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July is Fibroid Awareness Month
Fibroid Awareness Month aims to bring awareness to this common health condition impacting millions of women. The Food and Drug Administration Office of Women’s Health provides a fact sheet on uterine fibroids in multiple languages explaining what fibroids are, their symptoms, and other important information.
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Funding |
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Scaling Equitable and Effective Solutions
Grant from the AARP Foundation to support programs and projects that will materially improve the circumstances of people age 50 and over with incomes at or below 250% of the poverty line.
Deadline for pre-application is August 14, by 5:00 p.m. ET.
HEAL Initiative: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis by supporting the development of therapies and technologies directed at enhanced pain management through the Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Deadline is September 4.
Implementing and Sustaining Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices in Low-Resource Settings to Achieve Equity in Outcomes
Challenge grant from NIH supports pilot work for subsequent studies testing the effectiveness of strategies to deliver evidence-based mental health services, treatment interventions, and/or preventive interventions in low-resource mental health specialty and non-specialty settings within the United States.
Deadline is September 7.
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2024 "$100,000 Start an SUD Startup" Challenge
Challenge grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support research ideas in the areas of drug use, misuse, and substance use disorder (SUD) that are intended to be the foundation for developing successful new startups.
Deadline is September 3, by 6:00 p.m. ET.
Addressing Health Inequities in Clinical Diagnostics
Grant from NIH for Small Business Concerns to pursue the development of improved clinical diagnostics or the development of alternative clinical diagnostics that address health disparities created by clinical laboratory assays and/or point-of-care devices that fail to incorporate diverse patient groups.
Deadline is September 5.
Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery
Grant from NIH to support research projects that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in human health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing.
Deadline is September 7.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Gender-Affirmative Care and HIV Care: Transcending Barriers, Transforming Outcomes for Transgender People Living With HIV
Webinar hosted by Clinical Care Options.
August 6, at 12:30 p.m. ET.
Assessment of Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Strategies for Addressing Stigma in Rural Areas
Webinar hosted by the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program.
August 6, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
The Role of Medical Scrubs in Infection Prevention
Webinar hosted by the National Indian Health Board.
August 7, at 4:00 p.m. ET.
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Whole Person Care: Interdisciplinary Medical and Oral Health
Webinar hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
August 6, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Meeting the Health Care Needs of an Aging Population
Webinar hosted by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation.
August 7, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Transforming Mental Health Disability Research Through Lived Experience Leadership and Co-Production
Webinar hosted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
August 8, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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Resources |
Building Strong Foundations: Children's Mental Health Infographic
Child and adolescent mental health has significantly deteriorated in recent years, resulting in U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, issuing two advisories on youth mental health. This infographic from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation examines the state of children's mental health across the United States, as well as strategies and solutions to promote adolescent mental health and well-being.
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Analysis: Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity
This analysis from KFF examines how racial and ethnic minorities fare compared to white people across 64 measures of health, health care, and social determinants of health using the most recent data available from federal surveys and administrative sets as well as the 2023 KFF Survey on Racism, Discrimination, and Health.
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Brief: Leveraging Medicaid to Support Community Health Workers
Community health workers (CHWs) are pivotal in advancing health equity and improving population health, especially for marginalized communities. This brief, developed by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the Center for Health Care Strategies, explores Medicaid coverage for CHW-led services and highlights opportunities for state and territorial health agencies to collaborate with Medicaid to support CHWs.
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Clinical Trials |
Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health
This study, sponsored by the University of Washington in collaboration with NIDA, will conduct a two-group randomized waitlist-control trial to assess the efficacy of the Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health program on improving physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviors, and improving healthful eating habits as well as delaying or reducing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. This study will take place in Seattle, Washington.
Southwest Hub for American Indian Youth Suicide Prevention Research
This study, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in collaboration with NIMH, will identify effective, feasible, and sustainable interventions to prevent suicide and promote resilience among American Indian youth. This study will take place in Whiteriver, Arizona.
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Workforce Development |
Call for Applications: Integration of Behavioral and Oral Health Learning Collaborative
The National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA) is seeking interested health centers to participate in a virtual Learning Collaborative on Integrating Behavioral Health and Oral Health (IBOH) funded through NNOHA’s cooperative agreement with HRSA. The goal of the IBOH Learning Collaborative is to improve the overall health of patients by utilizing the User’s Guide for Implementation of Interprofessional Oral Health Core Clinical Competencies and User's Guide for Implementation of Behavioral and Oral Health as a framework for implementing behavioral health screenings such as the PHQ-9 or PHQ-2 in the dental clinic.
Deadline for application is August 5.
Essentials for Supporting Health Departments and Other Governmental Public Health Agencies
This training from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will enhance public health professionals' ability to understand, serve, and support state, tribal, local, territorial, and freely associated state health departments or their tribal equivalents. The curriculum covers the structures and functions of these agencies, including accreditation, legal powers, and funding. It also provides strategies to strengthen communication and partnerships with health departments.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
As National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, the OMH Knowledge Center is featuring a small collection of recent articles highlighting how social determinants of health can intersect with mental health. The collection covers topics such as exposure to community violence, food insecurity, Black maternal mental health, and more.
These resources are all free to access and read through the online catalog.
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