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Title: New Connections Initiative


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New Connections Initiative
Applicant Web Conference March 29th
  • Bringing Diversity to RWJF Grant-making

Debra Joy Pérez, PhD, MPA Jamalia L.
Brashears Program Officer National Urban
Fellow Research and Evaluation
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Questions
  • Please hold all questions for the Q A session
    at the end of the conference
  • If you have questions during the presentation,
    you can type your questions into the Q A box
    and click submit
  • -The conference moderators will consolidate and
    organize questions for the Q A session at the
    end of the presentation

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Applicant Web Conference Agenda
  • Overview of RWJF
  • Overview of New Connections Initiative
  • Junior Investigator Senior Consultant Program
  • New Connections Cycle I Overview of Topics for
    Study
  • Funding
  • FAQ
  • New Connections Grantmaking Online (GO)
  • QA

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Overview of RWJF
  • Found in mid-1970s
  • Improving health and healthcare of all Americans
  • 400-450 million each year
  • 11 Teams/portfolios
  • Human Capital
  • Disparities in Healthcare

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Overview of RWJF
  • FOUR GOALS
  • To assure that all Americans have access to
    quality health care at reasonable cost.
  • To improve the quality of care and support for
    people with chronic health conditions.
  • To promote healthy communities and lifestyles.
  • To reduce the personal, social and economic harm
    caused by substance abusetobacco, alcohol and
    illicit drugs.

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New Connections Initiative
  • Launched March 15, 2006
  • Funds 12 individuals per year
  • 6 consultants and 6 junior investigators
  • Three-year initiative
  • Biannual solicitation
  • Proposals due April 27, 2006
  • Online applications

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Junior Investigator Program
  • Criteria
  • Doctorate (including all terminal degrees)
    received within 7 years
  • Part of institution with 501(C)3 Status
  • Proven evidence of research skills
  • No previous funding relationship with RWJF

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Junior Investigator Program
  • Scope of Activities
  • Secondary Data Analysis.
  • Methodological Training.
  • Production of a Peer-Reviewed Article.
  • Consultant Honorarium

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Senior Consultant Program
  • Criteria
  • Proven expertise and/or research skills
  • Familiarity with Team issue areas
  • No previous funding relationship with RWJF
    (except RWJF Fellows)

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Senior Consultant Program
Scope of Activities
  • Research synthesis/Tools development.
  • Policy analysis with policy recommendations.
  • Exploration of new topic areas to advance team
    programming and strategy.
  • Case studies or qualitative assessments
  • Market-based analysis.

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New Connections Cycle I
Overview of Topics for Study
  • Addiction Prevention Treatment
  • Building Human Capital
  • Childhood Obesity
  • Coverage
  • Disparities
  • Nursing

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Human Capital
  • exploring ways to attract, develop and retain a
    capable and diverse health care workforce to
    improve the health and health care of all
    Americans.
  • understand the future evolution of the health
    care workforce and increase knowledge of the
    cost/benefits of employee development.

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Health Insurance Coverage
  • exploring the barriers to health coverage and
    cultural indicators that may explain higher
    un-insurance rates among African Americans and
    Latinos.
  • impact of take-up rates of coverage alternatives
    like Health Saving Accounts.

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Childhood Obesity
  • increase the access of healthy foods in low
    income neighborhoods.
  • explore successful policies and financing
    mechanisms that yield an increase to healthy
    eating in schools serving primarily low-income
    students.
  • successful models to increase the safety and
    decrease the threat of violence of the built
    environment

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Addiction, Prevention Treatment
  • developing indices to track the use of
    evidence-based treatment approaches
  • demonstrating ways and benefits of improving
    addiction care in treatment agencies
  • encouraging states to use licensing and
    purchasing functions to improve the quality of
    addiction treatment.  

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Disparities
  • learn more about the places where racial and
    ethnic minorities actually receive health care.
  • help the field understand and implement practical
    ways to center care on the patient.

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Nursing
  • To better understand the training, benefits and
    labor force choices of the nursing workforce.
  • to develop a large comprehensive dataset
    containing information important to understanding
    the nursing production function.

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Funding
  • Budget includes all travel associated with
    project
  • Budget includes direct and indirect costs
  • Senior consultant and junior investigator
    administering of funding

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FAQ
  • HDUC clarification
  • Datasets for Junior Investigators
  • FTE
  • Selection Criteria
  • Advice on Proposals

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New Connections Grantmaking Online (GO)
  • http//grantmaking.rwjf.org/common/login.jsp?progr
    amnc1
  • Applicants must have unique ID and password to
    apply for New Connections
  • Proposal format and details available on GO
    system for download
  • Technical Assistance
  • Rwjf-newconnections_at_rwjf.org
  • (609)627-5769

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Question and Answer Session
  • There are 2 ways to submit questions.
  • Press the 1 key on your telephone and you will be
    entered into the queue to ask your questions
    live.
  • -If your questions is answered while you are
    waiting, please press to yourself from the
    queue.
  • Type your question into the QA box and click
    submit.
  • -The conference moderators will consolidate and
    organize question for the QA session at the end
    of the presentation.

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www.rwjf-newconnections.orgor contact me!
Rwjf-newconnections_at_rwjf.org
  • How to apply
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