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Coronavirus COVID-19 and the Correctional Facility for the Correctional Healthcare Worker
Decision to postpone the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health
TO: Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health Registrants
FR: Warren J. Ferguson, MD, Conference Director
RE: Decision to postpone the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health
Due to the significant COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak and its impact on public health, we have decided to postpone the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health. The conference will now take place on Thursday and Friday, June 25-26, 2020, at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley Hotel.
Here are some answers to questions you may have.
Why postpone?
Containment of the COVID-19 Coronavirus is a public health priority. Many individuals infected in the U.S. have contracted the virus through exposure at conferences and business meetings. Additionally, many educational and government institutions have established domestic and international travel bans, and we expect others to be announced this week.
Why June 25-26 as opposed to other dates?
We are fortunate that the hotel is willing to work with us to reschedule rather than to cancel outright. Due to other events scheduled there, we have a limited selection of dates available.
Recognizing that many families schedule vacations in July and August, we decided not to consider those months. Waiting until September – the start of the academic year for many of us – creates other logistical complications. Most institutions have travel bans of 30-60 days, so we anticipate travel to resume by the end of June.
Will the program be the same?
Both our keynote and plenary speakers are available for the June dates. We are optimistic that the rest of the conference program will remain mostly intact, but we do recognize that some presenters may have conflicts that will prevent them from participating. Once we have more information regarding the program, we will inform you of any changes.
What do I need to do to change my registration and hotel reservation?
We will automatically update your conference registration. The hotel has canceled all existing reservations for the April dates. To reserve a room for the rescheduled June event, please visit the 13th ACCJH Academic & Health Policy Conference hotel booking site. The room rate will be the same $175 per night and will be honored from June 22 through June 27.
Thank you for your understanding during this unprecedented time. We look forward to seeing you in June in North Carolina.
COVID-19
Over the last week, COVID-19 Coronavirus has become a global topic of concern.
Our top priority remains the health and safety of all participants at our conferences, including attendees, exhibitors, market suppliers, staff, industry partners, and others involved. Given the dynamic nature of this situation, ACCJH, which includes several experts in public health and infectious disease, will monitor efforts to reduce spread of the virus and will follow evidence-based decision-making to ensure the safety of the healthcare community currently planning to assemble in North Carolina.
We remain committed to communicate regularly regarding our attendance and status.
Aging Research in Criminal Justice & Health (ARCH) Network Pilot/ Exploratory Grant Funding Application
The goal of the project titled “Health Disparities Research in Aging: The Aging Research in Criminal Justice & Health (ARCH) Network” is to develop a national, multi-disciplinary community of emerging and established researchers to catalyze and support research and interventions designed to improve health and social outcomes in the growing population of criminal justice-involved older adults and people with serious illness.
The ARCH Network leadership team spans two geographically distinct universities – the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Our purpose is to bring public health, health-related research, and criminal justice reform together into one conversation. Our vision is to create and use evidence-based health and healthcare solutions to design or inform policies and programs that advance criminal justice reform.
Pilot Research Program: Our goal is to support new and established scientists in research on the health and/or healthcare needs of criminal justice-involved older adults and people with serious illness. Successful pilot/exploratory projects ($10,000-$15,000 each) will be selected for their capacity to support multidisciplinary, community-engaged, and/or life-course research that has the potential to directly benefit criminal justice-involved older adults. The possibility of funding exceeding $15,000 may be considered with special permission and prior approval, please email sarah.vanzanten@ucsf.edu if interested.
Eligibility: To be eligible for the ARCH Funding, principal applicants must: Be an ARCH Network Member and be based in the US (other research team members can be non-US based). *Strong Preference will be given to Junior Faculty, early stage investigators, and/or trainees.
Selection: Proposals will be scored according to the NIH system by a 3-person committee comprised of ARCH Network Executive and Advisory Board Members. We expect to fund 2 or 3 pilot projects per year that study opportunities across the life course where programmatic and policy interventions can be tested to reduce health disparities for criminal justice-involved older
adults and people with serious illness.
All relevant grant award recipients will receive direct mentoring in the area of research ethics, study design, and implementation from an appropriate Network Contributing Member or other senior researcher if needed.
All research funded by the network that enrolls human research must be approved by an institutional review board governing human subjects research (IRB).
**Successful applicants will be asked and highly encouraged to present their project proposal at the ARCH Annual Meeting on April 1, 2020.
Submission Dates: Applications are due on Friday, February 21, 2020. Completed applications must be emailed to sarah.vanzanten@ucsf.edu no later than 3:00 pm PST, Friday, February 21, 2020. Electronic applications should be formatted as a single PDF document with pages numbered sequentially. If you do not receive notification that the electronic copy of your proposal has been received by 5:00 pm PST Friday, February 21, 2020 – please call (415) 514-7510. *We expect to make funding decisions by Monday, March 9, 2020.
Application Guidelines: Completed applications must contain the components listed below and follow provided formatting instructions (Arial font, 11 point, .5-inch margins, continuous page numbering on fully assembled application package) and maximum page limits.
Please number all pages sequentially.
1. Cover Page
2. NIH Biosketch from Primary Investigator (Click here for Example and instructions (2 links) – CV accepted for Community Research Applicants)
3. NIH Biosketch from Secondary Investigator or Mentor (If Applicable)
4. Specific Aim(s): Describe the aim(s) and objectives that will determine the scope, depth,and overall direction of the study (1 page max)
5. Research Strategy: Describe the overall strategy, methodology (including study design, study population and sample, and key measures), basic planned analyses, and potential to lead to larger scale work (3 page max)
6. Budget requested and basic justification (salary, travel, transportation, etc.)
7. Bibliography and References
8. Letter of Endorsement from Primary Mentor (If Applicable)
9. NOTE: Protection of Human Subjects Documentation – documentation of IRB approval will be required before funds are dispersed
Review Criteria: THE ARCH Network Review Committee will use the following criteria to assess each application. These are provided so applicants will understand items of importance to reviewers. Please note: priority will be given to proposals that map to the Network’s research agenda.
Significance:
• Does this study address important questions associated with the health of criminal justice involved older adults and/or people with serious illness?
• Is the study consistent with the aims of the Network and does it have relevance to the Network’s goals?
• What is the scientific premise of the study? The premise concerns the quality and strength of existing research used to form the basis for the proposed research question; describes general strengths and weaknesses of prior research being cited as crucial to support the application
Innovation:
• Are the aims important, original, and innovative?
Approach:
• Is the design, (including composition of the study population), methods, and analyses adequately developed, and appropriate to the aims of the project?
• Are data collection and analysis methods clear and adequately justified?
• Is the study feasible to accomplish within the stated time frame (one year) and with the requested resources?
• Because these are exploratory/pilot funds, proposal will be evaluated for its potential to lead to future larger-scale work
Environment:
• Does the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? This information may be described in a mentor’s letter if the project proposed is from a more junior researcher and/or may be included in the Research Strategy section)
Applicant:
• Does the PI explicitly demonstrate a clear commitment to the study?
• Do the applicant’s training, experience, and accomplishments indicate the applicant is likely to accomplish the project’s objectives?
• Is there evidence of multidisciplinary and/or community collaboration?
Budget and Resources:
• Is the budget appropriate and well justified?
For further information, contact:
Sarah.VanZanten@UCSF.edu
2020 Conference Schedule Now Available!
The Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health is very pleased to announce the program schedule for the 13th Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health. This is going to be a landmark event! We had record submissions for presentations, posters and scholarships. Thanks to a grant from Langeloth Foundation, we will have 8 scholarship recipients from four categories: students, early career investigators, community based stakeholders and criminal justice stakeholders.
Additionally, there are three pre-conferences taking place on March 31-April 1 including the Justice Community Opioid Intervention Network (JCOIN) Research Education program funded by NIDA, the National Hepatitis Corrections Network (NHCN) meeting, and the Aging in Criminal Justice Research Network (ARCH), an R24 funded by NIA. Finally, the Center for AIDS Research Justice Substance Use HIV/AIDS Involved Populations (CFAR J-SHIP) will have a track in the conference both days and is funded by NIAAA.
In the past, this conference has generally drawn 250-275 participants. We are expecting that will swell to 350 this year with the additional pre-conferences. This will be a can't miss event!
View the 2020 Schedule here
Register to attend today!
Request for Applications for National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Justice Community Opioid Translational Center: JCOIN Scholar and JCOIN Investigator Tracks
On behalf of National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Justice Community Opioid Intervention Network (JCOIN) Coordinating and Translational Center, we are inviting you or other interested colleagues to submit applications for capacity building research education programs to be launched on March 31 and April 1, 2020 in advance of the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health in Raleigh, NC.
We are planning two tracks of research education on March 31-April 1, the JCOIN Scholar Track and the JCOIN Investigator Track. These programs are described here: https://www.jcoinctc.org/cbapplications/ The Investigator Track is designed for individuals interested in a career as an independent investigator and will focus on a project to be designed and carried out over the next two years with some funding available via a competitive application. This track will emphasize research proposal writing, grant management, mentorship and advanced research skills needed to be successful in criminal justice settings. The Scholar Track will support clinicians, criminologists, analysts interested in collaborating and community stakeholders on research in justice settings and will be one year in duration, focusing on the conduct of research in justice settings, formulating research questions, understanding elements of research design, ethical issues concerning research in justice settings, and collaborator roles to ground and translate the conduct of research in justice settings. Detailed curricular plans and agenda will be forthcoming in the next month.
Funding is available to support attendance at these research meetings as well as the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health which follows on April 2 and 3, 2020.
Applications for both tracks are now open and the deadline for the receipt of applications is Wednesday, December 11, 2019.
Investigator Application: https://www.jcoinctc.org/cbapplications/investigator/
Scholar Application: https://www.jcoinctc.org/cbapplications/scholar/
Applications will be competitive. For 2020, we anticipate accepting 5 investigator track participants and 10 scholar participants. Application opportunities will be offered annually. Following this pilot year, the number of accepted participants will increase.
We are very excited about developing these resources and please ask you to pass along this email to colleagues and constituents whom you believe would value these opportunities.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us:
Warren J. Ferguson, MD University of Massachusetts Medical School warren.ferguson@umassmemorial.org
Danielle S. Rudes, PhD George Mason University Danielle.rudes@gmu.edu
Capacity Building Education Co-Directors, JCOIN Coordinating and Translation Center
Criminal Justice Based Stakeholder Scholarship Opportunity
The Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health is pleased to open the application process for a new scholarship opportunity, the Criminal Justice Based Stakeholder Scholarship, to the 13th Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health. This year's conference will take place April 2-3 at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley. With a generous grant from the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation, the Academic Consortium is pleased to offer 8 scholarships to this year's conference. For our Criminal Justice Based Stakeholder scholarships, we welcome applications from individuals whose professional careers concern custody and programming for individuals supervised by the criminal justice system and who are collaborating or interested in collaborating on programmatic research and evaluation to improve outcomes in justice-supervised populations. Examples of potential applicants include: Sheriffs; Superintendents; Parole and Probation Directors; Key Administrative and Program Staff; and Analytic Staff. Please submit your application by Tuesday, December 10th.
2020 Plenary Speaker: Dr. David Rosen
We are pleased to announce that this year's plenary speaker, for the 13th Academic Health & Policy Conference on Correctional Health, will be Dr. David Rosen.
David Rosen, PhD, MD is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with over twenty years of experience conducting research in criminal justice settings. His research includes broad assessments of disease prevalence, healthcare utilization, and mortality among incarcerated populations, and he has conducted numerous studies examining the use of health services among incarcerated persons living with HIV. Dr. Rosen has led four NIH-funded “mixed methods” research projects of incarcerated persons and their healthcare providers, utilizing linkage between correctional and public health datasets, surveys and indepth interviews. Dr. Rosen completed all of his training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine and an adjunct Assistant Professor within the School of Public Health.
2020 Keynote Speaker : Dr. Homer Venters
Call for Abstracts! 13th Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health
Submission Deadline is September 5, 2019 at 9pm EST
CONFERENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Learn about emerging research at the intersection of health and criminal justice and gain skill in designing applied research and program evaluation
- Network with a multidisciplinary group of participants concerned with the acquisition of new knowledge in criminal justice health practices
- Gain new skills to develop academic-correctional health partnerships and overcome barriers to research in your institution
- Reflect on emerging health policy issues in criminal justice health
PRESENTATION TYPES AND DESCRIPTIONS
- 60 minute presentations: Intended for facilitated panels, policy presentations, or research skills training designed for audience engagement.
- 30 minute presentations: Intended for extensive presentations which engage more audience input. Examples might include works in progress, research methods presentations or practice transformation.
- 15 minute presentation: Intended for concise 12- minute presentation on completed research or research in progress with 3 minutes of Q&A
- Poster Presentation: The poster format may be used for submissions of research results or other types of communications, e.g. policy, works in progress, research methods, practice transformation, etc.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Community reentry
- Health policy
- Implementation Science and Clinical Translation
- Juvenile Justice
- Mental Health
- Policy
- Practice Redesign
- Primary Care
- Public Health
- Research
- Ethics of Clinical Practice and Research
- Special Populations
- Substance Use Disorders
- Infections from Injection Drug Use (HIV, HCV)
- Community based participatory research
- Clinical controversies on health care delivery behind bars
- How relevant and specific the topic is to criminal justice health
- The scientific strength of the submission
- The expertise of the authors on the topic
- How unique/new the topic/content is
- How well written the abstract is
- How well the teaching design/plan for use of time matches the goal and content of the session
- The degree and nature of planned audience participation.
Submission Guidelines for 15-Minute Papers
· These categories are intended for streamlined presentation of research results.
· The author(s) should submit a structured abstract with the following mandatory sections:
· Title
· Background
· Research goal(s) and/or question(s) or hypothesis(es)
· Methods
· Results
· Limitations (if any)
· Conclusions
While we will accept submissions for which results are pending or preliminary, these submissions will not be ranked as highly as submissions that are complete.
Submission Guidelines for Posters
If submitting a poster of research results, the abstract should follow the “Submission Guidelines for 15-Minutes Papers” above. If submitting a poster with a different type of communication, the abstract should follow “Submission Guidelines for 30-Minute and 60-Minute Presentations” above (except that the factor regarding “teaching design/plan for use of time” may be ignored).
GLOSSARY OF SUGGESTED TERMS
The Board of Directors of ACCJH is conscious of stigmatizing terminology which is often used to describe justice involved persons and populations. As such, we are promoting person- first language which we believe is more humanizing, to describe people who are involved in the criminal justice system. We support recommendations by the Osborne Association and seek to eliminate stigmatizing language in conference print materials, proceedings and presentations. To that end, we ask proposers to exclude the terms below from their proposals and presentations, substituting them with the suggested (or similar) terms.
Terms to be avoided Preferred terms
Convict, Con, Inmate, Prisoner Person who is incarcerated
Offender, Criminal Person in pre-trial or with charge
Parolee Justice-involved person
Ex-Con Formerly incarcerated person
Parolee Person on parole or probation
