| March 9, 2022 | View as a webpage |  |        | NEW! Cultural Competency Deployment Refresher for Public Health Service Officers Deadline: March 11! Nominate Delegates to the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity TAC  The deadline to nominate candidates to serve as delegates for the OMH Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity (The Center) Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) is this Friday, March 11.
The Center TAC will help ensure OMH has Tribal input critical for the Center's success and effectiveness. The Center TAC will have 16 delegates, one from each of the 12 geographic areas served by the Indian Health Service (IHS), and four national at-large members. |
Let's Take Charge! Help Make Lupus Research More Diverse  Lupus is an autoimmune disease that disproportionately impacts racial and ethnic minority populations, particularly women. About nine out of 10 people diagnosed with lupus are women aged 15 to 44. We need diverse participation in lupus research to help ensure that products and treatments for patients living with lupus are safe and effective. Let's Take Charge!, an initiative from OMH and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (FDA OMHHE), seeks to make lupus research more inclusive and diverse. Visit the Let's Take Charge! website for campaign resources, including patient stories and social media messages. | |  | | Funding | | Fund for Visionary Leadership: Greater Philadelphia Capacity building grant for women-led non-profits from the Valentine Foundation.
Deadline is March 14.
RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars Program Funding for doctoral students from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
Deadline is March 16, by 3:00 p.m. ET.
Statewide Consumer and Family Networks Grant Program Grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Deadline for both grants is May 2. | | Research Grant: Serious Emotional Disturbance Grant for early career psychologists from the American Psychological Foundation.
Deadline is March 15.
Health Workforce Research Center Program Funding from the Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA).
Deadline is April 14.
Prenatal and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Deadline is May 2. | | | |  | | Webinars and Other Events | | Bridge the Knowledge Gap to Better Kidney Care World Kidney Day webinar hosted by the International Society of Nephrology.
March 10, at 5:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET. Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Maternal Health Spanish-language Advancing Health Equity
among Hispanic/Latino Populations webinar
hosted by the HRSA Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (IEA).
March 16, at 1:00 p.m. ET. Tribal Leaders Summit: Nourishing Our Roots for Healing Virtual conference hosted by the Coalition to
Stop Violence Against Native Women.
March 30-31. | | State and Local Partnerships
for Housing Stability Webinar hosted by the Administration
for Community Living (ACL).
March 15, at 2:30 p.m. ET. National AI/AN Maternal
Mortality Prevention Institute Virtual American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN)
maternal health conference hosted by the
National Indian Health Board (NIHB).
March 16-18. Women's Mental Health Conference: Call for Proposals Virtual conference hosted by the Women's
Mental Health Conference Organization.
May 6-7.
Extended deadline for proposals is March 15. | | | |  | | Resources | Resources: COVID-19  The CDC has released COVID-19 Community Levels, a new tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium, or high and are determined by the use of hospital beds, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area.
Take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 based on the COVID-19 Community Level in your area.
| Women's Health: Period Poverty: A Growing Public Health Concern  Period poverty is defined as the lack of access to sanitary products, appropriate facilities, and medically-sound information about menstruation. It is a growing public health concern with wide-ranging implications for women's health. This brief, published by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), highlights legislative actions that states are taking to remove financial burdens for women who struggle to afford period products and mitigate existing stigma. | NKF Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative  The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) develops guidelines for diagnosing and treating chronic kidney disease, diabetes, hepatitis C, and other diseases that affect kidney function. Each guideline includes health education resources for patients and clinicians, and health professionals are encouraged to identify future KDOQI topics via continuously updated polls. | |  | | Clinical Trials | A Pilot Feasibility Trial of Thyroid Hormone Replacement in Patients Who Need Dialysis This study, sponsored by the University of California, Irvine and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), seeks prevalent hemodialysis patients ages 18-75 years old. The study will be carried out at the University Dialysis Center of Orange in Orange, California.
Sit Less, Interact and Move More (SLIMM) 2 Study on Kidney Health This study, sponsored by the University of Utah, NIDDK, and Stanford University, seeks volunteers, age 20 years or older, with kidney disease. The study will be carried out at Stanford University in Stanford, California and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. |  | | Workforce Development | Training: National Sickle Cell Disease Lay Program The Sickle Cell Disease Lay Program (SCDLP), developed by the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, is a five-week professional development program designed to allow aspiring community health workers (CHW) an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in sickle cell disease healthcare and social services. SCDLP will address core CHW functions and competencies, data collection and reporting, and patient-centered medical home concepts.
March 14-May 16, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Toxicology Mentoring and Skills Development Training Program The Toxicology Mentoring and Skills Development Training Program (ToxMSDT), developed by the University of California, Davis in collaboration with the Society of Toxicology, Iowa State University, Tuskegee University, Ohio State University, and Michigan State University, is a career development opportunity open to STEM undergraduates with an interest in toxicology, a field of science that studies the harmful effects that chemicals, substances, or situations can have on people and the environment.
Question and Answer Sessions, March 17, at 4:00 p.m. ET and March 22, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Application deadline is April 15. | |  | | Knowledge Center | | | | Recommended Reading In honor of National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day, the OMH Knowledge Center is highlighting a short fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States, 2021 presents easy-to-read information on chronic kidney disease prevalence, risk factors, treatment, and prevention.
To access this free fact sheet through the online catalog, click here. | | | | | | |      
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