Trainings

HCUP Data Users Workshop

April 25, 2012

Rockville, MD

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will sponsor a full-day hands-on workshop for health services researchers interested in using Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data resources. Participants will be exposed to HCUP databases and related tools (including HCUPnet) via hands-on manipulation of the data. Click here for more information.

2012 NIH Summer Institute on Social and Behavioral Intervention Research

(Application Deadline: April 27, 2012)

July 9-13, 2012

New York, NY

The National Institutes of of Health (NIH) Summer Institute will address essential conceptual, methodological, and practical issues involved in planning and carrying out research on the impact of behavioral and social interventions on health outcomes, health behavior, and treatment. Such interventions are relevant to NIH public health goals of preventing morbidity and mortality and promoting health and well-being for persons with medical and behavioral disorders and conditions. The Institute is intended for junior investigators who have COMPLETED THEIR DOCTORATE and who plan to develop NIH grant applications for research in this area. Faculty (mentors) will include established investigators from relevant fields. Click here for more information.

FRAGILE FAMILIES WORKSHOP 2012

July 11-13, 2012

New York, NY

(Deadline to apply: March 18, 2012)

The Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop, funded by the National Institutes of Health and sponsored by the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC), will be held July 11-13, 2012, at Columbia University in New York City. Targeted toward early career scholars from various social and biomedical science disciplines, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, the workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS), one of the leading sources of information on contemporary urban families with children. Click here for more information.