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5/6/10 – CSR staff abstract accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics

The CSR staff abstract, Technologies Used to Communicate Community-Based Participatory Research Findings to Non-Scientific Communities: Lessons Learned from NCI’s Community Networks Program (CNP), has been accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics (BMIC 2010) as part of the 14th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2010), to be held in June 2010 in Orlando, FL.

4/14/10 – CSR staff abstract accepted for presentation at the annual Academy Health meeting

The CSR staff abstract, Evaluation of a Multi-site National Cancer Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative to Address Health Disparities, was accepted for presentation at the annual Academy Health meeting. The poster will be presented during the Disparities Interest Group Meeting in June 2010

3/22/10 –CSR won a contract to continue to conduct work with the Office of the National Drug Control Policy

There are several facets of the project, including updating United States illicit drug use data and keeping abreast of the literature on drug use and abuse. These data are used extensively by the ONDCP in producing the National Drug Control Strategy. CSR has supported this work for ONDCP since 2000.

3/17/10 – CSR will study elements of successful sector programs, thanks to Mott Foundation grant!

CSR will soon undertake the Replicating Successful Sector Employment Programs project, a two-phase study designed to investigate the factors that influence the effective implementation and replication of successful sector employment programs. Such programs seek to increase employment and career mobility for low-income, less educated workers by targeting employment opportunities in specific industries and occupations. The project is being funded with the help of a two-year, $313,326 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, located in Flint, Michigan. In Phase I, CSR will analyze data collected from Mott-funded sector employment demonstrations. In Phase II, the CSR research team will use those findings to design and test a sector employment program implementation and replication guide.

CSR research products for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) recently accepted in scientific journals

Under the Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System contract with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), CSR researchers, often in collaboration with NIAAA staff, produced a number of recent research products. Click here to view full list.