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February 28, 2024 | View as a webpage
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February 29 is Rare Disease Day
Led by the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) in the United States, Rare Disease Day is an internationally recognized initiative to raise awareness, generate support and advocate for care and treatments for the 300 million people globally, including 1 in 10 Americans who are living with a rare disease. Learn more about Rare Disease Day and use the resources from NORD to bring awareness to rare diseases in your community.
Rare Disease Day at NIH 2024 Hybrid event hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
February 29, at 9:00 a.m. ET, in Bethesda, Maryland, and online.
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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 now, over the past four years, and long before. Join 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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Funding |
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States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model
Cooperative agreement from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help state governments with an alternative payment and service delivery model that will curb health care cost growth, improve population health, and advance health equity by reducing disparities in health outcomes.
Deadline is March 18, by 3:00 p.m. ET.
Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences
Grant from the NIH to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data.
Deadline is April 1.
Supporting People with HIV as Leaders in HIV Systems of Care
Cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support leadership development and enhance meaningful engagement for people with HIV in health care planning and programs inclusive of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program-funded organizations.
Deadline is April 1, by 11:59 p.m. ET.
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National Drug Early Warning System Coordinating Center
Cooperative agreement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a coordinating center supporting research on the identification and dissemination of signals of emerging drug use patterns in communities.
Deadline is March 20.
Advancing Health Equity and Addressing Cancer Disparities Awards
Funding from the American Cancer Society to support exploratory, novel research studies that seek to improve access to quality cancer screening and/or cancer care by bringing technologies to individuals rather than requiring travel to healthcare facilities.
Deadline is April 1.
State Maternal Health Innovation
Cooperative agreement from HRSA to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) by improving access to care throughout the preconception, prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum periods; enhancing state maternal health surveillance and data capacity; and implementing interventions to improve outcomes for populations disproportionately impacted by maternal mortality and SMM.
Deadline is April 2, by 11:59 p.m. ET.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Collaborative Action for America’s Health: Short- and Long-Term Strategies Across Public Health, Health Systems, and Social Services
Webinar hosted by the National Academy of Medicine.
February 29, at 3:00 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.
NINR Director’s Lecture: Climate Change and Health
Webinar hosted by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).
March 6, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
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Utilizing Unique Resources to Study Cancer and Aging
Webinar hosted by the National Cancer Institute.
March 4, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Advancing Equity: Community Health Workers' Role in Enhancing Breast Cancer Screenings and Linkage to Care
Webinar hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium.
March 5, at 3:00 p.m. ET.
A People First Approach to Government and the Right to Health
Webinar hosted by the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science.
March 7, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
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National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: February 26 – March 3
During National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, help the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) raise awareness about eating disorders by sharing information and materials based on the latest research. Eating disorders are serious and often fatal illnesses associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. The brochure Eating Disorders: About More Than Food, is available in English and Spanish.
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Labor of Love Podcast: Syphilis Surge: A Rising Concern in Pregnancy
The Labor of Love Podcast from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists explores emerging challenges in maternal and postpartum health. In this episode, host Dr. Veronica Pimentel and guests Kate Miele, MD and Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD, discuss syphilis screening during pregnancy, the latest clinical recommendations, and tips and tools that health care professionals can use to address concerns and anxieties with clarity and compassion.
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CDC COVID-19 Bridge Access Program Partner Engagement Toolkit
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Bridge Access Program provides free updated COVID-19 vaccines for adults age 18 or older without health insurance or whose plan doesn’t fully cover COVID-19 vaccination from a provider in their network. This program will end by December 31, 2024.
This communication toolkit includes resources to help promote equitable access to COVID-19 vaccination through the Bridge Access Program. Customizable resources include talking points, a factsheet template, flyers and posters, a media advisory template, fully produced radio ads and live-read radio scripts, web badges and banners, and social media messages and graphics. The toolkit and resources are available in English and Spanish.
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Clinical Trials |
Chronic-disease Self-management Program in Patients Living With Long-COVID in Puerto Rico
This study, sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, will evaluate the impact of “Tomando control de su salud”, an evidence-based intervention for chronic disease self-management in the quality of life of patients living with Long-COVID in Puerto Rico. This study will take place in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Building an Equitable and Accessible System of Eating Disorder Care for VA, DoD, and Underrepresented Americans
This study, sponsored by the Veterans Affairs (VA) Connecticut Healthcare System in collaboration with the United States Department of Defense (DoD), will test and improve access to evidence-based eating disorder treatment for active-duty service members and veterans. This study will take place in West Haven, Connecticut.
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Workforce Development |
NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute
The Health Disparities Research Institute hosted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) supports the career development of promising early-career minority health and health disparities research scientists and stimulates research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science.
Deadline for application is March 14, by 5:00 p.m. ET.
SAMHSA Minority Fellowship
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Minority Fellowship Program provides a one-year fellowship to psychiatry residents who are committed to addressing inequities in mental health. The fellowship aims to improve behavioral health care outcomes for racial and ethnic populations by growing the number of racial and ethnic psychiatrists in the nation’s behavioral health workforce. The program also seeks to train and better prepare psychiatrists to more effectively treat and serve people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
Deadline for application is March 15.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
As we reach the end of Black History Month, the OMH Knowledge Center is featuring The State of Anti-Black Racism in the United States: Reflections and Solutions from the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop, from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This proceedings summarizes presentations and discussions from a virtual workshop on how anti-Black racism acts as a barrier to entry for Black and African Americans into the science, engineering, and medicine (SEM) field and impacts educational and career pathways for Black and African American students in SEM.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog here.
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