Transcript Presentation to the National Association of Deans and

Presentation to the National
Association of Deans and Directors of
School of Social Work
February 16, 2006
Update on NIH Support of Social
Work Research
Jerry Flanzer, Ph.D.
Senior Health Science Administrator, NIDA
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Talk Focus
• PhD and Non-PhD schools/departments
• NIH Social Work activities
• Selected Institute Priorities that should
interest social work
• Where SW (especially non-research I
schools) should focus Research and
Training
• The SW PAs – what are “hot” ideas to
consider
• The Politics of Research
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NIH Needs YOU (SW)
• Training and Research Money can be
found elsewhere (fungible)=NIH is
one big pot; not necessarily the best
pot for your needs.
• Public health care/interventions
cannot be implemented without
social work
• ????? where are you – particularly
those schools who are heavily
connected to the field
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NIH Website
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Following the Success
of• IASWR’s lobbying
• NIMH’s SW
Center/Infrastructure Grants
• NIDA’s SW Initiative, including
Infrastructure Grants
• NIAAA’s curriculum and training
• (and new activity by NIA)
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Background
• Senate Report 107-216
The Committee urges the NIH to develop a social
work research plan that outlines research
priorities, as well as a research agenda, across NIH
Institutes and Centers to be reported to the
Committee by April 1, 2003."
• OBSSR’s Role -
• Coordination
• Trans-NIH Working Group: Develop NIH PLAN
(Recommendations) on OBSSR website
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Background:
NIH SWR Working Group
• Jeffrey Evans, PhD,
NICHD
• Jerry Flanzer, PhD,
NIDA
• Eleanor Hanna, PhD,
ORWH
• Martha Hare, PhD,
NINR
• Suzanne HeurtinRoberts, PhD, MSW,
NCI
• Denise Juliano-Bult,
MSW, NIMH
• Peter Kaufman, PhD,
NHLBI
• Margaret Murray, MSW,
NIAAA
• G. Stephane Philogene,
PhD, OBSSR (Chair)
• Sidney Stahl, PhD, NIA
• Nicole Vennell, MSW,
NCI
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Notice HHS/NIH Job
Opportunities
• Program officers
• IPAs (sabbaticals)
• Contracts for special research
purposes
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Recommendations
• Social Work Research
• Create a standing working group ◄
• Expand outreach to encourage grant
applications on studies of SW practice and
concepts☺☺
• Propose a new PA: Developmental
Research on Social Work Practice and
Concepts in Health ◄
• Competitive Supplement for SW Research ?
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Supplements
• Administrative (do you know a
NIH funded PI?)
• Competitive (adding socialbehavioral/sw component)
• Health Disparities
• Minority
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Recommendations
Research Infrastructure/Training
• Develop and Implement an NIH Summer
Institute on Social Work Research
• FY 2004—Focus on Qualitative, and Mixed
Method
• FY 2005—Focus on Intervention Research
Method
• FY 2006 – Focus on Early Stage Research
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Recommendations
Information Dissemination and
Community Outreach
• Meeting with NADD of Schools of SW
• Explore the Possibility of a Conference
on Advancing the SWR Agenda
• Trans-NIH Conference Showcasing SWR
Results
• Coordinated Outreach to Universities
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Implementation Update
Progress to date –in review
• Establishment of the WG as a permanent body (May
03)
• Pre-Conference Institutes at SSWR
• NADD Meetings (Feb 27 & Oct 7)
• Regional Workshop at Catholic University (June 04)
• NIH Summer Institute: Design and Conduct of
Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research in Social Work
and other Health Professions
• The New PAs for Social Work Practice
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Current/Future Funding
Opportunities
OBSSR (FY 2005)
• RFA on Strengthening Behavioral and
Social Science in Medical Schools
• PAR on Community Participation in
Research
• TA Conference Call on Jan 28
• PA on Research on Mind-Body
Interactions and Health
• PA on Social and Cultural Dimensions of
Health
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Current/Future Funding
Opportunities
OBSSR (FY 2004)
• Understanding and Promoting
Health Literacy PAR
• R01 and R03
• Methodology and Measurement in
the Behavioral and Social
Sciences (3/10/5)
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Current/Future Funding
Opportunities
Co-Sponsor
• Health Promotion Among Racial and
Ethnic Minority Males (8/6)
• School-Based Interventions to Prevent
Obesity PA (11/07)
• Site Specific Approaches to the
Prevention or Management of Pediatric
Obesity (RFA in progress – applications
due Jan 24)
• Research on the Economics of Diet,
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Activity, and Energy
Balance PA (11/07)
NIH Roadmap:
Research Teams of the Future
RFAs
• Interdisciplinary Health Research
Training: Behavior, Environment & Biology
(2/11/5)
• Short Programs for Interdisciplinary
Research Training (2/11/5)
PA
• NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (3/1/5)
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Priority Areas for NIDA
• Prevention (Services) Research
• Genetics
• Development
• Environment
• Co-morbidity
• Treatment (Services) Interventions
• New Targets & New Strategies
• HIV/AIDS Research
• Criminal Justice, Health Disparities, Prescription
Drug Abuse
• Collaborations with Other NIH Institutes and
Other Federal, State and Local Partners
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Priority Areas for NIDA
• Prevention Research (Children/Adolescents)
• Genetics (Matthew Howard)
• Development (Penny Trickett, Richard Catalano
and David Hawkins)
• Environment (Deborah Padgett)
• Co-morbidity (Arlene Stiffman, Mark Singer)
• Treatment Interventions
• New Targets & New Strategies (Roger Roffman,
Constance Weisner)
• HIV/AIDS Research (Nabila El-Basel, Robert
Battjes)
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Priority Areas for NIDA
• Criminal Justice (Carl Leukefeld), Health
Disparities (Alverado Valdez), Prescription
Drug Abuse , Homelessness (David Pollio),
Primary Care (Marian Amodeo, Faith-Based
(Richard Spence), Technology Transfer
(Flavio Marsiglia)
• Collaborations with Other NIH Institutes
and Other Federal, State and Local
Partners (James Hall, David Biegal)
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Types of Mechanisms
• R– Research Awards
• R01, R03, R34, R21
• K– Career Awards
• K01, K02, K08, K23
• F – Fellowships
• F31, F32
• T- Training!!!!!!!
• T32 (regional)
• (R13- conference)
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IOM/NAS Reports
Responsible Research: A Systems
Approach to Protecting Research
Participants (2003)
Protecting Participants and
Facilitating Social and Behavioral
Sciences Research (2003)
Ethical Conduct of Clinical
Research Involving Children
(2004)
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The SW PAs
• The ultimate goal of this program
announcement is to encourage the
development of empirical research
on social work practice, concepts
and theory as these relate to the NIH
public health goal of improving
health outcomes for persons with
medical and behavioral disorders
and conditions.
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More on the SW – PA
R03; R21; R01
• The Office of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research (OBSSR), via this
program announcement (PA)
encourages innovative, theory-driven
empirical research on social work
practice, concepts and theory as
these relate to the NIH public health
goal of improving health outcomes
for persons with medical and
behavioral disorders and conditions.
•
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More on the PAs
• Areas of interest include studies that characterize
the usual and/or “best” practices of social workers
and how these relate to health outcomes, studies
establishing the efficacy and effectiveness of
health-related interventions and services delivered
by social workers, aspects of health-related social
work services that are unique to specialty health
care settings (e.g., clinics, hospitals, nursing
homes, hospices, etc) and non-specialty health
care settings (e.g., social service agencies,
schools, jails and prisons, etc.), the nature and
impact of routine prevention or clinical practice,
and factors related to successful dissemination and
implementation of social work services and
interventions with proven effectiveness.
•
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Social Work and the
Politics of the Research
Game
• Know and declare what is social
work’s domain.
• Be multidiscipline- reach across
professions, schools, agencies.
• Include others in the social work led
projects ( bargaining to be included
in theirs).
• Offer research sites (etc) something
they need to enhance cooperation.
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Social work Domains
• Human Service/Social welfare agencies.
• Social Welfare Policy.
• Social service adjunct services in host
agencies.
• Social work practice (including clinical
social work, social group work, social
work administration and community
development and organization).
• Social work theory and concepts.
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Social Work Theory and
Concepts
• Schools/theories of social work
practice.
(Socialization, psychosocial, functional,
problem solving, remedial, reciprocal,
behavioral)
Concepts (preferably within schools).
Socialization: social role learning, social
adaptation, acculturation, normalization
Functional: case management, use of
relationships and of authority.
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Social Work Secret
Weapon
• FIELD WORK
• Involving Students
• Effectiveness of Teaching
• Technology Transfer
• Adoption of evidence–based Practices
(Agency motivation to adopt)
• Absorptive Capacity
• Cost-Effectiveness
• Real Work Clinical Trials
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* Secret #1…
… success
requires
Strategic Thinking
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Important Initial
Decisions
Subject: Make sense
in context of the:
-Institute/Program
-Science
-University/school
Needs/Direction
• Scope: It’s a
project, not an
entire career.
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NIH Mission
• “…to acquire new
knowledge to help
prevent, detect,
diagnose & treat
disease and
disability.”
To improve public
health/clinical
outcomes.
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Assess State-of-the
Science
• CRISP - http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
• What credible tools are available?
• Instruments, interventions, etc.
• What interim steps are necessary?
• Validity, reliability,
efficacy/effectiveness, implementation,
etc.
• Peer Reviewed Literature
• Current issues in community
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Match PI and Project
to Mechanism
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Assess Your Own
Research Capability
• Studies,
articles,
mentoring,
training,
clinical
experience,
etc.
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Research Infrastructure
within Social Work
schools/Departments
• Need to reward faculty to spur research.
• Need to honor publication in mainline (peer
reviewed) journals – balance between
social work and multidiscipline.
• Need to link research activities to the
schools’ mission and activities.
• Need to link research to the social work
community needs.
• Need to value evidenced based
curricula/teaching as much as feasible.
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the learning culture
•
Need to involve the teaching
faculty in the research endeavor
– one faculty ( the leaning
culture).
• No more lone rangers!!!!!!
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Social WORK(ING)
Together
• Networking across
schools/universities
• Creating cross regional research sites
• Creating enhanced research
infrastructures; specialization centers
• Visiting/swapping researchers
• PHD schools partnering with regional
non-PhD social work programs; training
centers
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* Secret #2
It is the job
of NIH staff to
help you succeed.
(get funded, conduct quality
research, follow the law)
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Who Are the NIH Staff?
• Program Staff
• Scientific Review
Staff
• Grants Management
Staff
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Hmmm!
What do you think?
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