New Connections is hosting a webinar on “Research Grant Application Resubmissions” on Tuesday, November 15 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET.

Registration opens today and will close at 5:00 pm ET, Thursday, November 10, 2016 or when we receive the first 50 registrants. 

You will be notified of your registration status and receive the information needed to join the webinar on or before Monday, November 14, 2016. 

Overview of the Webinar:

After submitting a grant application, you learn about the funding decision and are provided with a summary statement of reviewer critiques. For most of us, the grant application will not be funded on the first try and we are left with the possibility of resubmitting the grant for a second round of reviews. A number of questions arise: How can I interpret the score (or lack of a score)? Should I resubmit? How should I respond to the reviewer comments? How can I strengthen my application for resubmission?

In this webinar, Dr. Margarita Alegría and Dr. Benjamin Cook will provide suggestions and recommendations for resubmitting research grant applications. Reviewers’ comments can be numerous, difficult to address and/or understand, and at times conflicting. Building off of decades of experience applying and securing grants for projects in mental health care disparities and health services research, sitting on study sections, and ad-hoc review committees for federal and foundation grant applications, and providing consultation on the direction of extramural funding for federal and foundation organizations, Drs. Alegría and Cook will offer suggestions about how to work with program officers and incorporate reviewer comments to modify and improve the grant application.

For this webinar, Drs. Alegría and Cook have selected two grant applications that are in the resubmission stage written by New Connections network members and will provide advice on improving the grant application and responding to reviewer comments.

You must register for the webinar. Registration opens today and will close at 5:00 pm ET, Thursday, November 10, 2016 or when we receive the first 50 registrants.  You will be notified of your registration status and receive the information needed to join the webinar on or before Monday, November 14, 2016.  To register for the webinar, please follow this link:  Webinar Registration   Please direct all inquiries regarding the webinar to [email protected].

Margarita Alegría, PhD is the Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Alegría is currently the PI of four National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research studies: the International Latino Research Partnership; Effects of Social Context, Culture and Minority Status on Depression and Anxiety; Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders; and Mechanisms Underlying Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Disorders. She is also the PI of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) project: Effectiveness of DECIDE in Patient-Provider Communication, Therapeutic Alliance & Care Continuation. Dr. Alegría has published over 200 papers, editorials, intervention training manuals, and several book chapters, on topics such as improvement of health care services delivery for diverse racial and ethnic populations, conceptual and methodological issues with multicultural populations, and ways to bring the community’s perspective into the design and implementation of health services.

Benjamin Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the Director of the Health Equity Research Lab, Senior Scientist and Director of Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University and is a health services researcher focused on improving quality of treatment for individuals living with mental illness and/or substance use disorders. He also has a particular focus on improving methods of measuring and understanding underlying pathways of healthcare disparities, and implementing these methods using national datasets and healthcare system electronic health records.  He has been PI of NIH R03 and R01 studies, and is currently Principal Investigator of an AHRQ R01 grant identifying the diffusion of comparative effectiveness research across racial/ethnic minority populations, a PCORI grant to improve understanding of treatment preferences among racial/ethnic minorities with depression and diabetes, and co-PI of a NIMHD R01 assessing the impact of changing Medicaid primary care provider payment on disparities in mental health care.