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What’s Happening the Week of December 15, 2014
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News about National Children's Study
Russell Sage Foundation Seeks Letters of Inquiry for Social Inequality Research
PRI Publication of the Week
Change to the Add Health Study Name
PRI Mugs
NEW Format for NIH Biosketches
Pizza Party – Dec. 15
OHRP Seeking Comments on Draft – Dec.23
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News about National Children's Study
The following message is from Alan Guttmacher was distributed by Mary Jo Hoeksema (Public
Affairs Committee, PAA and APC).
I am emailing to let you know about some important new developments regarding the National
Children’s Study. As you may know, a working group of independent experts recently reviewed the
National Children’s Study and presented their findings at the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director
(ACD) this morning. The ACD endorsed the working group’s conclusion that moving forward with
the study would not be the best way to advance our understanding of how environmental factors
influence child health and development. The NIH takes these recommendations seriously and, as a
consequence, has concluded that the National Children’s Study will not be launched and that,
therefore, the Vanguard Study, the pilot for this effort, will not continue.
While the Vanguard Study will immediately stop collecting new information from participants, all of
the valuable information and specimens collected to date will be stored and made available to the
research community. Dr. David Murray, NIH Associate Director for Prevention, has been appointed,
effectively immediately, to manage this orderly closure of the National Children’s Study. For more
information, please see the report of the ACD working group at
http://acd.od.nih.gov/reports/NCS_WG_FINAL_REPORT.pdf and Dr. Collins’ statement in
response at http://www.nih.gov/about/director/12122014_statement_ACD.htm.
I want to assure you that NIH, and NICHD, remain committed to research to address the important
health and environmental goals of the NCS. There will be much more detail on this later, but I
wanted to let you know immediately about today’s developments.
If you have any questions about this, please feel free to contact David Murray or me at
[email protected] or 1-877-865-2619.
Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D.
Director
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
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Russell Sage Foundation Seeks Letters of Inquiry for Social Inequality
Research
One of the oldest foundations in America, the Russell Sage Foundation was established by Mrs.
Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United
States." In pursuit of this mission, the foundation now dedicates itself to strengthening the methods,
data, knowledge, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social
problems and improving social policies.
The foundation's Social Inequality program supports research on the social, economic, political, and
labor market consequences of rising economic inequality in the United States. To that end, the
program seeks Letters of Inquiry for investigator-initiated research projects that will broaden current
understanding of the causes and consequences of rising economic inequality. Priority will be given
to projects that use innovative data or methodologies to address important questions about
inequality.
Examples of the kinds of topics that are of interest include but are not limited to economic well-being,
equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility; political process and policies; psychological
and/or cultural change; education; labor markets; child development and child outcomes;
neighborhoods and communities; families, family structure, and family formation; and other forms of
inequality.
Two-year grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded to qualified organizations.
To be eligible, organizations must be considered nonprofit organizations under section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Review Code.
The foundation encourages methodological variety, but all proposals should have well-developed
conceptual frameworks and research designs. Analytical models should be specified and research
questions and hypotheses should be clearly stated. Awards are available for research assistance,
data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results.
Letters of Inquiry must be received no later than January 16, 2015. Upon review, select applicants
will be invited to submit proposals by March 16, 2015.
For complete program guidelines, application instructions, and an FAQ, visit the Russell Sage
website.
Link to Complete RFP
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PRI Publication of the Week
Luke, Nancy, Hongwei Xu, and Binitha V Thampi. 2014. "Husbands' Participation in Housework and
Child Care in India." Journal of Marriage and Family 76:620-637.
Abstract
The authors tested theories of housework among tea plantation workers in India, where women
comprise the main part of the workforce and are breadwinners in their families. Analysis of 49
semistructured interviews and survey data from 3,181 female workers revealed that although women
were mainly responsible for domestic labor, more than half of husbands usually or sometimes
helped their wives with cooking, fuel wood collection, and child care. The analyses revealed a
curvilinear relationship between husbands' earnings share and their participation in each task,
supporting theories of bargaining and gender display. The probability of male participation
decreased to its lowest level when men earned less than their wives. Husbands rarely helped with
clothes washing—considered the most feminine task—and their participation did not respond to
changes in relative earnings. These results support the authors' argument that patterns of bargaining
and gender display will vary depending on the gendered nature of housework tasks within a
particular society.
→ To read more please visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12108/full
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Change to the Add Health Study Name
Add Health has been renamed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to
reflect the study’s ongoing, real time life view that follows individuals from early adolescence into
adulthood. Add Health researchers should use the new study name in all publications,
presentations and reports based on analysis of Add Health data, as well as grant
submissions that reference Add Health, and when citing the Add Health research design.
To reference the research design of Add Health data, please use the following citation:
Harris, K.M., C.T. Halpern, E. Whitsel, J. Hussey, J. Tabor, P. Entzel, and J.R. Udry. 2009. The
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health: Research Design [WWW document].
URL:http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/design.
Add Health researchers should use the following acknowledgement in written reports and other
publications based on analysis of Add Health data:
This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and
designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other
federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara
Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files
is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was
received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis.
Visit Add Health online: https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth
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PRI Mugs
Buy your very own PRI Mug today! Please stop into 601 Oswald if you are interested in purchasing a
15 oz. PRI Mug ($10 each). They make great presents for the holidays.
If you have any questions please contact Stephanie Eickstedt ([email protected]).
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NEW Format for NIH Biosketches
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New Biographical Sketch Format Required for NIH and AHRQ Grant Applications Submitted for
Due Dates on or After January 25, 2015 (NOT-OD-15-024) Office of the Director, NIH
New Format
The revised forms and instructions are now available on the SF 424 (R&R) Forms and Applications
page. The new format extends the page limit from four to five pages, and allows researchers to
describe up to five of their most significant contributions to science, along with the historical
background that framed their research. Investigators can outline the central findings of prior work
and the influence of those findings on the investigator’s field. Investigators involved in Team Science
are provided the opportunity to describe their specific role(s) in the work. Each description can be
accompanied by a listing of up to four relevant peer-reviewed publications or other non-publication
research products, including audio or video products; patents; data and research materials;
databases; educational aids or curricula; instruments or equipment; models; protocols; and software
or netware that are relevant to the described contribution. In addition to the descriptions of specific
contributions and documentation, researchers will be allowed to include a link to a full list of their
published work as found in a publicly available digital database such as MyBibliography orSciENcv .
- See more at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-15-024.html#sthash.Jnb1qJTc.dpuf
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Pizza Party
Dear PRI,
We are having a pizza party to welcome Dan Nugent to PRI on Monday, December 15th. The event
is currently scheduled for 302 Pond Laboratory. Please go to the doodle poll below if you would like
to attend.
http://doodle.com/34cze892rq56rc33
Thanks,
Joe
→ When: Monday, Dec. 15. 12:00 – 1:00pm
→ Where: 302 Pond Lab
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OHRP Seeking Comments on Draft: Disclosing Reasonably Foreseeable
Risks in Research Evaluating Standards of Care
Public comments on the draft are encouraged and can be submitted until December
23rd. Directions on how to submit comments can be found on the Office for Human Research
Protections (OHRP) website,http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/newsroom/rfc/index.html.
For further information about the draft guidance, we invite you to view Dr. Jerry Menikoff’ s
presentation given at the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections
(SACHRP) meeting on October 29, 2014 and discussion by SACHRP
members, http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=14938&start=16936&duration=6755.
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