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Epilepsy Foundation Targeted Research Initiative for Youth

Application Deadline: March 21, 2012

Award Amount: up to $50,000 maximum for one year

Apply via Proposal Central website

The Targeted Research Initiative for Youth grant program recognizes the increasing need for epilepsy and seizure research in populations from birth through the teen years involving pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, behavioral manifestations, medication therapy, and quality-of-life issues.

The Foundation invites research grant applications from investigators interested in psychosocial problems and comorbidities of infants, children and adolescents with epilepsy including, but not limited to topics such as psychiatric comorbidity; treatment of behavioral and cognitive comorbidities, including innovative techniques such as utilization of internet or computer based technologies; studies of the impact of impaired social cognition on educational and occupational outcomes; difficulties and treatment gaps for adolescents transitioning to adulthood; social supports for adolescents with epilepsy; health access and literacy including family communication with health care professionals; the impact of other health conditions (e.g. sleep difficulties, migraines, etc.) on epilepsy treatment and outcome.

Applicants may request up to $50,000 maximum for one year.

Epilepsy Foundation
8301 Professional Place
Landover, MD 20785-7223
Telephone: 1-800-332-1000
Fax: 1-301-577-2684
Email: ContactUs@efa.org

Visionary and The Drs. Rosalee G. and Raymond A. Weiss Research and Program Innovation Grants

One-year grants are available in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $20,000. Multi-year grants are no longer available.

Deadline: March 15, 2012

Sponsor: American Psychological Foundation

The APF Visionary and The Drs. Rosalee G. and Raymond A. Weiss Research and Program Innovation Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:

Understanding and fostering the connection between mental and physical health to ensure well-being;

Reducing stigma and prejudice to promote unity and harmony;

Understanding and preventing violence to create a safer, more humane world; and

Supporting programs that address the long-term psychological needs of individuals and communities in the aftermath of disaster.

One-year grants are available in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $20,000. Multi-year grants are no longer available. Additionally, a $5,000 Drs. Raymond A. and Rosalee G. Weiss Research and Programs Innovation Grant is also available for any program that falls within APF’s priority areas.

Healthy New Year Video Challenge

Let’s get the new year off to a healthy start! The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Healthy New Year Video Challenge (#HealthIT4U2012) invites you to create a short, compelling video (up to 2 minutes in length) sharing one New Year’s resolution for improving your health or the health of a loved one, and how you will use technology to achieve your resolution.

We encourage you to create videos that are creative, inspiring and instructive — share a resolution that others can relate to, and demonstrate how technology will make it easier to achieve. Your resolution can be anything health related, such as quitting smoking or drinking, eating healthier, losing weight, reducing stress, or managing a chronic condition. Videos must show how you will use information technology to achieve your resolution and how you plan to maintain it. Entries could include the following kinds of resolutions (these are just examples — be creative and craft your own resolution!):

I will set up an online personal health record for myself (or another family member) so I can have all of my health information conveniently stored in one place.

I will ask my doctor for a copy of my own health records — electronically if available — and help him or her to identify any important information that may be missing or need to be corrected.

I will find an online community that helps me figure out the best ways to manage my health condition (depression, cancer, diabetes, etc.)

I will use an electronic pedometer to help me track my physical activity and will try to take 10,000 steps per day.
I will find an app on my smartphone to help me track my food intake so I can lose 10 pounds by my high school reunion.

I will sign up for a text reminder program on my cell phone to help me stop smoking or remind me to take my medications on time.

The goal of the challenge is to make 2012 a healthier year by motivating and inspiring others to use health information technology to be more engaged in improving health and increasing adoption of consumer health technology.

Note: To participate, you must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States. Team members must be at least 18, but your video can include minors under 18 as long as a parent or legal guardian signs their consent forms.

Submission Period
Jan 9 10:00AM EST To Feb 16 05:00PM EST

Prizes

First Prize: $2,000

Second Prize: $1,000

Third Prize: $500

Honorable Mention (3): $250

Popular Choice Award: $750

Judges

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

All Submissions will be judged by a qualified panel of HHS staff

Judging Criteria

Quality of the Idea

Includes elements such as the relevance and originality of your plan to use health IT
Implementation of the Idea

Includes elements such as the quality of the video content, narrative and visual appearance
Potential Impact on health IT adoption

Includes whether the video is compelling, instructive, and easy to follow so that others can achieve a similar resolution using health technology

Call for Nominations: Robert F. Allen Symbol of H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Through Empowerment) Award

Award Criteria

The Robert F. Allen Symbol of H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Through Empowerment) Award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to promoting cultural diversity within health promotion or who have demonstrated significant achievement in serving the health promotion needs of underserved populations. National prominence or celebrity status is not one of the criteria for the award.

The purposes of this award are to (1) reward those who have devoted their careers to serving underserved populations and promoting cross-cultural harmony, (2) disseminate innovative and effective strategies to do this, and (3) increase the attention directed toward these efforts within the health promotion community.

This award is made in recognition of Dr. Robert F. Allen’s work in helping people live harmoniously and achieve their greatest potential by learning how to create cultural norms that support these goals.

Nominations and Selection Process

Award winners will be selected from nominations submitted by peers. Nominations should include the following information:

1. An email with the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of the two people submitting the nomination and of the nominee.

2. A two page narrative description, in a Microsoft Word document, of the nominee's contributions or achievements in promoting cultural diversity within health promotion or meeting the health promotion needs of underserved populations, with specific examples of how the nominee has influenced and contributed in these areas. Nominations will be reviewed by an anonymous award committee.

Deadlines and Award Announcements

Nominations must be received by April 25, 2012 and the winner will be announced in June.
Prize

The award winner will receive a cash prize of $3,500 and a commemorative plaque.

Award Sponsors

This award is presented annually by the American Journal of Health Promotion. The cash award is made possible through grants provided by the California Wellness Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Allen family.

Please send all nominations to:
RFAhopeaward@healthpromotionjournal.com

Nominations should be sent as an attachment in Microsoft Word.

Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Achievement Award

The BMES Distinguished Achievement Award (formerly the BMES/ BME International Award) is awarded each year to an individual, a company, charitable foundation, or non-academic institutions that have made great contributions to the field of biomedical engineering to recognize and honor such organization. The President, CEO or Founder of the recognized organization is expected to deliver a plenary lecture at the BMES Annual Meeting and to publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. An important purpose of the lecture is to offer a vision of the challenges and opportunities in biomedical engineering.

Conditions:

It has been an expressed desire of the of the Lee family that this award be used mostly to recognize biomedical engineers from non-academic institutions.
Application form, nominee’s curriculum vitae, resume or a short bio, letter (s) of support not to exceed 5 letters.
The contributions of the awardee do not need to precede the award date by any specific period of time.
The Awards Committee will screen the nominations, critically evaluate the nominees’ records, and submit a rank ordered list of the top nominees to the BMES President. The President will select the awardee.
Applicants must be BMES member in good standing.
The award will consist of a plaque, a complimentary registration for the annual meeting, a check of $1,000, and up to $1,000 to assist with travel expenses.

Submit the nomination with a letters describing the nominee's service to biomedical engineering; Nominee's Short Bio, Resume or CV, all submission must be electronic. Email your nomination to regina@bmes.org. Submission deadline is May 31st.

Go Viral to Improve Health Second Annual Institute of Medicine-National Academy of Engineering Health Data Collegiate Challenge

Using social networking, mobile apps, and other new technologies, how can the power of health data be unleashed to increase awareness of health problems and inspire positive action at the community level? The IOM and NAE challenge college and university students to use health data to develop effective, innovative apps that take on the nation’s pressing health issues.

The Challenge

With an abundance of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data and other health data available as part of the Health Data Initiative (HDI), students have an unprecedented opportunity to create interactive apps and other tools that engage and empower people in ways that lead to better health. Working in interdisciplinary teams that meld technological skills with health knowledge, the IOM and NAE believe that college students can generate exciting and powerful new products – the next “viral” apps - to improve health for communities and individuals.

To “Go Viral To Improve Health”:

Identify a health problem in your college’s surrounding community
Assemble an interdisciplinary student team
Develop an app using data from the HHS Health Indicators Warehouse and other data sources
Demonstrate how your solution will engage people in your community to promote action that will improve their health

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

The challenge is open only to teams comprised of students, 18 years of age or older, currently enrolled in a United States college or university. Students must be enrolled in their college or university both at the beginning of the challenge as well as when the technology product is submitted.

A team must include at least 2 people. There may be no more than 5 people on a team.

A team must be interdisciplinary.

At least one team member must be from a computer science, engineering, or similar school, program, or major.

At least one team member must be from a medical, nursing, public health, dental, pharmacy, allied health or similar school, program or major.

The remaining members of the team may be from any discipline, school, program, or major within the college of university.

Colleges and universities may have several teams; however, a student may only be a part of one team.

The challenge is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. A team may include both undergraduate and graduate students.

Teams members must be from the same college or university. If the school does not offer one of the required disciplines, students must reach out to the challenge sponsors for approval to compete.

Teams are required to consult with a faculty advisor. The faculty advisor's name, title, and contact information must be provided during registration. As teams develop the strategy for their app, the faculty advisor may provide guidance, however the majority of the work should be developed by the students.

Any team that supplies false information, enters the challenge by fraudulent means, or is otherwise determined to be in violation of the eligibility criteria or terms of the challenge shall be ineligible for any prize and shall be required to forfeit any prize obtained based on such information or means.

Prizes

Three winning teams will be recognized for their work in the creation of the next "viral" app in the 2012 Challenge.

First place: $5,000 prize
Second place: $3,000 prize
Third place: $2,000 prize

Team Registration

Students wishing to compete in the 2012 Go Viral to Improve Health Challenge must first register their team members to verify eligibility. A team must consist between two and five currently enrolled students at a U.S. college or university.

Registration is open from November 1, 2011 through February 10, 2012.

Registration is a two-step process. Once the registration process is completed in February 2012, eligible teams will be invited to submit their final app. The submission link will be released by February 17, 2012. Teams will have until March 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM EST to submit their app for this year's challenge. Questions concerning eligibility and the registration or submission process, should be directed to goviral@nas.edu.

Innovations for Health: Solutions that Cross Borders

Ashoka Changemakers and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio are seeking health care solutions from anywhere in the world that have the potential to be applied in other countries to improve health and health care.

Submit your solution, or nominate a project for this competition, before February 13, 2012, and help improve health care through an innovation that can cross borders.

Early Entry Prize: Entries received by December 12, 2011, 5 p.m. EST will be eligible to win US $500 and one of two private consulting sessions with industry experts.

Winners' Prizes: Three winners selected by a panel of expert judges will each receive a cash prize of US $10,000.

Countries throughout the world are seeking to improve the health of their citizens and make quality health care accessible and affordable. Despite their differences, nations are facing a surprisingly similar set of health care challenges, such as fragmented health care ecosystems, high costs, inconsistent quality of care, inefficient systems, and barriers to access and capacity needs.

In response to these challenges, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio is partnering with Ashoka Changemakers to launch the competition, Innovations for Health: Solutions that Cross Borders.

We are looking for cutting-edge health care solutions from anywhere in the world that have the potential to be applied in other countries to improve health and health care.

In today’s increasingly interconnected world, we have the vital opportunity to learn from innovations developed beyond our borders. Examples of breakthrough innovations we’d like to see include (but are not limited to) those that:

Deploy the full spectrum of health care workers and providers, thereby improving the capacity, reach, and quality of health care services;

Use simple, low-cost interventions to improve medical, preventive, and dental care;

Help people find and access the health information, services, and providers they need through new tools and processes;

Provide high quality and personalized care in non-traditional settings; and

Find new ways to engage patients in their care, particularly patients with chronic illnesses.

We are looking for initiatives that have demonstrated impact, and we are particularly interested in those that have the potential to help vulnerable and underserved populations in other countries that are experiencing similar barriers to health. It’s time to learn from one another and to build bridges toward a more accessible, cost-effective, consumer-engaged, and outcome-driven system of health services.

In addition, following the Changemakers competition, selected entries may be invited to submit proposals to RWJF's Pioneer Portfolio for future funding consideration. The Foundation will be looking for innovations that show potential to produce significant improvement in health and health care in the United States. Only organizations in the United States and its territories are eligible for this post-competition funding opportunity.

Innovate. Collaborate. Be a Changemaker. Submit or nominate a solution today.

2012 Call for Nominations: Innovations in Professional Nursing Education

Deadline March 1, 2012

This award recognizes the outstanding work of American Association of Colleges of Nursing member schools to re-envision traditional models for nursing education and lead programmatic change. Innovation awards, including a monetary prize of $1,000, will be given annually in four institutional categories:

Small School

Academic Health Center (AHC)

Private School without an AHC

Public School without an AHC

Award criteria:

Schools submitting nominations were ask to show that the programmatic innovation:

Served as a catalyst for change within the curriculum and/or educational mission of the institution
Was sustained for at least one year and has achieved desired outcomes
Has the potential for replication and dissemination
Has involved teams of faculty when possible (e.g., across programs, disciplines)
Is consistent with AACN’s mission and vision
Demonstrates advancement of professional nursing education
Submitting a Nomination
Nominations must be made by submitting a letter to the chair of the AACN Membership Committee, Dr. Eleanor Howell. The nomination letter must include:

A description of the programmatic innovation, including outcomes achieved and a project title
A concise summary, not to exceed one paragraph in length
An explanation of how the award criteria were met
Institutional category of the nominee: Small School, Academic Health Center, Public School without an AHC, or Private School without an AHC
Letter should not exceed three pages, plus an optional fourth cover page, in length, single-spaced, 12 point font with one inch margins. Only one nomination per institution is permitted. Letters must be sent via email to baronson@aacn.nche.edu. Deadline to submit a nomination is Thursday, March 1, 2012.

Selection of Award Winners
All nominations will be reviewed by the AACN Membership Committee with recommendations forwarded to the full Board of Directors for a vote in July. The dean/director of the programs receiving an award will be invited to accept the honor at the Fall Semiannual Meeting in October 2012.

Contact Information

For more information, contact AACN Membership Director Beth Aronson at 202-463-6930, ext. 263 or baronson@aacn.nche.edu.