June 5, 2019

In This Issue:

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

FYI Spotlight

June is Men's Health Month. This month is dedicated to helping men take necessary steps toward better health such as early detection and treatment of disease and injuries and preventative care. June 10-14 is set aside as Men's Health Week and is dedicated to scheduling events that will help raise awareness about the health challenges men face and the factors contributing to their shorter life expectancy. As part of Men's Health Week, Wear Blue Day will be celebrated on June 14, as an opportunity for organizations and individuals to help spread the word about the importance of disease prevention, early detection and pursuing treatment after a diagnosis.

Funding

Federal Grants

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Cooperative agreement. Capacity Building for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Surveillance. Supports the creation of a population-based surveillance system that will allow for the identification of individuals with SCD and the standardized collection of information about their clinical history.
  Deadline is July 22. Learn more.
  
  
• Department of Justice (DOJ)/Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP): Grant. Specialized Services and Mentoring for Child and Youth Victims of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation. Supports the efforts of organizations to develop or enhance their mentoring capacity, facilitate outreach efforts and increase the availability of direct services for child and youth victims of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic sex trafficking.
  Deadline is July 29. Learn more. 
  
  
• HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Research grant. Engaging Men in HIV Testing, Prevention, and Care (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). Supports the development and testing of strategies to increase the engagement of men in HIV prevention and care within populations who have evidenced lower rates of engagement and retention in HIV prevention and care.
  Deadline is September 7. Learn more. 

Non-Federal Grants

• Arnold Ventures and the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance: Reducing Revocations Challenge. Supports the creation of Action Research Teams that will conduct in-depth research and data analysis on the drivers of probation failures, and identify policy and practice solutions that will reduce the failures of supervision that contribute to mass incarceration.
  Deadline is June 24. Learn more.  
  
  
• American Psychological Foundation: Marian R. Stuart Grant. Funds research, practice or education of an early career psychologist on the connection between mental and physical health, particularly for work that contributes to public health.
  Deadline is July 1. Learn more.

Loan Repayment

HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): National Health Service Corps Rural Community Loan Repayment Program. Eligibility is limited to health care providers working in rural communities who use evidence-based treatment models to treat substance use disorders, including opioid misuse. Deadline is July 18, 7:30 pm ET. Learn more. Technical Assistance webinar, June 13, 1:00 pm ET. Join.

Webinars and Other Events

Webinars

• 1,000 Days: Development of the First-ever Dietary Guidelines for Moms and Babies. This webinar will address the importance of dietary guidelines for pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under 2, the development of the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the work underway by the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. 
  June 6, 2:30 pm ET. Register.
  
  
• National Academy of Science: Culture of Health webinar series. Messaging to Advance Health Equity in Public Policy. This webinar will highlight a successful communications campaign that effectively utilized evidence-based strategies to engage key stakeholders to advance health equity in public policy.
  June 12, 3:00 pm ET. Register. 
  
  
• Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI): Who Counts? Racial Misclassification and American Indian and Alaska Native Populations. Join UIHI Scientific Director, Adrian Dominguez, who will discuss how racial misclassification and limited analysis have excluded American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations from health assessments and community conversations. This webinar will also provide training on ways to improve capturing AI/AN race in health data.
  June 14, 11:00 am PT. Register.
   
• American Public Health Association (APHA) and the HHS Office of Adolescent Health: Walking the Walk: Applying Positive Youth Development Approaches to Adolescent Health. This webinar will use examples from the field to highlight how positive youth development approaches can be applied by organizations, systems and communities to improve adolescent health.
  June 18, 12:00 pm ET. Register. 

Conferences

American Library Association (ALA): Registration is open for the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition. This year's program includes sessions on topics such as diversity and inclusion, community engagement, advocacy, STEM and multicultural services. June 20-25 in Washington, DC. Register

Resources

Publications

• HHS/CDC and the Alzheimer's Association: Healthy Brain Initiative: Road Map for Indian Country. This guidance document is tailored for leaders of AI/AN communities as they develop a broad response to Alzheimer's and other dementia. Learn more | Download full document (PDF). 

Opportunities for Public Comment

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Request for comments on the Draft Research Plan for Vitamin, Mineral, and Multivitamin Supplementation to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Preventive Medication.
  Deadline is June 19, 8:00 pm ET. Learn more. 

Health Observances

HHS and the Men's Health Network recognize June as Men's Health Month. For further information and resources, please visit the Men's Health Month website. You can find consumer health information for men at NIH NIMH, the NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA), the HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Healthfinder.gov. The Clark Atlanta University/Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development has also developed the Prostate Cancer Registry, a tool that provides an opportunity for prostate cancer survivors to anonymously share their experiences for the benefit of other men battling the disease, or those who may do battle with it in the future.

Clinical Trials

• The University of Wisconsin, Madison, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense and the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI): Clinical trial. Pilot Trial of Chemohormonal Therapy Followed by Prostatectomy in High Risk Prostate Cancer. Researchers seek male volunteers age 18 years or older. Study to be conducted at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in Madison, WI. Learn more.
  
  
• Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with the University of Maryland and the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Behavioral study. Sleep and Pain in Sickle Cell Disease. Researchers seek volunteers age 18 years or older with a diagnosis of a sickle cell hemoglobinopathy. Study to be conducted at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. Learn more.

@ The Knowledge Center - Recommended Reading

In observance of Men's Health Month, the Knowledge Center recommends the booklet "Men and Depression," which is also available in Spanish as "Los hombres y la depresión." Published by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this consumer-friendly document describes types of depression, causes, symptoms and common ways they manifest in men. It discusses treatment options and other resources for people dealing with depression as well as suggestions on how their loved ones can support them. To view this title or request additional information, search the online catalog. To find out more about how to use the HHS Office of Minority Health Knowledge Center Online Library, watch this video.