Graduate Student and Post Doc Services

InCHIP offers many training and development services through this core to graduate students and post-doctorate fellows. Below you can find all of the workshops offered through the training and development core, as well as some resources for starting research teams and finding a mentor.

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*Postdoctoral Fellow’s only

Junior Faculty Services

InCHIP’s Training and Development core offers many different workshops and services for UConn junior faculty to take advantage of. This includes writing groups, a mentorship program and the grant writing bootcamp. The core also offers resources that can help you build a research team and get feedback on your project ideas. Have a suggestion for a training program not listed here? Email Amy Gorin at amy.gorin@uconn.edu.

Find Collaborators and Build Your Research Team Access MentoringGet Help Finding Funding

Interdisciplinary Mentoring Teams

• Pilot program for junior faculty
• Be assigned to a team with mentors across departments/colleges/campuses
• The goal of this program is to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations in health research
• Email grace.morris@uconn.edu to find a mentoring team

Mid-Career and Senior Faculty Services

InCHIP’s Training and Development core offers many different workshops and services for UConn faculty to take advantage of. This includes opportunities for support in grant writing. The core also offers services such as research colloaboration development and proposal feedback. We have also offered training in Team Science, grant writing in the past.

Do you have a suggestion for a training program not listed here? Email Amy Gorin at amy.gorin@uconn.edu.

Find Collaborators and Build Your Research Team Become a mentor Get Help Finding Funding

Resources

Podcasts

• NIH“Top 10 List: Things Scientists Ask about Finding an Industry Job”
• NIH“Grant Writing 101”
• NIH“Academic Job Search: Applying and Interviewing”

Mentoring Womenin Academia

• ACE Women’s Network: National system of networks within each state with the goal of advancing and supporting women working in higher education. The network emphasizes the importance of leadership for women in academia.
• Hersnet.org: is an organization with the goal of creating a meaningful network of female leaders within the acedeme. The HERS Institute provides leadership training and development training opportunities for women in higher education.
• Moody, Joann. 2004. “Supporting Women and Minority Faculty: To retain and promote a more diverse workforce, institutions need to welcome newcomers differently” Academe 90 (1): 47-52.This article poses some tactics for universities, departments, and senior faculty can undertake to promote more inclusive incoming faculty that are women or people of color.

Tele-mentoring

• MentorNet: Connects faculty and practitioners working in STEM and Healthcare fields with either a mentor or mentee.
• Talk to mike about the SREM mentor/mentee match up system
• Society for Teaching Psychology (APA): provides an opportunity for faculty to mentor or gain mentorship aimed disseminating greater expertise in teaching psychology.

Grantmanship

• #FundingFridays:The Department of Health and Human Services has a weekly blog on grants.gov. The blog features content and resources for current and prospective grant writers seeking to apply for federally funded grants.
• Grants 101: This is info provided by Grants.gov that gets at the basics of grants.
• InCHIP Funding Announcements: External Funding Announcements are posted onto the InCHIP website, this list has a lot of health related grants many of which are through the NIH.
• Human Frontier Science Program: Art of Grantmanship.

Team Building & Interdisciplinary Research

• Science of Team Science Resources:The Science of Team Science is of great interest to us at InCHIP, it basically refers to the process of managing and developing collaborative research teams. This site contains a number of resources, including, blogs/social media accounts, organizations, and articles that may be useful for building teams. (hereis a link to join their listserv for even more resources)
• Team Science Toolkitt: The National Cancer Institute runs the Team Science website, which offers a good introduction to team science and the extent work going on within the field.

Training and Development Events

Nov 2018

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	1:30pm Allied Health Sciences Faculty Search Talk: Dr. Kristen Cooksey-	12pm Allied Health Sciences Faculty Search Talk: Dr. Mohammad Al-Mamu 12:30pm Converting Research to Impact: Strategies and Resources
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				11am Allied Health Sciences Faculty Search Talk: Dr. Roman Shrestha 12:30pm InCHIP Lecture: Shira Dunsiger, PhD
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	12pm InCHIP Guest Speaker: Linda Collins, PhD			12:30pm InCHIP Lecture: Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH

1. 11/8Allied Health Sciences Faculty Search Talk: Dr. Roman Shrestha

1. 11/8InCHIP Lecture: Shira Dunsiger, PhD

1. 11/26InCHIP Guest Speaker: Linda Collins, PhD

1. 11/29InCHIP Lecture: Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH

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Allied Health Sciences Faculty Search Talk: Dr. Kristen Cooksey-

Monday, October 29th, 2018
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Koons 217

Join us as we welcome four candidates for a new Assistant Professor position focused on health disparities research.

Please join us for the third candidate's talk (45 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion)

Kristen Cooksey-Stowers (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity)

"Tackling Social Determinants of Health Inequities through Policy & Community-Engaged Research"
Equitable distribution of health-promoting resources and community engagement efforts are critical components of achieving greater health equity in the United States. In her presentation, Dr. Cooksey-Stowers will provide an overview of her research on reducing inequities in diet-related health outcomes by improving food access through policy, systems and environmental (PSE) strategies. In particular, she will discuss her community-engaged and mixed methods research to demonstrate that: 1) addressing food swamps (i.e., areas inundated by unhealthy food retail) is essential to reducing disparities in diet-related health outcomes; 2) tailoring health communication efforts can improve resident engagement in policy processes; 3) using community-engaged research approaches can improve the efficacy and sustainability of diet-related health interventions in food pantry settings, and 4) integrating health systems and the emergency food system through PSE approaches may mitigate health risks in food-insecure populations. Throughout her talk, she will discuss ways that she has collaborated with policymakers, community partners, and students to design studies and disseminate findings. Dr. Cooksey-Stowers will conclude by discussing future research directions, collaboration interests, and opportunities for students.

Contact Information: bambi.mroz@uconn.edu More

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Allied Health Sciences Faculty Search Talk: Dr. Mohammad Al-Mamu

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Koons 217

Join us as we welcome four candidates for a new Assistant Professor position focused on Innovative Research Methods and Analysis of Complex Data in the Health Sciences.

Please join us for the fourth candidate's talk (45 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion):

Mohammad Al-Mamun, PhD (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health)

"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understand Disease: Big Data-Driven Modeling"

One of the major challenges of translational health research is to understand and predict a disease progression based on the big datasets: electronic records, phenotypic testing, genomic testing, and behavioral data. Often these complex datasets require an interdisciplinary approach to make individual- and population-based decision by interfacing epidemiology, data science and applied computing science theories. In this talk, I will present how a disease-related complex dataset can direct us to build mathematical models to understand how an infectious disease spreads and predict how an individual-based decision making can help to stop that disease. I will also present, how a new mathematical modeling framework can improve the traditional vaccine efficacy measurement by combining individual patient-level information and disease status. Ultimately, these data-driven methods will open multiple doors to the scientific communities to investigate complex diseases using interdisciplinary approaches.

Contact Information: bambi.mroz@uconn.edu More

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Converting Research to Impact: Strategies and Resources

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Room 14, Ryan Building

Featuring: Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D. Executive Director of Venture Development and Technology Incubation Program (TIP) at UConn

Description: Dr Analoui will present possible directions for researchers to engage in entrepreneurship and the commercialization of research ideas, apps, and other products. When: October 30th, 2018 at 12:30 PM. Lunch will be served.

Lunch and Learn Series: https://chip.uconn.edu/fy19-inchip-lunch-and-learn-series/

Contact Information: grace.morris@uconn.edu More

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Allied Health Sciences Faculty Search Talk: Dr. Roman Shrestha

Thursday, November 8th, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Koons 217

Join us as we welcome four candidates for a new Assistant Professor position focused on health disparities research.

Please join us for the fourth candidate's talk (45 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion)

"Advancing HIV Prevention & Linkage to Care among People Who Use Drugs: Integrating Behavioral & Biomedical Approaches"
Existing methods of HIV prevention for people who use drugs (PWUD) include behavioral approaches to reduce drug- and sex-related risk behaviors. These strategies, however, have not been sufficiently effective in reducing the incidence of HIV, thus emphasizing the need for enhanced primary prevention approaches. The recent advancements in biomedical approaches to prevent HIV, and the growing consensus that neither biomedical nor behavioral interventions alone are sufficient to curb the epidemic has led experts to call for combination approaches to HIV prevention. In this talk, Dr. Shrestha will discuss syndemic health issues that lead to poor access to and underutilization of evidence-based HIV prevention services among PWUD and present an innovative approach to curtail HIV epidemic among this marginalized group – a combination approach that integrates both behavioral and biomedical approaches. Such integrated approach holds significant promise for substantially altering the trajectory of the HIV epidemic in historically underserved populations, such as PWUD.

Contact Information: bambi.mroz@uconn.edu More

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InCHIP Lecture: Shira Dunsiger, PhD

Thursday, November 8th, 2018
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
J. Ray Ryan Building, Room 204

Shira Dunsiger, PhD
Brown University

Thursday, November 8, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Patterns of Change in Behavioral Medicine: A Case Study"

**About the Speaker**

Dr. Dunsiger is currently a Research Scientist at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School and an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from Brown University and completed a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular behavioral medicine before transitioning to a faculty position. Her research focus is on developing sophisticated statistical methodology for analyzing data from behavioral medicine, including smoking cessation, physical activity, mood, depression and adherence outcomes. Her broad research interests include pattern detection, “big data”, and statistical mediation.

InCHIP will send requests for RSVPs and updates through the CHIP-L listserv. To subscribe, visit: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/listserv/.

Visit our webpage to view the 2018-2019 InCHIP Lecture Series lineup, access the live web stream (when available), view the archives, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2018-2019-lecture-series/.

Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu More

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InCHIP Guest Speaker: Linda Collins, PhD

Monday, November 26th, 2018
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Storrs Campus
InCHIP, 2006 Hillside Rd, Colloquium Room

Dr. Linda Collins is the Director of The Methodology Center at Penn State and a Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies. She is a pioneer in the optimization of behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST). MOST enables researchers to develop interventions that are not only effective, but also efficient, economical, and scalable.

Contact Information: melanieskolnick@uconn.edu More

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InCHIP Lecture: Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH

Thursday, November 29th, 2018
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
J. Ray Ryan Building, Room 204

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Thursday, November 29, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Innovations in Mobile Technology for Engaging Youth in Treatment and Prevention"

**About the Speaker**

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Infectious Diseases and Health Behavior, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman completed her medical school training at the University of Virginia and became board certified in Internal Medicine in 2001 after completing residency training at Stanford University. She completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and earned a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman is an expert on mhealth, social media and utilization and evaluation of technology-based interventions to address the HIV Care Continuum for youth and young adults, particularly among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). She has published >90 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She has developed technology-based interventions to address uptake and adherence to biomedical HIV prevention technologies, as well as intervening to increase HIV diagnosis, linkage and retention in care for YMSM. She is the PI of iTech, The UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology Across the Prevention and Care Continuum. This grant, part of the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN), seeks to develop a technology center to address the domestic epidemic of HIV among at risk and HIV-infected youth.

InCHIP will send requests for RSVPs and updates through the CHIP-L listserv. To subscribe, visit: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/listserv/.

Visit our webpage to view the 2018-2019 InCHIP Lecture Series lineup, access the live web stream (when available), view the archives, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2018-2019-lecture-series/.

Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu More