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May 21, 2012
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CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks
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Women's Environmental Reproductive Health Consortium
Photos on this page are courtesy of Steve McCaw.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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FOA: Biomedical and Behavioral Research Innovations to Ensure Equity (BRITE) in Maternal and Child Health (R15). Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): April 3, 2012; October 11, 2012; October 11, 2013. This FOA seeks to increase the diversity of the pool of researchers involved in health equity research related to NICHD mission areas including infant mortality; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); child, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; uterine fibroids; pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; violence prevention; health literacy; and outreach and information dissemination.
Call for Abstracts: ARHP. Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Annual Conference, September 20-22, 2012, New Orleans, LA. The ARHP 2012 Call for Abstracts is now open. This clinical conference combines the latest research science with interactive, hands-on training and offers take home points for immediate practice improvement. Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 24, 2012.
Call for Abstracts: The Contribution of Epigenetics in Pediatric Environmental Health. Sponsor: Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN), May 30 - June 1, 2012, San Francisco, CA. CEHN is pleased to announce a Call for Submissions of Late-Breaking Scientific Abstracts for the research conference titled "The Contribution of Epigenetics in Pediatric Environmental Health". This event will help mark CEHN's 20th Anniversary and highlight the role of epigenetics in determining the impact of the environment on pediatric disease and children's current and future health. Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 2, 2012.
FOA: Maternal Nutrition and Pre-pregnancy Obesity: Effects on Mothers, Infants and Children (R01). Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research encourages R01 applications to improve health outcomes for women, infants and children, by stimulating interdisciplinary research focused on maternal nutrition and pre-pregnancy obesity. Maternal health significantly impacts not only the mother but also the intrauterine environment, and subsequently fetal development and the health of the newborn. Expiration date: January 8, 2015.
FOA: Administrative Supplements for Collaborative Activities to Promote Metabolomics Research. Sponsor: NIH Common Fund. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is developed as a Common Fund initiative (http://commonfund.nih.gov/) through the NIH Office of the NIH Director, Office of Strategic Coordination (http://dpcpsi.nih.gov/osc/). This initiative will support new collaborations that exploit metabolomics approaches to move basic and clinical research towards translational goals and will increase the number of investigators cross-trained in metabolomics methodology, bioinformatics analysis, biochemistry and physiology. Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 15, 2012.
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Description
The Women’s Environmental Reproductive Health Consortium convenes researchers from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Intramural Research Division and grantees at academic institutions across the United States receiving funds through the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research & Training. The Consortium seeks to build better interactions and collaborations among scientists in order to form mutually beneficial partnerships, share best practices, databases, and tissue banks, and explore translational strategies that magnify the impact of scientific findings. The Consortium is facilitated by Karin Russ, National Coordinator of the CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health Working Group. For more information, please contact Karin Russ.
What’s New:
Women’s Environmental Reproductive Health Consortium meeting: January 20, 2012.
A virtual consortium of NIEHS Women’s Reproductive Health researchers has met via teleconferences for a year. This first face-to-face meeting, attended by about fifty scientists, explored ways to advance the study of effects of environmental exposures on women’ reproductive health. The meeting consisted of keynote scientific sessions, research summaries from 15 speakers, a discussion on how to stimulate more translational research, more collaborations and sharing of ideas, tissues and technologies and a discussion on how to improve the impact of the research by getting the word out at more scientific meetings. The consortium plans to take advantage of CHE resources, to spread their message at public talks and at meetings of clinical and disease societies, and to build on the relationships they formed at the meeting. There was also discussion of writing a collaborative review paper on the concept of a developmental estrogenization syndrome, to communicate the need for further research in this area.
The Directory of Researchers contains summaries of the major research projects currently conducted by those presenting and attending the meeting.
Photos from the 2012 Meeting:
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