news & updates
Fall 2020 | Issue 1
Welcome to the Life Course Intervention Research Network's newsletter!

Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the Life Course Intervention Research Network (LCIRN) is a collaborative research and learning network designed bring together a diverse group of researchers, health care providers, and family/community stakeholders to develop and promote disruptive and transformational changes to the ways we improve health outcomes over the life span. The LCIRN is based on the foundational work of the Life Course Research Network, funded by MCHB and led by UCLA from 2010-2019.

The network is comprised of a National Coordinating Center at UCLA and research nodes led by experts at partner institutions. Click here to learn more about the LCIRN.
Upcoming Events

Life Course Toolkit Webinar Series

November 19 – Applying analytical methods that can capture the multiple dimensions of time; with Gretchen Bandoli (UC San Diego) and Kristin Palmsten (Health Partners Institute)  


The full series will be available as a visual toolkit in the coming months!
LCIRN Website

Check out our new website at https://lcirn.ucla.edu for resources, upcoming events, and more info on what's happening in the network.

It's a work in progress - we welcome your feedback on how to make it more useful for you!
Updates

Emily Ozer and Marieka Schotland of UC Berkeley will be co-leading a new research node around Youth Engagement. Dr. Ozer recently published Youth Participatory Approaches and Health Equity: Conceptualization and Integrative Review in the American Journal for Community Psychology.

Mark Feinberg (Family Health Node) has edited a new book! Designing Evidence-based Public Health and Prevention Programs brings together expert program developers to offer practical guidance and principles in developing effective behavior-change curricula. Read More
Research Incubator: 5 pilot projects awarded funds

The LCIRN awarded its first round of funding to support pilot and feasibility studies relevant to life course research. After an objective review process, five projects were chosen:

  • Coco Auerswald, UC Berkeley: Monitoring of youth experiencing homelessness in California during the COVID-19 ear and post-COVID-19 era

  • Erica Coates, Georgetown: Population-wide integration of multi-tiered, evidence-based interventions to promote early childhood and parent mental health and development: two-generation strengths-based approach in an early childhood education center

  • Priyanka Fernandes and Denise Nunez, UCLA: Families of children with disabilities during COVID-19: exploring issues of service utilization and access

  • Janet Rich-Edwards, Brigham and Women's Hospital: A Life Course Health Developmental Perspective to Develop Trauma-Informed Care for Obesity

  • Adam Schickedanz, UCLA: The Impact of COVID-19 on economic adversity, parent mental health, parenting self-efficacy, and child development
Advancing Life Course Intervention Research:
Join our Research Nodes!
Research nodes are one of the most important functional components of the LCIRN. The nodes bring together researchers and stakeholders from different institutions to build the field of life course intervention research by filling in key gaps in knowledge around specific life course influences, leverage points, or periods of development; developing new tools; designing and testing interventions; and pushing the conceptual thinking around specific topic areas. 

Nodes are also a great opportunity for early-career investigators to work with senior researchers who are leaders in their field. Nodes that are currently recruiting include:

  • Measurement node: particularly interested in those with strong measurement methodology interest and experience, and a user-centered and community-based design framework for measurement. Also looking for early and mid-career investigators who could connect this work with their career development and future grant proposals.

  • Adversity and Resilience: Looking for researchers interested in ACEs, particularly methodologists with expertise in measuring resilience factors as well as stress biomarkers, and experts in built environment and stress/resilience. 

If you’re interested in joining a node, please send background info and examples of your work to lcirn@mednet.ucla.edu and indicate which node you are interested in.
LIFE COURSE INTERVENTION RESEARCH NETWORK | lcirn.ucla.edu
This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under award UA6MC32492, the Life Course Intervention Research Network. The information, content, and/or conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the US Government. any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the US Government.