October 10, 2018

In This Issue:

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

FYI Spotlight

• 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/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI): Feasibility Studies to Build Collaborative Partnerships in Cancer Research (P20 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Exploratory Grant. Funds the development of partnerships between institutions serving underserved health disparity populations and underrepresented students. 
  Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is October 14. Learn more.
  Pre-application Webinar, TODAY, October 10, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
  
  
• HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): 340B Drug Pricing Program. Funds the purchase of prescription and non-prescription medications at a reduced cost for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and FQHC Look-Alikes, among others.
  Deadline is October 15. Learn more. 
  
  
• HHS/NIH, in partnership with the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH): Analytical and/or Clinical Validation of a Candidate Biomarker for Pain (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) Exploratory/Developmental Phased Award. The purpose of this FOA is to promote the validation of strong candidate biomarkers and endpoints for pain that can be used to facilitate the development of non-opioid pain therapeutics.
  Deadline for LOI is October 27. Learn more.
  
  
• HHS/NIH, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), in partnership with the OBSSR and the Tribal Health Research Office (THRO): Responding to Opioid Use Disorders in Tribal Communities in the Context of SAMHSA and CDC Funding (R61/R33 Clinical Trials Optional) Exploratory/Developmental Phased Award. 
  Deadline for LOI is October 29. Learn more.
  
  
• US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS): FY2019 Farm to School Grants. These grants aim to increase healthy local and culturally appropriate food and food nutrition education within schools. FNS seeks to increase applications from Indian Tribal Organizations.
  Deadline is December 4. Learn more.
  Technical Assistance Webinar, October 16, 1:00 pm ET. Register.

Non-Federal Grants

• National Rural Health Resource Center: Small Rural Hospital Transition Project Technical Assistance. Provides technical assistance to small hospitals in rural areas to help prepare and assist them in transitioning to value-based care and Alternative Payment Models.
  Deadline is October 24. Learn more.
  
  
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: Research Grants for Addressing Disparities, Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options, Communication and Dissemination Research, and Improving Healthcare Systems. 
  Deadline for LOI is November 6. Learn more.

Scholarships / Fellowships

• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/Conquer Cancer Foundation: The Medical Student Rotation (MSR) Award and the Resident Travel Award (RTA). The MSR provides financial support for medical students from underrepresented populations to complete a clinical or clinical research oncology rotation. The RTA provides financial support for residents from underrepresented populations in medicine to attend the 2019 ASCO Annual Scientific Meeting.
  Deadline is December 10. Learn more about MSR | Learn more about RTA.

Webinars and Other Events

Webinars

• California Prevention Training Center (CAPTC): Age is Not Just a Number: HIV Prevention with People Ages 50 and Beyond. Speakers will be Patrick Piper and Deborah Wyatt-O'Neal of CAPTC.
  October 18, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
  
  
• HHS/Food and Drug Administration Office of Minority Health (FDA OMH): Health Equity Lecture series. The Keys to Success in Clinical Research; Becoming a Trusted Entity in Diverse Communities is the Key to Success in Clinical Research. Join speaker Dr. Fabian Sandoval (Emerson Clinical Research Institute) as he discusses strategies to increase Hispanic enrollment in clinical trials.
  October 22, 2:00 pm ET. Register.

Training

Healthy Native Youth: Community of Practice. This is a series of virtual meetings held on the second Wednesday of every month to share strengths and expertise about how to improve the lives of American Indian/Alaska Native youth. The next meeting, Organizational Approval and Youth Recruitment, will be held TODAY, October 10, 10:00 am PT. Learn more.

Conferences

NMAC: Registration is now open for the 3rd Annual Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit. This event will highlight the role that biomedical prevention tools such as PrEP, PEP, Treatment as Prevention (TasP), and U=U have on ending the HIV epidemic.  December 3-4 in Los Angeles, CA. Register.

• HHS/NIH, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Grand Challenges Canada: Call for abstracts for the 10th Anniversary Conference on Global Mental Health Research without Borders. For further information, please contact GlobalMentalHealthWorkshop@mail.nih.gov.
  April 8-9, 2019 in Bethesda, MD.
  Deadline for abstracts is December 1.

Resources

National Health Observances - National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day

HHS, The Latino Commission on AIDS, the Hispanic Federation and other organizations recognize October 15 as National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) with the theme "Ending HIV is Everyone's Job." For further information, resources and social media messaging please visit NLAAD and HIV.gov. The Latino Commission on AIDS will be hosting a kick-off to NLAAD TODAY, October 10, 11:00 am ET on the steps of the New York City Hall in New York, NY. For further information, please contact Luis Mares. As part of its Partnerships for Care (P4C) project, HRSA has created a toolkit, Integrating HIV Care, Treatment & Prevention Services into Primary Care, designed to support health centers and other safety net providers working to integrate HIV services into their primary care services.

Clinical Trials

• HHS/NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Observational study. Pathogenesis of Glomerulosclerosis. NIH researchers seek volunteers age 4 years old or older for a study of sclerosing glomerular and tubulointerstitial kidney diseases, including but not limited to variants of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology. Study to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Learn more. 

@ The Knowledge Center - Recommended Reading

Facilitating Patient Understanding of Discharge Instructions: Workshop Summary is a report from the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy, which describes discussions and presentations that occurred during the workshop. The roundtable considered issues related to creating more useful discharge instructions, studies that examine the amount of accurate information patients retain from these types of interactions, and ways instructions can be improved. To view this title or request additional information, search the online catalog.