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OMH COVID-19 Initiative Award Announcement
The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) awarded the Morehouse School of Medicine the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities funding opportunity. This $40 million initiative, led by the Morehouse School of Medicine, will develop a national network to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minority populations. Learn more about this new three year initiative.
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June 27 is National HIV Testing Day
The HHS recognizes June 27 as National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) with the theme "Knowing." This theme focuses on knowing one's HIV status, recognizing new ways to take an HIV test, and knowing about treatment and prevention options such as PrEP. Please visit the OMH website for HIV/AIDS and PrEP resources. You can also share information about NHTD via the HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Let's Stop HIV Together campaign and by highlighting their HIV Risk Reduction Tool. The CDC has also compiled information on HIV self-testing, a method of providing HIV diagnostic services in the time of COVID-19.
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Funding |
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RADx-UP Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC)
The HHS National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund a single CDCC as part of research projects to understand the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on underserved and vulnerable populations.
Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is July 8.
Family Medicine Cares USA
The American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation supports the opening of new, free primary care clinics, including the purchase of medical equipment and instruments.
Deadline is July 15, 8:00 pm ET.
Tribal Injury Prevention Cooperative Agreement Program
The HHS Indian Health Service (IHS) will fund community-based injury prevention programs and projects that prioritize motor vehicle related injuries and elder falls.
Deadline is October 1.
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GCI Suicide Prevention Grant
The Alaska Community Foundation and GCI support projects and organizations whose efforts reduce the rates of suicide in rural Alaska, including among Alaska Native Tribes.
Deadline is July 15.
Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation Grants
The Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation supports community-based organizations that provide HIV/AIDS care, direct services and education, and/or conduct HIV/AIDS research.
Deadline for LOI is July 31.
Digital Healthcare Interventions to Address the Secondary Health Effects Related to Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19
This is a Notice of Special Interest from several NIH institutes, centers and offices.
Deadline is December 15, 5:00 pm ET.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Advancing Maternal Health Equity in Refugee Communities
The final webinar in the Association of American Medical Colleges Maternal Health Equity series will discuss best practices for clinicians to provide culturally competent care to refugee women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
TODAY, June 24, 1:30 pm ET.
Suicidality and COVID-19: How to Help
The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) webinar will address how COVID-19 may contribute to suicide risk among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs). The discussion will include general background on suicide in Indian Country, interventions, prevention strategies and resources.
June 25, 3:00 pm ET.
The Tsunami of Need is Coming: Integrated Care in the Era of COVID-19
The College for Behavioral Health Leadership webinar will explore the integration of behavioral health into primary care for early identification, treatment and enhanced referral to specialty care for people with mental health conditions.
June 25, 3:00 pm ET.
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What Will It Take to Create Health Equity for Sexual and Gender Minority Young People?
The NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office webinar will describe health disparities among young men who have sex with men and the implementation of eHealth approaches to HIV prevention among this group.
June 30, 1:00 pm ET.
Indigenous Perspectives on COVID-19
The University of Maryland School of Public Health seminar will address the epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic among AI/AN Tribes.
July 7, 6:00 pm ET.
Culture is Prevention
The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native PTTC virtual learning sessions will address culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services for AI/ANs and Latinxs.
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Challenge: Mobilizing and Empowering the Nation and Technology to Address Loneliness & social isolation (MENTAL) Health Innovation
The HHS Administration for Community Living (ACL) and the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) are pleased to announce the MENTAL Health Innovation Challenge. The goal of this challenge is to increase consumer awareness and use of technology tools that keep racial and minority populations, older adults, people with disabilities and Veterans socially engaged and connected to families, friends, communities and activities of interest.
Deadline for registration is July 15.
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Resources: COVID-19
Fact Sheets: LGBT Wellness
The Network for Health Equity's LGBT HealthLink has developed several fact sheets that offer LGBT-specific information for health care professionals and consumers of health. Fact sheets are available for the following topics: cultural competence, cancer and tobacco use.
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Toolkit: Advancing the Uptake and Use of PrEP in Indian Country
The NIHB has compiled a PrEP toolkit that explores ways in which AI/AN Tribes, Tribal organizations, community members, leaders and service providers can build relationships and strengthen the systems needed to incorporate PrEP into medical practice, social norms and community culture. It also provides tools, language and conversation starters to bring PrEP into a community.
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Clinical Trials |
Sickle Cell Disease and CardiovAscular Risk - Red Cell Exchange Trial (SCD-CARRE)
This phase 3 clinical trial, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh and the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), seeks volunteers, age 18 years or older, with a SCD diagnosis. Study to be conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Penn.
Computer Assisted Family Intervention to Treat Self-Harm Disparities in Latinas and Sexual/Gender Minority Youth
This behavioral study, sponsored by the University of Miami and the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), seeks Hispanic/Latina female or Hispanic/Latinx LGBT youth (male or female), age 12-18 years old, who self-report self-harm in the past 6 months and meet criteria for depression, emotion dysregulation, family conflict and/or substance use. Study to be conducted at the Institute for Individual and Family Counseling in Coral Gables, Fla.
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Workforce Development |
Fellowship: Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network
The University of California, San Francisco's Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) fellowship seeks to improve health and health equity by advancing high quality research on health care sector strategies to improve social conditions. Applicants should hold a doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, MD or equivalent) and have advanced research experience in health services research or a related field such as health policy, nursing, social work, public health or epidemiology.
Deadline is July 17.
Training: Every Contact Counts: Contact Tracing for Public Health Professionals
This Northwest Center for Public Health Practice training, intended for public health professionals and volunteers who are interested in becoming contact tracers, covers basics such as the important role contact tracers have in protecting the public, criteria that determine whether someone is a potential contact, the key components of a successful contact tracing interview and how to conduct contact tracing interviews with professionalism and sensitivity.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
The article Sickle Cell Disease: What You Should Know, published in the NIH MedlinePlus Magazine, provides patients with a clear overview of the disease and treatment options. The magazine issue includes additional news articles related to sickle cell disease research activities.
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