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| June 19, 2019 In This Issue:  | | - The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) will be exhibiting at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference & Exhibition. Come visit us at booth #753 to learn about OMH, the Office of Minority Health Resource Center's Knowledge Center and more.
June 21-24 in Washington, DC. Learn more. | Federal Grants - HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Cooperative agreement. Strategic Partnerships and Planning to Support Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States. Eligibility is limited to state, county or city/township governments and 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
Deadline is July 12. Learn more.
- U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)/Employment and Training Administration: Grant. Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC): A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian and Delta Regions. Supports workforce development activities that prepare dislocated, new entrants and incumbent workers for jobs in high-demand occupations, including healthcare.
Deadline is July 15. Learn more.
- HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Cooperative agreement. Disparities Elimination through Coordinated Interventions to Prevent and Control Heart and Lung Disease Risk (DECIPHeR) - Research Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).
Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is September 1. Learn more.
- HHS/NIH, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH): Research grant. Factors Underlying Differences in Female and Male Presentation for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Diseases and Conditions (R01).
Deadline is October 5. Learn more. Non-Federal Grants - Sisters Health Foundation: Basic Needs/Direct Service Grants. Supports organizations located in West Virginia and Ohio that provide direct service in the form of material aid such as food, personal needs items and emergency assistance to poor and vulnerable populations.
Deadline for LOI is July 10. Learn more.
- Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation: HIV/AIDS Grants. Supports community-based organizations providing care and direct services, education and/or research in the areas of HIV and AIDS.
Deadline for LOI is July 26. Learn more. Scholarships / Fellowships - National Medical Fellowships: Association of American Medical Colleges/Darrell G. Kirch, MD Scholarship. This scholarship will be awarded to eight 1st year underrepresented minority medical students.
Deadline is July 12. Learn more.
- National Rural Health Association (NRHA): Rural Health Fellows Program. Educates and develops rural health leaders who will serve in key positions within NRHA, affiliated rural health advocacy groups and local and state legislative bodies.
Deadline is August 27. Learn more. Webinars - Howard University, in partnership with ViralEd: HIV Prevention in 2019: What Every Clinician Must Know. Join Dr. Helena Kwakwa, Infectious Disease Specialist at Hahnemann University Hospital, for a presentation on clinical practice risk factors that contribute to the continued spread of HIV and how clinicians and patients can reduce the spread of HIV. To register, please contact mdouglas@howard.edu.
June 20, 12:00 pm ET in Washington, DC or via webcast.
- American Society on Aging, in partnership with the HHS Administration for Community Living (ACL): Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness among People Living with Dementia. This webinar will highlight two programs that address social isolation and loneliness among people with dementia who live alone, the Model for Alzheimer's/Dementia Services in Fort Worth, Texas, and the University of California San Francisco Care Ecosystem.
June 25, 11:00 am PT. Register. Conferences - National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Registration is open for the 2019 NACCHO Annual Conference, Improving the Nation's Health through Public and Private Partnerships.
July 9-11 in Orlando, FL. Register.
- University of Kansas Medical Center: Registration is open for the 2019 Heartland Conference on Health Equity and Patient Centered Care, Collective Impact Transforming Ideas into Action. This conference will feature two days of presentations, programs and strategies that address health equity and social justice in population health and health care in the Midwest.
August 6-7 in Overland Park, KS. Learn more.
 | | - National Indian Health Board (NIHB): Call for proposals for the 36th Annual National Tribal Health Conference, Health = Sovereignty. NIHB seeks abstracts within the themes of advocacy, legislation, federal relations, Tribal health infrastructure, substance use, behavioral health and emerging trends in Tribal health and sovereignty.
September 16-20 in Temecula, CA. Register.
Deadline for proposals is July 12. Learn more.
| - NMAC: Registration is open for the 4th Annual Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit. This meeting brings together HIV leaders to discuss, learn and share biomedical HIV prevention interventions such as PrEP, PEP, Treatment as Prevention (TasP) and U=U.
December 3-4 in Houston, TX. Register. - Trust for America's Health: New brief issue report. Alcohol and Drug Misuse and Suicide and the Millennial Generation – A Devastating Impact. This report presents an analysis of multiple data sets for young adults age 18-35 and arrives at a consistent main theme: alcohol, drugs, and suicide are having a profoundly negative impact on many young adults and their families. Learn more | Read the full issue brief.
- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has released final recommendation statements for HIV screening and preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The recommendations call for HIV screening of adolescents and adults age 15-65 years, as well as all pregnant persons. USPSTF also recommends that clinicians offer PrEP with effective antiretroviral therapy to persons who are at high risk of HIV acquisition.
Opportunities for Public Comments - NIHB, in partnership with HHS CDC: Call for participation in the Public Health in Indian Country Capacity Scan. The purpose of this scan is to increase the knowledge of Tribal and federal health leaders and advocates through the creation and dissemination of a national-level, comprehensive profile of the public health system and infrastructure in Indian Country. The profile will be informed by a national assessment of Tribal public health systems, functions, workforce, issues, gaps, strengths and leadership.
Deadline is July 31. Learn more. Calls for Nominations - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Call for nominations to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC). This notice solicits nominations to fill approximately seven new vacancies for terms through November 2020. Nominees will be selected to represent: Academia; community-based organizations; non-governmental organizations and Tribal governments and indigenous organizations.
Deadline is July 15. Learn more. - Kessler Foundation, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense: Interventional study. Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Combination with Electrical Stimulation and Standing: Effect on Muscle and Bone in Spinal Cord Injured Males. Researchers seek wheelchair reliant male volunteers age 18-58 years old with a spinal cord injury. Study to be conducted at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, NJ. Learn more.
In observance of World Sickle Cell Day, the Knowledge Center recommends the report "The Invisible Crisis: Understanding Pain Management in Medicare Beneficiaries with Sickle Cell Disease" from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health's Data Highlight series. This document describes severe symptoms of the blood disease and explains how the regulation of prescription opioids impacts Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries suffering from the condition.
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