COOK COUNTY BUREAU OF HEALTH
SERVICES
GRANTS NEWSLETTER
Volume 8, Number 7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~July,
2000
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
Hektoen Building
627 South Wood Street
Chicago, IL 60612
FAX: 312-738-3102
Karen M. Smith, PhD, Director
312-633-4940
email: kmsmith@wwa.com
Bennetta Anderson, Administrative Assistant
312-633-4941
Lillian Hampton, IRB Administrator
312-633-7792
email: lhampton@hektoen.org
Funeka Sihlali, RN, Scientific Quality Coordinator
312-572-3506
email: fsihlali@hektoen.org
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COOK COUNTY BOARD
OF
COMMISSIONERS
John H. Stroger, Jr.,
President
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Jerry
Butler
Allan C. Carr
Earlean Collins
John P. Daley
Gregg Goslin
Carl R. Hansen
Ted Lechowicz
Roberto Maldonado |
William R. Moran
Joseph Mario Moreno
Mike Quigley
Herbert T. Schumann, Jr.
Peter N. Silvestri
Deborah Sims
Bobbie L. Steele
Calvin R. Sutker |
COOK COUNTY BUREAU OF HEALTH
SERVICES
Ruth M. Rothstein, Chief
Affiliates
Ambulatory & Community Health Network
of Cook County
Cermak Health Services of Cook County
Cook County Department of Public Health
Cook County Hospital
Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County
Provident Hospital of Cook County
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SMALL PROJECTS GET BIGGER AT AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently announced that
awards under their small grants program will now have a funding limit
of $100,000, up from $50,000. AHRQ (formerly AHCPR) funds research and
promotes improvements in clinical practice and in the organization,
financing, and delivery of health care services. The small
research grant program provides support for focused research projects,
developmental studies, and high risk projects.
High-risk projects might employ techniques or theories from other fields
not traditionally linked to health care research, including qualitative
as well as quantitative analyses. The grant program is particularly
intended for new investigators as a means of encouraging individuals
to enter the health services research field. The funding priorities
for the AHRQ small grant program can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov
HRSA ISSUES NEW GRANTS PREVIEW
Every six months, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
issues a preview of upcoming grant offerings and their expected application
deadlines. Potential applicants for HRSA funding should become familiar
with the Preview, since it gives them substantial advance notice for planning
an application.
The Preview can be obtained on the Web at
http://www.hrsa.gov/grantsf.htm
or by calling 1-877-477-2123 (1-877-HRSA-123). You can also ask to have
your name and address added to the HRSA Preview mailing list by calling
the toll free number above or sending a message by e-mail to hrsagac@hrsa.gov.
Listed below are some of the grants and deadlines described
in the latest HRSA Preview:
Bureau of Health Professions
| Application |
Deadline |
| Preventive Medicine Residency Programs
93.117 |
09/18/00 |
| Podiatric Residency Training in Primary
Care 93.181 |
10/27/00 |
| Allied Health Projects 93.191 |
01/16/01 |
| Advanced Education Nursing Grants
93.247 |
01/29/01 |
| Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship
Grants 93.358 |
11/01/00 |
| Basic Nurse Education and Practice
Grants 93.359 |
02/22/01 |
| Residency Training in Primary Care
(Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine/General Pediatrics) 93.884 |
10/02/00 |
| Faculty Development Training in Primary
Care (Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine/General Pediatrics) 93.895 |
10/06/00 |
Bureau of Primary Health
Care
| New Delivery Sites and New Starts
in Programs Funded Under the Health Centers Consolidation Act 93.224, 93.246,
93.151 |
11/30/00; 2/28/01; 5/15/01 |
| Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program
93.908 |
06/30/01 |
HIV / AIDS Bureau
| Ryan White IV for Adolescent Services
93.153C |
04/02/01 |
| Funding for Early Intervention Services
Planning Grants 93.918C |
06/01/01 |
| Funding for Early Intervention Services
Planning Grants 93.918 |
06/01/01 |
Maternal and Child Health
Bureau
| Integrated Health and Behavioral Health
Care for Children, Adolescents and their Families 93.110AF |
01/31/01 |
| Assuring Adequate Health Insurance
for Children with Special Health Care Needs 93.110C |
02/02/01 |
| Healthy and Ready to Work (HRTW) Services
for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs (CYSHN) 93.110D |
02/23/01 |
| Maternal and Child Health Research
Program 93.110RS |
08/01/00 03/01/00 |
| Continuing Education and Development
93.110TO |
01/12/01 |
| Public Policy Analysis and Education
Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health 93.110TP |
03/26/01 |
| Public Policy Analysis and Education
Center for Middle Childhood and Adolescent Health 93.110TP |
03/26/01 |
| Continuing Education/Distance Learning
93.110TQ |
01/12/01 |
| Clinical Practice Guidelines for Emergency
Care of Children 93.127i |
06/01/01 |
| Interconception Care for High Risk
Women and their Infants 93.926K |
02/16/01 |
Office of the Administrator
| Community Access Program 93.252 |
06/01/01 |
Office of Special Programs
| Extramural Support Program for Projects
to Increase Organ and Tissue Donations 93.134 |
05/01/01 |
Other Programs
| Outpatient Hansen's Disease Medical
Services 93.215 |
09/01/00 |
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UPDATE ON MODULAR GRANT APPLICATIONS:
BE CAREFUL NOT TO TELL NIH TOO MUCH
After one year of full implementation, the National Institutes of Health
has issued some clarifications about its modular grant application process.
Under a modular grant application, budget requests for projects which will
cost no more than $250,000 in any one year are made in "modules" of $25,000,
without detailed budget itemization.
In a recent notice NIH provided these modifications and clarifications
about modular grants:
Modifications to The Budget Narrative Justification Page: Investigators
now must provide budget narrative for ALL personnel by position, role,
and level of effort. This includes consultants and any "to be appointed"
positions. Formerly, this information was required only for "key" personnel.
Consequences of Submission of Non-compliant Applications: As of September
1, 2000, applications not in compliance with the modular application
instructions will be returned for revisions. Applications which are
revised and resubmitted to NIH in a timely manner may remain in the intended
review cycle.
An application will be considered NON-COMPLIANT if:
1. The requested direct cost budget is not in modules
of $25,000 for all years of support for requests up to $250,000 per year.
2. A detailed itemized categorical budget is provided.
3. The Budget Narrative Justification page includes an itemized
justification for one or more of the following: equipment, supplies, travel,
other expenses, etc. but the number of modules requested in each year is
the same, or the information is not intended to explain the request for
a different number of modules in one or more years.
4. OTHER SUPPORT pages are supplied, in addition to or in
the absence of the section in the Biographical Sketch identifying "Research
Projects Ongoing or Completed During the Last Three Years."
5. The Biographical Sketch lists "Current and Pending Support"
instead of or in addition to the required information.
Update on the Initial Peer Review of Modular Grant Applications: Information
about the modular grant review process can be found on a new page, "Modular
Grant Application Update: Peer Review" at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/modular/modular_peer_review_update.pdf
Clarification to the Checklist Instructions: Applicant institutions
should calculate the Facilities and Administrative(F&A, or indirect
costs) costs using the current negotiated rate, less exclusions, for the
initial budget period and all future budget periods. It is not necessary
to list the exclusions on the Checklist nor anywhere in the application.
Note that you can now get into trouble by giving NIH too much
information in a modular application, and especially by following
the format that is otherwise required for non-modular grant applications.
If your application will use the modular format, you should become familiar
with the differences between modular and non-modular formats. More complete
information about modular grants can be found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/modular/modular.htm
Also note that any RFA or PA issued by NIH since December 1, 1998 that
involves modular grant applications will state that fact. Any appropriate
active PAs released before that time will also require submission in the
modular format. If you're unsure if a modular format will be used in your
application, call the contact person listed in the grant announcement
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MORE ON MANDATORY INVESTIGATOR TRAINING
On July 17, the Office of Research Integrity issued a draft policy describing
a proposed set of standards for investigator training to be required at
all institutions which receive federal research funds. As proposed, the
policy is very broad, affecting nearly every person participating research
in any capacity and including a wide range of issues about research ethics
and good research practices. Institutions will be allowed to phase in compliance
with the policy over the next two years. The following are excerpts
from the proposed policy:
| Scope
The policy applies to all staff who conduct research or receive research
training with PHS funds, or who otherwise work on a PHS-supported research
project even if the individual does not receive PHS support. "All staff"
includes principal investigators, co-principal investigators, senior investigators,
institutional officials who approve PHS grants, contracts, or cooperative
agreements, tenure-track investigators, students, postdoctoral fellows,
technicians, staff scientists, data management staff, subcontractors, consultants,
clinicians, research nurses, research associates, research assistants and
anyone else involved in conducting the research or who receives research
training at the institution, or under the direction of the institution.
PHS recommends that departmental and sponsored research staff, secretarial,
and other support staff receive instruction in Responsible Conduct of Research
(RCR) relevant to their jobs and roles in the research enterprise. This
does not limit the authority of the institution to impose more detailed
or broader requirements for RCR education on research staff.
The Core Instructional Areas are described as follows:
1. Data acquisition, management, sharing, and ownership: Accepted
practices for acquiring and maintaining research data. Proper methods for
record keeping and electronic data collection and storage in scientific
research. Includes defining what constitutes data; keeping data notebooks;
data selection, retention, sharing, ownership, and analysis; data as legal
documents and intellectual property, including copyright laws.
2. Mentor/trainee relationships: The responsibilities of mentors
and trainees in predoctoral and postdoctoral research programs. Includes
the role of a mentor, responsibilities of a mentor, conflicts between mentor
and trainee, collaboration and competition, selection of a mentor, and
abusing the mentor/trainee relationship.
3. Publication practices and responsible authorship: The
purpose and importance of scientific publication, and the responsibilities
of the authors. Includes topics such as collaborative work and assigning
appropriate credit, acknowledgements, appropriate citations, repetitive
publications, fragmentary publication, sufficient description of methods,
corrections and retractions, conventions for deciding upon authors, authors'
responsibilities, and the pressure to publish.
4. Peer review: The purpose of peer review in determining
merit for research funding and publications. Includes topics such as, the
definition of peer review, impartiality, how peer review works, editorial
boards and ad hoc reviewers, responsibilities of the reviewers, privileged
information and confidentiality.
5. Collaborative science: Research collaborations and issues
that may arise from such collaborations. Includes topics such as setting
ground rules early in the collaboration, avoiding authorship disputes,
and the sharing of materials and information with internal and external
collaborating scientists.
6. Human subjects: Issues important in conducting research
involving human subjects. Includes topics such as the definition of human
subjects research, ethical principles for conducting human subjects research,
informed consent, confidentiality and privacy of data and patient records,
risks and benefits, preparation of a research protocol, institutional review
boards, adherence to study protocol, proper conduct of the study, and gender,
minority, and children's research issues.
7. Research Involving Animals: Issues important to conducting
research involving animals. Includes topics such as definition of research
involving animals, ethical principles for conducting research on animals,
federal regulations governing animal research, institutional animal care
and use committees, and treatment of animals.
8. Research misconduct: The meaning of research misconduct
and the regulations, policies, and guidelines that govern research misconduct
in PHS-funded institutions. Includes topics such as fabrication, falsification,
and plagiarism; error vs. intentional misconduct; institutional misconduct
policies; identifying misconduct; procedures for reporting misconduct;
protection of whistleblowers; and outcomes of investigations, including
institutional and federal actions.
9. Conflict of Interest and Commitment: The definition of
conflicts of interest and how to handle conflicts of interest. Types of
conflicts encountered by researchers and institutions. Includes topics
such as conflicts associated with collaborators, publication, financial
conflicts, obligations to other constituencies, and other types of conflicts.
10. Compliance with existing PHS and institutional policies:
Identification and understanding of existing federal and local policies,
methods of compliance, and consequences for not complying. |
This proposed policy will eventually supercede the rule announced last
month by DHHS requiring -- as of October 1 -- that all applicants to NIH
for funding attest that all key personnel on the proposed project have
received training in human subject protections. Until the new policy is
adopted that rule will remain in effect.
Comments on the proposed policy must be received by ORI at 5515
Security Lane, Suite 700, Rockville, MD, 20852, or by email to jegan@osophs.dhhs.gov,
no later than August 21, 2000. Following consideration of public comments
and appropriate revisions, it is expected that the new policy will be announced
by October 1, 2000. If you would like to see the complete draft
policy, go to: http://ori.dhhs.gov/whatsnew.htm
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SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, ETC
[A long-term calendar showing most of the major academic medical society
meetings can be found on the web at: http://www.aamc.org/meetings/mjmtgcal.htm]
Office of Research Development Workshops
These workshops are open to any County-affiliated investigator or grant-seeker.
Enrollment for some sessions is limited, so please register only for those
you will be able to attend.
Grant Writing Seminar:
Gives an overview of the entire process of developing a project
and applying for funding. Includes information on approaching both governmental
and private funders, describes an approach to developing grant budgets,
discusses stylistic and content issues that are frequent stumbling blocks
in writing grant applications.
Constructing a Grant Budget:
Covers many of the technical aspects of developing an accurate
time line and budget for a grant proposal.
What Are All These Forms? Interacting With the Scientific Committee:
Gives an orientation to procedures -- and the associated forms
-- used by the Scientific Committee to
ensure that patients are protected from undue risks in research. The
Bureau forms will be discussed, and new policies and changes in federal
regulations will be covered.
To register for any of these, call Bennetta Anderson at 312-633-4941.
If you would like to schedule one or more of these workshops in your Department
or at another site, please call Karen Smith at 633-4940.
CONSENT FORM CLINIC
The Clinic is a one-on-one session designed to help investigators to:
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Insure that all the required elements of informed consent are included;
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Check that the document is written at an appropriate literacy level;
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Identify lay terms that can be substituted for medical terminology;
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Review the ways the risks and benefits of the study are described to make
sure they are clearly communicated;
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Make sure the local situation is reflected in consent forms that have been
supplied by a study sponsor
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