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| December 18, 2019 In This Issue:  | | - HHS: Ready, Set, PrEP. As part of Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE): A Plan for America, this new national program provides HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to thousands of people in the United States at no cost. To qualify for the Ready, Set, PrEP program an individual must: Test negative for HIV, have a valid prescription from their healthcare provider and not have insurance that covers prescription drugs. Learn more.
| Federal Grants - HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH): Research grant. Getting To Zero: Understanding HIV Viral Suppression and Transmission in the United States (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). Supports grants to improve understanding of viral suppression and HIV transmission using population-level epidemiology, data science and m/eHealth tools, and implementation science research.
Deadline is January 7, 2020. Learn more.
- HHS/NIH, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Research grant. Practice-Based Research for Implementing Scalable Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions in Primary Care Settings (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). Supports practice-based research that tests the effectiveness of interventions which may impact mental health outcomes, including suicide behaviors and serious mental illness.
Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is January 10, 2020. Learn more.
- HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Cooperative agreement. Assessing the Burden of Diabetes by Type in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (DiCAYA). Supports surveillance to assess the incidence and prevalence of diabetes among children, adolescents and young adults and provide estimates by diabetes type, age, sex, race/ethnicity and geographic area.
Deadline is January 14, 2020. Learn more. Non-Federal Grants - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation: Community Health Matching Grant Program. Supports Michigan-based non-profit community organizations that develop, implement and evaluate new approaches to health care issues.
Deadline is January 6, 2020. Learn more.
- American Medical Association Foundation: 2019-2020 Community Health Grants. Supports community-based organizations, including free health clinics, that target the prevention and reduction of type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
Dedline for LOI is January 17, 2020. Learn more.
- The Seattle Foundation: Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) Fund. Supports grassroots efforts in South Seattle, White Center and Kent that increase the engagement, power and influence of community members affected by poverty and racial disparities.
Deadline is January 30, 2020. Learn more. Scholarships / Fellowships - HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA): 2020-2021 HIVMA Clinical Fellowship. This 1-year program helps newly trained physicians gain HIV clinical experience working with medically underserved patient populations.
Deadline is January 7, 2020. Learn more. Webinars - American Society on Aging: Innovative Approaches to Reach Underserved Populations Living with Dementia. This webinar will provide examples of community-based programs that strive to meet the needs of specific underserved groups, including the Hispanic/Latino population and persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and dementia.
January 8, 2020, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
- Rural Health Research Gateway: Rural Disparities in Health and Healthcare by Race and Ethnicity. This webinar will address differences in county-level premature death, individual-level differences in health status and differences in healthcare access and use by county racial and ethnic composition.
January 23, 2020, 1:00 pm ET. Register.
- Indiana University, in partnership with the American Medical Women's Association and the Global Initiative Against HPV and Cervical Cancer: Us vs HPV 2020. This webinar series will address community and medical societies' initiatives to eliminate HPV and cervical cancer.
January 27-31, 2020, 12:00 pm ET. Register. Trainings -
National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNEDLearn): Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The goal of NNEDLearn is to develop members' skills in evidence-supported and culturally appropriate mental illness and substance use prevention and treatment practices and to support practice implementation. March 8-11,2020 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico Deadline for Registration: January 6, 2020, 5:00 pm PT Register Conferences
- Latino Commission on AIDS: Registration is open for the 2020 National Hispanic/Latinx Health Leadership Summit, Setting Our National Latinx Health Agenda.
March 2-3, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Deadline for registration is February 29, 2020. Register.
| |  | - Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE): Registration is open for the SOPHE 2020 Annual Conference, Linking Science and Social Justice: Health Education as a Catalyst for Change.
March 17-20, 2020 in Atlanta, Ga. Register. - Trust for America's Health: New report. Addressing a Crisis: Cross-Sector Strategies to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use and Suicide. This report presents data on the link between substance use and suicide among adolescents, particularly among American Indian/Alaska Native youth, and provides prevention and policy recommendations. Learn more | Read the full report (PDF).
- Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network: Resources. Products and Resources Catalog. MHTTC provides free publications, videos, toolkits, curricula and other resources on mental health topics, including materials developed for racial/ethnic minority audiences. Learn more.
Opportunities for Public Comments - HHS/NIH, NIMH: Call for comments on the 2020 Strategic Plan for Research. NIH seeks feedback to help guide the next five years of basic, translational and clinical mental health research efforts and priorities at NIMH.
Deadline is January 1, 2020. Read the full Strategic Plan | Submit comments. - HHS/NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Observational study. Diabetes and Heart Disease Risk in Blacks. NIH researchers seek African Americans and Black African living in the U.S. age 18-65 years old as volunteers for a study on whether there is a relationship between sex and body size and the incidence of heart disease in African American men and women. Study to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. Learn more.
- Emory University, in collaboration with NIH NIMH: Behavioral study. Effectiveness of Empowerment Group Sessions for Treating Suicidal African American Women in Abusive Relationships. Researchers seek African American female volunteers age 18-64 years old who have been in an abusive relationship within 12 months prior to study entry, who have had a suicide attempt within 12 months prior to study entry and who seek services within the Grady Health System of Atlanta, Ga. Learn more.
Continuing Education - HHS/CDC and Medscape: Continuing Education - Tuberculosis Transmission Prevention. The goal of this activity is to describe updated National TB Controllers Association and CDC recommendations for screening, testing and treating U.S. health care personnel for tuberculosis to prevent transmission in healthcare settings. A free Medscape registration is required to complete this activity.
Internships / Mentoring - National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Overdose Prevention and Response Mentorship Program. This is an opportunity to participate in a new mentorship program with peer local health departments to learn, share experiences and implement a program related to community overdose prevention and response activities.
Deadline is December 20. Learn more.
- HHS/NIH, National Cancer Institute (NCI): Intramural Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (iCURE). This program supports mentored research experiences for qualified students and scientists in the multidisciplinary research environment of the NCI campuses in Bethesda, Rockville and Frederick, Md.
Deadline is January 17, 2020. Learn more.
| |  | - HHS/CDC, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE): CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholars (CUPS). This program consists of six internship opportunities at five partner institutions that seek to create public health workplace experiences to increase student interest in minority health and health professions.
Deadline is January 31, 2020. Learn more. The book Ethnogeriatrics: Healthcare Needs for Diverse Populations covers numerous topics related to care for elders from diverse backgrounds. It provides background on the subject of ethnogeriatrics, as well as population trends and health disparities and diseases that occur among aging ethnic minorities. The book also offers suggestions for cultural competency and sensitivity behaviors among health care professionals working with older adults.
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