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| December 19, 2018 In This Issue:  | | - HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Training. National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) Learn 2019. The goal of NNEDLearn is to develop NNED members' skills in evidence-supported and culturally appropriate mental illness and substance use prevention and treatment practices and to support practice implementation.
March 31-April 3, 2019 in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.
Deadline for application is January 7, 2019. Apply.
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 | | - HHS recognizes January as Glaucoma Awareness Month. Visit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)'s National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP) to access toolkits, videos, social media messaging, and other outreach tools that can help you prepare to execute a successful awareness campaign. Learn more.
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Federal Grants - HHS/NIH: Grant. Leveraging Health Information Technology (IT) to Address Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). Supports research that examines how health IT adoption impacts minority health and health disparity populations in access to care, quality of care, patient engagement, and health outcomes.
Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is February 4, 2019. Learn more.
- US Department of Justice (DOJ)/Office on Violence Against Women (OVW): Grant. FY 2019 Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Program. Eligibility is limited to American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribal organizations and nonprofits other than institutions of higher education.
Deadline is February 7, 2019. Learn more.
- HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Grant. Rural Veterans Health Access Program. Provides funding to states to work with providers and other partners to improve access to health care services and the coordination of care for veterans living in rural areas.
Deadline is February 12, 2019. Learn more.
- HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Grant. Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (R01). Funds research in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), including child abuse and neglect, teen dating violence, sexual violence, youth violence, youth/parent suicidal behavior, and exposure to adult intimate partner violence.
Deadline is March 8, 2019. Learn more. Non-Federal Grants - William T. Grant Foundation: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality. Supports research studies on programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequality in academic, social, behavioral, and economic outcomes for young people ages 5-25.
Deadline is January 9, 2019. Learn more.
- Tufts Health Plan Foundation: Systems and Best Practices Grants. Supports the work of nonprofit organizations to influence, create, and improve healthy communities for older adults.
Deadline for LOI is January 23, 2019. Learn more.
- National Indian Health Board: Community Changemaker Grants. Provides small amounts of money that can help supercharge a youth-led health event. Eligibility is limited to AI/AN youth age 14-24 years old.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more. Scholarships / Fellowships - The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Princeton University's Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, and the American Institutes for Research: Fellowship. The American Voices Project. This paid fellowship will provide training in public policy, qualitative interviewing, and ethnographic/survey methods. Fellows will spend a year conducting in-person interviews with families across America to learn about their lives, relationships, jobs, health, and well-being.
Deadline is January 7, 2019. Learn more. Conferences - Native American Research and Training Center: Call for abstracts for the Convergence and Divergence in Native Health Research: The Confluence of Traditional and Contemporary Medicine conference. This is a three day conference for students, researchers, healthcare providers and others working in AI/AN health.
February 25-27, 2019 in Tucson, AZ.
Deadline for abstracts is December 28. Please submit to Josie Garcia. Other Events - Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA), in partnership with George Washington University and the NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Lecture. Connect, Learn, Innovate: Sickle Cell Disease. Join Beverley Francis-Gibson, SCDAA president, and NIH NHLBI for a conversation about sickle cell disease.
January 28, 2019, 5:30 pm ET in Washington, DC. Learn more.  | | - HHS/Food and Drug Administration (FDA): New factsheet. Women and Pain Medicines. This new factsheet, available in English and Spanish, provides information on the different types of pain medicines, how they affect women, and steps all women can take to protect themselves and their loved ones. Learn more.
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- The University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Behavioral study. Improving African American Glaucoma Patient Involvement in Visits and Outcomes. Researchers seek African American volunteers, age 18 or older, who have at least 20/400 vision in their better seeing eye and report being less than 80% adherent to their glaucoma medication. Study to be conducted at UNC in Chapel Hill, NC. Learn more.
- HHS/NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Treatment (Clinical Trial) study. Safety and Immunogenicity Study of an Influenza Vaccination Strategy Including an H3N2 M2SR Prime Followed by a Seasonal Quadrivalent Inactivated Vaccine Boost in a Pediatric Population 9-17 Years Old. NIH researchers seek healthy volunteers age 9-17 years old. Parent(s)/legal guardian(s) must provide written informed consent prior to initiation of any study procedures, and subject must provide assent. Study to be conducted at the St. Louis University's Center for Vaccine Development in St. Louis, MO. Learn more.
Workforce Development
 | | - Massachusetts General Hospital/Disparities Solutions Center: 2019-2020 Disparities Leadership Program (DLP). The DLP is a year-long, hands-on executive education program focused on helping health care leaders translate the latest understanding of health disparities into realistic solutions they can adopt within their organizations.
Deadline is February 8, 2019. Apply. |
Evidence-Based Management of Sickle Cell Disease: Expert Panel Report, 2014 provides primary care clinicians with guidance for caring for patients with sickle cell disease. The report includes numerous recommendations for such health issues as health maintenance and managing complications, along with methodologies used to determine them.
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