Join the American Heart Association (AHA) on World Hypertension Day for a virtual event introducing the National Hypertension Control Initiative. You will hear from RADM Felicia Collins, Director of the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH), and from a panel of community members that includes a pastor, a national barbershop owner, a health care professional, and a patient who will discuss how working together can help control blood pressure and improve community health.
May 17, 8:00 pm ET.

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OMH will host a Twitter chat in partnership with the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans to observe Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. During the chat we will share important resources and information to help AAPI communities stay physically and emotionally healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic as they prepare to get #VaccineReady. To join the conversation, use the hashtags #StopAAPIHate and #VaccineReady.
May 19, 2:00 pm ET.

Join on the Day of the Event

The COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force's next meeting is scheduled for May 28, 2:00-6:00 pm ET (approximately). The meeting is open to the public. No registration is needed. Pre-registration is required only for members of the public who wish to provide public comments in the meeting. To register, please send an email with your name, affiliation, and email to COVID19HETF@hhs.gov.

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People who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things that they had stopped doing because of the pandemic. Visit the CDC website for guidance on How to Protect Yourself and Others When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated. 

Together Toward Health (TTH) is an initiative to stop the spread of COVID-19 and strengthen health and resilience in California's most impacted communities. TTH has created five public health communication toolkits, including social media outreach resources in four Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander languages: Chamorro, Tongan, Samoan, Marshallese, and Hawaiian.

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is prognosticated to start around May 15, with the Atlantic and Central Pacific seasons prognosticated to start around June 1. The CDC provides information on Hurricane Season and COVID-19, including advice to help you safely prepare, evacuate, and shelter for severe storms while protecting yourself and others during the pandemic. You can find further information on preparing for hurricane season at Ready.gov. Information is available in English, Spanish, and several Asian, Caribbean, European, and Middle Eastern languages.

As we continue to learn more about COVID-19, the CDC is working hard to ensure you have access to the latest information on the pandemic, the virus and its variants, and COVID-19's impact on our nation:

• CDC's COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review highlights key information from the COVID Data Tracker and summarizes important trends in the pandemic.
• CDC's COVID-19 Science Update links to new COVID-19-related studies and provides summaries of key findings, methods, and implications from these peer-reviewed and preprint articles.

Join HRSA’s National Nurses Week virtual observance from May 6-12. Nurses have been on the front lines, caring tirelessly for patients through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this challenging year, nurses across the country have worked to provide the best care possible for our nation's underserved and most vulnerable communities. Help us celebrate their efforts during National Nurses Week – and beyond. Explore HRSA's Nursing Workforce Diversity Program and the National Health Service Corp. 

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The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center report, Southeast Asian American Journeys: A National Snapshot of our Communities, highlights socioeconomic, housing, immigration, health, and education trends within the Southeast Asian American (SEAA) community. Meant as a resource for policymakers, funders, community-based organizations, organizers, and the general public, the report captures key disaggregated data for SEAA refugee communities who fled the trauma of war and violence following the Vietnam War, Khmer Rouge genocide, and bombings in Laos to seek haven in the United States.

Learn More Download the Full Report (PDF)