019 from 8AM to 4PM at Taylor Avenue Building, Doll & Hill, Medical Campus This Symposium seeks to address the unique challenges of cutting-edge research designs. D&I science requires novel designs. Rigorous analysis of the data yielded by these designs necessitates advanced statistical tools which are lacking in many training programs. At this […]
Dr. Carter awarded K23 for pilot on prenatal care for diabetes
Dr. Ebony Carter has received a Mentored Patient-Oriented Career Development Award (K23) to study the impact of group prenatal diabetes care in improving health outcomes for low-income African-American women with type 2 and gestational diabetes. Carter’s pilot program, Diabetes Centering Pregnancy (Diabetes CP), seeks to work with women with increased risks of developing post-partum cardiovascular […]
Now Accepting Applications for 2018-19 D&I Bootcamp!
Applications are now open for the 2019 Center for Dissemination & Implementation at the Institute of Public Health’s third annual “Next Steps in Public Health: Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Proposal Development Bootcamp”. It is an all-day, one-time, intensive day of consultations for anyone interested in advancing a D&I grant proposal for external submission. The event will take […]
Call for Abstracts | ICTS Symposium
The Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translation Sciences will be hosting a symposium with poster sessions on January 15, 2019 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) from 10am to 3pm. The ICTS is soliciting posters relevant to broad themes in implementation, innovation, and entrepreneurship, including but not limited to: Engaging stakeholders in […]
Call for Abstracts | 2019 ADA Scientific Sessions
Save the Date! Mark your calendars now for the world’s largest, most prominent meeting on diabetes―the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions. Next year’s meeting will be held June 7-11, 2019, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The Scientific Sessions offers researchers and health care professionals an amazing opportunity to share ideas and learn […]
Call for Papers/Participation | Race in the Marketplace Forum
Race in the Marketplace (RIM) Research Forum June 25 – June 27, 2019 | Paris, France …Crossing Critical Boundaries… RIM is back! Building on the successful inaugural RIM Research Forum held in Washington D.C in spring 2017, RIM has decided to broaden the movement across the Atlantic and hold the second biannual RIM Research Forum […]
Haire-Joshu Honored at 2018 Founders Day Celebration
Congratulations to our Center Director, Dr. Haire-Joshu, who was among four Washington University faculty members to receive the Distinguished Faculty Award at the University’s annual Founder’s Day celebration. The Distinguished Faculty Awards recognize outstanding commitment to the intellectual and personal development of students. Awardees also demonstrate distinguished service to the Washington University community while epitomizing […]
McBride Named Bernard Becker Professor
On November 5th, Tim McBride was installed as the Bernard Becker Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. McBride is an influential health policy analyst and leading health economists who has helped to shape the national agenda on various health related issues. He currently studies the effects of health reform at the state and […]
Tabak and PAT Continue Collaboration with 5-Year NIH Grant
This August, Dr. Rachel Tabak received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate the impact of Healthy Eating and Active Living Taught at Home (HEALTH), a lifestyle modification intervention which addresses obesity and chronic disease prevention in young mothers. Tabak, who serves as lead for the Dissemination and Implementation in […]
Call for Proposals | NCAI Tribal Leader & Scholar Forum
SAVE THE DATE! The 14th Annual Tribal Leader/Scholar Forum will be held at the NCAI Mid Year Conference in Reno NV on June 23-26, 2019. The NCAI Policy Research Center’s Tribal Leader/Scholar Forum provides an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, community members, and others to present their findings to tribal leaders, policymakers, and tribal members during […]
Introducing the New CDTR Website
We are pleased to announce the launch of our newly redesigned CDTR website. With more user-friendly features, the new website allows users to… Request core services with the streamlined center services request form Review past pilot projects in the comprehensive Pilot & Feasibility Projects archive. Access archived CDTR webinars At CDTR, we strive to foster […]