February 21, 2018
Dr. Matthew Lin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health and Director, HHS Office of Minority Health, cordially invites you to attend
The HHS Black History Month Observance
Watch the live stream on February 23 as we highlight HHS's efforts to improve the health of the nation and advance health equity
In This Issue:
OMH
- HHS/Office of Minority Health (OMH): National Lupus Training, Outreach, and Clinical Trial Education Program. For assistance with your application, please watch the Technical Assistance and Evaluation Basics webinars.
Deadline is March 30, 6:00 pm ET. Learn more.
Federal Grants
- HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Evaluation of Policies for the Primary Prevention of Multiple Forms of Violence.
Deadline is March 21. Learn more.
- HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Drug Free Communities - New. Eligibility is limited to community-based coalitions addressing youth substance use that have never received a DFC grant.
Deadline is March 29. Learn more.
- HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): Development of Medications to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorders and Overdose (UG3/UH3) (Clinical Trial Optional).
Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more.
Scholarships / Fellowships / Internships / Mentoring
- US Office of Personnel Management (OPM)/Recruitment Policy and Outreach Office (RPO) and the OPM Chapter of Blacks In Government: Registration open for the Federal Historically Black Colleges and Universities Student Symposium. RPO will offer training for students attending HBCUs that are interested in learning about the Federal application process and opportunities available for students and recent graduates.
February 27, 9:00 am ET. Register.
Webinars
- HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Workforce: Workforce Grand Rounds webinar series. Successful Models of Inter-Professional Oral Health and Primary Care Training Programs. This webinar will highlight efforts to combat health disparities through the integration of primary care and oral health training.
February 26, 2:00 pm ET. Register.
- Maryland Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, in collaboration with the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Data Perspectives, Prevention and Wellness of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases among African Americans. Participants can attend in-person or via webinar.
February 27, 1:00 pm ET in Baltimore, MD. Register.
Trainings
- HHS/Office on Women's Health (OWH) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Population: Workshop. Women's Mental Health Across the Life Course Through a Sex-Gender Lens. Participants can attend via live webcast.
March 7 in Washington, DC. Register.
- HHS/OMH, Office of Minority Health Resource Center (OMHRC): University Vision, Design and Capacity (U-VDC) Technical Grant Writing Workshops. Learn to write winning grants for minority serving institutions of higher education and build sustainable partnerships to improve minority health.
March 22-23 at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, LA. Register.
April 5-6 at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. Register.
April 26-27 at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, MN. Register.
Conferences
- HHS/NIH, National Institute on Aging (NIA): Registration now open for the 2018 NIH Alzheimer's Disease Research Summit, Path to Treatment and Prevention. Participants can attend in-person or via videocast.
March 1-2 in Bethesda, MD. Register.
- CityMatCH: Call for abstract, symposium and workshop submissions for the 2018 CityMatCH Leadership and MCH Epidemiology Conference, Partnership with Purpose - Data, Programs, and Policies for Healthy Mothers, Children, and Families. Event to be held in Portland, OR.
Deadline is March 2, 11:59 pm PT. Learn more.
- National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved: Registration now open for Leveraging Health IT to Address Health Disparities: A Leadership Conference.
March 6-7 in Las Vegas, NV. Register.
Health Campaigns
- HHS/CDC, Travelers' Health Branch launched the Viajo Sin Zika Campaign, which informs US Hispanics, their families and loved ones, including pregnant women and their partners, how to prevent Zika before, during and after traveling to areas with a risk of Zika. Learn more.
- The HHS/NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and OMH recognize February as American Heart Month. Join NHLBI and its The Heart Truth program in encouraging everyone to move more and #MoveWithHeart.
Resources
- HHS/Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators Infographic Gallery. The LHIs are high-priority health issues in the United States that serve as measures of the Nation's health. Each month HealthyPeople.gov displays 1 or more infographics to visually communicate the existing health disparities for the featured LHI. Learn more.
OMHRC
- AMTIS is recruiting for a FT Senior Media and Communications Specialist at the Office of Minority Health Resource Center in Rockville, MD.
Open until filled. Apply.
Academic
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison/School of Medicine and Public Health is recruiting for a FT/PT County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Community Network Strategist (93278-AS). Position is based in Madison, WI.
Deadline is March 1. Apply.
- The book African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia, subtitled A History, 1900-1965, is a retrospective text on the education and employment of nurses of color in both segregated and desegregated Appalachia. The book discusses policies and laws that made accessing quality health care challenging for Cherokee and African American people who resided in the mountain region. From there, it tells stories about nurses who broke barriers by becoming some of the first nurses of color to become licensed and work in facilities that served their respective Native and African American communities, along with difficulties that came from integrating staff and patient admissions in hospitals.
To view this title and find additional information, search our online catalog.
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