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December 2–6 is National Influenza Vaccination Week
National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) is a critical opportunity to remind everyone 6 months and older that there's still time to protect themselves and their loved ones from flu this flu season by getting their annual flu vaccine if they have not already. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows that flu vaccination coverage was lower last season, especially among certain higher risk groups, including children. When you get a flu vaccine, you reduce your risk of illness, and flu-related hospitalization if you do get sick.
This week is meant to remind people that there is still time to benefit from the first and most important action in preventing flu illness and potentially serious flu complications: get a flu vaccine today. Check out CDC's NIVW toolkit for more shareable resources and content.
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Funding |
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Ribbon of Hope Grants
Grant from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation for projects furthering science, health, and education in their local communities. It offers organizations an opportunity to develop a new initiative or to grow and expand an existing program.
Deadline is January 1, 2025.
State-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to Accelerate Implementation of Actionable Knowledge into Practice
Cooperative agreement from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to establish and support State-Based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to conduct an initiative that is based on patient-centered outcomes research evidence to improve care for medically underserved people. The initiative's focus must be on behavioral healthcare.
Deadline is January 7, 2025.
Rural Hospital Support Grant for Hospital Stabilization or Graduate Medical Education
Grant from the Georgia Department of Community Health to help expand access to healthcare, support recruitment and retention initiatives, and reduce existing debt or support expansion initiatives for currently accredited graduate medical education programs.
Deadline is January 8, 2025.
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Partnership for National Maternal and Child Health Leadership
Cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support national organizations in building the capacity of state maternal and child health (MCH) programs, urban MCH programs, Healthy Start programs, and maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs to achieve the long-term goal of improving national MCH health outcomes and reducing associated disparities by better serving specific populations.
Deadline is January 3, 2025.
Empowering Tobacco Prevention Efforts in Tribal Communities
Grant from the California Department of Public Health to fund federally recognized California tribal governments to address tobacco-related disparities affecting the American Indian population.
Deadline is January 8, 2025.
Farm to School Implementation Grant
Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve access to local foods in eligible Child Nutrition Program sites through comprehensive farm to school programming that includes both local sourcing and agricultural education efforts.
Deadline is January 10, 2025.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Optimizing Nurse Practitioners for Health Equity: Increasing Access to Primary Care and Enhancing Hypertension Control
Webinar series hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium.
December 5, 12, and 19, at 3:00 p.m. ET.
Advancing Health Equity: Building a Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in a Healthcare Setting
Webinar hosted by Health Center Excellence Academy.
December 10, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Reducing the Rx Burden: Pathways to Lower Drug Prices and Increase Access
Webinar hosted by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation.
December 11, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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NIMHD Director’s Seminar: Ending Unequal Treatment
Part of webinar series hosted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
December 5, at 3:30 p.m. ET.
FDA Clinical Investigator Training Course
Webinar hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
December 10–12, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Overview of Integrated Care Models, Structures, and Processes
Webinar hosted by HRSA.
December 11, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Continuing Education credits available.
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Resources |
Rural-Urban Disparities in Health Care in Medicare
This report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services describes rural-urban differences in health care experiences and clinical care received nationally in 2024. The report includes three sections: rural-urban differences in health care experiences and clinical care, how rural-urban differences in health care experiences and clinical care vary by race and ethnicity, and historical trends in quality of care for rural and urban residents.
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Tribal Prenatal-to-Three Policy Agenda
The National Indian Health Board developed the Tribal Prenatal-to-Three Policy Agenda to raise awareness regarding the most impactful and culturally appropriate policy levers and strategies to support American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) health and wellbeing in the earliest years of life, from the prenatal period through age 3.
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Telehealth for AI/AN communities
The HRSA Best Practice Guides at Telehealth.HHS.gov help practitioners, administrators, and hospitalists learn how others are using telehealth to connect with patients and get recommendations on billing, strategy, and more.
The guide Telehealth for American Indian and Alaska Native communities highlights the needs and procedures for a telehealth program geared toward AI/AN populations.
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Clinical Trials |
I-CARE 2: Mobile Telehealth to Reduce Alzheimer’s-related Symptoms in Hispanic Individuals
This study, sponsored by Indiana University in collaboration with National Institute on Aging, will evaluate usability and acceptability, and met and unmet needs from a caregiver intervention app, Brain CareNotes, among unpaid Hispanic caregivers of patients with dementia. This study will take place in Bloomington, Indiana.
Mixed-Methods Study of Multidimensional Adversity in Inner-City African American Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
This study, sponsored by the Medical College of Wisconsin in collaboration with NIMHD, aims to understand facilitators and barriers to self-care, develop and refine a culturally tailored intervention to improve clinical outcomes, quality of life, and self-care behaviors in African American adults with diabetic kidney disease experiencing multidimensional adversity and living in the inner-city. This study will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Workforce Development |
Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship
The CDC Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness PE Fellowship is a two-year, post-doctoral, applied training fellowship. It addresses public health demand for quantitative policy analysis, health economics-based inquiry, integrative health services research, and rigorous decision modeling.
Applications due by January 3, 2025.
Infodemiology Training Program
Two training programs from The Public Good Projects to help health care providers and public health professionals gain a foundational understanding of what infodemiology is, types of misinformation, and the tactics used to spread false claims online, learn how and why false health narratives spread, and learn practical tools and techniques to respond to the false health information shared by patients.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
In recognition of National Influenza Vaccination Week, the OMH Knowledge Center is featuring a small collection of recently published articles about influenza and the influenza vaccine. The collection explores the causes of vaccine hesitancy, vaccine uptake in diverse populations, and health disparities in historical influenza pandemics.
These resources are all free to access and read through the online catalog.
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