| August 5, 2020 | View as a webpage |  |        | Registration Coming Soon: Advancing the Response to COVID-19  The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) will host a virtual symposium on September 17 to highlight state, Tribal, territorial and community-based efforts to address COVID-19 among racial and ethnic minority populations. The Advancing the Response to COVID-19: Sharing Promising Programs and Practices for Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities virtual symposium aims to support and disseminate promising practices, programs and strategies for combating COVID-19, especially in communities of color. Registration for the virtual symposium will open soon. Stay up to date on the virtual symposium by signing up for OMH email updates and by visiting our webpage. | |  | | Funding | | Community-based Approaches to Strengthening Economic Supports for Working Families OMH will provide support to low-income working families disproportionately at risk for adverse childhood experiences, including racial and ethnic minority families.
Deadline is August 17, 6:00 pm ET.
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Sickle Cell Disease Clinical Data Collection Platform OMH will support a demonstration project to determine whether a standardized clinical data collection platform can serve as a central repository for analyzing sickle cell disease data for clinical care teams and patient/family members.
Deadline is August 18, 6:00 pm ET.
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State/Tribal/Territorial Partnership Initiative to Document and Sustain Disparity-Reducing Interventions OMH will support projects to demonstrate if modifications to existing interventions will improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority and disadvantaged populations.
Deadline is August 26, 6:00 pm ET.
Watch the TA webinar recording. | | Reducing Cardiac Arrest Disparities Through Data Registries Initiative OMH will support demonstration projects to show whether participation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registries supports identification of racial and ethnic minority and/or disadvantaged populations experiencing cardiac arrest.
Deadline is August 17, 6:00 pm ET.
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Approaches to Advance Gender Equity from Around the Globe The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to adapt initiatives from around the world to the United States with respect to approaches that can improve health or the determinants of health by improving gender equity.
Deadline is August 26, 3:00 pm ET.
Demonstration to Increase Hydroxyurea Prescribing for Children with Sickle Cell Disease Through Provider Incentives OMH will support projects to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of providing financial incentives to providers to improve the quality of life of children with sickle cell disease (SCD) through increased prescription rates of hydroxyurea.
Deadline is August 27, 6:00 PM ET.
Watch the TA webinar recording. | | | |  | | Webinars and Other Events | | Black Women's Health Across the Lifespan The Health HIV three-part series will discuss issues in the lives of Black adolescent and adult women, including COVID-19, HIV prevention, reproductive health and psychosocial determinants.
August 5-7, 12:00 pm ET. Innovative Solutions to Address Social Isolation in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic Webinar hosted by the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)
and the HHS Administration for Community Living (ACL).
August 10, 2:00 pm ET. Suicide: A Major Public Health Problem The Johns Hopkins Spotlight Series event will address the scope and burden of suicide as well as policies and practices that have made a sustained, national impact on suicide prevention.
August 13, 11:00 am ET. | | Health+ Sickle Cell Disease: Human-Centered Design Report The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the HHS Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) webinar will highlight the recently published, SCD Human-Centered Design Reports.
August 6, 12:00 pm ET. Vaccine Confidence The Greater Philadelphia HPV Immunization Collaborative webinar will address vaccine confidence and how to reduce hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 11, 3:00 pm ET. Responding to Crisis in Latino Populations with an Equity Lens The County Health Rankings, UnidosUS and Esperanza Health Center webinar will discuss how COVID-19 has revealed existing disparities experienced by Hispanic/Latino communities.
August 13, 3:00 pm ET. | | | |  | | Resources | Resources: COVID-19  The HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released Data on COVID-19 during Pregnancy, including data by race/ethnicity. The HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated its Data on COVID-19 Impacts on Medicare Beneficiaries. The updated data confirm that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minorities. The Mayo Clinic has made its COVID-19 Webinar Series available. Webinar topics include health disparities, telemedicine and the impact of COVID-19 on pediatric patients, among others. | Health Observance: Immunization Awareness Month  August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), an annual observance held to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages.
Visit the CDC's NIAM webpage for toolkits for reaching healthcare professionals, parents and patients, as well as social media graphics and other resources. To access data on immunizations among racial and ethnic minorities, visit OMH's Minority Population Profiles.
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Health Observance: National Breastfeeding Month  August is National Breastfeeding Month. For further information and resources, please see: | |  | | Clinical Trials | Systems Analyses of the Immune Response to the Seasonal Influenza Vaccine This phase 2 clinical trial, sponsored by the HHS National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), will study the effect of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection on the antibody response to the seasonal influenza vaccine in healthy individuals, age 18 years or older, with a history of symptomatic or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and healthy volunteers with no history of COVID-19. Study to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md.
Response to Influenza Vaccine During Pregnancy (FLU-PG) This phase 4 clinical trial, sponsored by Stanford University and the NIH NIAID, seeks pregnant women, ages 18-49 years old. Study to be conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Cali. |  | | Workforce Development | Learning Community: The HHS Telemedicine Hack To support wide adoption of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is partnering with the ECHO Institute at the University of New Mexico and the Public Health Foundation's TRAIN Learning Network to deliver Telemedicine Hack, a free, virtual peer-to-peer learning community to accelerate telemedicine implementation.
August 12, 19 and 26, 10:00 am ET, Virtual. Training: Maternal Health Task Force - Online Courses The Harvard Chan School Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health has compiled a list of online courses covering key topics related to maternal health, including maternal mortality, HIV transmission, prenatal and postpartum care, family planning and adolescent sexual health. Training: COVID-19 Course Series The World Health Organization provides COVID-19 learning resources for health professionals, decision-makers and the public. Courses are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, French and Russian. | |  | | Knowledge Center | | | | Recommended Reading In observance of National Minority Donor Awareness Month, the Knowledge Center recommends the National Survey of Organ and Tissue Donation Attitudes and Behaviors: Report of Findings. This report, issued by the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), represents the fourth such survey completed since 1993. The 2019 report features data by race/ethnicity. The publication discusses attitudes and barriers to organ donation and illustrates the need for increased participation from minority groups. | | | | To view this title and find additional information, search the online catalog. | |       | |
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