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| March 6, 2019 In This Issue:  | | - The HHS/Office on Women's Health (OWH) recognizes March 10 as National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. This year's theme is "HIV Prevention Starts With Me." For further information and resources, please visit OWH and HIV.gov. Use hashtag #NWGHAAD in your social media posts to raise awareness.
To find local HIV testing sites and other health services, use the HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator or the CDC's GetTested tool.
|  | | - HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) recognizes March as National Kidney Month.
Visit the NIDDK website for more resources to help start the conversation about kidney health, downloadable graphics, a printable flyer and more. Learn more.
| OMH Grants - HHS/Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH): Grant. OMH Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant Program. OMH seeks to develop model comprehensive hepatitis B programs that include strategic partnerships between: community-based organizations servicing communities-at-risk; departments of health; perinatal hepatitis B programs; safety net providers; research centers; and healthcare facilities.
Deadline is April 13. Learn more. Federal Grants - HHS/NIH: All of Us Research Program grants. Research Program Engagement and
Retention Innovators (OT2) and Research Program Communications
and Marketing Partners (OT2). Respective awardees will work with All of Us as the program seeks to create one of the most comprehensive and diverse biomedical data resources of its kind by recruiting and retaining one million or more participants.
Deadline is March 29. Engagement and Retention | Communications and Marketing.
- HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Grant. Minority Aids Initiative: Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High Risk for HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this program is to increase engagement in care for racial/ethnic minority individuals with substance use disorders and/or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders who are at risk for HIV or are HIV positive.
Deadline is April 22. Learn more.
- HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Grant. Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program. Supports planning and implementation of quality improvement activities for rural primary care providers.
Deadline is April 22. Learn more.
- HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Cooperative agreement. Implementing Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs for Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Tourette Syndrome (TS).
Deadline is April 26. Learn more.
- Department of Justice (DOJ)/National Institute of Justice: Grant. Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence. Supports research and program evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and reduce intentional, interpersonal firearm violence and public mass shootings in the United States.
Deadline is April 29. Learn more. Non-Federal Grants - Rockwell Fund: Community Health Grant. Supports community-based providers and health centers in the greater Houston, Texas area that provide physical and behavioral healthcare for uninsured and underinsured populations.
Deadline for Letter of Intent is March 29. Learn more.
- American Psychological Foundation: Visionary Grants Program. Supports research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems such as violence, health behaviors, and stigma and prejudice.
Deadline is April 1. Learn more.
- Medica Foundation: Behavioral Health Grant. Supports community-based initiatives that improve health and remove barriers to behavioral healthcare services in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and certain counties of Wisconsin.
Deadline is April 5. Learn more. Loan Repayment
- HHS/HRSA, Bureau of Health Workforce: Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program. This program pays 60% of unpaid nursing education debt in exchange for a commitment to work for a minimum of two years in a critical shortage facility.
Deadline is March 28. Learn more. | |  | Conferences - National Medical Association: Registration is open for the Annual Colloquium on African American Health and Hill Day of Advocacy. The theme for this year's Colloquium is "Collaboration: A Key to Cultural Change to Achieve Health Equity" and will include discussions on topics such as childhood sex trafficking, maternal health, environmental health, asthma, and health care reform.
March 29-April 1 in Washington, DC. Register.
- Asian Women for Health: Registration is open for the 7th Annual State of Asian Women's Health in Massachusetts Conference, Right Questions + Right Data = Right Actions. The keynote speaker will be Rahul Bhargava, researcher and technologist at the MIT Center for Civic Media.
May 10 in Boston, MA. Register.
 | | - National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC): Registration is open for the 3rd Annual Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit. This event will continue NMAC's focus on the importance of biomedical HIV prevention tools such as PrEP, PEP, TasP, and U=U.
December 3-4 in Houston, TX. Register. | - Roswell Park Cancer Institute, in collaboration with the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI): Phase 1 clinical trial. Celecoxib, Recombinant Interferon Alfa-2b, and Rintatolimod in Treating Patients with Colorectal Cancer Metastatic to the Liver. Researchers seek volunteers age 18 years or older with recurrent and/or metastatic unresectable colorectal cancer with hepatic metastases. Study to be conducted at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. Learn more.
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences, in collaboration with NIH NCI: Phase 1 clinical trial. CPI-613 and Fluorouracil in Treating Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer That Cannot Be Removed by Surgery. Researchers seek volunteers age 18 years or older with histologically and cytologically confirmed metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma (colon, rectal or colorectal cancer) that is not resectable. Study to be conducted at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Learn more.
Trainings - The Health and Social Services Consortium (HESSCO), in collaboration with CHNA 7 MetroWest: Mental health training. Suicide & Aging: A Gatekeeper Workshop. This training will cover statistics and facts on suicide among elder populations, as well as risk assessment, and how to talk with and offer assistance to the elderly.
March 13, 1:00 pm ET in Sharon, MA. Learn more. The report State and Territorial Efforts to Reduce Health Disparities: Findings of a 2016 Survey by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health summarizes measures taking place in states and territories to facilitate health equity for racial and ethnic minorities. Released in 2018, each state and territorial profile comprises an overview of statewide strategic plans about minority health, a description of the organizational structure of public health agencies, program goals and activities, funding sources, and population data.
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