The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships - American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

ACLS Fellowships - American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowships - American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships - American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01) - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Fall 2008 EPA Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships For Graduate Environmental Study - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Frederick Burkhartd Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars - American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Genetic Epidemiology of Substance Use Disorders (R03) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Genetic Epidemiology of Substance Use Disorders(R01) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Genetic Epidemiology of Substance Use Disorders(R21) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

German Chancellor Scholarships - Humboldt Foundation

Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R01) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R21) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) - National Science Foundation (NSF)

International Research Ethics Education And Curriculum Development Award (R25) - Fogarty International Center (FIC)

TransCoop Programme - Humboldt Foundation

Visiting Scholars Program - American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The research plan for the first phase of the National Children’s Study (birth to 24 months) is now available for comment. Responses will be accepted until September 25, 2007.

The National Children’s Study “will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21. The goal of the study is to improve the health and well-being of children.”

A new working paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) examines the link between a country’s fertility rate and the real effective exchange rate, confirming the theory that a country with declining fertility “can be expected to have higher savings, lower investment, a current account surplus, and accordingly a real depreciation.” (Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate, by Andrew K. Rose & Saktiandi Supaat)

The UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007 (PDF) says that, halfway to the 2015 deadline, progress has been made toward the goals but there is still much work to be done.

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their Health & Society Scholars postdoctoral program.

A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says that rural students perform better in science than their rural counterparts (AP via Centre Daily Times). Status of Education in Rural America brings together data from NCES surveys and the American Community Survey (ACS).

A new Amnesty International report says that Zimbabwean women face abuse as they struggle to pay for food, schooling, and health care for their children in the country’s economic crisis (AP via Centre Daily Times).

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Health Research with Diverse Populations (R01) - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Nutrition and Alcohol-Related Health Outcomes (R01) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Nutrition and Alcohol-Related Health Outcomes (R03) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Nutrition and Alcohol-Related Health Outcomes (R21) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Public Health Conference Support Program - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Short Term Career Development Award in the Environmental Health Sciences for Established Investigators (K18) - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Studies to Identify Possible Juvenile Protective Factors and Their Effects on Aging (R01) - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Technical Assistance Center for Data Collection, Analysis, and Use for Accountability in Special Education and Early Intervention - Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)

U.S.-India Bilateral Collaborative Research Partnerships (CRP) on the Prevention of HIV/AIDS (R21) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NCHS has announced the availability of the following NHANES data files:

2003-2004
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Lab 24 Environmental Phenols
Lab 28 Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
Dermatology (Exam)

PRI Affiliates may request the above data from the Data Archivist.

NCHS has announced that the NHANES data set has added supplement records collected in the prescription medications section of the Sample Person questionnaire. These include prescription supplements and other items later determined to be supplements. The Questionnaire files have been updated on SodaPop and PopNet.