|
May 8, 2024 | View as a webpage
|
|
     
|
May is High Blood Pressure Education Month
May is #HighBloodPressureMonth! It's important to know how to properly check your blood pressure to get the most accurate results. Talk to your healthcare provider at every visit about what your numbers mean for you. Knowing and tracking your numbers is an important step to managing high blood pressure. Taking steps like eating healthy, getting regular physical activity, managing stress, getting enough sleep, not smoking, and aiming for a healthy weight can help keep blood pressure and #OurHearts healthy.
|
National Women’s Health Week: May 12-18
Every year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office on Women's Health (OWH) leads the National Women's Health Week (NWHW) observance. This observance takes place from May 12 to May 18 and aims to raise awareness about the health issues and priorities that affect women and girls throughout their lives. The 2024 NWHW theme is "Empowering Women, Cultivating Health: Celebrating Voices, Wellness, and Resilience." The goal is to support women in feeling empowered in their health journey, which includes physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
To actively engage in NWHW and contribute to its reach, explore the NWHW daily topics and ready-to-use toolkit. The toolkit serves as a comprehensive resource hub and is packed with a variety of materials, including videos, fact sheets, social media messages, graphics, and more, all designed to help you spread the word and make a difference. Use the hashtag #NWHW in your social media posts and tag us on Twitter/X (@womenshealth) to share how you are celebrating NWHW.
|
|
 |
|
Funding |
|
Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Program
Cooperative agreement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support states and Tribes with implementing youth suicide prevention and early intervention strategies in schools, educational institutions, juvenile justice systems, substance use and mental health programs, foster care systems, pediatric health programs, and other child- and youth-serving organizations.
Deadline is June 3.
Basic Research in Cancer Health Disparities
Grant from the NIH to support basic, mechanistic research into the biological/genetic causes of cancer health disparities.
Deadline is June 5.
Basic Center Program
Grant from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to support Basic Center Program participants providing temporary shelter and counseling services to youth who have left home without permission of their parents or guardians, have been forced to leave home, or other homeless youth who might otherwise end up in the law enforcement or in the child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems.
Deadline is June 7.
|
|
Leveraging Health Information Technology to Address and Reduce Health Care Disparities
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support research that examines the impact of leveraging health information technology to reduce health care disparities in access to care, patient-clinician communication, and health outcomes for populations that experience health disparities.
Deadline is June 5.
Comprehensive Care for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from Populations with Health Disparities
Grant from the NIH to support multidisciplinary and multi-level research designed to develop and/or test interventions to optimize care of persons with Type 2 diabetes from populations with health/health care disparities.
Deadline is June 5.
State-Tribal Partnerships to Implement Best Practices in Indian Child Welfare
Grant from the ACF to generate evidence for how best to effectively implement child welfare practices and ongoing active efforts to maintain American Indian and Alaska Native families by funding state and tribal partnerships to jointly design and operate Indian child welfare best practice implementation demonstration sites.
Deadline is June 7.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Webinars and Other Events |
|
Advancing Team-Based Care to Address Maternal Health Disparities
Webinar series hosted by Community Health Center, Inc. and Health Outreach Partners.
May 8, at 3:00 p.m. ET.
May 22, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Health Disparities Interest Group Seminar Series
Part of webinar series hosted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
May 14, at 10:30 a.m. ET.
The Role of Community Health Centers in Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States
Webinar hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
May 14, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
|
|
The State of Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health at Community Health Centers
Part of webinar series hosted by the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations.
May 9, at 5:00 p.m. ET.
May 21, at 3:00 p.m. ET
Maternal Health Summer 2024 Webinar Series
Webinar series hosted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
May 14, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Understanding Trauma and Decolonizing Trauma
Webinar hosted by the National Council of Urban Indian Health.
May 15, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Resources |
SPACE Tool 2.0
SPACE Tool, or the Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Prevention Allocation Consequences Estimator, is a tool created for federally funded jurisdictions to estimate the impact of changes in STI prevention budgets on the incidence and direct medical costs of bacterial STIs and STI-attributable HIV infection. Estimating these effects is not an exact science; however, the SPACE Tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) helps STI prevention personnel make evidence-based calculations that show how budget changes impact disease burden and direct medical costs.
|
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
SAMHSA recognizes Mental Health Awareness Month (MHAM) every May to increase awareness about the vital role mental health plays in our overall health and well-being and provide resources and information to support individuals and communities who may need mental health support. Use the 2024 Mental Health Awareness Month Toolkit to share information and resources in your community about playing active roles in caring for our mental health.
|
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and Federal Action Plan
SAMHSA and CDC, in partnership with the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, developed the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, a 10-year, comprehensive, whole-of-government approach to suicide prevention. The National Strategy outlines concrete recommendations for addressing gaps and meeting the needs of at-risk populations. It is accompanied by the first-ever Federal Action Plan, which identifies 200 discrete actions to be initiated and evaluated over the next three years such as identifying ways to address substance use and suicide risk together in the clinical setting, funding a mobile crisis locator for use by 988 crisis centers, and more.
|
|
 |
|
Clinical Trials |
Team-Based Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
This study, sponsored by the University of Rochester in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, will identify and rigorously evaluate strategies for implementing and sustaining team-based home blood pressure monitoring within primary care. This study will take place in Rochester, New York.
Eliminating Severe Maternal Morbidity with Heart Health Doulas Trial
This study, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, aims to improve blood pressure in women who have a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. This study will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
|
 |
|
Workforce Development |
HHS COVID-19 Policy Fellowship
The HHS COVID-19 Policy fellow will have the opportunity to conduct policy research and analysis, program evaluation, and public health systems research pertaining to federal efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to prepare for future pandemics and public health emergencies. They will participate in one or more of several ongoing COVID-19 projects, for example a mixed methods study to identify best practices in COVID-19 vaccination and testing, and also contribute to efforts to identify broader lessons learned in the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Deadline for application is May 30.
Laboratory Leadership Service
The Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS) program from CDC is a one-of-a-kind fellowship opportunity that bridges lab science and public health and delivers expert training in the competencies required to lead a public health laboratory or program. LLS fellows are selected from among highly qualified, eligible applicants drawn to public health service who are interested in practical application of laboratory methods to a wide range of contemporary public health problems.
Deadline for application is June 3.
|
|
 |
|
Knowledge Center |
|
|
|
Recommended Reading
In recognition of High Blood Pressure Education Month, the OMH Knowledge Center is featuring a small collection of recent articles related to hypertension in racial and ethnic minority populations. The collection covers topics such as hypertension screening programs in schools, remote blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy, and community outreach related to hypertension management.
These resources are all free to access and read through the online catalog.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
     
-
|
|
