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

2008 NIDA Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS Research (DP1) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

2008 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

AHRQ Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Assessing the Effects of Interpersonal Violence Prevention on Suicide (U49) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research II (CECCR II) (P50) - National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program - National Academies

Frederick Douglass Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester

Frederick Douglass Institute Predoctoral Fellowship Program - Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester

General Social Survey (GSS) Competition - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Minority Fellowship Program - American Sociological Association (ASA) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIH DirectorÂ’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships - United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Program - Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research Division

Postdoctoral Fellowships - American Cancer Society

Research Associateship Programs Postdoctoral and Senior Awards - National Academies

Research Professorships - American Cancer Society

Research Proposals Directed at Poor and Underserved Populations - American Cancer Society

Research Scholar Grants in Basic, Preclinical, Clinical and Epidemiology Research - American Cancer Society

Research Scholar Grants in Cancer Control: Health Services and Health Policy Research - American Cancer Society

Research Scholar Grants in Cancer Control: Psychosocial and Behavioral Research - American Cancer Society

Sepmeyer Research Grant Program - International Education Research Foundation

Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancer for the Year 2008 and 2009 (P50) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Summer Internship Program for Graduate Students - Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research Division

Sylvia Taylor Johnson Minority Fellowship in Educational Measurement - Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research Division

Youth Violence Prevention through Community-Level Change (U49) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the National Congress on the Un and Under Insured.

The National Center for Education Statistics has released the first report using data from the third wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a study of a nationally representative sample of children born in the year 2001. The report provides a range of information about these children when they were about 4 years old.

Click here to download, view and print the publication as a PDF file.

John Nyman questions the conclusions of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, conducted in the 1970’s, in an article appearing in the October issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

Citations:

David Glenn (2007, Nov. 9). The case of the health-insurance dropouts. Chronicle of Higher Education. (The Chronicle article is available online to subscribers. PRI affiliates can read the Chronicle in the PRI Library or request online access from library@pop.psu.edu.)

John A. Nyman (2007). American health policy: Cracks in the foundation. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 32(5): 759-783. (Available online to the Penn State community)

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

Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Youth Purpose Research Awards - Stanford Center on Adolescence

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) for the Add Health 2008 Users Conference.

A compromise bill unveiled Thursday by Congressional leaders includes a $1 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health, the biggest increase for the NIH in 4 years, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Note: The Chronicle article is available online to subscribers. PRI affiliates can read the Chronicle in the PRI Library or request online access from library@pop.psu.edu.

The PRI Library has received job announcements from the CDC for a Health Scientist/Social Scientist and from the University of Massachusetts for an Assistant Professor of Gerontology.

Parents are taking a more active role in the lives of their children than they did 10 years ago, according to data released today by the US Census Bureau. The data are from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and detailed tables are available in A Child’s Day: 2004.

Vietnamese families prefer boys over girls, and the sex ratio at birth is 110 boys for every 100 girls, according to a new UN report (AP). This imbalance could lead to increased violence against women, trafficking, and a “marriage squeeze” in a region where brides are already scarce, the report says.

Citation: Sex-Ratio Imbalance in Asia: Trends, Consequences and Policy Responses (2007). UNFPA.