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October 17, 2018
In This Issue:
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- The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development and NORC at the University of Chicago have released The National Opioid Misuse Community Assessment Tool. This interactive map allows users to locate overdose hotspots and overlay them with data that provides additional context to opioid addiction and death, including the strength and diversity of local economies, ethnicity, educational attainment, and disability status of residents. Learn more.
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Federal Grants
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HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): FY2019 Nurse Faculty Loan Program Grant. Provides funds to accredited schools of nursing to offer loans to students in advanced education nursing degree programs.
Deadline is November 28. Learn more.
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HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH): Improving Smoking Cessation Interventions among People Living with HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) Grant.
Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is December 8. Learn more.
Technical Assistance webinar, November 6, 11:00 am ET. Register.
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HHS/US Department of Defense (DoD): Breast Cancer, Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2. Supports promising research that has high potential to lead to, or make, breakthroughs in breast cancer treatment.
Deadline is November 15. Learn more.
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HHS/HRSA: Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) Grant. Supports eligible hospitals in meeting value-based payment and care goals for their respective organizations, through purchases of hardware, software and training.
Deadline is January 3, 2019. Learn more.
Non-Federal Grants
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Skin Cancer Foundation: 2019 Research Grant Awards. Supports one-year pilot research projects related to skin cancer. The program is open to dermatology residents, fellows, and junior investigators.
Deadline is November 1. Learn more.
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Academy of General Dentistry Foundation: 2018 Grant Program. Supports nonprofit and/or community-based programs that provide oral health care, oral cancer screenings and prevention education for underserved populations.
Deadline is December 1. Learn more.
Scholarships / Fellowships
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National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): 2019 Spring NBCCF Rural Scholarship. Provides financial support to students who are currently enrolled in a Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs-accredited counseling master's program, live in a rural area, and commit to serve rural populations.
Deadline is December 15. Learn more.
Webinars
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HHS/NIH, National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD): NCI Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) Distinguished Scholars Seminar. Translational Issues in Cancer Health Disparities. Speaker Dr. Chanita Hughes-Halbert (Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina) will present her research on understanding barriers to clinical trial participation in underserved communities and developing population-based interventions to reduce disparities in local settings.
TODAY, October 17, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
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The Latino Commission on AIDS: National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day Webinar: Coinfection HIV-HCV. Join speaker Paul Bolter, Community Outreach and Education Manager at the American Liver Foundation, for an overview of viral hepatitis, HIV/HepC coinfection, barriers to care, treatment information and local and national data.
TODAY, October 17, 3:00 pm ET. Register.
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HHS/Office on Women's Health (OWH): Interventions That Work: Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Among Youth. This webinar will highlight the Community Preventive Services Task Force's recent recommendation for interventions that aim to prevent or reduce intimate partner violence (dating violence) and sexual violence among youth and the systematic review evidence on which it was based.
October 24, 1:30 pm ET. Register.
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The Denver Prevention Training Center, Cicatelli and Associates and the Primary Care Development Corporation: Evidence Based Strategies to Increase Medication Adherence. This webinar will provide HIV healthcare providers with simple yet effective tools to help their patients become, or stay, adherent to their antiretroviral therapy.
November 8, 2:00 pm ET. Register.
Capacity Building
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Yale School of Public Health, in partnership with the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI): Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Training Workshop. This training targets early stage investigators (junior faculty and postdocs) interested in researching energetics and cancer.
June 16-21, 2019 in Westbrook, CT. Learn more.
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HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Webpage. 2017 Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report. This page provides resources for the 2017 STD Surveillance Report. You can browse the report online, access the new graphic for congenital syphilis and the editable State of STDs infographic, or use the social media toolkit for Twitter and Facebook. Learn more | Read full report.
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HHS/Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR): 2018 Hurricane Preparedness, Response and Recovery. In the wake of Hurricanes Michael and Florence, ASPR provides information and resources on what to do after a storm, including state emergency contact numbers and tips on coping with trauma. Learn more.
Health Observances
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HHS, the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation and their partners recognize October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For further information and resources, please visit AstraZeneca and healthfinder.gov.
The CDC National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides breast cancer screenings and diagnostic services to low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women across the United States. Find a local provider.
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The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in partnership with DoD: Interventional (Clinical Trial) study. T-Cell Therapy for Advanced Breast Cancer. Researchers seek women age 18 years or older with metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer. Study to be conducted at seven Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centers throughout New York and New Jersey. Learn more.
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Benaroya Research Institute: Interventional (Clinical Trial) study. Intraoperative Radiation Therapy in Early Stage Breast Cancer (IORTBreast). Researchers seek women age 45 years or older who have clinical stage Tis, T1, T2, N0 or M0 breast cancer. Study to be conducted at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA. Learn more.
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Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates is a manual that describes how to coordinate and create events to celebrate the month-long observance. The document outlines the steps needed to put on a successful event: forming a team, partnering with other organizations and influential stakeholders, determining which types of events are best suited for certain audiences, as well as tips for marketing, budgeting, and giveaways.
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