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Announcing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Pilot Awardees |
We're pleased to announce the awardees of our COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Pilot Program! When community partners of the CTSI Community Engagement Program expressed concern about conducting a successful COVID-19 vaccination campaign for BIPOC communities, the CTSI responded with this RFA for vaccine hesitancy. The goal of the RFA was to provide a timely and actionable COVID-19 vaccine communication strategy for the BMC health system’s BIPOC communities and other health systems that serve similar populations.
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Clinical Associate Professor,
Family Medicine
(BUSM)
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Using Community Storytelling to Understand, Address and Begin
to Heal Medical Distrust and Vaccine Hesitancy in BIPOC Communities
In this pilot grant, Dr. Gergen Barnett is partnering with the community-based organization, Everyday Boston, and using the powerful tool of storytelling as a means of better surfacing and understanding both historical and present-day medical distrust in BIPOC communities. This pilot will use both restorative justice storytelling circles with BIPOC leaders, BIPOC community members, and health providers as well as one on one interviews. The narrative analysis of these stories will then be used to 1) generate a curriculum that increases the cultural competency of health providers; helps them to build trust with their BIPOC patients; and ultimately leads to better health outcomes, including increasing COVID-19 vaccine readiness; and 2) to shape and disseminate PSAs to name and increase awareness around unspoken concerns of medical distrust in BIPOC communities.
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Associate Professor,
Obstetrics & Gynecology (BUSM)
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Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics (BUSM)
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COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes and Message Preferences (CAMP)
We aim to understand factors affecting healthcare workers’ attitudes toward and informational needs around readiness to (1) accept vaccination for themselves and (2) recommend vaccination for high-risk patients. We will use mixed methods to understand the attitudes of healthcare workers to COVID-19 vaccines for themselves and their high-risk patients, identify barriers and facilitators of vaccine acceptance, and elucidate informational needs and preferred messaging strategies to support vaccination
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Session 3: Recruitment and Retention of Populations Underrepresented and Historically Excluded from Research
Mar. 25, 2021, 12 - 1 p.m
Presented by Caroline J. Kistin, MD, MSc, Jocelyn Antonio,
Sarah Bagley, MD, MSc, & Katherine Bright, MA
The goal of this series is to provide an understanding of the ethical background, regulatory knowledge, and models of best practices for conducting research when the participants represent special populations and vulnerable
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New Funding and Research Projects Opportunities |
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Funding available: $22,500.00
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Boston MCRC will award one grant per year for a project period of 12 months. Pending the progress of the awarded pilot, the PI may submit a competitive renewal for the 2nd year of funding, which will be reviewed with all other applications. |
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Early-Stage Development of Data Science Technologies for Infectious and Immune-mediated Diseases (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative Supplement for Genome-wide Genotyping of Existing Samples from Minority Racial/Ethnic Populations and Sharing of Associated Epidemiologic Data
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19
Department of Health and Human Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Hyperacute MRI Imaging Studies to Understand How Brain Changes Affect AD/ADRD-Relevant Trajectories and Outcomes Post-Stroke
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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Behavioral Health Workforce Development Technical Assistance and Evaluation (BHWD TAE) Program
Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services
Administration
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Notice of Special Interest: Impact of COVID-19 on Dementia Risk, Progression and Outcomes in ADRD Populations
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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Application Due Date: April 16
- Health Care Policy
- Biomedical & Health Technology Development & Transfer
- Health System Design & Implementation
- Digital Health
- Strategic Health Care Leadership
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Researchers Enhance Alzheimer’s Disease Classification through Artificial Intelligence
Warning signs for Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
can begin in the brain years before the first symptoms appear. Spotting these clues may allow for lifestyle changes that could possibly delay the disease’s destruction of the brain.
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SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Without Symptoms
The true occurrence and transmission capacity of asymptomatic and presymptomatic infections are difficult to evaluate. Owing to insufficient surveillance testing, presymptomatic cases lost to follow up, and unrecognized mild symptoms, symptomless cases are often undercounted or misclassified. Read More
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Upcoming Courses & Events |
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Research is Hope – Why Joining the All of Us Research Program Matters
Mar. 24, 2021, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
During this event, you will learn about the All of Us Research Program, how your participation can make a difference, and how you can benefit from precision medicine. More Details Here
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Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and
Survival Data
Mar. 24, 2021, 9 a.m - 1 p.m.
This short course will provide an introduction to joint modelling through real applications. We will study the methodological framework, underlying assumptions, estimation, model building, and predictions. More Details Here
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Successes and Challenges of the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in the Global Context
Mar. 30, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
This event will explore critical issues related to the development and implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination program across the globe. After the presentations, the conversation will focus on how to ensure equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine. More Details Here
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To Everything There is a Season: Synchronization of Infectious Outbreaks
Mar. 31, 2021, 2 - 3 p.m.
In this Zoom seminar, Dr. Naumova will demonstrate the methodology developed to assess the extent, lag, and directionality of seasonal synchronization. She will provide several examples using national databases.
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Accelerating Discoveries Towards Better Health
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