| August 19, 2020 | View as a webpage |  |        | Register Today! Advancing the Response to COVID-19  Registration is now open! Join us for Advancing the Response to COVID-19: Sharing Promising Programs and Practices for Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities, a virtual symposium hosted by the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) on September 17. Register today to learn from national, state, tribal and local experts leading these efforts to confront the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on racial and ethnic minority populations. Continuing education credit hours (CECH) for this virtual event will be available. Visit our webpage to learn more.
To stay up to date on the virtual symposium, sign up for OMH email updates. | HHS Healthy People 2030 Released  The HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) has released Healthy People 2030, the fifth iteration of the Healthy People initiative. Building on knowledge gained over the past four decades, Healthy People 2030 sets national objectives to address the nation's most critical public health priorities. New objectives for this decade address emerging health issues like opioid use disorder and adolescents' use of e-cigarettes and flavored tobacco. | |  | | Funding | | 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.
COVID-19/Violence Against Women Assistance to Tribes The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) supports activities that address tribal needs in responding to violent crimes against women that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline is September 16.
Women's Preventive Services Initiative The HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will support provider, academic and health professional organization updates to the Women's Preventive Services Guidelines, and to raise awareness and clinicians' adoption and utilization of the guidelines.
Deadline is October 5. | | 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 through increased prescription rates of hydroxyurea.
Deadline is August 27, 6:00 PM ET.
Watch the TA webinar recording.
Multimorbidity Funding Opportunity Announcements The HHS National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports research to develop measures and methods for understanding multimorbidity, and to identify interventions that target multimorbidity.
Deadline is October 5.
TA webinar, September 1, 12:30 pm ET.
Shared PPE Resources for COVID-19 Vaccine and Treatment This is an NIH Limited Competition Emergency Award that will provide personal protective equipment to researchers working on COVID-19 vaccine and treatment clinical trials and studies.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis. | | | |  | | Webinars and Other Events | | Nursing's Role in Health Equity, Public Health Emergencies and COVID-19 The National Academy of Medicine webinar will share updates on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 study's status and seek public input on nurses' roles in responding to COVID-19.
August 20, 2:00 pm ET. Improving Maternal Health Outcomes: Addressing Opioid Use During Pregnancy The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) webinar, part of a series, will address health disparities and inequities associated with maternal health, opioid use and substance use.
August 25, 1:00 pm ET. Indigenous Evaluation Workshop The Urban Indian Health Institute workshop will demonstrate how evaluation grounded in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) ways of knowing empowers communities to tell their stories.
September 1, 12:00 pm ET. | | Grief and Loss Webinar Series Hosted by the HHS Indian Health Service (IHS) Tele-Behavioral Health Center of Excellence. Supporting Recovery for All: Racial Equity in Recovery The Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy seminar will highlight key indicators and challenges, and describe best practices and promising strategies for advancing racial equity in recovery support.
August 27, 2:00 pm ET. Call for abstracts for the 11th Annual International Conference on Stigma Hosted by Howard University.
November 16-20, Virtual.
Deadline is September 18, 5:00 pm ET. | | | |  | | Resources | Resources: COVID-19 Health Observance: National Minority Donor Awareness Month  OMH recognizes August as National Minority Donor Awareness Month, a collaborative effort by national organizations to heighten awareness of organ donation and transplantation in multicultural communities, provide donation education, encourage donor registration and promote healthy living and disease prevention to decrease the need for transplantation. For further information and resources, please visit OrganDonor.gov, Donate Life America and the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program. |
Resource: Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool |  | | Clinical Trials | Study Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Anti-Spike SARS CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibodies for Prevention of SARS CoV-2 Infection Asymptomatic in Healthy Adults Who Are Household Contacts to an Individual With a Positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay This phase 3 clinical trial, sponsored by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), seeks volunteers age 18 years or older. Study to be conducted at various locations throughout the United States.
In Utero Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Alpha-thalassemia Major (ATM) This phase 1 clinical trial, sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, seeks pregnant women with male or female fetuses from 18 weeks and 0/7 days to 26 weeks 0/7 days gestation with a fetal diagnosis of alpha-thalassemia major. Study to be conducted at UCSF in San Francisco, 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 has partnered 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 26, September 2 and September 9, 10:00 am ET, Virtual. Fellowship: Implementation Research in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine's Penn Center for Mental Health invites applications for its post-doctoral fellowship on mental health and substance abuse. This interdisciplinary training program provides an opportunity for social scientists with a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent doctoral degree to improve their knowledge of implementation science, behavioral economics, public mental health systems, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and how to conduct research that can impact the needs of vulnerable citizens.
Deadline is October 15. Fellowship: LGBTQ Healthcare Fellowship Program 2021-2022 The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health invites applications for a 12-month healthcare fellowship in both general primary care and LGBTQ subspecialty and specialty care. The objective of this fellowship is to train future primary care physicians to be sensitive, comfortable, clinically knowledgeable and culturally competent in delivering healthcare to sexual and gender minority patient populations.
Deadline is October 17. | |  | | Knowledge Center | | | | Recommended Reading The Community Health Center Chartbook, issued by the National Association of Community Health Centers, is a data overview for over fifty years of health center programs serving vulnerable populations across the country. This comprehensive compilation includes data visualizations for populations served by categories such as race/ethnicity, insurance status, geographic areas, diseases treated and income levels. The report also presents service costs, staffing levels and evidence showing reductions in health disparities. | | | | To view this title and find additional information, search the online catalog. | |       | |
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