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| November 27, 2019  In This Issue: - HHS/Office of Minority Health (OMH), in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Training. Sickle Cell Disease Training and Mentoring Program (STAMP). The STAMP Program is a 6-month series of free web-based trainings that will cover various topics on basic sickle cell disease (SCD) care, such as preventive services, connecting patients with support services and community resources, best practices for co-management with hematologists, hydroxyurea initiation and follow-up, and outpatient pain management. Learn more.
| |  |  | | - HHS/OMH: New blog post. Cherokee Choices: A Ride to Remember. This blog highlights the Remember the Removal Bike Ride, a program of the Cherokee Nation and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians that allows Cherokee adolescents and young adults to commemorate the removal of the Cherokee people from their eastern homelands while also engaging in active physical training for the ride, such as weekly workouts, swimming, yoga and spinning. Learn more.
| Federal Grants - HHS/HRSA, Bureau of Primary Health Care: Grant. Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Ending the HIV Epidemic - Primary Care HIV Prevention. Provides supplemental funding to health centers to expand HIV prevention services, focusing on supporting access to and use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
Deadline is December 16. Learn more.
- Department of Justice (DOJ)/Office on Violence Against Women (OVW): Grant. FY 2020 Justice for Families Program Solicitation. Supports the improvement of courts' and communities' ability to respond to families affected by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking or child sexual abuse.
Deadline for Letter of Intent is December 20. Learn more.
- HHS/Administration for Community Living (ACL): Cooperative agreement. Empowering Communities to Address Behavioral Health and Chronic Pain through Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs. Supports the development, delivery and sustainability of self-management education and support programs that address behavioral health and/or chronic pain among older adults and adults with disabilities.
Deadline is January 29, 2020. Learn more.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): Grant. Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages. Eligibility is limited to federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribal governments and AI/AN Tribal organizations.
Deadline is February 3, 2020. Learn more. Non-Federal Grants - Sigma Foundation for Nursing and the Jonas Philanthropies: Sigma/Jonas Philanthropies Collaborative Research Grant. Supports registered and doctoral nurse scholar-led research in the areas of mental health, rural health and veterans' healthcare.
Deadline is December 1. Learn more.
- American Lung Association: Public Policy Research Award. Supports research on and evaluation of existing, pilot and demonstration public programs and demonstration projects that inject innovative ideas and provide evidence for the development of new public policies impacting lung health.
Deadline is December 12. Learn more.
- Akron Community Foundation: Gay Community Endowment Fund. Supports programs that improve the health and well-being of the LGBTQ community in Akron, Ohio, particularly mental health and suicide prevention programs.
Deadline is December 15. Learn more. Scholarships / Fellowships - Global Brain Health Institute: 2020-2021 Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health. This 12-month program provides training in brain health, leadership and dementia prevention to early and mid-career healthcare professionals, with an emphasis on local and global health inequities that need to be addressed by practitioners and policymakers. Fellows will be based at the University of California, San Francisco or Trinity College Dublin.
Deadline is January 31, 2020. Learn more. Webinars - Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE): Project ECHO - Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes. This webinar will describe and examine the efficacy of the Project ECHO Model, discuss the impact of Indiana's ECHO programs on its opioid crisis and identify ways to become involved with these initiatives.
December 5, 10:00 am ET. Register. Conferences - ATA (American Telemedicine Association): Call for presentations and posters for the ATA2020 Annual Conference and Expo, Moving at the Speed of Innovation: Accelerating Telehealth Adoption.
May 3-5, 2020 in Phoenix, Ariz.
Deadline for submissions is December 6. Learn more.
- Tufts University/Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy: Registration is open for the 2019 Community Food Systems Conference.
December 9-11 in Savannah, Ga. Register.
- Pennsylvania State University/Addiction Center for Translation: Registration is open for the 5th Annual Penn State Addiction Symposium, Applying Science to Clinical Care - What it Really Means to Treat Addiction as a Chronic Illness.
December 10 in Hershey, Pa. Register. Other Events - National Academy of Sciences/Committee on Population: Stakeholder meeting. Women's Mental Health from a Life Course Perspective. National experts will discuss how factors from adolescence through later life shape women's maternal and mental health trajectories. There will be an emphasis on research, data, programs and policies needed to provide the evidence for sound policy and practice recommendations.
December 2 in Washington, DC.
Deadline for registration is November 27. Register. - HHS/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): HealthCare.gov. Enrollment for obtaining new or maintaining current health insurance for 2020 is open.
Deadline is December 15. Learn more. | |  | - HHS/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): New report. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. This report assesses the performance of the U.S. healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities, for access to healthcare and quality of healthcare. Quality is described in terms of six priorities: patient safety, person-centered care, care coordination, effective treatment, healthy living and care affordability. Learn more.
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC): State Suicide Prevention Infrastructure. SPRC has developed six recommendations to help stakeholders identify and strengthen key elements of suicide prevention infrastructure in their communities. Learn more.
Health Observances - HHS and the HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize November 28 as National Family Health History Day. For further information, including access to the My Family Health Portrait tool, please visit the CDC website.
- HHS recognizes December 1 as World AIDS Day with the theme, "Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Community by Community." For further information, including an event planning guide, logos, social media messaging and the UNAIDS' global Communities Make the Difference campaign, please visit HIV.gov.
To find local HIV testing sites, please see HIV.gov's Treatment Locator and the CDC's GetTested. | |  | Opportunities for Public Comments - U.S. House of Representatives/Ways and Means Committee: Request for information on the Rural and Underserved Communities Health Task Force. The Committee seeks input on the delivery and costs of healthcare and related social determinants in urban and rural underserved areas, as well as ideas on strategies to address the challenges that contribute to health inequities.
Deadline is November 29. Learn more. - HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Observational study. Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (F.I.N.D.). NIH researchers seek volunteers age 18 years or older who have been diagnosed with diabetes and diabetic nephropathy and who have at least one sibling or both parents available as potential study participants. Study to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. Learn more.
- The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in collaboration with the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI): Behavioral study. Weight Management and Health Behavior Intervention in Lowering Cancer Risk for BRCA Positive and Lynch Syndrome Families. Researchers seek volunteers age 18 years or older for a study on how weight management and health behavior intervention works in helping patients with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and Lynch syndrome mutation carriers lower their risk for cancer. Study to be conducted at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Learn more.
Healthcare Professionals - Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association: Northwest Public Health - Primary Care Leadership Institute. This 9-month program provides training to mid-career healthcare professionals on the intersection of primary care, public health and health equity.
Deadline is November 28. Learn more.
- HHS/CDC, Training and Continuing Education Online (TCEO): Continuing Medical Education (CME). Reducing Complications of Therapeutic Blood Transfusions in Sickle Cell Disease (WD2833R). This 4-part educational video series for healthcare professionals is designed to provide information about and strategies for reducing transfusion complications in people with SCD. Learn more.
The manual Healthy Brain Initiative, Road Map for Indian Country is a resource that provides background information on dementia and Alzheimer's disease and presents data on the condition among American Indian/Alaska Native populations. It lists opportunities to involve communities through public health strategies, while highlighting successful programs. The document is designed for tribal leaders, health professionals, as well as state and regional offices and other organizations who serve American Indian/Alaska Native communities.
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