Volume 2, Issue 1February 2009
El Faro Staff
Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Ph.D., M.S.W., Editor
Sheila Kaupert,
Newsletter Coordinator
National Office
Jane Brooks, M.Sc., C.M.P.
Website Coordinator
This Month's Contributors
Jim Anthony, Ph.D.
Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Flavio Marsiglia, Ph.D.
Carlos F. Rios-Bedoya, Ph.D.
Eduardo Romano, Ph.D.
Nelson Tiburcio, Ph.D.
National Steering Committee
José Szapocznik, Ph.D., NHSN Chair
Patricia E. Molina, M.D., Ph.D., NHSN Vice Chair
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D.
Margarita Alegría, Ph.D.
Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D.
Hendricks Brown, Ph.D.
Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D.
Diana Martínez, M.D.
Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Ph.D.
Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D.
Yonette F. Thomas, Ph.D.
Avelardo Valdez, Ph.D.
William Vega, Ph.D.
Volume 2, Issue 1
Summer Research Training Institute Corner
by Dr. Carlos F. Rios-Bedoya
Hello everyone and welcome to the SRTI corner of El Faro. For those of you who don’t know me, I am Carlos F. Ríos-Bedoya (SRTI-2005) the new contributing editor of El Faro and in charge of bringing you this corner. I am from Puerto Rico where I taught and did research for more than 10 years. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Michigan State University. I would like to make it crystal clear that the SRTI Corner of El Faro is your corner. Here you have a place where you can obtain information not only about the SRTI but also about those that have participated in this excellent training program. This will be a forum where you can place recent career advances such as promotions, publications, grants funded, etc. Moreover, you can make use of this corner as your voice to address significant drug-related research topics affecting Hispanics. We will implement this by having a subsection called “Did you know?” If you want to contribute to this subsection please state whether you want your name to be published and always include the source for the information. The request for applications for the next SRTI will come out later this month. Keep your eyes open so you don’t miss the deadline.
This issue of El Faro is dedicated to international research and collaborations. Therefore, the SRTI corner is pleased to inform that two of our former trainees (Acevedo-Polakovich, I. D. and Domenech-Rodriguez, M. M.) will be presenting their work on psychological factors surrounding undocumented immigration to the US at the upcoming congress of the Interamerican Psychological Society in Guatemala City. Here is the citation: Acevedo-Polakovich, I. D., Domenech-Rodriguez, M. M., Ramos, K., & Currell, C. (2009, June). Perspectivas estadounidenses acerca de la psicología de la inmigración indocumentada. (U.S. Perspectives on the psychology of undocumented immigration). Paper accepted for presentation at the XXXIII Interamerican Congress of Psychology. Guatemala City, Guatemala.
In other news, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has reissued its Program Announcements soliciting collaborative research proposals by U.S. investigators working with investigators from other countries. Applications may be submitted to Grants.gov beginning January 16, 2009, and the Program Announcements expire January 8, 2012. Applicants may propose investigations using three mechanisms: R01: PA-09-020; R21: PA-09-021; R03: PA-09-022.
Did you know?
- Hispanics are currently the largest minority group in the US accounting for 13.4% of the population (1).
- Hispanics will comprise 25% of the US population by the year 2050 (2).
- The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the only annual national survey publicly available with substance use information for Hispanics 12-17 years of age (3).
- The NSDUH stopped providing disaggregate Hispanic data (i.e., Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, etc.) in 1999 (3).
If you have comments or suggestions on how to improve this (your) corner, send me an email to: carlos.rios@hc.msu.edu.
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1. US Census Bureau, Annual resident population estimates of the United States by age, race, and Hispanic or Latino origin: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2002. Table NA-EST2002-ASRO-03. Available HERE (Last accessed January 15, 2009).
2. US Census Bureau, Projected population of the United States, by race and Hispanic origin: 2000-2050. Available HERE (Last accessed February 6, 2009).
3. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health.