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March 7, 2018
In This Issue:
OMH
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HHS/Office of Minority Health
(OMH): National Lupus Training, Outreach,
and Clinical Trial Education Program. For assistance with your
application, please watch the Technical Assistance and Evaluation Basics webinars.
Deadline is March 30, 6:00 pm ET. Learn more.
Federal Grants
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HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Enhancement and Expansion of Treatment and Recovery Services for Adolescents, Transitional Aged Youth, and their Families Grant Program. This program seeks to enhance and expand treatment, early intervention, and recovery services for adolescents (12-18), transitional aged youth (16-25), and their families/primary caregivers with substance use disorders and/or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders.
Deadline is April 10. Learn more.
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HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH): Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Grant. A conference is defined as a symposium, seminar, workshop, or any other organized and formal meeting, whether conducted face-to-face or via the internet.
Deadline is April 12. Learn more.
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HHS/Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH): FY 2018 Announcement of Anticipated Availability of Funds for Family Planning Services Grants. HHS seeks a broad competition for Title X grant awards to provide a diversity of options for clients with the intention of improving overall service provision and increasing the number of clients served, in states and territories.
Deadline is May 24. Learn more.
Scholarships / Fellowships / Internships / Mentoring
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American Psychological Association: Minority Fellowship Program Psychology Summer Institute. Provides educational, professional development and mentoring experiences to advanced doctoral students of psychology and psychologists who are in the early stage of their careers.
Deadline is May 1. Learn more.
Webinars
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Office of Minority Health (CMS-OMH), in collaboration with SAMHSA: From Coverage to Care (C2C) Behavioral Health. This webinar will provide information and resources that C2C partners can use to help consumers understand their health care coverage and use it for behavioral health.
March 8th, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
- Capacity Building Assistance Provider Network (CPN): Best Practices for HIV Prevention among Transgender and Non-binary People. This webinar will increase awareness of the unique HIV testing needs of trans people, identify best practices to engage trans communities in HIV prevention and care services, and encourage HIV services providers to develop and expand their trans specific HIV testing services.
March 21, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
- HHS/OMH, National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA): Great Lakes Health Equity Webinar: Equity in Quality. This webinar will explain the important of role equity in health care quality improvement efforts, describe effective approaches health service organizations have taken to integrate equity into their organizational quality strategies, and identify strategies resources to eliminate disparities and improve outcomes in readmissions, heart disease, and diabetes.
March 23, 3:00 pm ET. Register.
Conferences
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- National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA): Registration open for the 22nd Annual NHMA Conference, Conquistando el Futuro: Clinicians Leading Latino Health Care.
March 22-25 in Washington, DC. Register.
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- Towson University/Department of Women's and Gender Studies: Call for proposals for the 2018 Re-Imagining Black Girls' and Women's Health Symposium and Workshop. Event to be held May 17-19 in Baltimore, MD.
Deadline for proposals is March 15. Learn more.
Workshops
- The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in partnership with the HHS Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) and the Office for Women's Health (OWH): Registration open for Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic on the Spread of Infectious Disease: Incidence, Prevalence, and Mutually Beneficial Opportunities to Improve Prevention, Care, and Treatment in the United States. Participants can attend live or via webcast.
March 12-13 in Washington, DC. Register.
- Association of American Indian Physicians: Registration open for Think Heart: Strategies for Managing High Blood Pressure. This event is free to healthcare professionals working in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities or serving AI/AN patients. Event to be held May 31 in Oklahoma City, OK.
Deadline for registration is TODAY March 7. Register.
Health Observances
- HHS and OMH recognize March 10 as National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For further information, event ideas, social media messaging, and other resources please visit OWH and HIV.gov.
Use #NWGHAAD and #ICanStopHIV in social media posts to spread awareness.
To find local testing sites, please visit the HIV.gov Locator.
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Opportunities for Public Comment
- HHS/Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Registration open for the Public Meeting for Patient-Focused Drug Development on Opioid Use Disorder. FDA is interested in learning patients' perspectives on opioid
use disorder (OUD), including the effects on their health and well-being that have the greatest impact on daily life, their experience using prescription medical treatments and other treatments or therapies for OUD. Participants can attend live or via webcast.
April 17, 10:00 am ET in Silver Spring, MD. Register.
Office of Minority Health Resource Center
- HeiTech Services is recruiting
for a FT Research Analyst within the Capacity Building and
Development department at OMHRC in Hyattsville, MD.
Open until filled. Apply.
Academic
- Tulane University School of Medicine/Department of Surgery is recruiting for two clinical faculty positions in Trauma/Critical Care/Acute Care Surgery at the assistant or associate professor level. Positions are based in New Orleans, LA.
Open until filled. Apply.
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- In observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10, the Knowledge Center recommends the book Holding On: African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS. In the book, author and anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel shares the experiences of poor African American women with HIV as they live in an era with limited access to HIV/AIDS programs. The women profiled traverse the healthcare system in the United States, and manage issues in their personal lives such as mental health, drug addiction, violence, and chronic poverty. The book sheds light on how these factors can impact health care outcomes.
To view this title and find additional information, search our online catalog.
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