| March 10, 2021 | View as a webpage |  |        | OMH Announces New Funding Opportunity: Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19  The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) has announced a new funding opportunity: Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19. This initiative will fund projects that show the effectiveness of local government implementation of evidence-based health literacy strategies that are culturally appropriate to enhance COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and/or other mitigation measures in urban and rural racial and ethnic minority populations.
Technical assistance webinar, March 17, 5:00 pm ET.
Deadline for application is April 20. | |  | | Funding | | Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program Rural health grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Deadline is April 2.
Movement Infrastructure Fund Social justice and social determinants of health grant from Solidaire.
Deadline is April 23.
Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives (PREVAYL) Cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Deadline is May 1. | | Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program Domestic violence and sexual assault grant
from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Deadline is April 7.
Domestic Violence Shelter
Grant Program Grant from the Mary Kay Foundation.
Deadline is April 30.
Women and Sex/Gender Differences in Drug/Alcohol Use Research project grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Deadline is June 5, 5:00 pm ET. | | | |  | | Webinars and Other Events | | Registration is open for Mental Health and COVID 19: Disparities, Strength and Global Perspective Hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center.
March 11, 8:30 am ET, Virtual. Housing and LGBTQIA+ Older Adults Webinar Series Two-part webinar hosted by the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center.
March 16 and 23, 11:00 am ET. National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Panel Discussion Hosted by the National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Partnership.
March 18, 3:00 pm ET. | | NIMHD Director's Seminar: Disparities in Life Expectancy Hosted by the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
March 11, 2:30 pm ET. Tele-Behavioral Health Services for Native Youth during COVID-19 Webinar hosted by the National Council of Urban Indian Health.
March 16, 1:00 pm ET. Registration is open for the
4th Annual Conference on Migration and Health Hosted by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
March 22-26, Virtual. | | | |  | | Resources | Resources: COVID-19  On February 22-24, the CDC held a National Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine. Forum videos, sessions, and other resources are now available to help you build trust and vaccine confidence in your community. To ensure equity in COVID-19 vaccine distribution among racial and ethnic minorities and American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN), HRSA and the CDC have launched a program to directly allocate a limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine to select HRSA-funded health centers. Visit the HRSA website to learn more about this initiative from the Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program. Several toolkits are available to help health professionals and organizations communicate the importance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19. | Call for Consumer Feedback on New HRSA Health Materials  The HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, in partnership with the Schlesinger Group, invites racial and ethnic minorities and AI/ANs living in rural areas to share their thoughts and opinions on newly developed health materials. Virtual discussion sessions will be held in March and May and will last approximately 90 minutes.
Deadline to respond is March 15. | Report: 2019 Urban Diabetes Audit  The Urban Indian Health Institute Urban Diabetes Care and Outcomes Summary Report, Audit Years 2015–2019, uses data from Urban Indian Health Programs and the Indian Health Service Diabetes Care and Outcomes Audit to highlight strengths and disparities in the health of urban AI/AN patients with diabetes. This report aims to inform data collection, research, prevention funding and programmatic efforts to ensure success in diabetes care, prevention and outcomes for urban AI/AN patients. | Longitudinal Study Data: Women's Health Initiative  The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is a long-term national health study funded by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The original WHI study began in 1992 and concluded in 2005. It has since continued as Extension Studies, which are annual collections of health updates and outcomes in active participants. The study's main areas of research are heart disease, cancers and bone fractures and the data collected supports research on women's health and aging. | |  | | Clinical Trials | Inflammation and Cardiovascular Health in Women This study, sponsored by the Massachusetts General Hospital and NIH, seeks women ages 40-79 years old, with and without HIV, for a study on HIV's role in the development and clinical course of myocardial infarctions (heart attacks). The study will be carried out at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Effects of Aging and Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy on Vascular Endothelial Function and Metabolic Profiles in Transgender Women This study, sponsored by the University of Colorado, Denver and NIH, seeks transgender women ages 18-40 years old or 50-75 years old who have taken estradiol and spironolactone for at least one year. The study will be carried out at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado. |  | | Workforce Development | Learning Collaborative: Mental Health Needs of Migrant Workers This MHP Salud learning collaborative, intended for health centers and community health workers, will focus on the current and future landscape of mental health among migrant and seasonal agricultural workers, as well as recommendations for how to best support this community.
March 11, March 25 and April 8, 3:00 pm ET. 2021 Stronger Scholarship on Health Inequities The Healthline and Prevention Institute Stronger Scholarship will award scholarships to an African American, a Hispanic/Latino, and an AI/AN undergraduate student reducing health inequities in their community by addressing social determinants of health.
Deadline is April 20. | |  | | Knowledge Center | | | | Recommended Reading HIV in Communities of Color: The Compendium of Culturally Competent Promising Practices: The Role of Traditional Healing in HIV Clinical Management, a document published by the National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center, Howard University College of Medicine, provides HIV health care practitioners with best practices in delivering culturally competent care while incorporating alternative and complementary medicines in treatment. | | | | To view this title and find additional information, search the online catalog. | |       | |
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