Announcements | October 7, 2021 Della White, Ph.D. The Helping to End Addiction Long-termSMInitiative, or NIH HEAL InitiativeSM, has released notices of two upcoming funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) to support large-scale clinical trials on sickle cell disease (SCD) pain management. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) will lead this program with partnership of nine NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices. The funding opportunities are expected to support up to three large-scale trials. |
| October 1, 2021 Martina Schmidt, Ph.D. Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Division of Extramural Activities for our readers who are applying for or receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding. In this post, I will discuss how grant applications are assigned to study sections as part of NIHs peer review process for applications. |
| September 2021 NCCIH Clinical Digest In general, research on complementary health approaches for fibromyalgia must be regarded as preliminary. However, recent systematic reviews and randomized clinical trials provide encouraging evidence that practices such as tai chi, massage therapy, acupuncture, and balneotherapy may help relieve some fibromyalgia symptoms. |
| Sixteen weeks of treatment with diets higher in omega-3 fatty acids from fatty fish reduced the frequency and severity of headaches in people with frequent migraines, according to a study funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, part of the National Institutes of Health, and conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study, which was partially supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, was published in theBMJ. |
Resources for Researchers Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery (R01 Clinical Trial Required) Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Notice of Change to Key Dates of RFA-MH-21-175, "BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" Upcoming Events November 1-4, 2021; Virtual Exhibit | November 2, 2021 from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. ET; Virtual Sean D. Young, Ph.D., M.S. Social technologies and their associated data are increasingly being used as tools in public health research and practice. Examples include social media, mobile apps, internet searches, and wearable sensors. More than half the world (4.5 billion people) uses social media sites to create, share, and discuss contentoften in the form of personal thoughts, behaviors, and clinical diagnoses. Dr. Young will discuss how social technologies and data (e.g., artificial intelligence and data science modeling) are being used to impact public health, and how researchers and health departments/agencies might apply them in public health surveillance/intervention efforts. He will also present his teams research on how these tools can be employed to predict and change health behaviors, and on implementation-related issues such as policy and ethical questions. The studies to be discussed involve populations affected by HIV, mental health and substance use disorders, car crashes, or COVID-19. |
November 8-11, 2021; Virtual In case you missed it... Video Presentations Available of Whole Person Research Workshop and Advisory Council Meeting If you missed the virtual presentations of these events, you may be interested in viewing the archive videos: Methodological Approaches for Whole Person Research Workshop (September 29-30, 2021) NCCIH Advisory Council 78th Meeting (September 10, 2021)
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