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December 24, 2024 | View as a webpage
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New Think Cultural Health Newsletter
The Think Cultural Health (TCH) newsletter raises awareness of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) in health and health care. The December 2024 newsletter highlights the 25th anniversary of National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care, the updated Health Equity Timeline, the new Disaster Program, and Native American Heritage Month. The Community Spotlight features the BIPoC Paramedics of Portland.
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'Tis The Season to Enroll in 2025 Health Coverage
Give yourself the gift of health care coverage by enrolling in a HealthCare.gov plan, which includes essential benefits like preventive services and prescriptions. 4 out of 5 customers can continue to find a plan for $10 or less a month. #GetCovered today and get back to your holiday celebrations. Enroll by January 15 to have coverage that starts on February 1.
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Funding |
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Leading Equity and Diversity in the Medical Scientist Training Program
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a diverse pool of clinician-scientist leaders available to meet the nation’s biomedical research needs by providing support for dual-degree clinician scientist training at institutions that have historically not been well represented among National Institute of General Medical Sciences-funded medical scientist training programs.
Deadline is January 27, 2025.
Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TURTLE) Program
Cooperative agreement from the NIH to fund federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribal entities to identify and develop a pool of scientists to conduct research on AI/AN health and health disparities.
Deadline is January 27, 2025.
Environmental Health Disparities Centers
Grant from the NIH to support multidisciplinary research, research capacity building, and community-engaged research activities on environmental health disparities and environmental justice research for populations and communities experiencing health disparities within the United States and its territories.
Deadline is January 29, 2025.
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Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science, and Practice
Grant from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to strengthen and expand the maternal and child health (MCH) workforce by training graduate and post-graduate public health students in MCH and to advance MCH science, research, practice, and policy through a well-trained MCH public health workforce.
Deadline is January 27, 2025.
HEAL Initiative: Studies to Enable Analgesic Discovery
Grant from the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative® to support the development of safe, effective, and non-addictive therapeutics to treat pain.
Deadline is January 28, 2025.
Rural Veterans Health Access Program
Grant from the HRSA provides funding to states to work with providers and other key partners to support health care for veterans living in rural areas.
Deadline is February 5, 2025.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Cultural Responsiveness Learning Collaborative: Moving from Good Intentions to Actionable Outcomes
Webinar hosted by the Great Lakes Region Addiction Technology Transfer Center.
January 8, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Newer PrEP Options: The Future of HIV Prevention
Webinar hosted by the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center.
January 9, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Precision Integrative Medicine for Cancer Survivors
Webinar hosted by National Cancer Institute.
January 14 at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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2025 Health Insurance Marketplace Open Enrollment Period Partner Webinars
Webinar hosted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
January 8, at 3:00 p.m. ET.
Value of Needs Assessments for Tribal Communities: Using Our Own Data for Sustainability
Webinar hosted by Indian Health Service TeleBehavioral Health Center of Excellence.
January 13, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Transforming Operations: Streamlining Processes for Better Patient Engagement
Webinar hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium.
January 14, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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Resources |
1-833-TLC-MAMA Hotline Partner Toolkit
The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline Partner Toolkit from HRSA is a one-stop shop for social media and print materials to promote awareness and use of the Hotline. This content can help health care professionals and providers promote the Hotline to patients through various platforms such as newsletters, social media, workshops, and direct client services.
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Knowledge Dissemination Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Agencies Through Communities of Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation released a report summarizing lessons learned from using communities of practice (CoPs) to support state, Tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) public health agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report draws on findings from an environmental scan and in-depth interviews to understand the types of CoPs that supported STLT public health agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, the characteristics of CoPs that were most helpful to STLT public health agencies, and the ways CoPs assisted public health agencies with translating federal guidance into practice.
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2024 National HIV/AIDS Strategy Progress Report
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy has published the 2024 National HIV/AIDS Strategy Progress Report, providing highlights of recent federal efforts to implement the Strategy, the latest data on the Strategy’s indicators of progress, and reflections on areas that require further attention and effort to achieve national HIV goals.
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Clinical Trials |
Interactive Computer-adaptive Chronic Kidney Disease Education Program
This study, sponsored by the University of Chicago in collaboration with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, will evaluate a culturally tailored computerized education program in hospitalized African American patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). It will evaluate whether computerized-adaptive education (CAE) increase patients' knowledge about CKD self-care and renal replacement therapy (RRT) options compared to usual care (UC). It will evaluate if CAE increase patients' intent to participate in CKD self-care and RRT preparation compared to UC. This study will take place in Chicago, Illinois.
Developing Tools for Dialysis Decision Support
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, this study will evaluate the impact of a web-based dialysis decision support tool on decisional conflict, values-treatment concordance, and other decisional outcomes in individuals with advanced chronic kidney disease. The study will assess the tool's acceptability and usability. This study will take place in Palo Alto, California.
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Workforce Development |
West Virginia Health Sciences Loan Repayment Service Program
The Health Sciences Service Program is a loan repayment program for health profession students interested in practicing in underserved communities in West Virginia. The program makes approximately 15 awards each academic year to students enrolled in West Virginia healthcare education degree programs. Funds are provided to participants once they begin practicing and provide documentation regarding their educational loan balance.
Deadline for Application is January 15, 2025.
National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship Program
This one-year residency program hosted by the National Library of Medicine is for early and second career librarians within five years of graduation interested in advancing equitable and innovative futures for biomedical libraries. The remote fellowship combines curriculum and project work, providing knowledge and skills in user engagement, preservation of biomedical information, coordination of health data standards, and more.
Deadline for application is January 24, 2025.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
This week the OMH Knowledge Center is sharing the bibliography Kidney Health Disparities in Racial and Ethnic Minorities: 2024 Reading List. This brief bibliography developed by the OMH Knowledge Center contains resources focused on kidney health, kidney disease, and kidney transplants in racial and ethnic minority populations. The reading list contains fact sheets and health materials for consumers, reports and other documents for health care providers and other professionals, as well as journal articles.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog.
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