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June 26, 2019
In This Issue:
- On June 25, the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced a new, free and accredited e-learning program: Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals. The program, available via OMH's Think Cultural Health website, is designed to develop behavioral health providers' knowledge and skills related to culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS). The tool is particularly timely for professionals working to address the opioid epidemic among racial and ethnic populations, which have low treatment rates and some of the highest rates of opioid misuse and overdose.
Federal Grants
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U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)/Office for Victims of Crime (OVC): Grant. Enhancing Community Responses to the Opioid Crisis: Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims. Supports programs that provide for the needs of young crime victims affected by substance abuse, regardless of the substance.
Deadline is July 11. Learn more.
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HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Grant. Tribal Opioid Response Grants. Eligibility is limited to Federally-recognized Tribes and Tribal organizations. Tribes and Tribal organizations may elect to apply as part of a consortia or in partnership with urban American Indian/Alaska Native organizations.
Deadline is August 6. Learn more.
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HHS/Administration for Community Living (ACL): Cooperative agreement. Human Dignity and Civil Rights for People with Disabilities. The goal of this project is to ensure that Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities experience improved access to health care, life-saving treatments and mental health care.
Deadline is August 12. Learn more.
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HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH): Research project – Cooperative agreement. Diversity Program Consortium Dissemination and Translation Awards (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). Provides support to institutions to implement Diversity Program Consortium approaches to understanding the effectiveness of biomedical research training, mentoring or research capacity building interventions aimed at enhancing diversity in the biomedical research workforce.
Deadline is October 8. Learn more.
Non-Federal Grants
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American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (AAFP): Family Medicine Cares USA. Provides funds to free clinics for the purchase of items such as exam tables, EHR systems and medical equipment. Applicants must be a new clinic nearing completion of the Volunteers in Medicine process and have an AAFP member in a leadership role.
Deadline is July 15. Learn more.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Healthy Eating Research. Funds research on policy, systems and environmental strategies that advance health equity in the areas of diet quality and nutrition, including access to healthy foods and opportunities to make healthful choices.
Deadline is July 31. Learn more.
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Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: Black Community Fund Grants. Awards funds to organizations with a programmatic focus on improving the quality of life of African-Americans in the greater Kansas City region, with a focus on access to health care, educational disparities and/or youth development.
Deadline is August 7. Learn more.
Scholarships / Fellowships
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National Hispanic Health Foundation: Hispanic Health Professional Student Scholarship. Provides financial assistance to medical, nursing, dental, public health, pharmacy and health policy students who are committed to serving Hispanics/Latinos.
Deadline is September 26. Learn more.
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Pride Foundation: AIDS Project Snohomish County Scholarship and Wozumi Family Scholarship. Provides financial assistance to LGBTQ and allied students living with HIV whose studies focus on HIV health care and services.
Application period opens October 11. Learn more.
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The HIV League: 2020 HIV League Scholarship. Provides financial assistance to students living with HIV who are either currently or going to be enrolled full-time or part-time at an institution of higher education for at least one year.
Application period opens December 1. Learn more.
Webinars
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HHS/NIH, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science: Implementation Research for Health Equity webinar series. An Overview of the Health Equity Implementation Framework. Join Dr. Eva Woodward, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, who will showcase this new framework and its applicability across various scientific areas.
TODAY, June 26, 2:00 pm ET. Register.
Conferences
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National Prevention Network (NPN): Registration is open for the 32nd Annual NPN Conference, Building on Evidence-Based Prevention to Connect Communities.
August 27-29 in Chicago, IL. Register.
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Other Events
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Alliance for Health Policy: Congressional briefing. Addressing the Drivers of Maternal Mortality. Panelists will discuss policy options that support interventions, among providers and public health entities, to address the clinical and social drivers of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.
June 27 in Washington, DC. Register.
Health Observances
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- The HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognizes June 27 as National HIV Testing Day. On this annual observance, CDC encourages people to get tested for HIV, know their status and seek treatment.
For further information and resources, please visit HIV.gov and the Greater than AIDS 2019 National HIV Testing Day Community Partnership initiative, which includes free HIV testing at select Walgreens pharmacies.
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Opportunities for Public Comments
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HHS/Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR): CMS seeks comments on a proposed revision of Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which covers protections against discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability.
Deadline is August 13. Learn more.
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The University of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Phase 1 interventional study. Comparison of Dendritic Cell-Based Therapeutic Vaccine Strategies for HIV Functional Cure (DC-HIV04). This study will be carried out with volunteers age 18-65 years old who are living with HIV to see if an investigational vaccine made from a person's own white blood cells is safe and tolerated. Study to be conducted at the University of Pittsburgh HIV/AIDS Clinical Research Unit in Pittsburgh, PA. Learn more.
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The University of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Interventional and behavioral study. Intravenous Ketamine Plus Neurocognitive Training for Depression. Researchers seek volunteers age 18-60 years old for a study to characterize the effects of intravenous ketamine on neurocognitive markers in depressed patients and to test the efficacy of a synergistic intervention for depression combining intravenous ketamine with neurocognitive training. Study to be conducted at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, PA. Learn more.
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Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE): Summer Institute Training Program. Open to research-oriented junior-level faculty members who hold a doctoral degree, have a background that is underrepresented in the biomedical or health sciences and have a research focus that is centered on health disparities relevant to heart, lung, blood or sleep disorders.
Rolling deadline. Learn more.
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Love in the Time of Toxicants is a 10-minute video that uses shadow puppets to tell a story that describes environmental toxicants and how they can impact the health of infants and young children, as well as families prior to conception. Developed by the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WSPEHSU) in collaboration with the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), the video is available in English and Spanish.
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.
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