December 26, 2019

In This Issue:

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

FYI Spotlight

HHS: Ready, Set, PrEP. As part of Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE): A Plan for America, this new national program provides HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to thousands of people in the United States at no cost. To qualify for the Ready, Set, PrEP program an individual must: Test negative for HIV, have a valid prescription from their healthcare provider and not have insurance that covers prescription drugs. Learn more.

Funding

Federal Grants

• HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Grant. Increasing Organ Donation Awareness Program. The overall purpose of this program is to reduce the gap between the demand for organ transplants and the supply of donated organs.
  Deadline is January 17, 2020. Learn more.
  
  
• U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)/Office on Violence Against Women (OVW): Grant. FY 2020 Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Program. Supports community-based organizations, including Tribal organizations, in providing culturally relevant services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
  Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is January 20, 2020. Learn more. 
  
  
• HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Research grant. Effectiveness of Implementing Sustainable Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices in Low-Resource Settings to Achieve Mental Health Equity for Traditionally Underserved Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). 
  Deadline for LOI is January 24, 2020. Learn more. 
  
  
• HHS/HRSA, Bureau of Health Workforce: Grant. Primary Care Training and Enhancement: Residency Training in Primary Care Program. Eligible entities include accredited public or non-profit private hospitals, schools of allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine, or a public or private non-profit entity capable of carrying out a residency training program. 
  Deadline is January 24, 2020. Learn more.

Non-Federal Grants

• Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation: Addressing Access to Care Initiative. Supports the training of non-mental healthcare providers, such as primary care providers or lay therapists, in order to improve access to mental health care for children. 
  Deadline is January 10, 2020. Learn more. 
  
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics: Community Access to Child Health Program. Supports pediatric residents who plan to develop community-based initiatives that increase children's access to optimal health or well-being.
  Deadline is January 15, 2020, 4:00 pm ET. Learn more. 
  
  
• AWS Foundation: Spring 2020 Grants. Supports organizations in northeast Indiana (Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington, Kosciusko, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitley) working to assist individuals with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities.
  Deadline for LOI is January 31, 2020. Learn more. 
  
  
• American College Health Foundation: FirstRisk Advisors Initiatives in College Mental/Behavioral Health Funding Program. Supports prevention, early intervention and/or treatment initiatives for mental and behavioral health disorders among college students.
  Deadline is February 1, 2020. Learn more.

Scholarships / Fellowships

HHS/NIH, National Cancer Institute (NCI): Cancer Research Training (CRTA) Fellowships. The NCI Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) seeks qualified candidates for CRTA fellowships focused on the genomic epidemiology of cancer and EGRP project management, evaluation, planning, coordination and analysis.  Open until filled. Learn more.

Webinars and Other Events

Webinars

• The Dibble Institute: Project Rise: Bringing Relationship Education to Hispanic Youth. This webinar will detail how Project Rise is utilizing the Relationship Smarts PLUS program to prevent teen pregnancy, reduce associate risk behaviors and promote healthy adolescent development among Hispanic/Latinx youth aged 12-18 years old. 
  January 15, 2020, 4:00 pm ET. Register.
  
  
• Trust for America's Health (TFAH): State of Obesity 2019: Better Policies for a Healthier America. Speakers will explore findings from the TFAH's 2019 State of Obesity Report, discuss the national obesity crisis, its health impacts and how advocates are working at the national and local levels to address this ongoing epidemic.
  January 29, 2020, 2:30 pm ET. Register.

Conferences

• Sankofa Collaborative: Registration is open for the A Paradigm Shift 2.0 Conference, Black Women Confronting HIV, Health and Social Justice. 
  February 6-7, 2020 in Altlanta, Ga. Register.
  
  
• Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP): Registration is open for the 2020 AMCHP Annual Conference, The Power of Connections: Building Equity for Healthy Generations. 
  March 21-24, 2020 in Crystal City, Va. Register.
  
  

Resources

• The American Society of Hematology (ASH), in partnership with the HHS Food and Drug Administration (FDA). New recommendations. Clinical Development of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Therapies. These recommendations are the result of expert and patient led panels convened by ASH and the FDA to improve the design of clinical trials for new SCD therapies, including promoting broader use of patient reported outcomes and biomarkers as clinical endpoints. Learn more.
  
  
• The Urban Institute: New interactive dashboard. Disrupting Food Insecurity. This dashboard equips counties with data about their food insecurity levels and related risk factors, identifies cross-cutting opportunities for intervention and groups counties by shared challenges such as housing costs, economic security and physical health. Learn more.
  
  
• March of Dimes: New data. 2019 March of Dimes Report Card. This interactive page presents data on preterm birth rates, which have increased from 9.63% in 2015 to 10.02% in 2018. It also provides data on health disparities and the progress states have made toward lowering preterm birth rates. Learn more.

Opportunities for Public Comments

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Request for information on Priority Topics for the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF). CDC seeks public comments to identify topics of public health importance that will form the basis of CPSTF evidence-based recommendations over the next five years. 
  Deadline is January 23, 2020. Learn more.

Clinical Trials

• The University of Miami, in collaboration with the NIH National Eye Institute (NEI): Phase 3 clinical trial. Stop Retinal Ganglion Cell Dysfunction Study (STOP-RGCD). Researchers seek volunteers age 18-85 years of age for a longitudinal study to monitor a population of glaucoma suspects as they receive noninvasive pattern electroretinograms (PERG) and other standard eye tests for glaucoma. Study to be conducted at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Fla. Learn more.
  
  
• The University of Miami, in collaboration with the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): Behavioral study. The Happy Older Latinos are Active (HOLA) Health Promotion Study in HIV-Infected Latino Men. Researchers seek Hispanic/Latino men age 50 years or older who are HIV infected but are virologically suppressed in order to examine an intervention to prevent chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity in Hispanics/Latinos living with HIV. Study to be conducted at the Jackson Memorial Mental Health Hospital in Miami, Fla. Learn more.

Workforce Development

Internships / Mentoring

• Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation: Native American Congressional Internship. This program provides American Indian/Alaska Native students an opportunity to gain practical experience with the federal legislative process in order to understand first-hand the government-to-government relationship between Tribes and the federal government. 
  Deadline is January 31, 2020. Learn more.
  
  
• National MCH Workforce Development Center: Title V Maternal Child Health (MCH) Internship. This program provides mentorship and guidance from Title V agency preceptors to future MCH professionals with experience working in state Title V agencies.
  Deadline is February 7, 2020. Learn more. 

@ The Knowledge Center - Recommended Reading

Little Green Book: A Behavioral Health Glossary, published by the Georgia Health Policy Center, provides comprehensive definitions for a variety of terms pertaining to behavioral health, such as terms about types of services and disorders. It also includes an appendix that lists common acronyms. To view this title or request additional information, search the online catalog.