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January 15, 2025 | View as a webpage
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OMH Announces 2025 Theme: Advancing Commitments to Eliminate Health Disparities
Since 1986, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) has provided resources and information to support the success, sustainability, and sharing of health-disparity-reducing policies, programs, and practices. OMH is pleased to announce its theme for calendar year 2025: Advancing Commitments to Eliminate Health Disparities.
OMH encourages public, community, and nonprofit private organizations to adopt this theme in 2025 as part of communication efforts to advance their commitments to eliminate health disparities. Throughout 2025, OMH will use this theme for its national observances focused on racial and ethnic minority populations and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities.
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Last Chance: Open Enrollment Ends Today
Today is the final deadline to enroll in an affordable healthcare plan that covers primary care, prescriptions, and more! Most customers can find a plan for $10 or less per month. Enroll today at HealthCare.gov for coverage starting on February 1.
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Funding
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AIDS Education and Training Center National Clinician Consultation Center
Cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide rapid, expert, and culturally competent clinical consultation and advice to health care team members on a wide range of HIV and HIV-related topics.
Deadline is February 10.
Schizophrenia and Related Disorders During Mid- to Late-Life
Grant from the NIH to advance translational research to better understand the emergence and trajectory of schizophrenia and related disorders in mid to late life, and to identity targets for future development of prevention and treatment efforts.
Deadline is February 16.
New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans
Grant from the NIH to support highly novel new approaches, or innovative applications of existing approaches to measure brain activity, connectivity, genomics, or other aspects across the age spectrum of neurodevelopment.
Deadline is February 16.
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Pilot Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials for Mental Health Interventions
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pilot effectiveness studies focused on optimizing the effectiveness of preventive and therapeutic interventions with previously demonstrated efficacy, for use with broader target populations or in community practice settings, and developing and preliminary testing innovative services interventions.
Deadline is February 14.
Advancing Learning Health Care Research in Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Settings
Grant from the NIH to pilot effectiveness, implementation, data science, and services research studies that will advance data-driven learning health care in behavioral health treatment settings, leading to better knowledge and tools for implementing, sustaining, and optimizing evidence-based, high quality, and equitable mental health services in community settings.
Deadline is February 16.
AHRQ Small Health Services Research Grant Program
Grant from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) for health services research focused on AHRQ research priorities, including improving healthcare quality and patient safety, improving healthcare delivery and practice improvement, and enhancing whole-person healthcare delivery.
Deadline is February 16.
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Webinars and Other Events
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The Opioid “Addiction” Crisis: Persistent Policies and Practices Perpetuating Inequitable Care
Webinar hosted by the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center.
January 16, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
The Role of Health Centers in Reducing the Burden of Radon-Induced Lung Cancer
Webinar series hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium.
January 21 and 28, at 3:00 p.m. ET.
Congenital Syphilis Learning Series
Webinar series hosted by Health Outreach Partners.
January 22 and 29, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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Tools for Automated Video Analysis of Physical Activity and Response to Treatment for Improved Cancer Health
Webinar hosted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
January 21, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
From Stigma to Support: Equipping Communities with Harm Reduction Strategies to Prevent HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections
Webinar hosted by the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center.
January 22, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Honoring Traditions and Uplifting Strengths to Promote Brain Health: The HBI Road Map for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples
Webinar hosted by the Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI).
January 22, at 2:30 p.m. ET.
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Resources
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture provide advice on what to eat and drink to meet nutrient needs, promote health, and help prevent chronic disease. This edition of the Dietary Guidelines is the first to provide guidance for healthy dietary patterns by life stage, from birth through older adulthood, and includes guidance for women who are pregnant or lactating.
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Advising People on Using 988 Versus 911: Practical Approaches for Healthcare Providers
This Practical Guide from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides key considerations for guiding people in the appropriate use of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and 911 emergency numbers. It offers practical steps for integrating crisis care into daily practice, real world scenarios, sample scripts, and de-escalation techniques.
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Research Report: Estimating the Effects of the Medicare $2 Drug List on Part D Enrollees
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center is in the process of developing the Medicare $2 Drug List (M2DL) Model. In this report, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) uses the sample $2 drug list from CMS to present results from simulating the M2DL Model across all Part D plans that would be eligible to participate in the M2DL Model.
The M2DL Model would allow Part D plan sponsors to offer a standardized list of generic drugs for a copayment of $2 or less for a month’s supply that would not be subject to prior authorization, quantity limits, or other utilization management restrictions. The report illustrates how overall enrollee cost sharing would change under this model.
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Clinical Trials
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A Smoke-Free Home Intervention in Tribal Communities
This study, sponsored by Emory University in collaboration with the NCI, evaluates a smoke-free home intervention for reducing exposure to secondhand smoke from commercial tobacco in homes of participants who live in rural tribal communities. This study will take place in Atlanta, Georgia.
Integrating Telehealth to Advance Lung Cancer Screening
This study, sponsored by the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine in collaboration with the NCI, will evaluate if telehealth strategies can increase shared decision-making for lung cancer screening. This study will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Workforce Development
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Strategies to Support School-Based Health & Youth Behavioral Health
This interactive eight-session Community of Practice (CoP) from the Bureau of Primary Health Care will provide school-based health center staff with resources and approaches that can be used in school settings to build safe and affirming environments. Participants will learn to provide mental health support, train staff, promote wellness, reduce stigma, enhance collaboration with community organizations, promote positive peer relationships, and more. Behavioral health professionals may earn one continuing education credit for attending each CoP session.
Treating PTSD in the Context of Suicidality Enduring
This asynchronous, knowledge-based training from the Veterans Health Administration Institute for Learning, Education and Development is intended for interprofessional healthcare teams. It will review the evidence on how suicidality is affected by trauma-focused treatments and discuss when to provide trauma-focused treatments in the context of suicidality, and how to successfully manage both.
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