● ARCC Community Research Capacity-Building & Partnership Development Grants: Application Deadline February 4

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● January Resources and Opportunities

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The Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) & Northwestern University Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) in partnership with Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) will fund Seed Grants that support partnerships that engage Chicagoland communities and stakeholders most impacted by health inequities in research collaboration with Northwestern research teams. Community engagement increases the trustworthiness, relevance, quality, and impact of health research. These seed grants can lay the groundwork for drafting proposals and conducting research that requires or encourages community/patient/ stakeholder engagement from National Institutes of Health, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Centers for Disease Control, and other federal and private foundation funders. Research Pilot awards are up to $25,000 and up to 24 months. The Seed Grant program has been revised to have a stronger focus on supporting partnerships to address racial inequity in their research practices and processes.

Research Pilot Info Webinar: January 20, 2022, 9:30-10:30 am

Required Call with ARCC Co-Director: No later than April 7, 2022

Application Deadline: April 26, 2022

Note: ARCC also has an open Request for Applications supporting Community Research Capacity-Building Grants and Partnership Development Grants.

The NUCATS Dissemination & Implementation Science (D&I) Program invites you to attend the 4th Annual Implementation Science Reading Course. The course will run from February 17 to June 9, 2022, with meetings held every two weeks (on Tuesdays) virtually from 9-10 a.m. CT. The course content and discussions are geared toward researchers and practitioners new to the field of Implementation Science and research teams applying for NUCATS D&I pilot funds or other D&I sponsored funding. Students, trainees, and faculty from Northwestern University and NUCATS affiliates are invited to participate. To sign up, please complete this brief registration survey.

Course enrollment is limited to 30 participants. The deadline to register is February 1.

For questions about the reading course or the NUCATS D&I Program you can email: implementationscience@northwestern.edu.

Register here!

Join Northwestern Primary Care Practice-Based Research Program (NP3) collaborative seed grantees Howard Brown Health, Northwestern University Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, and Bisexual Queer Alliance of Chicago for a virtual panel with representatives from each organization and from the community to discuss making primary healthcare settings more accessible to bi+ patients. These organizations were awarded a 2020 NP3 Seed Grant aimed at identifying bi+ individuals’ primary care needs and concerns to better equip healthcare providers to engage the community in primary care through various activities, including surveying Howard Brown patients. Based on survey responses, the panel will reflect on bi+ stigma in healthcare, how to address barriers to healthcare for bi+ patients, and bi+ patient experiences with healthcare – including their own! We hope you can join this exciting event. 

Please join the Feinberg School of Medicine and Pritzker School of Law in their DREAM Week celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning January 18, DREAM Week will encompass a variety of events for students, staff and faculty to attend virtually. This includes a discussion panel with Chicago-area community organizations that highlight the work people in the community are doing to support diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, including ARCC partners.

Details for all the events can be found here.

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) Center for Health Justice is assembling a Multisector Partner Group with 8-10 members to serve a three-year term from sectors representing the diverse social and political determinants of health to guide the center’s priorities and strategy. The group will convene in 2022 to co-develop the Center’s “All in for Health Equity” initiative and will have an ongoing role in informing and promoting the Center’s work to move towards health equity.

Applicants from both inside & outside of health care & academic medicine are encouraged to apply!

Application Deadline: Feb. 18