Demography, Volume 45 Number 2, May 2008

Family Relations, Volume 57 Number 3, July 2008

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health, No.1 2008: Covering the Uninsured

Research Works, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2008. Black Colleges and Universities Lend a Helping Hand

The STATA News, Volume 23 Number 2, April/May/June 2008

U.S. Housing Market Conditions, 1^st Quarter 2008, May 2008

User’s Guide: Your Yearly Guide to Life in Centre County 2008-2009

World Bank Research Digest, Volume 2 Number 3, Spring 2008.

Results from the 2007 Latino Health Survey conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center are available in a new report, Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge.

Reversing a trend from the 1990s, poverty has become more concentrated from 2000 to 2005, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution (Christian Science Monitor).

For their study, authors Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube used Census data and Earned Income Tax Credit data from the IRS. They found that the number of poor people living in high poverty communities increased for the majority of metropolitan areas studied.

Citation: Kneebone, E. & Berube, A. (2008). Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

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

Field-Initiated Grants - William T. Grant Foundation

Fred H. Bixby Felloswhip Program - Population Council

Social and Behavioral Dimensions of National Security, Conflict, and Cooperation (NSCC) - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R01) - National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R21) - National Institute on Aging (NIA)

The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research will hold an online technical assistance meeting for investigators considering applications to Using Systems Science Methodologies to Protect and Improve Population Health on August 26 at 2 pm. For details, including pre-registration, see the NIH notice.

The September issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes an article on the NIH Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities, “the first federal initiative to support transdisciplinary multilevel research on the determinants of health disparities.”

Citation: Warnecke, R. B., Oh, A., Breen, N., Gehlert, S., Paskett, E., Tucker, K. L., et al. (2008). Approaching Health Disparities From a Population Perspective: The National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health, 98(9), 1608-1615. (Abstract available online; Penn State users check The CAT for print or online full text)

Many normal-weight individuals have risk factors normally associated with obesity, and many overweight people do not have these risk factors, showing that we are still a long way from understanding the relationship between weight and health, according to analysis of NHANES data. (Baltimore Sun)

Citation: Wildman, R. P., Muntner, P., Reynolds, K., McGinn, A. P., Rajpathak, S., Wylie-Rosett, J., et al. (2008). The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering and the Normal Weight With Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering: Prevalence and Correlates of 2 Phenotypes Among the US Population (NHANES 1999-2004). Archives of Internal Medicine, 168(15), 1617-1624. (Available free online)

The PRI Library has received announcement of a tenure track assistant professor position with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

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

Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS) - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Behavioral and Social Sciences (FIRCA-BSS) Research Award (R03) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Fogarty International Center (FIC) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - National Eye Institute - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) - Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

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

Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities (R01) [expiration date extended to 6/10/2009] - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants (T35) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) - National Eye Institute - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Using Systems Science Methodologies to Protect and Improve Population Health (R21) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Fogarty International Center (FIC) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) - Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)