October 3, 2018

Join OMH and its partners for a Hispanic Heritage Month Bilingual Twitter Chat.
Visit @MinorityHealth or @SaluddeMinorias and use #HealthyLatinos.
Tomorrow, October 4, 2:00 pm ET

In This Issue:

• FYI Spotlight
• Funding
• Webinars and Other Events
• Resources
• Clinical Trials
• Job Opportunities
• @ The Knowledge Center - Recommended Reading

FYI Spotlight

Mark your calendars! Join the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, San Ysidro Health, UC San Diego Health and the San Diego Blood Bank this Friday, October 5 at 12:00 pm PT for a Facebook Live Q&A in Spanish about the All of Us Research Program. Tune in to find out how the Hispanic community may benefit from participating in this research program.

• HHS/Office of Minority Health (OMH): What's in It for You? The Importance of Latino Representation in Research Studies. Join OMH Director Dr. Matthew Lin and speakers Gregory Talavera (NIH's SOL Study and San Diego State University), Cariny Nuñez (Food and Drug Administration, Office of Minority Health), Maria Lopez-Class (All of Us Program Officer) and Edgar Gil Rico (National Alliance for Hispanic Health) for an overview on Hispanic participation in research studies, specifically longitudinal studies and clinical trials.
  October 15, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
   

Funding

Federal Grants

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Rape Prevention and Education: Using The Best Available Evidence for Sexual Violence Prevention - Cooperative Agreement. Eligibility is limited to state health departments, including departments in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.
  Deadline is October 29. Learn more.
  
  
• HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): Addressing the Challenges of the Opioid Epidemic in Minority Health and Health Disparities Research in the US (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) Grant.
  Deadline is November 13. Learn more.
   
• HHS/NIH, NIMHD: Research Centers in Minority Institutions (U54 Clinical Trials Optional) Specialized Center Cooperative Agreement. Eligibility is limited to public and private institutions of higher education.
  Deadline is November 21. Learn more.
  
  
• HHS/NIH, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): HEALing Communities Study: Developing and Testing an Integrated Approach to Address the Opioid Crisis (UM1) Research Project with Complex Structure Cooperative Agreement.
  Deadline is December 11. Apply as a Research Site | Apply as a Data Coordinating Center.

Non-Federal Grants

• The Gerber Foundation: Pediatric Research Grants. Funds projects that improve the nutrition, care and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age.
  Deadline for Concept Papers is November 5. Learn more.
  
  
• American Association of Birth Centers Foundation: Research Grants. Funds research on issues related to the birth center model of care. Birth centers provide family-centered care for healthy women before, during and after normal pregnancy, labor and birth.
  Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is November 14. Learn more.

Scholarships / Fellowships

• Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation: Faculty/Post-Doctoral Fellows Program. Supports studies designed to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate interventions aimed at preventing or ameliorating major social, psychological, behavioral, or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families or communities.
  Deadline is November 1. Learn more. 
  
  
• American Association on Health and Disability: Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability. Awarded to students with a disability who are pursuing undergraduate/graduate studies at an accredited university in a field related to health and disability, including public health, disability studies, disability research and health promotion.
  Deadline is November 15. Learn more.
   
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation: College Scholarship Program. Awards funds to help cover the costs of tuition, books, living expenses and required fees for high-achieving high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend four-year colleges and universities.
  Deadline is November 20. Learn more.

Webinars and Other Events

Webinars

• HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) Region VII: Public Health Webinar Series. Violence As a Public Health Issue. Join speakers Rae Hutchison (HRSA Region VII), James Mercy (CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control) and Kamisha Stanton (City of Kansas City, Missouri) for a discussion on strategies to address intimate partner violence and public health, and community-based approaches for violence prevention.
  TODAY, October 3, 1:00 pm ET. Register. 

Lectures

• HHS/NIH, NIMHD: NIMHD Director's Seminar Series. Engaging U.S. Latinos in Community Advocacy for Health Equity. The speaker for this event will be Dr. Amelie Ramirez, an internationally recognized health disparities researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the Director of the Salud America! national multimedia program. The public can attend in person or via videocast.
  October 4, 11:00 am ET in Bethesda, MD. Learn more. 

Conferences

• Howard University: Registration is open for the 9th Annual International Conference on Stigma, Standing Together Against Fear, Blame and Shame.
  November 16 in Washington, DC. Register.
   
• Maryland Department of Health/Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Public Health and the Maryland Center for Health Equity: Registration is open for the 15th Annual Health Equity Conference, Achieving Health Equity and Disparity Reduction: Prevention and Cost Savings Initiatives.
  December 6 in Baltimore, MD. Register. 

Resources

Publications

• HHS/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): New report. 2017 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). This report assesses the performance of the US healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities, for access to healthcare and quality of healthcare. QDR data also forms the basis for AHRQ's updated State Snapshots, which show how each state fares according to access to care; type of care; setting of care; prevalence of diseases and conditions; health status of priority populations; and insurance status. Learn more.
  
  
• HHS/SAMHSA: New fact sheets. Healthy Pregnancy Healthy Baby:Opioids in Pregnancy. This series includes information on opioid use disorder (OUD) and pregnancy, OUD treatment, neonatal abstinence syndrome and considerations to address before hospital discharge. Learn more.
  
  

HHS/CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: Guidance document. Quality Improvement and Care Coordination: Implementing the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. This resource offers primary care providers, practices and healthcare systems a framework for managing patients who are on long-term opioid therapy. Learn more | Download the full guide (PDF).

Clinical Trials

• HHS/NIH, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Observational study. Brain Imaging of Childhood Onset Psychiatric Disorders, Endocrine Disorders and Healthy Volunteers. NIH researchers seek children or young adults (5-25 years old) with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY). Parents and one full same-gender sibling (5-25 years old) are also eligible to participate. Study to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Learn more. 
  
  
• Public Health Foundation Enterprises, in collaboration with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the University of California, San Francisco, API Wellness, Tri-City Health Center and the California HIV/AIDS Research Program: Interventional study. The Stay Study: A Demonstration Project Advancing PrEP Delivery in the San Francisco Bay Area Transgender Community. Researchers seek transgender women, transgender men or gender non-conforming individuals age 18 or older. Study to be conducted at three locations in San Francisco, CA and the Tri-City Health Center in Fremont, CA. Learn more.

Job Opportunities

Workforce Development

• Massachusetts General Hospital/Disparities Solutions Center: Registration is open for the Disparities Leadership Program, a year-long, hands-on executive education program focused on helping health care leaders achieve equity in quality.
  Deadline for LOI is November 9. Learn more.

@ The Knowledge Center - Recommended Reading

Health Literacy Insights for Health Crises is a discussion paper that examines the importance of and methods for crafting clear messages during health-related emergencies. The paper acknowledges limited health literacy skills that exist among adults in the United States, then provides tools to determine the health literacy of texts. It also includes examples of messages for communicating urgent information based on the recommendations listed in the paper. Health Literacy Month is observed in October. To view this title or request additional information related to health literacy, search the online catalog.