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There is a vast array of public and private information sources, available to support the work of the Drexel School of Public Health faculty and staff. Included here are links to federal and state organizations, private foundations and guides to help with submission.
In addition, the school's affiliation with both the College of Nursing & Health Professions and the College of Medicine allows for many partnerships and shared research endeavors.
The Drexel School of Public Health is located in the heart of Philadelphia, the sixth-largest city in the United States. This allows for extensive outreach for community-based research activities and neighborhood health partnerships. |
Call for ACHI Annual Conference Proposals
July 2008
The annual Fundamentals of Medical Research Seminar will be held on July 22 and 23. This program is geared to junior faculty and fellows. Click here for agenda and further details. Please RSVP by July 15th to Arlene Padolina. More...
Call for ACHI Annual Conference Proposals
June 2008
The Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) invites your proposals for concurrent breakout sessions for its March 11-13, 2009 national conference in Los Angeles, California. More...
Two Grant Opportunities from HHS
June 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, is currently offering the following two grant opportunities:
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Improving Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Interventions and Programs in Low Income Adult Populations (R01)2.
Improving Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Interventions and Programs in Low Income Adult Populations (R21)
PhRMA Foundation Grants
June 2008
The Phrma Foundation has grants available in the fields of informatics, pharmacology, and health outcomes. Please visit the Foundation's website for detailed information and applications.
Drexel Office of Research Promotes "GRAND" International Research Initiative
May 2008
Date: June 2nd 2008
Time: 4pm - 6:30pm
Venue: Paul Peck Alumini Center, Drexel University
"GRAND stands for Global Research and Academic Network at Drexel, which is a new initiative to encourage faculty with international research interests and contacts to link up with one another across the university. Through this network we hope to facilitate global research and academic partnerships,enhance awareness of global oppurtunities and increase Drexel's international visibility in line with the University's strategic plan." More...
Drexel Office of Research Funding Opportunity from Hablamos Juntos
May 2008
Hablamos Juntos is pleased to announce a unique opportunity for health care facilities serving multilingual communities, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio. In an ongoing partnership with the Society for Environmental and Graphic Design (SEGD), Hablamos Juntos is launching this initiative aimed at encouraging widespread adoption of Universal Health Care symbols by health facilities serving populations unable to read or with limited English proficiency (LEP). The Pioneer Portfolio supports innovative ideas and projects that may lead to important breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. Please help us get the word out of this unique opportunity by forwarding this email to health facilities that may be interested in symbols based signage. Health facilities ranging from small treatment or health centers, single building health care facilities and facilities part of multi-building campus with advanced preparations for implementing new wayfinding systems are encouraged to apply.
Universally recognized graphic symbols, such as traffic symbols or those used to identify parking spaces for the physically handicapped, can be effective ways of communicating with low literacy and limited English speaking populations. Pictures or images that consistently enable logical associations are what make symbols useful in communicating across languages and cultures. Using a rigorous development and testing process, phase one involved the most comprehensive symbols design effort ever undertaken and produced 28 universal health care symbols.
In this second phase, we are seeking four volunteer health facilities ready to implement new signage or wayfinding systems to innovate using symbol-based signage and to help develop best practices for health environments. The project offers a team of leading national experts in symbols and wayfinding signage to support design and testing of health care facilities signage systems using graphic symbols. Facilities selected will be rewarded with award-winning wayfinding systems using best practice application of symbols as a practical solution in health care signage for multilingual and literacy challenged populations.
The deadline for application is July 1, 2008. For a copy of the RFA seeking innovator health facilities to implement symbol-based signage click here.
2008 PPHA Conference Call for Abstracts
May 2008
The 2008 Pennsylvania Public Health Association has announced its Call for Abstracts. Access to the form and guidelines can be found on the PPHA website. The conference will take place November 17-19 in Philadelphia and is entitled: "Innovative Collaborations in Public Health: Forming a More Perfect Union." The conference will focus on two themes: 1) Bridging the Gap between Professional Services and Public Need: Involving Communities through Lay Health Educators and 2) Social Marketing: Public Health Messaging for Micro and Macro Audiences.
There will be workshops and panels at the conference this year. Interested parties working in public health programs across the commonwealth that integrate one or both of the themes above are asked to please contact Michael A. Stinson, MSPH, CHES (PPHA Board Member, 2008 Conference Committee Chair Director of Prevention Services Joseph J Peters Institute) by email: mstinson@jjp.org or phone: 215-701-1570.
Drexel Office of Research Sponsors Modeling and Simulation Day
April 2008
The Office of Research is sponsoring a Modeling and Simulation Day, on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, in Bossone Auditorium from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. We would like to have 5 minute talks (2-3 Powerpoint slides) by all researchers who are using computer models or computer simulations in their work. This includes both description of complex processes based on scientific principles (e.g. dispersion of chemical agents in a water system following a bio-terror event), or simulation for training purposes of events in a setting close to real life (e.g. a surgeon using remote controlled instruments in a training exercise.) Our goal is to permit researchers who may be using related as well as complimentary methods to become aware of each others' efforts: thus a brief but comprehensive view is what we are aiming for.
Modeling and Simulation is of much current interest, and has the potential to be well supported. Drexel has a high level of effort in these areas, that can only benefit by greater cohesion and visibility.
Please send your name, and a title for your talk, to research@drexel.edu no later than Friday April 18. Please be sure to put the phrase Simulation Talk in the title of the email.
Proposals Sought for Innovative Global Health Research
March 2008
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that beginning March 31, 2008, it will accept grant proposals for the first funding round of Grand Challenges Explorations, a new $100 million initiative to help scientists across the globe pursue ideas that have never before been tested for solving major health problems. More...
Federal Resources | State Resources | Foundations | Proposal Writing Resources
Federal Resources:
Administration for Children and Families, HHA (ACF)Office of Minority HealthAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)Centers for Disease Control and PreventionEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.Fogarty International Center, NIH (FIC)General Services Administration (GSA) U.S.Grants.govHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)National Institutes of Health (NIH)National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.State Resources:
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Foundations:
Aetna Foundation
American Public Health Association
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
Association of Medical College (AAMC)
Association of Schools of Public Health
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
The California Endowment
California Health Care Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Center for the Advancement of Health
The Commonwealth Fund
Community of Science, Inc.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Ford Foundation
Grantmakers in Health
Health Research and Educational Trust
Heinz Family Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
Novartis Foundation
Pew Charitable Trust
Pfizer MAP Grants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Rural Information Center (RIC)
White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Proposal Writing Resources:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) U.S.
Foundation Center
National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM)
Office of Extramural Research, NIH (OER)