Presentation to the National Association of Deans and Directors of School of Social Work February 16, 2006

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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
http//www.nih.gov (www.hhs.gov)
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Following the Success of-

• IASWRs lobbying
• NIMHs SW Center/Infrastructure Grants
• NIDAs SW Initiative, including Infrastructure
  Grants
• NIAAAs 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."
• OBSSRs Role -
• Coordination
• Trans-NIH Working Group Develop NIH PLAN
  (Recommendations) on OBSSR website

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BackgroundNIH SWR Working Group

• Jeffrey Evans, PhD, NICHD
• Jerry Flanzer, PhD, NIDA
• Eleanor Hanna, PhD, ORWH
• Martha Hare, PhD, NINR
• Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts, 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 social-behavioral/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 2004Focus on Qualitative, and Mixed Method
• FY 2005Focus 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, Activity, and
  Energy Balance PA (11/07)

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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 Directors 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 PAR03 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 works 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 evidencebased 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 Its 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?