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December 11, 2024 | View as a webpage
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Open Enrollment is here
The Marketplace is now open! It’s time to shop and select a health plan for 2025 coverage. Enroll by January 15 to have coverage that starts on February 1. All HealthCare.gov plans cover ten essential health benefits, including wellness visits, preventive services, and more, at no cost. Enroll today and #GetCovered by affordable, quality health insurance!
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New OMH Blog on Addressing Syphilis in AI/AN Communities
Syphilis is a serious but preventable sexually transmitted infection that can cause chronic health issues or even death if left untreated. Syphilis is an urgent area of concern within American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities due to the alarming rise in syphilis cases.
The latest post on the OMH Blog for Health Equity by Alessandro Gravina looks at some of the ways the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) is working to eliminate health disparities among AI/AN communities by identifying cultural and linguistic factors that influence the healthcare experiences and health outcomes of AI/AN populations.
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Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging, Including Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop or renew a Research and Development Center to advance aging research in demography, economics, and related interdisciplinary population-based social science areas, including those with a focus on Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias.
Deadline is January 10, 2025.
Advancing Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Chronic Disease in the U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States
Cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support integrated, evidence-based strategies and activities to prevent and manage chronic disease in the U.S. territories and freely associated states.
Deadline is January 15, 2025.
Organizational Grants
Grant from the Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation for non-profit organizations with a demonstrated commitment to communities that have been historically marginalized or made vulnerable with a focus on quality health care services for the un- and underinsured and behavioral health services when not available.
Letters of intent due January 15, 2025.
Deadline for accepted proposals is March 1, 2025.
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Rural Development Research and/or Extension Projects in the North Central Region
Grant from the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development aimed at enhancing the ability of Land Grant institutions to positively influence the quality of life in rural areas of the twelve states in the North Central Region with a focus on promoting community health and wellness, creating resilient communities and economies, and developing leadership and civic engagement.
Deadline is January 15, 2025.
Barriers and Solutions to Building Community Partnerships in Deploying Remote Assessments
Challenge grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to inspire the creation of actionable steps for creating and sustaining bidirectional researcher-community partnerships that will reduce barriers and mistrust between academic, clinical, and research-conducting institutions and communities to increase recruitment and retention of participants in remote, including virtual, clinical research studies.
Deadline is January 15, 2025.
Good Food Access Program Equipment and Physical Improvement Grant
Grant from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture for projects that increase the availability of and access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods (including fruits and vegetables) for underserved communities in low- and moderate-income areas. Grants help grocery stores and small food retailers make physical improvements and purchase equipment to stimulate sales of such foods.
Deadline is January 16, 2025.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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2024 CMS Conference on Optimizing Healthcare Delivery to Improve Patient Lives
Virtual conference hosted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
December 12, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Patient-Focused Drug Development: Workshop to Discuss Methodologic and Other Challenges Related to Patient Experience Data
Virtual workshop hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
December 13, at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Mind Your BEAT: A Community-based Physical Activity Intervention for Rural Cancer Survivors
Webinar hosted by the National Cancer Institute.
December 17, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Long-Acting Injectable PrEP for LGBTQIA+ Communities: Implementation in Health Centers
Webinar hosted by the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center.
December 12, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Interface Between Sleep and Pain: Symptomatology, Pathobiology and Treatment Response
Webinar hosted by the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term® (HEAL) Initiative.
December 16–17, at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Improving Depression Care for LGBTQIA+ Older Adults at Health Centers
Webinar hosted by the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center.
December 19, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Accountable Health Communities Model Evaluation
The third evaluation report from CMS on the Accountable Health Communities Model found that the model significantly affected expenditures and hospital use, and health care impacts were more pronounced for beneficiaries in underserved racial or ethnic populations and beneficiaries with diabetes and mental health conditions.
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Access to Health Care in Rural America: Current Trends and Key Challenges
This research report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation describes patterns in insurance coverage and uninsurance rates in rural and urban areas, reviews non-financial challenges in accessing care faced by many rural residents and describes disparities in health outcomes between urban and rural areas. It discusses policies, programs, and resources designed to address barriers to care in rural America and the important role that federal and state health care coverage programs like Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Marketplace, and Medicare play in providing health insurance coverage for rural residents.
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Overdose Crisis Community Decision Tool
The Overdose Crisis Community Decision Tool from the NIH HEAL Initiative® is a free web-based tool that assists community decision-makers and leaders in selecting proven strategies to reduce opioid overdose deaths. The tool provides a customized list of evidence-based strategies to reduce opioid overdose deaths matched to your community’s goals, needs, and current resources available, practical guidance and resources for getting started, and real-world examples of how communities put overdose reduction strategies into practice.
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Clinical Trials |
Improving Screening and Therapy for Hispanic/Latinx at Risk for Chronic Kidney Disease
This study, sponsored by Duke University in collaboration with the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, will utilize community organizations to screen Hispanics/Latino(a)s for kidney disease, diabetes, and other risk factors, and refer them for care with a primary care physician (PCP). Additionally, the investigators will implement an intervention in local health clinics to assist PCPs with screening and treating patients with diabetes This study will take place in Durham, North Carolina.
Mobile Technologies Extending Reach of Primary Care for Substance Use Disorders
This study, sponsored by Chess Mobile Health in collaboration with NIDA, will evaluate efficacy of the enhanced version of the CHESS Health eIntervention in a clinical setting for those with moderate risk drug or alcohol use and those at high risk or with substance use disorder as measured by the ASSIST and the AUDIT assessment tools. This study will take place in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Workforce Development |
mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) Scholars
This hybrid institute from the mHealth Center for Discovery, Optimization & Translation of Temporally Precise Interventions will host 25 health, behavioral, social, and other science scholars. Through a week-long workshop, the mHTI helps the selected scholars develop a shared vocabulary and conceptual framework, acquire core domain expertise in latest mHealth technologies and methodologies, and get practical experience in cross-disciplinary mHealth innovation.
Application due by January 2, 2025.
Emergency Preparedness and Access to Care for LGBTQIA+ Communities Learning Collaborative
The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center will host a four-part learning collaborative focused on climate-smart healthcare in health centers to meet the needs of diverse LGBTQIA+ communities. Participants will hear from emergency management experts, who will provide insights into how health centers can develop inclusive and affirming emergency preparedness plans.
January 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
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Recommended Reading
As the year draws to a close, the open enrollment period begins, and so the OMH Knowledge Center is sharing the resource Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2023. This report, published by the U.S. Census Bureau, uses data from the current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) to provide statistics on health insurance coverage in the United States for 2023 and to analyze changes in coverage rates between 2022 and 2023.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog here.
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