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Funding Opportunities
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VHCF: Virginia Health Safety Net Grants
Deadline is March 2, 2016
Increasing Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in Rural Primary Care Practices
HHS
Deadline is March 4, 2016
Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program
HHS/HRSA
Deadline is March 4, 2016
Distance Learning & Telemedicine Grants
USDA/RD
Deadline is March 14, 2016
Virginia Rescue Squad Assistance Fund Grant Program
RHIhub
Deadline is March 15, 2016
Telehealth Network Grant Program
HHS/HRSA
Deadline is April 8, 2016
National Health Education Lupus Program
HHS/OMH
Deadline is April 18, 2016
Learn more
Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (R01).
HHS/NIH
Deadline is May 7, 2016.
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REMINDER: Upcoming Webcast
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| The annual webcast (live event) of the key note speech for the University of North Carolina's Minority Health Conference |
In Solidarity: The Role of Public Health in Social Justice
Friday, February 26, 2016
2:00pm - 3:30pm ET
VDH employees may participate in the Madison building, Mezzanine conference room or via pre-arranged polycom by registering with Rich Watson - Richard.Watson@vdh.virginia.gov
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CDC highlights interventions that reduce disparities in HAV, HIV/AIDS
Healio, February 16, 2016
The CDC featured several interventions in a recent MMWR supplement that effectively reduced health disparities in hepatitis A virus and HIV/AIDS care.
The interventions demonstrated how certain strategies such as increased vaccination and outreach efforts tailored to specific populations and individuals can reduce disease incidence and promote safe behaviors.
In Fight Against Zika Virus, Officials Consider Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
HealthDay News, February 16, 2016
As the Zika virus continues to spread fear and potentially devastating health problems throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, scientists are weighing the use of a controversial weapon -- genetically modified mosquitoes.
The mosquito-borne Zika virus is thought -- but not proven -- to be behind an epidemic of birth defects that leave newborns with very small heads and potential brain damage.
The spread of the birth defects, called microcephaly, prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) last week to call the Zika outbreak a global emergency.
Prescription Needed for Better Medicine; Richmond area doctors are sounding off in our Top Doctors online survey regarding what gets in their way in delivering quality care to patients
Richmond Magazine, February 11, 2016
Medicine is a calling for many physicians, a career that chooses them at an early age. It's all about helping and healing, and that's why so many local doctors find time for mission trips abroad and to work in free health clinics here at home.
But the realities of practicing medicine in the real world all too often intrude on the inherent altruism that informed their choice of profession. There's frustration out there, and doctors are letting us know about it.
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Trauma affects immigrant mental health
SCTimes, February 13, 2016
They come from countries ravaged for decades by war. They've been displaced for months or years in a refugee camp in a foreign land. They are whisked away to far corners of the earth, often without their entire family.
They end up in St. Cloud, where snow and freezing temperatures are frightening and dangerous. They don't speak the language and don't have a family support network. They don't even know how to order at an American restaurant or navigate public transit. Access to food, health care, education, resources has been limited. Instability is their normal.
And that's just a typical refugee experience.
How Studying The Minds Of Cultural Icons May Combat Mental Illness Stigma
Huffington Post, February 15, 2016
Marilyn Monroe lives in our cultural imagination as one of the most iconic actresses in Hollywood history. But underneath the famous blonde curls and sex-kitten voice, there's a complex woman who likely suffered from
borderline personality disorder, according to science journalist Claudia Kalb.
Biographers and commentators have long struggled to make sense of Monroe's
contradictory personality. The actress "yearned for love and stability," and yet often lashed out at those she cared about.
The Risks (And Unexpected Benefits) Of Sending Health Students Abroad
NPR, February 11, 2016
Melissa Melby, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware, was pleased to hear a pre-med undergraduate excitedly describe participating in a brief medical outreach program to an impoverished Central American community. That is, until the student proudly recounted how she had performed a pelvic exam on a patients at the local clinic.
"No one here [in the United States] would allow you to perform medical procedures for which you're not licensed," says
Melby. "And that should not change when you cross international boundaries to developing countries."
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COPN bill moves on to Senate; rural interpretation at issue
The News & Advance, February 15, 2016
The meaning of "rural" is under negotiation as two proposals for health care service reform pass from the House of Delegates to the Senate.
Appomattox, Amherst, Bedford and Campbell counties as well as many others in Central and Southwest Virginia currently are not listed as rural for proposed reforms to the certificate of public need system, which has concerned Del. Sam Rasoul, D-Roanoke.
Serving those who served
Chinook Observer, February 16, 2016
Since a 2014 Office of Inspector General audit revealed inadequacies in the Veteran Affairs Mobile Medical Unit, the Puget Sound unit has expanded its reach throughout rural Washington by more than 2,000 patients, including some in Pacific County.
Tony Mitchell, Veteran Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System's director of nurse practitioners, said southern Washington had been a no-man's land.
"Patients were split between the veterans affairs offices in Seattle and offices in Portland, and really had little in between," Mitchell said.
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