Society for Prevention Research Annual Meetings

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是为了申请资金， 支持发展和执行科学委员会的年度科学会议， 预防研究协会（SPR）在未来五年内。SPR是 1991年由NIDA支持的一小群高级调查员成立。超过 在过去的九年里，成员已扩大到400多人。 代表广泛公共卫生领域的研究人员、倡导者和学员 预防研究。在年会上提出的研究是由 越来越多样化的NIH研究所，如NIMH、NIDA、NIAAA和NCI， 其他联邦机构，如SAMHSA，OJJDP，DOE和各种私人 层. 1998年和1999年认识到扩大特别方案资源的重点， 董事会会议记录应当在董事会会议记录上签名。 一套新的章程的成员资格， 使命。更具包容性的使命的核心是建立和 传播评估预防证据质量的原则 公共卫生领域的项目。特别方案资源支持 预防方案，并证明其有效性。其目的是 应用是： 1)通过特别方案资源年度会议， 科学论坛，交流新的概念，方法和成果， 预防研究及相关公共卫生领域。 2)提供培训和职业发展机会， 研究人员在他们的研究生涯的各个阶段，在所需的领域， 设计和实施严格、可靠和有效的预防措施， research.这一目标的核心是制定招聘方案 有前途的少数民族学生和教师参与公共卫生预防研究。 3)促进科学家与公共政策领导人之间的沟通 关于在所有人中实施循证预防方案的问题 公共卫生领域。通过年会上的活动，特别方案资源将 为科学家提供预防信息创造独特的机会 优先事项，以及如何在科学研究中解决这些问题。 在今后五年内支持年度会议将使战略 目前临时年度短期规划以外的规划 不确定的资金需求。到目前为止， 年复一年地获得，没有长期持续的规划 可能随着SPR的增长，来自会员会费、研讨会费用和 SPR的期刊《预防科学》的订阅量有所增加。但由于 由于年会规模和费用的迅速增长， 不足以支付年度会议的费用。增加会费和 收费不仅会减少早期职业研究人员的参与， 这也将削弱特别方案资源向会议带来领导作用的能力， 科学家谁是预防研究的主流之外，但他们的 观点和研究结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to request funding to support the development and implementation of the annual scientific meetings of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) for the next five years. The SPR was founded in 1991 by a small group of NIDA-supported senior investigators. Over the past nine years, the membership has expanded to well over four hundred researchers, advocates, and trainees representing broad areas of public health prevention research. The research presented at the annual meeting is funded by increasingly diverse NIH institutes, such as NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, and NCI, and other federal agencies such as SAMHSA, OJJDP, the DOE, and various private foundations. The broadening of focus of SPR was recognized in 1998 and 1999 with an increase in the size and representation of the Board of Directors, and the passage by the membership of a new set of bylaws that codifies the broad expanding mission. Central to the more inclusive mission is establishing and disseminating principles for assessing the quality of evidence of prevention programs across public health domains. SPR supports institutionalizing prevention programs with demonstrated effectiveness. The aims of this application are: 1) To develop through the SPR annual meetings a centrally integrative scientific forum for the exchange of new concepts, methods, and results from prevention research and related public health fields. 2) To provide opportunities for training and career building among investigators at all stages of their research careers in the areas needed for the design and implementation of rigorous, reliable, and valid prevention research. Central to this aim is the developing of programs for recruiting promising minority students and faculty into public health prevention research. 3) To foster communication between scientists and public policy leaders concerning the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs in all areas of public health. Through activities at the annual meetings, the SPR will create unique opportunities for informing scientists about prevention priorities, and how these concerns can be addressed in scientific studies. Support of the annual meetings over the next five years will enable strategic planning beyond the current ad hoc annual short-term planning currently required by uncertain funding. Until now, resources for the annual meetings have been gained on a year-to-year basis with no long-term sustained planning possible. As SPR has grown, revenues from membership dues, workshop fees, and subscriptions for SPR's journal Prevention Science have increased. However, due to the rapid growth in size and costs of the annual meeting, current revenues are insufficient to cover the costs of the annual meeting. Increasing dues and fees would not only decrease the participation of early career researchers, but it also would impair the ability of SPR to bring to the meeting leading scientists who are outside the mainstream of prevention research, but whose perspectives and research findings.