Observed every year on February 14th, National Donor Day is an observance dedicated to spreading awareness and education about organ, eye, and tissue donation. It is also a day to recognize those who have given and received the gift of life through organ, eye, and tissue donation, those who are currently waiting for a lifesaving transplant, and those who died waiting because an organ was not donated in time. This Donor Day, share the love and give hope to the patients on the National Transplant Waiting List by registering to be an organ donor.

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On Thursday, February 22, 2 – 3 pm ET, the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) will host and facilitate a discussion with a panel of its partners focused on leveraging lessons learned from the COVID-19 response to enhance community-based interventions that support vaccine confidence for other respiratory illnesses within Black and African American populations (e.g., influenza, RSV, pneumococcal diseases).

This virtual roundtable is an opportunity to delve into the value of community-based interventions to promote health equity within Black communities.

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The HEALing Communities Initiative, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative® created the Opioid-Overdose Reduction Continuum of Care Approach (ORCCA): A Policymakers Guide to Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies that Address Opioid Overdose to aid policymakers, communities and key stakeholders in developing comprehensive, multi-system strategies that address the opioid crisis. The scientific evidence behind the framework was published in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence and outlines 19 essential evidence-based interventions to reduce opioid overdose deaths.

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The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health states that children and adolescents who spend more than 3 hours a day on social media face double the risk of mental health problems including experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety. The new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers nearly a dozen recommendations for social media companies, Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and others to minimize the harm of social media use on adolescents’ health while maximizing its benefits.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 38.4 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, diagnosed and undiagnosed. Among race and ethnicity subgroups, the highest prevalence of diagnosed diabetes is among non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native communities at 16% and non-Hispanic Black communities at 12.5%. 

Diabetes in America from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney is a compilation and assessment of epidemiologic, public health, clinical research, and clinical trial data focused on diabetes, its complications and treatment, health care utilization, and diabetes prevention in the U.S. The publication covers the spectrum of diabetes, complications from it, medical care, and information about prevention.

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