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June 26, 2024 | View as a webpage
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June 27 is National HIV Testing Day
National HIV Testing Day is observed each year to highlight the importance of HIV testing. This year’s theme, Level up your self-love: check your status, emphasizes valuing yourself, showing yourself compassion and respect, and honoring your health needs with self-love. Knowing your HIV status helps you choose options to stay healthy.
Resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Let’s Stop HIV Together campaign are available in English and Spanish to help providers ensure every patient is tested for HIV, no matter their gender, sexual orientation, age, or ethnicity.
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Share Your Insights with OMH: Development of Public Health Vaccine and Prevention Educational Campaigns Involving Community Health Workers
OMH has recently released a Request for Information (RFI) looking for insights from community health workers (CHWs). 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 CHWs, recipients of CHW services, and organizations representing and/or communities using CHWs to guide the development of an educational campaign focused on increasing the cultural and linguistic competency efforts related to public health vaccines (e.g., influenza and COVID) and other prevention strategies.
Closing Date is July 11, 2024.
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Funding |
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Firearm Injury Prevention in Community Healthcare Settings
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance research that reduces firearm injury and disparities through the development and evaluation of firearm injury primary prevention interventions leveraging community healthcare settings.
Deadline is July 26.
Impact of Comorbidities and Co-Infections on HIV Reservoirs
Grant from NIH to foster new multi-disciplinary teams to address how HIV comorbidities and co-infections interact with viral reservoirs, potentially confounding cure strategies aimed at either sustained viral suppression or elimination from the body.
Deadline is July 30.
Interaction between Antiretroviral Drugs and Hormones in HIV and Coinfections
Grant from NIH to support research to identify and characterize the interaction between hormone therapy and antiretroviral drugs used for treatment and prevention of HIV and co-infections.
Deadline is July 30.
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Tailoring HIV Curative Strategies to the Participant
Cooperative agreement from NIH to support the development of clinical research platforms that will enable future clinical trials to determine whether combinations of HIV cure strategies can be effective when optimally tailored to the participants.
Deadline is July 30.
Strategies for Controlled Release of HIV Vaccines
Grant from NIH to support product-focused research to advance controlled release vaccine strategies to improve immune responses for HIV prevention, treatment, and cure and develop simplified or single-shot vaccination formulations.
Deadline is July 30.
STTARS Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Pass-through Funding
Grants from the Safety, Training, Technical Assistance and Resources Support (STTARS) Indigenous Safe Housing Center for Tribal domestic violence programs, shelters, and Tribal not-for-profit organizations addressing housing insecurity and homelessness for survivors of gender-based violence.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Centering Health Equity in an Era of Sustainability for Collective Futures
Webinar hosted by the Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Network.
June 27, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Behavioral Health Integration Webinar Series: Integrated Care and Same Day Access: Access to Behavioral Health Care
Webinar hosted by the Indian Health Service (IHS) TeleBehavioral Health Center of Excellence.
June 27, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Screening, Assessing, Documenting Suicidality and the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions Tool
Webinar hosted by the IHS TeleBehavioral Health Center of Excellence.
July 2, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
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White House Black Initiative Lunch & Learn: Supporting the Civil Rights of Students with Disabilities
Webinar hosted by the White House Initiative on Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans.
June 27, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Empowering Communities: The Role of Health Centers in Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Advancing Health Equity
Webinar hosted by the Capital Link.
June 27, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Taking HIV Care to the Streets: How Street Medicine Meets the Unsheltered Homeless Where They're At
Webinar hosted by the National Association of County & City Health Officials.
July 10, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
In recognition of Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month in June, National Institute on Aging (NIA) is raising awareness about Alzheimer's disease in the Latino community including Latinos living with dementia, their caregivers, and their families. Health care professionals can print or order free publications in English and Spanish. Visit NIA’s webpage for graphics and social media messaging to help spread the word about dementia resources.
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Report: Culture is Prevention
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) action plan for missing and murdered indigenous people, Culture is Prevention: A Strength Based, Culturally Grounded Journey Toward Prevention, Intervention, and Healing, sets out a multipronged approach to advance ACF’s work in preventing violence to Native people promoting healing from historical trauma. Importantly, it adopts responsive administrative processes such as equity, self-governance, and Indigenous knowledge, as well as identifying ways to leverage ACF’s grant funding, community engagement, and rulemaking authority.
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The Health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2022 Uniform Data System
This report from the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations examines current patient demographics and utilization of health services at health centers serving Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) and highlights the differences between these centers and the national average of all health centers in the United States.
The analyses presented throughout this report are intended to improve understanding of AA and NHPI patients served by health centers nationwide.
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Clinical Trials |
Reducing AIR Pollution Exposure to Lower Blood Pressure Among New York City Public Housing Residents
This study, sponsored by New York University Langone Health in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, is being conducted to provide evidence that indoor portable air cleaners reduce fine particulate matter exposure and lower systolic blood pressure in key patient populations. This study will take place in New York, New York.
Mitigating Racial Disparities in Shared Decision Making in the Intensive Care
This study, sponsored by Duke University in collaboration with NIH, will test the feasibility of an intervention to support intensive care unit clinicians in conducting shared decision-making conversations with families of patients with acute respiratory failure. This study will take place in Durham, North Carolina.
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Workforce Development |
Pacific Public Health Fellowship Program
The Pacific Public Health Fellowship Program is a two-year professional development program that provides individuals with practical hands-on learning experiences and training for a variety of public health career pathways. The program is specifically designed to prepare new college graduates and early career professionals to meet emerging and future public health challenges in the Pacific and to expose individuals to innovations in public health practice, health advocacy, leadership, and policy.
Deadline for application is June 30.
HHS Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program Research Fellowship
The Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program (PMHCA) promotes behavioral health integration into pediatric primary care using telehealth. Statewide or regional networks of pediatric mental health teams provide teleconsultation, training, technical assistance, and care coordination support services for pediatric primary care and other providers to recognize pediatric behavioral health conditions and to diagnose, treat and refer children with such conditions. Under the guidance of a mentor, the fellow will provide research, analytic, and evaluative support for the PMHCA Program.
Applications accepted on rolling basis.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
June 27th is HIV Testing Day, and the OMH Knowledge Center is sharing the resource HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in Black/African American Communities. This booklet from the University of California San Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies / Prevention Research Center provides summaries and contact information for recent and ongoing research studies related to HIV and AIDS prevention in Black/African American communities. Additional resources for information about HIV/AIDS are also included.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog here.
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