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Healthcare Quality Scholars Program
2010 Request for Pilot Research Proposals
The Network for Multicultural Research on Health and Healthcare promotes health services research on health care quality issues affecting Latino and Native American Indian/Alaska Native populations. The program is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and works to expand the number of new researchers developing careers in this field. The rapid expansion of multicultural populations in the U.S., combined with the heterogeneity of these groups, increases the need for more information to help reduce health care disparities.
The Network invites applications to its 2010 Healthcare Quality Scholars Program. The invitation is open to junior faculty (e.g., assistant professors) holding a part-time or full-time position in the U.S. Our program supports secondary data analyses on intra-group determinants (social-cultural factors, ethnic subgroups, language preference, demographic factors, etc.) of health services research using major national and regional survey data sets on access to care, utilization of care, quality of care, health care cost, insurance coverage, and chronic conditions (e.g. MEPS, CPS, NHIS, NHANES, etc.). Inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic analyses are encouraged.
The Network recruits five junior scholars each year. The five scholars selected through this solicitation will be financially supported for 10 months with an amount of $22,530. This amount will support expenses incurred for the completion of the research analysis, published manuscript(s) and travel expenses to attend the Network annual meeting. Two mentors will be assigned from the group of the Network’s senior investigators for each scholar. (See a complete list of senior investigators on our website at: http://multiculturalhealthcare.net/). In addition, the Network will provide statistical support for the scholars if they require it.
Responsibilities are to: 1) Submit an abstract (no more than 250 words) and a project timeline for your research project for approval within two weeks after receiving an acceptance letter. The timeline should reflect the funding period (from January 15th, 2010 to November 14th, 2010). 2) Meet milestones to demonstrate work progress resulting in a minimum of one first-authored peer-reviewed manuscript submitted for publication during the funding period. 3) Participate in Quarterly Web-supported meetings and the Network annual meeting in the summer. 4) Submit project manuscript to mentors and project directors for review before the Network annual meeting.
Submission process: In order to expedite the selection of candidates for the Healthcare Quality Scholars Program, we require that you submit a one-page proposal by September 28th, 2009. This one-page proposal should include: a) Introduction & statement of the problem; b) Research hypotheses including outcomes (dependent variables), predictors and covariates (control/nuisance variables); c) Analysis techniques (e.g., 2x2 tables, logistic regression, etc.), and d) Significance of the study. In addition, please submit a cover letter and a C.V. All applications should be submitted in PDF format by email to the Network Project Coordinator, Lorena Porras-Javier, at lporras@mednet.ucla.edu.
We will notify you of review results by October 9th, 2009 and successful candidates will be asked to submit a full proposal to be considered for the final selection. The deadline for submission of full proposals will be November 9th, 2009. The full proposal should expand the previously submitted one-page proposal to a three-page prospectus not including references. All applications should be submitted in PDF format by email to the Network Project Coordinator, Lorena Porras-Javier, at lporras@mednet.ucla.edu. Final candidates will be informed of decisions around December 7th, 2009. Start date of support will be January 15, 2010 and will terminate November 14, 2010. Should you have any questions about this process please refer to our FAQ or contact Project Coordinator, Lorena Porras-Javier, at lporras@mednet.ucla.edu.
*For more information, go to our website: www.multiculturalhealthcare.net
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NATALIA A. ZHIVAN received her M.S. in Mathematical Economics from St. Petersburg State University in Russia. She earned her M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2009) in economics from Boston College. She joined the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College in 2002 as a Research Assistant and later as a Research Economist where she participated in multiple projects related to retirement issues including the development of policies toward the protection of the vulnerable elderly population and modeling health outcomes and out-of-pocket health care costs to help older workers plan for retirement. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and the Department of Health Systems Management, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University. Her research interests are in aging and retirement, health disparities, and efficiency in healthcare. As a Healthcare Quality Scholar, Dr. Zhivan will examine disparities in health care utilization and health outcomes among Latino and non-Latino elderly.
Project Title: “Disparities in Health Care Utilization and Health Outcomes among the Latino and Non-Latino Elderly using the Health and Retirement Study”
Recent and Pending Publications
nzhivan@tulane.edu
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Mailing Address:
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Department of Family Medicine
10880 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1800
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: (310) 794-0792
Fax (310) 794-6097
William Vega, Ph.D. Project Director
Michael Rodríguez, M.D., M.P.H. Project Director
Lorena Porras-Javier, M.P.H. Project Coordinator
Alfonso Ang, Ph.D. Principal Statistician
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William Vega is Provost Professor and Director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at USC and is Co-Director of the Network for Multicultural Research on Health and Healthcare at UCLA. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine, he has conducted field and clinical research projects on health, mental health, and substance abuse in various regions of the United States and Latin America. His specialty is multi cultural epidemiologic and services research with adolescents and adults, work that has been funded by multiple public and private sources. He has published over 170 articles and chapters on these topics, in addition to several books. Dr. Vega was cited in ISIHighlyCited.com Web of Science in 2006 in the top one-half of one percent of most highly cited researchers in the social science literature world-wide. In 2002, he was awarded the Culture, Community, and Prevention Science Award by the Society for Prevention Research, and the National Award for Excellence in Research by a Senior Scientist by the National Hispanic Science Network. He is the president of the National Latino Council on Tobacco and Alcohol Prevention, and a founding member of the International Consortium of Psychiatry Epidemiology of the World Health Organization, and a member of the Institute of Medicine- Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Advisory Group for Health Policy Scholars.
williaav@usc.edu
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Michael A. Rodríguez is a Professor, Vice Chair for Research and George F. Kneller Endowed Chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is Co-Director of the Network for Multicultural Research on Health and Healthcare. His research activities focus on injury and violence prevention, patient-provider communication of sensitive issues, and the impact of ethnicity and socioeconomic status on health problems. Rodríguez reviews and conducts research, works with community-based violence prevention programs, and develops policy on violence prevention. He has consulted for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Pan American Health Organization, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Rodriguez trains fellows, family medicine residents, graduate and undergraduate students while continuing to see patients at a local community health center.
Rodríguez completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, received his medical degree from UCLA School of Medicine, and is a graduate of UC San Francisco Family Medicine Residency Program and John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
MRodriguez@mednet.ucla.edu
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Angela Brega, PhD, is an Assistant Professor with the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH) in the Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Brega is a social psychologist with training and expertise in measurement, health outcomes, and health psychology. Since joining CAIANH in September 2008, her work has focused on interventions to improve health outcomes among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations, focusing primarily on outcomes related to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and oral health. She has particular interest in understanding the implications of health literacy for diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes among AI/ANs with diabetes, and is working to develop a theoretical framework through which the impact of health literacy on clinical outcomes can be understood.
Project Title: Health Literacy & Diabetes Outcomes among American Indians and Alaska Natives.”
Project Databases: “Special Diabetes Program for Indians Healthy Heart Project”
Recent and Pending Publications
Brega AG, Crisler KS, & Barhydt NR (2008). Improving the outcomes of home care services in New York State: A national model. Home Healthcare Nurse, 26(10), 614-622.
Grigsby B, Brega AG, Bennett RE, DeVore PA, Paulich MJ, Talkington SG, Floersch NR, Barton PL, Neal S, Araya TM, Loker JL, Krohn N, & Grigsby J (2007). The slow pace of interactive video telemedicine adoption: The perspective of telemedicine program administrators on physician participation. Telemedicine and e-Health, 13(6), 645-656.
angela.brega@ucdenver.edu
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Alma Guerrero, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA. She received her medical degree in 2003 from the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA and completed a pediatric residency training program at UCLA through the Community Health Advocacy and Training track. Following her clinical training Dr. Guerrero completed a Maternal and Child Health Fellowship at UCLA and concurrently received a Masters in Public Health in 2008 through the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Guerrero practices general pediatrics working with vulnerable populations in the Los Angeles area who have high unmet medical and psychosocial needs. Dr. Guerrero’s research has focused on understanding Latino parental perspectives on health care experiences for their young children. She is a recipient of the 2009 Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award and has examined Latino parental perceptions of childhood obesity, child development, and family-centered care. Guerrero’s work includes a primary intervention to improve child development education among low-income largely Latina mothers who participate in the Los Angeles County WIC programs. As a Health Care Quality Scholar, Dr. Guerrero will study the racial and ethnic health care disparities in addressing parental concerns about child development in pediatric primary care.
Project Title: Addressing Parental Concerns about Child Development in Pediatric Primary Care
Project Database: National Survey of Children’s Health 2007
Recent and Pending Publications
" Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Experiences of Family-Centered Care" Medical Care (In-Press)
aguerrero@mednet.ucla.edu
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Julie Smith-Gagen MPH, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor and Manager of the Nevada Center for Health Statistics and Informatics at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Community Health Sciences. She completed her Masters degree at the University of South Florida and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Smith-Gagen's research has focused on underserved and vulnerable populations, including Native Americans, Latinos, and low-income children. Her current research has focused on evaluating the barriers to care that low-income minority children and youth face when using preventive healthcare. She is also evaluating the impact that an intervention to inform parents about the healthcare delivery process has on utilization of preventative health care in low-income and minority children. Her work also includes an examination of the "historical trauma" experienced by Native Peoples and the impact on health behaviors. She also has investigated health behaviors in the Nevada Hispanic population.
Project Title: "Is A Lack Of Quality Follow-Up Care Related To Shorter Survival In Latino Cancer Survivors?"
Project Databases: SEER-Medicare
Recent and Pending Publications
jsmithgagen@unr.edu
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