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March 5: Join Salud America! And OMH for the Twitter Chat, Four Years Later: How COVID-19 is Impacting Latinos
We invite you to join Salud America! and the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) for the Twitter chat Four Years Later: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Latinos. Use the hashtag #SaludTues to explore health inequities facing the Latino population over the past four years (and long before that) and share solutions and strategies to promote health equity in the face of COVID-19.
March 5, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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Apply Today: Children’s Interagency Coordinating Council Seeks Lived Expert Consultants
The newly formed federal Children’s Interagency Coordinating Council (CICC)— charged with fostering greater coordination and transparency on child policy across federal agencies—welcomes applications for individuals with lived experience (Lived Expert Consultants) to inform and support the work of the council.
The CICC will examine and periodically report on a broad array of cross-cutting issues affecting child poverty and child well-being. In addition to supporting the work of the CICC, Lived Expert Consultants will have the opportunity to inform other work within the Office of Human Service Policy through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Deadline for application is February 23, by 5:00 p.m. ET.
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Strengthening Tribal Public Health Systems
Funding and technical assistance from the National Indian Health Board to support Tribes as they complete projects to improve their performance, meet national public health accreditation standards, and/or promote interconnection across the public health system to improve population health.
Deadline is March 21, by 11:59 p.m. ET.
State Grants for the Implementation, Enhancement, and Expansion of Medicaid and CHIP School-Based Services
Grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will fund recipient States to implement, enhance, or expand the provision of assistance through school-based entities under Medicaid and CHIP.
Deadline is March 25, by 11:59 p.m. ET.
Family Medicine Student Organization Grant Program
Grants from the American Academy of Family Physicians to support family medicine-based groups and student organizations. Grants can support regular operations and activities such as lectures and workshops.
Deadline is March 31.
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Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support intervention research addressing social determinants of health which would have a major impact on preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity.
Deadline is March 22.
Early Psychosis Intervention Network: Learning Health Care Research to Improve Mental Health Services and Outcomes
Grant from NIH to support projects promoting measurement-based care in real-world treatment settings and addressing unanswered questions about early intervention in psychosis, including new approaches for improving patient engagement, sustaining treatment gains over time, and advancing equity in treatment access, service delivery, and clinical/functional outcomes.
Deadline is March 29.
Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation's Health
Cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help increase the knowledge, skill, and ability to deliver essential public health services, improve organizational and systems capacity and capability to address equity-based public health priorities, and strengthen the nation's public health infrastructure and performance.
Deadline is April 1, by 11:59 p.m. ET.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Rare Disease Day at NIH 2024
Hybrid event hosted by the National Institutes of Health.
February 29, at 9:00 a.m. ET, in Bethesda, Maryland, and online.
NIMHD Director’s Seminar: Disparities in Diabetes Screening and Prevention by Race and Ethnicity
Part of webinar series hosted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
February 29, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Supporting LGBTQ+ Immigrants
Webinar hosted by the Center of Excellence: LGBTQ+ behavioral Health Equity.
March 5, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Climate, Health, and Equity Summit
Virtual Summit hosted by the American Public Health Association.
February 29-March 1, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Delivering Evidence-based and Culturally Competent Firearm Suicide Prevention Interventions in Clinical Settings
Webinar hosted by the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center.
March 5, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Partnership: A Mission and an Imperative for Health Equity-Focused Survivorship Research and Engagement
Webinar hosted by the National Cancer Institute.
March 5, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Public Safety-led Community-oriented Overdose Prevention Efforts
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The Public Safety-led Community-oriented Overdose Prevention Efforts (PS-COPE) Toolkit from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing combines three proven models to enhance overdose prevention and response: trauma-informed care, recovery-oriented systems of care, and procedural justice. The toolkit for public safety agency leaders defines the principles of PS-COPE, the benefits of it, and provides tools for integrating the approach into existing overdose prevention and response efforts.
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Protect Your Kids’ Mental Health with Medicaid and CHIP
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) cover essential mental and behavioral health services for kids and teens. Coverage includes mental and behavioral health services for children and expectant mothers to prevent, diagnose, and treat a broad range of mental health symptoms and disorders. Use these tools available in English and Spanish from InsureKidsNow.gov to encourage parents and caregivers to enroll in Medicaid and CHIP to access important mental health benefits once their children and teens are covered.
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Suicide Prevention and Risk Assessment Strategies for Sexual and Gender Minority (LGBTQ+) Communities
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, sexual minority women and men were more likely than straight women and men to have had serious thoughts of suicide, made a suicide plan, and attempt suicide. This publication, prepared by the Renaye James Healthcare Advisors, identifies systemic and environmental factors that might influence the behavioral health of sexual and gender minority populations, highlights evidence-based screening tools for suicide risk and behavioral health conditions, and reviews strategies to reduce the risk of self-harm and build resilience among sexual and gender minority community members.
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Clinical Trials |
National Liver Cancer Screening Trial
This study, sponsored by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, will compare ultrasound-based versus biomarker-based screening in patients with cirrhosis or with chronic hepatitis B infection. This study will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Building Engagement Using Financial Incentives Trial - Colorectal Cancer Screening
This study, sponsored by Tulane University in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, will explore whether financial incentives paid to primary care patients for completing colorectal cancer screening increase completion of colorectal cancer screening. This study will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana
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Workforce Development |
National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program Intramural Research Training Award
The training program from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is a two-year program designed to train Fellows to support high containment research environments by acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to meet the scientific, regulatory, biocontainment, biosafety, engineering, communications, management, and public relations challenges associated with the conduct of research in these facilities.
Deadline for application is March 1.
Foundations of Population Health Management in Priority Populations
The four-part webinar series from the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium for health centers serving priority populations, including residents of public housing, agricultural workers, patients experiencing homelessness, and other at-risk populations including older adults, and Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian patients.
Continuing education credits are available.
March 6, 13, 20, 27, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
In recognition of Black History Month, the OMH Knowledge Center is sharing HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in Black/African American Communities. This booklet from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), and Prevention Research Center (PRC) provides summaries and contact information for recent and ongoing research studies related to HIV and AIDS prevention in Black and African American communities. It also lists resources and guidance related to HIV and comorbid conditions and concerns.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog here.
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