NEW Funding Opportunity for Early Career Investigators in Cardiovascular Research

The Early Career Advisory Committee of the CVRI is pleased to announce a unique funding opportunity for Early Career investigators who are developing new skills and/or who are seeking a novel research experience aimed at developing a career in cardiovascular research.  

Eligibility: 

·         Early career investigators at UVM who are working with a UVM mentor or an external (non-UVM) mentor

·         Early career investigators at external institutions who will be working with a mentor at UVM

·         For the purpose of this funding, early career investigators are considered to be:

o   Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students

o   2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th year medical students

o   Postdoctoral fellows

o   Residents and clinical fellows

o   Faculty and Staff within 5 years of their first appointment

Funding:  Applications requesting up to $10,000 will be considered. 

For more details and application instructions, please see the attached document. 

The complete application is due by February 14, 2020.

Please contact CVRI-VT@med.uvm.edu if you have any questions. 

Sponsored by the CVRI Early Career Advisory Committee

Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont. 

  

Nancy Gell provided follow-up to our discussion today:

Here is a link for The 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Helsinki, Finland, 10-14 June 2013 where the concept of Health in All Policies was discussed: https://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/8gchp/statement_2013/en/

From the website:

Health in All Policies is an approach to public policies across sectors that systematically takes into account the health implications of decisions, seeks synergies, and avoids harmful health impacts in order to improve population health and health equity. It improves accountability of policymakers for health impacts at all levels of policy-making. It includes an emphasis on the consequences of public policies on health systems, determinants of health and well-being.

And the Guide for HIAP from the APHA and PHI with more information on the approach: http://www.phi.org/resources/?resource=hiapguide

There's also a great graphic representation of what "Health in All Policies" does NOT look like, but I cannot get a PDF image to work for the Blog.  Inquire with Nancy if you'd like to see it.  Connie

Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Dec 12, 2019

Present:   Levi Bonnell, Justine Dee, Nancy Gell, Juvena Hitt, Jen Oshita, Gail Rose, Connie van Eeghen, Adam Sprouse-Blum

1.                   Warm Up: Levi left all the chocolate chip cookies he made at home  L

2.                   Review of Levi’s comp’s aims page: Read and Feedback session 

a.       For CTS, PhD candidates write an R03 application and then defend it orally

                                                   i.      Levi’s committee is made up of Rich Pinckney, Amanda Kennedy, and Ross Colgate

b.       Title: relationship between neighborhood walkability and physical function among adults with chronic, comorbid medical and behavioral conditions

c.       Lit search: three gaps

                                                   i.      Relationship between walkability and physical function is well studied in older adults but not CM/BC

                                                 ii.      Lack of longitudinal studies re: walkability (but this may require decades of data)

                                               iii.      Lack of geographically diverse studies, usually metropolitan

d.       Design

                                                   i.      Will walkability index change over three years?  Probably not.

                                                 ii.      Consider just a cross section analysis at baseline, or just change in DASI over time

                                               iii.      Would you expect physical function to change over three years?  To decrease?

e.       Research question: clarify the FINER question and the overall arch of the researcher’s interest

                                                   i.      Start with chronic, comorbid conditions and the gap in the literature, then lead to the potential for walkability to moderate physical function

                                                 ii.      Consider focusing on patients with at least one behavioral health condition

                                               iii.      Frame from the perspective of the policy maker: supporting the “health in all policies” as a method of informing the development of all public policy, whether related or not

1.       Nancy Gell to share source and graphic

3.                   Future sessions:  

a.       12/19: no Nancy, no Connie - TBD