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August 28, 2024 | View as a webpage
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August 26–30 is National Community Health Worker Awareness Week (NCHWAW)
The National Association of Community Health Workers created and coordinated NCHWAW to encourage community health workers (CHWs) and allies across the United States to celebrate, commemorate, and collaborate with each other and to raise awareness of the diversity of the CHW profession, workforce, and movement. Use their social media toolkit in English and Spanish to spread awareness in your community about the role and importance of CHWs.
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Be the #SourceForBetterHealth for Hispanic/Latino Communities X Chat
On Wednesday September 18, 2024, 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET, in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) invites you to join a bilingual X chat to discuss how social determinants of health (SDOH) impact the well-being of Hispanic/Latino communities and the efforts of our partners advancing health equity for Hispanics/Latinos.
Follow @MinorityHealth to follow the chat in English and @OMH_Espanol to follow the chat in Spanish and join us on September 18. Use the hashtag #SourceForBetterHealth to engage with our partners and answer questions about Hispanic/Latino health.
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Funding |
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Pilot Research Opportunities in Crisis Response Services for Suicide Prevention
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support research examining the impact of state and local policy on the introduction, implementation, and outcomes of crisis response services.
Deadline is October 1.
Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health
Grant from the NIH for innovative research projects to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of digital mental health interventions.
Deadline is October 5.
Interventions to Reduce Sleep Health Disparities
Grant from the NIH to support non-pharmacological interventions to promote sleep health, reduce sleep health disparities, and examine sleep as a modifiable factor to reduce health disparities for other health outcomes among populations that experience health disparities.
Deadline is October 5.
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Innovative Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials
Grant from the NIH to encourage innovative research that will inform and support the delivery of high-quality, continuously improving mental health services to benefit the greatest number of individuals with, or at risk for developing, a mental illness.
Deadline is October 5.
Improving Care and Outcomes for Cancer Survivors from Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
Grant from the NIH to support the rigorous assessment of barriers to quality cancer treatment and follow-up care for sexual and gender minority cancer survivors.
Deadline is October 5.
Epidemiologic Research on Emerging Risk Factors and Liver Cancer Susceptibility
Grant from the NIH to promote research investigating novel and innovative hypotheses on emerging risk factors (biological, environmental, and social) and their interplay with established risk factors (e.g., viral hepatitis) associated with the development of liver cancer in the United States.
Deadline is October 5.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Nurse-Family Partnership: A Community-Based Intervention for At-Risk Mothers, Children, and Families
Webinar hosted by the Texas A&M Health Center of Excellence in Forensic Nursing.
August 29, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
How to Fight El Asesino Silencioso (The Silent Killer)
Webinar hosted by University of Texas Health San Antonio.
September 10, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force
Town hall hosted by the Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force.
September 10, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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Addressing Health-Related Social Needs at Scale in Medicaid: The Past, Present, and Future of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots
Webinar hosted by the Duke University Margolis Institute for Health Policy.
August 29, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Postvention: Supporting Survivors of Suicide Loss
Webinar hosted by Indian Health Service TeleBehavioral Health Center of Excellence.
September 10, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
One Big Doable Thing! Elevating Comprehensive Developmental Promotion and Preventive Services with the Family-Engaged Well Visit Planner Approach
Webinar hosted by Zero to Three.
September 10, at 1:30 p.m. ET.
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Resources |
Community Health Workers: Improving Linkage and Retention in HIV Care
Ten organizations across the United States integrated community health workers (CHWs) into their multidisciplinary care teams, through Improving Access to Care: Using Community Health Workers to Improve Linkage and Retention in HIV Care, a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program initiative from 2016 to 2019. Clients who enrolled in this CHW intervention had statistically significant improvements in viral suppression, antiretroviral therapy (ART) prescription, and appointment attendance after six months in the program.
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Health Care Provider LGBTQI+ Welcoming Toolkit
The National LGBTQI+ Cancer Network provides technical assistance to National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated cancer centers that are adding or enhancing their sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual characteristics data collection efforts. The toolkit provides lessons and case studies that health care providers can use in their own practice.
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Observance: August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day
International Overdose Awareness Day is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember those have lost their lives to drug overdose, acknowledge the grief of communities impacted, and renew our commitment to end overdose and related harms.
The 2024 theme, Together We Can highlights the strength of coming together and standing in support of those connected to the tragedy of overdose. Share posts on social media encouraging others in your community to take part in the observance using the hashtags #TogetherWeCan #IOAD2024.
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Clinical Trials |
Implementing a Digitally Enabled Community Health Worker Intervention for Patients With Heart Failure
This study, sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, will assess the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of implementing a 30-day digitally-enabled CHW intervention compared to usual care with a CHW in reducing heart failure 30-day readmissions within a pilot randomized controlled trial. This study will take place in Boston, Massachusetts.
A CHW Intervention to Identify and Decrease Barriers to COVID 19 Testing and Vaccination
This study, sponsored by Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine, will compare the results of a COVID-19 specific curriculum led by CHWs from the same communities of safety-net patients to effectively increase COVID-19 testing and vaccination for individual patients and facilitate needed healthcare in a timely manner for the safety net health system. This study will take place in Los Angeles, California.
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Workforce Development |
Cancer Screening, Casual Inference, Risk Prediction, and Health Disparities Postdoctoral Fellowship
The fellowship from the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology includes the opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary team in the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. Possible research during the fellowship includes developing new individualized prediction models for cancer screening, quantifying socioeconomic and racial/ethnic/gender disparities in cancer risk and screening, and more.
Emergency Preparedness for Community Health Workers
This series from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is designed to prepare community health workers to take an active role in disaster response and recovery in their communities.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
This week, in recognition of National Community Health Worker Awareness Week, the OMH Knowledge Center is highlighting Engaging Community Health Workers/Youth Ambassadors to Improve Health Literacy: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. This document from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine summarizes the proceedings of a workshop held in April 2023 by the National Academies Roundtable on Health Literacy, in collaboration with OMH. The workshop featured presentations by OMH grantees focusing on the use of community health workers and youth ambassadors to promote health literacy in underserved communities.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog here.
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