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May 1, 2024 | View as a webpage
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Celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with OMH
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) Heritage Month!
This month is an opportunity to recognize the many ways AA and NHPI history, culture, leadership, and innovation have influenced all facets of life in the United States. This annual observance celebrates the diverse cultures, languages, and religions of AA and NHPI communities and individuals.
This year, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority (OMH) is observing AA and NHPI Heritage Month through its theme, Be the Source for Better Health: Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections, which calls on each of us to understand how the unique environments, cultures, histories, and circumstances (known as social determinants of health, or SDOH) of AA and NHPI populations impact their overall health.
Data shows that health outcomes for AA and NHPI populations are impacted by a range of both shared and unique SDOH factors. Visit the Asian American Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2024 website to find resources, social media messages, graphics, and information on how to Be the Source for Better Health.
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Share Your Insights With OMH: Development of a Universal Symbol for Language Assistance Services in Health Settings
OMH is looking for insights from the public focused on increasing language access for individuals and communities with limited English proficiency (LEP). Please respond to and/or share this new opportunity to help OMH better understand the needs of the populations it serves.
Through this RFI, OMH seeks to obtain information from the public focused on language access, including organizations representing and/or serving communities with LEP, to guide the development and implementation of a symbol informing people about the availability of language assistance services in health settings, including for health services, programs, and/or products.
Publication Date: April 19, 2024
Closing Date: May 20, 2024
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Funding |
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Minority Research Grant Program 2024
Grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to encourage innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the improvement of health outcomes for people from all minority populations.
Deadline is June 3.
Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Grant from NIH to support translational and clinical research that advances precision medicine in pregnant persons, lactating persons, and children through the development of novel tools, models, and other technologies that could have a direct clinical or health impact.
Deadline is June 5.
Health Care Models for Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions from Populations that Experience Health Disparities: Advancing Health Care towards Health Equity
Grant from NIH to support innovative, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary research designed to study the effective adaptation, integration, and implementation of recommended guidelines of care of persons with multiple chronic conditions from populations that experience health disparities.
Deadline is June 5.
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Research to Action: Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) encouraging multidisciplinary projects to investigate the potential health risks of environmental exposures of concern to a community and to develop and implement an environmental public health action plan based on research findings.
Deadline is June 5.
Patient-Clinician Relationship: Improving Health Outcomes in Populations that Experience Health Care Disparities
Grant from NIH to support innovative multi-disciplinary and multi-level research designed to understand and address how optimizing patient-clinician communication and relationships affects health care outcomes in patients from populations with health care disparities.
Deadline is June 5.
Innovations for Healthy Living - Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities
Grant from NIH to support Small Business Innovation Research applications that propose developing a product, process, or service for commercialization with the aim of improving minority health and/or reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities in one or more populations that experience health disparities.
Deadline is June 10.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Supporting Youth Who Encounter Racial Stress and Trauma
Webinar hosted by the Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center.
May 2, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Firearm Injury Prevention
Lecture hosted by the National Institute of Nursing Research.
May 7, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Exploring Biomarkers of Aging in the Context of Cancer Risk
Webinar hosted by the National Cancer Institute.
May 16, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
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Integrated Care for Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Youth
Webinar hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
May 2, at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Understanding Harm Reduction Approaches to Address Intimate Partner Violence, Human Trafficking, Exploitation and Homelessness in Health Centers
Webinar hosted by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
May 7, at 1:30 p.m. ET.
CMS Health Equity Conference
In-person and virtual conference hosted by CMS.
May 29-30, in Bethesda, Maryland, and online.
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Health Equity Fact Sheets
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proud to highlight some of its efforts to advance health equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, under-resourced, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality. The Health Equity Fact Sheets across HHS divisions detail each one’s recent contributions in the area of health equity.
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The Quality of the Decennial Census for Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities: An Expanded Approach
The report from Asian Americans Advancing Justice finds that despite a national overcount of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs), some Asian Americans and NHPIs were still undercounted in the decennial census. The report discusses how geography affects the response rates from one state or one county to another and how coverage errors vary by age.
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New Issue: Public Health Reports
The Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service released a new issue of their official journal Public Health Reports. This issue includes articles on community health workers, health equity, telemedicine, and more.
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Clinical Trials |
Keiki Produce Prescription Program Hawaii
This study, sponsored by the University of Hawaii in collaboration with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, aims to reduce nutrition-related health disparities via clinical-community based programs. This study will take place in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Early Tracking of Childhood Health Determinants Study
This study, sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, will explore how a pregnant American Indian and Alaskan Native and Hispanic mother's environment, lifestyle, and health conditions may affect her child's growth and development from birth until adulthood. This study will take place in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Workforce Development |
Promoting Indigenous Research Leadership
The three-day workshop from the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity is designed to promote the public health research careers of Indigenous and other early-career faculty working with Indigenous communities across the country.
Deadline for application is June 3.
Decolonize Data Fellow
The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) Decolonize Data Fellow will work directly with the Executive Vice President in projects that match individual interests and the needs of UIHI. They will consist of four components of working in areas of disease surveillance and chronic disease, HIV/HCV, Public Health Services, Special Projects such as decolonize data, and Indigenous Evaluation Framework and Epidemiology like the Elders Brief King County data.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the OMH Knowledge Center is sharing the document Rise of Anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander Hate: Brief on Historical Trauma in AAPI Communities and How We Got Here by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. This fact sheet discusses the recent rise in anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate and racism that has become more prevalent since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it has on the mental health of those in the AAPI community. It places the recent rise in anti-AAPI violence and racism in the context of other historical events that have caused trauma for this community and includes a timeline of these events.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog here.
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