Register now for a unique learning experience where you can enhance your grant writing skills, turn rurality to your advantage, learn to connect with funders, and more! This virtual learning series is for beginners aiming to develop the skills needed to research and draft winning program proposals from various funders. The Institute runs from March 4 - April 29. Virtual learning sessions will occur on Mondays from 3:00-4:30 pm ET. Learn more and register by February 16!

From a government funding perspective, leaders of the appropriations committees in both chambers have agreed upon top-line allocations for each of the 12 annual appropriations bills, allowing the respective subcommittee chairman to begin negotiations over each measure. The Labor-HHS-Education spending panel faces a cut for fiscal 2024, while the subcommittee that oversees the FDA’s funding is set for a boost. Congress averted a government shutdown by passing another “laddered” continuing resolution (CR) that funds some government agencies through March 1 Read More

NOSORH, in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center, is pleased to introduce the 2024 Rural Health Capital Resources Master Class! This 2-part, 5-course training is designed for busy professionals who want to learn more about accessing and utilizing capital from federal, state, and private sources for rural health development projects. Participants will gain key insights on applying successful funding and partnership strategies to their work. All instruction comes from national experts in community development finance, federal program funding, healthcare partnerships, and rural philanthropy. Live virtual classes are held on Wednesdays from 2:30-4:00 pm ET.

Stroudwater Associates, in partnership with the NRHA, developed a physician and advanced practice provider compensation survey for rural organizations. Representing over 6,000 rural providers, the survey results illustrate the enormous variability in provider pay across rural organizations and the pressing need for rural healthcare to align its provider pay to the organization’s goals. The first-of-its-kind report provides a path forward for rural healthcare organizations by outlining provider compensation trends, best practices, and potential challenges leaders might face when recruiting and retaining top talent in rural.

The National Rural Health Resource Center's recently updated Population Health Toolkit — which includes the newest population health data from a half-dozen publicly available data sets — is now available online. Developed and maintained with support from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Toolkit is designed to assist State Offices of Rural Health, state Flex Programs, and individual healthcare facilities as they seek to better understand, manage, and improve population health in their communities and state. The toolkit includes a population health readiness assessment, tools and resources to support healthcare facilities as they build their population health management capabilities, a web-based dashboard that displays county, state, national and, when available, facility-level data, tutorial videos, and more. Questions? Contact Tracy Morton, Director of Population Health, at tmorton@ruralcenter.org.

The National Rural Health Association is pleased to administer the Rural Behavioral Health & Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Supplemental Funding for State Rural Health Associations (SRHAs) and State Offices of Rural Health (SORH), as funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. This supplemental funding is to encourage SORH and SRHAs to collaborate on rural behavioral health and/or substance use disorder-related projects in their state; however, it is not a requirement that SORHs and SRHAs apply together. This funding opportunity will support up to five $10,000 supplemental awards with a 12-month funding period. The application deadline is Wednesday, February 21 at 11:59 pm PT. 

If you have any questions regarding the application, please contact Laura Hudson at LHudson@ruralhealth.us or Piper Martin at PMartin@ruralhealth.us.

Narratives for Health has a new landing page on the restructured County Health Rankings and Roadmaps website. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and Human Impact Partners co-lead Narratives for Health (formerly Health Equity Narrative Infrastructure Project), a project based on the belief that we need to contend for power to shift narratives. Alongside many partners and supporters nationwide, the project elevates a transformative narrative for health and equity. The project seeks to build a collective of organizations seeking to shift their work away from the dominant narratives that have impeded progress and toward new, more inclusive ideas and worldviews that support health and racial justice.

Check out the web page to learn more about using narrative as a tool to advance health and equity. Ready to take action? Visit the train-the-facilitator series page for more ways to get involved.

Are you looking for ways to fill workforce gaps to assist your organization’s delivery of public health services? The CDC has a unique program that places motivated early-career public health professionals with public health organizations. The Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) helps recent college graduates jump-start their careers in public health with a CDC-funded two-year fellowship that offers hands-on, real-life experience in the day-to-day operations of public health programs in local communities. Join an upcoming panel discussion to learn how your organization can help address its rural health workforce needs by becoming a PHAP Host Site.

Register here for the Zoom Webinar on February 8 at 1:00 pm ET.

CDC’s PHAP will accept host site applications from February 15 – 29, 2024. Please email ruralhealth@cdc.gov with questions. 

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is hosting a hybrid Proposers’ Day in support of a planned solicitation for the Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical care (PARADIGM) program. The Proposers’ Day will be held virtually and in-person; advance registration is required. ARPA-H invites interested experts across industry and academia, including researchers, clinicians, developers, engineers, healthcare delivery organizations, payers, manufacturers, regulatory partners and others, to learn more about the solicitation and Proposer’s Day via the PARADIGM website and the PARADIGM Special Notice. Attendance is voluntary, and is not required to submit a proposal to this or any related announcement or research solicitation.

Advanced registration is required. The deadline to register for in-person attendance is February 5, and the deadline for virtual attendance is February 9.