Abstract: Resources for Researchers: A New Portal to Assist Prevention Investigators (Society for Prevention Research 24th Annual Meeting)

Schedule:

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Pacific N/O (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)

* noted as presenting author

Andrey Kuzmichev, PhD, Writer/editor, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Elizabeth Neilson, PhD, MPH, MSN, Senior Communications Advisor, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Keisha L. Shropshire, MPH, Public Health Analyst, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Denise Stredrick, PhD, Health Science Policy Analyst, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Deborah Langer, MPH, Senior Communications Advisor, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Christine Jones, MS, Writer/editor, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Jocelyn Lee, PhD, MPH, Health Scientist Administrator, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Ranell L. Myles, PhD, MPH, CHES, Public Health Analyst, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Jody Engel, MA, RD, Director of Communications, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

David M. Murray, PhD, Associate Director for Prevention, NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Rockville, MD

Introduction: The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) is the lead Office at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) responsible for assessing, facilitating, and stimulating research in disease prevention and health promotion, and disseminating the results of this research to improve public health. Increasing the scope, quality, dissemination, and impact of prevention research supported by the NIH is central to the ODP’s mission.

Methods: To assist prevention researchers in designing and conducting their studies, the Office developed a new web portal, Resources for Researchers, which centralizes access to information that is important to the prevention research community.

Results: Resources for Researchers provides investigators with a variety of tools and resources including (1) instructions for finding NIH-funded research projects; (2) directions for applying for NIH funding, which point researchers to detailed guides and tutorials so they can successfully navigate the grant application process; (3) a list of prevention-related funding opportunity announcements; (4) a list of methods-related funding opportunity announcements; (5) a directory of prevention-related NIH programs and offices; (6) a listing of prevention-related study sections at the NIH; (7) an innovative database that is manually curated by experts, keyword-searchable, and categorized by research topics, and includes recent, high-quality studies testing prevention interventions across a range of health conditions; and (8) information on high-priority evidence gaps identified by the U.S Preventive Services Task Force and the Community Preventive Services Task Force. The information about evidence gaps provides investigators seeking new topics of inquiry with a selection of understudied areas in prevention science.

Conclusions: Resources for Researchers combines prevention-related information across various NIH websites with newly created tools and materials in one online repository specifically tailored to the needs of the prevention research community.

Abstract: Resources for Researchers: A New Portal to Assist Prevention Investigators (Society for Prevention Research 24th Annual Meeting)

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