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NSF Defends Research Targeted in GOP Waste Reports
Two reports released in recent weeks by Republican policy makers point to hundreds of federally-funded activities they deem to be wasteful and unworthy of taxpayer support. Included in the reports are peer-reviewed research projects supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sen. James Lankfordâs (R-OK) Federal Fumbles claims to identify â100 ways the government dropped the ball,â poking fun at six NSF grants and two NIH grants, among dozens of other projects. A second report was released just last week by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Wastebook: The Farce Awakens. Flakeâs report is said to…
Funding Opportunity Announcements
NIFA: Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (USDA-NIFA-ICGP-005517) AHRQ: Increasing Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in Rural Primary Care Practices (R18) (RFA-HS-16-001) NIJ: Research on Measurement of Teen Dating Violence (NIJ-2016-9001) HRSA: Bridging the Word Gap Challenge NIH: Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program NIH: Notice to Extend PAR-13-055 Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01) (NOT-CA-16-006) [NCI, NCCIH, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIDA, NINDS, NIMH, NIMHD, NINR, and OBSSR] NIH: Notice to Extend PAR-13-054 Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21)Â (NOT-CA-16-007) [NIMH, NCI, NHGRI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDA, NINDS,…
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 34 Issue 22
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, this is an abbreviated edition of the COSSA Washington Update. We will be back on Tuesday, December 15 for our last issue of the year. Featured News Deadline for Comments on Common Rule NPRM Extended Federal Agency & Administration News BEA Releases State-Level Consumer Spending Data NIH Issues Notice Clarifying its Health Economics Research Priorities NIH Issues Funding Opportunity to Support the PMI Cohort Program Direct Volunteer Pilot Studies COSSA Member Spotlight COSSA Members Respond to OBSSR Strategic Plan Events Calendar
COSSA Members Respond to OBSSR Strategic Plan
Several COSSA member organizations responded to the recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) Request for Information (RFI) regarding its 2016-2020 Strategic Plan (see Update, November 3, 2015). In addition to stressing the challenges and opportunities for the behavioral sciences, the groups emphasize the need for continued leadership by OBSSR within NIH and the federal government. Below are highlights from the comments submitted by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), the Population Association of America/Association of Population Centers (PAA/APC), and the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM).
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 34 Issue 21
Featured News Save the Date: COSSA Annual Meeting & Advocacy Day, March 15-16 Congressional News Sam Farr, Ranking Member on House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, Announces Retirement Federal Agency & Administration News NIH Seeks Input for Alzheimerâs Disease-Related Dementia 2016 Plan NIDA Announces New Challenge: âAddiction Research: Thereâs an App for thatâ NCATS Issues RFI for Input into Strategic Plan OBSSR Hosts Seminar on Video Games and Neuroscience COSSA Member Spotlight COSSA Members among Worldâs Top 100 Social Science Universities AERA Hold Annual Brown Lecture on âIndigenous Pathways toward Justiceâ Events Calendar
NIDA Announces New Challenge: âAddiction Research: Thereâs an App for thatâ
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a new Challenge/Prize Competition, “Addiction Research: There’s an App for that.” The objective for the challenge is to âpromote the development of innovative mobile applications (apps) for future addiction studies.â According to the notice, three prizes may be awarded: $50,000 (first place); $30,000 (second place); and $20,000 (third place). The NIDA Challenge is enabled by the DHHS IDEA Lab program. Challenge partners include U.S. General Services Administration; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Sage Bionetworks;…
NCATS Issues RFI for Input into Strategic Plan
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking the scientific communityâs input into the development of its five-year strategic plan. This is NCATSâ first strategic plan since its creation in the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-482). Accordingly, NCATS has issued a request for information (RFI), âSoliciting Input for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Strategic Planning Processâ (NOT-TR-16-002). NCATS âfocuses on what is common across diseases and the translational processâ emphasizing âinnovation and deliverables, relying on the power of data and new technologies to…
OBSSR Hosts Seminar on Video Games and Neuroscience
Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, University of California, San Francisco, discussed his research and what he described as âthe new frontiersâ in video games and neuroscience. The November 5 presentation was part of the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Seminar Series, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). Gazzaley noted that humans have longed been consumed with achieving high-level performance, particularly when it comes to physical fitness. However, when it comes to the human brain and improving âthose core functions that are really fundamental to what makes us humansâhigher order cognitive ability, perception,…
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 34 Issue 20
Featured News With Budget Deal in the Books, Work Turns to Finalizing 2016 Spending Bills Federal Agency & Administration News NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Seeks Input on 2016-2020 Strategic Plan OBSSR and AHRQ Release Population Health: Behavioral and Social Science Insights NIH Announces Plans for ECHO Program HHS Seeks Comments on New Objectives Proposed For Healthy People 2020 NCHS Releases First National Data on Electronic Cigarette Usage NIH Blog Explains NIH Commons NIA Director Reports on the Progress of Alzheimer’s Research and Funding NIA Releases 10 Funding Opportunity Announcements Focused on Alzheimerâs disease Research Publications &…
Organizations Form Friends of NIMHD, Hold Welcome Reception for New Director
A diverse group of scientific societies and professional associations, including COSSA, have organized to create a coalition to advocate on behalf of the research supported by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). The newly formed group, the Friends of NIMHD, is an independent, voluntary coalition launched in 2015 to support the mission of NIMHD and its role in national efforts to improve minority health and eliminate health disparities. The coalition will serve as a united voice for a broad, diverse network of organizations, institutions, communities, stakeholders, and individuals who care about improving minority health and eliminating…
OBSSR and AHRQ Release Population Health: Behavioral and Social Science Insights
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have jointly released, Population Health: Behavioral and Social Science Insights, which details what is known and remaining gaps in research âabout the effects of various behavioral and social factors on longevity, disability and illness, and the quality of life, primarily at the population level.â
NIA Director Reports on the Progress of Alzheimer’s Research and Funding
On October 26, Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provided a progress report on the development of a bypass budget to the National Alzheimerâs Project Act (NAPA) Advisory Council on Alzheimerâs Research, Care, and Services. The âbypassâ or âprofessional judgmentâ budget is transmitted directly from NIA to the President and Congress without being revised through the traditional Federal budget process. Hodes explained that a series of meetings between 2012 and 2015 provided the basis for the comprehensive set of priorities, milestones and budget estimates included in the congressionally-mandated bypass…
NIA Releases 10 Funding Opportunity Announcements Focused on Alzheimerâs Disease Research
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released 10 funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) in anticipation of a substantial increase in its budget for Alzheimerâs disease research. The topics of the FOAs are in the areas of health disparities, caregiving, epidemiology, diagnosis and prediction, molecular and cellular mechanism, brain aging, and clinical trials. Funding for the FOAs is available beginning in FY 2016. These FOAs have set-aside funds associated with them; as long as funds are available, they will be supported in FY 2016 through FY 2019. NIA director Richard Hodes provided additional details…
Funding Opportunity Announcements
AHRQ: Extension of Expiration Dates for AHRQ Fellowship (F) and Career Development Award (K) Funding Opportunity Announcements (PA-12-261 and PA-13-039) (NOT-HS-16-001) NIFA: Specialty Crop Research Initiative (USDA-NIFA-SCRI-005437) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Evaluating High-Value Innovations from Low-Resource Communities NIH Funding Opportunities: NIH Common Fund: Metabolomics Data Analysis (R03) (RFA-RM-15-021). This funding opportunity announcement is intended to foster collaborations between bioinformaticians, biostatisticians, metabolomics experts, and/or biomedical researchers to promote the development of new or improved approaches to metabolomics data analysis. These are small, one-year grants âintended to complement the current efforts of the Common Fund Metabolomics Program and maximize the value of…
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 34 Issue 19
Featured News House Science Committee Advances âNational Interestâ Bill and Dyslexia Legislation Congressional News Budget Talks Progressing Slowly Amid GOP Leadership Vacuum Federal Agency & Administration News NIH/AHRQ Announce Policy Changes for Grant Applications NSF Seeks Candidates for Division Director of Social and Economic Sciences Census Bureau Marks World Statistics Day Publications & Community Events Academies Report Calls for Better Integration of Social Science into the USGCRP Funding Opportunity Announcements Events Calendar
Funding Opportunity Announcements
NIH: Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for the Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: Training in Computational Neuroscience, From Biology to Model and Back Again (T90/R90) (NOT-DA-15-081) NINR: Personalized Strategies to Manage Symptoms of Chronic Illness (R15) (PA-16-006), (R01) (PA-16-007), (R21) (PA-16-008) Back to this issueâs table of contents.
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 34 Issue 18
Featured News Government Shutdown Averted, For Now Federal Agency & Administration News NIH Associate Director for Data Science Discusses Opportunities and Challenges of Data Science National Science Board Seeks Nominations for 2016 Class Michael S. Lauer Named NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research NIH Seeks Comments on Strategic Plan to Advance Research on the Health and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Minorities USDA Starts Collecting Data on Post-Harvest Food Safety Practices White House Holds Forum on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing; OSTP Issues Memorandum to Agencies Publications & Community Events CPR Briefing Highlights NIH Peer Review Process SBE-Funded Researchers Receive âGeniusâ…
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 34 Issue 17
Featured News White House SBS Team Issues Inaugural Report; President Signs Executive Order Congressional News Advocates Call for Budget Deal as End of Fiscal Year Nears Federal Agency & Administration News NSF Seeks Nominations of Early-Career Researchers for Waterman Award Senior Leadership Changes Occurring at NIH NIH Releases Precision Medicine Initiative Framework for Cohort of One Million Perez-Stable Joins NIMHD; Participates in First Advisory Council Meeting Census Releases New ACS Estimates Publications & Community Events Social Science Teams among 2015 Golden Goose Winners Funding Opportunity Announcements Events Calendar
Social Science Teams among 2015 Golden Goose Winners
Recipients of the 2015 Golden Goose Award were honored at a ceremony in Washington, DC on September 17. The Golden Goose Award recognizes researchers whose federally funded work may have seemed odd or obscure when it was first conducted but has resulted in significant benefits to society. COSSA is a supporter of the Award. The 2015 recipients included a group of psychologists whose work on delayed gratification in children (the âmarshmallow testâ) had far-reaching implications for our understanding of human behavior, education, and health. The Golden Goose Award also honored two scientists whose collaborative research on âhypsographic demographyâ (the study…
Perez-Stable Joins NIMHD Participates in First Advisory Council Meeting
Just two weeks into his new position, newly appointed National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) director Eliseo Perez-Stable presided over his first meeting of the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NACMHD) on September 17. Perez-Stable was appointed by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins in April (See Update, May 4, 2015). Perez-Stable shared his excitement to be at the NIH and his appreciation for the opportunity to work on a topic that he is passionate about. As a resident, he was interested in Latino health care, particularly patient-doctor communication styles,…