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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 |
Dear Price community and friends,
Please enjoy these updates on research activity around Price.
Additionally, I wanted to draw your attention to a few grant opportunities:
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The USC-Yale Roybal Center for Behavioral Interventions in Aging is pleased to announce its annual request for proposals for research projects that study mechanisms of behavior change and involve randomized controlled trials (RCTs). For the upcoming year, we will support two projects with a maximum direct cost of $200,000 per project. A letter of intent is due by January 10, 2025—see detailed guidance here.
- The University has several time-sensitive limited submissions for your consideration. Links to each opportunity are below:
Best,
Alice
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Publications:
Association of daily doses of buprenorphine with urgent health care utilization. JAMA Network Open, 7(9).
What they researched: Rosalie Pacula and coauthors examined the association between higher buprenorphine doses and subsequent emergency department or inpatient service use among patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder.
What they found: Those receiving higher maximum doses of buprenorphine (ie, doses above 16 mg and 24 mg) had significantly lower rates of acute care utilization than their peers receiving FDA-recommended doses (between 8 mg and 16 mg).
Why it matters: Higher doses of buprenorphine could provide benefits to patients, particularly those using fentanyl who might need these higher doses.
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Cancer treatment before and after physician-pharmacy integration.
JAMA Network Open, 7(5).
What they researched: Genevieve Kanter and coauthors examined physician-pharmacy integrations, also known as medically integrated dispensing.
What they found: Physician-pharmacy integration was associated with no significant change in expenditures or discernible benefits for patients, measured by out-of-pocket expenditures, medication adherence, and time to treatment initiation.
Why it matters: Organizational integration may lead to financial integration but not necessarily clinical integration.
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First responder ladder of community engagement: Understanding community-facing activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of Urban Affairs, 1–23.
What they researched: Santina Contreras and coauthors analyzed how first responders conceptualized community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What they found: Analyzing semi-structured interviews collected from U.S. first responders, the authors conclude that first responder community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic predominantly focused on information sharing and offered minimal evidence of higher levels of engagement.
Why it matters: These findings highlight the potential disconnect between theories and practice of community engagement.
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Unsmoothing returns of illiquid funds.
The Review of Financial Studies, 37(7), 2110–2155.
What they researched: Spencer Couts and coauthors studied how to accurately assess the performance and risk of investment funds that hold illiquid assets.
What they found: Improving upon traditional methods, they proposed a generalized unsmoothing technique that better accounted for spurious autocorrelation in hedge funds and private commercial real estate funds.
Why it matters: Their method improved the accuracy of risk measurement and performance assessment, especially for highly illiquid funds.
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Populism and administrative dysfunction: The impact of U. S. government shutdowns on personnel and policy implementation.
Governance, 37(S1), 61–82.
What they researched: William Resh and coauthors considered how government shutdowns affect federal agency policy implementation and the morale of federal employees.
What they found: Using survey data from several hundred thousand federal employees, the authors showed that shutdowns resulted in unmanageable workloads, missed deadlines, poor customer service, abandoned projects, poorer work quality, and failure to meet statutory demands. The 2013 shutdown also had an acute and lasting effect on employee morale, though the same effect was not observed during the 2019 shutdown.
Why it matters: Government shutdowns result in administrative dysfunction. However, following the 2013 shutdown, agencies instituted contingency plans that buffered employee morale from the 2019 shutdown.
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Presentations:
Wändi Bruine de Bruin presented insights from behavioral science to improve science communication at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Symposium on Ethics, Risk, and Decision Making in Stockholm.
Shaun Harper delivered the closing address at the National Association for College Admission Counseling annual conference. He was also the keynote at the national conference for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
On October 17, 2024, Jim Ferris kicked off the Little Hoover Commission's public hearing on public-philanthropic partnerships
William Leach presented his paper “Collaborative Environmental Management and its Alternatives: A Systematic Review of Comparative Research" at the International Association for Society & Natural Resources.
Rosalie Pacula presented on the Consensus Study Report by the Committee on Public Health Consequences of Changes in the Cannabis Policy Landscape.
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Media Highlights:
Adam Rose was interviewed on KCBS Radio San Francisco about the difficulty in estimating economic losses from hurricanes, Sept. 20, 2024. Rose was also
quoted in a story in GRIST about how Hurricane Francine’s Impact has led to significant health costs in affected communities, September 19, 2024.
Geraldine Knatz conducted more than 10 interviews on the East Coast dock workers strike. Her work regarding how terminals don’t understand the benefits of reducing labor cost was also cited in The Washington Post.
Mindy Romero released two research reports from the Center for Inclusive Democracy in September: challenges and opportunities for mobilization for voter turnout in California and the strengths of diversity voting in research briefs.
Santina Contreras was quoted in the LA List on her study on tree planting in south LA and how she wants to get her community engaged.
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Of Note:
Genvieve Kanter was awarded a NIH/NIA grant titled "Disparities in Access to Critical Imaging Technologies for ADRD Diagnosis and Treatment."
T.J McCarthy won the USC Academic Senate “Distinguished Faculty Service Award,” to honor his service to USC that is beyond normal research, administrative, clinical, and teaching responsibilities.
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ECMC Foundation awarded Shaun Harper a $2.6 million grant to fund his gender equity work on college campuses across the United States. Also, Walton Family Foundation awarded him a $500,000 grant to study young men’s college enrollment decisions.
William Resh was awarded the Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award by the Public Administration Organized Section of the American Political Science Association for his co-authored paper with Yongjin Ahn, Keunyoung (Eli) Lee, and Weijie Wang, titled "Assessing the Employee Turnover Effects of the 2018-2019 United States Federal Government Shutdown."
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