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Funding Opportunities
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HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH): Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (R01). Deadline for Cycle III is October 5, 2015.
HHS/NIH, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): Addressing Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health through Community-Based Participatory Research (R03). Deadline for letters of intent is October 20, 2015.
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HHS/NIH, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): Building Population Health Research Capacity in the US Affiliated Pacific Islands (U24).
Deadline for letters of intent is November 9, 2015.
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HHS/NIH, NICHD: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13).
Deadline is November 17, 2015.
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We've done it!!
Virginia is the first state in the national 100 Congregations for Million Hearts initiative to meet its goal of enlisting 100 faith-based organizations into the program!
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| Gov. Terry McAuliffe conducts a meet and greet with guests from enlisted congregations following the formal program of the Virginia's Congregations for Million Hearts Faith and Fitness Festival. |
Governor Announces Virginia as Heart Health National Leader
ov. Terry McAuliffe announced that Virginia is the first state to meet and exceed its goal of enlisting 100 faith-based organizations in the national Million Hearts initiative. He made the announcement at a celebration for the program held August 26.
Hosted by the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE), the "Faith and Fitness Festival" for Virginia's Congregations for Million Hearts also included remarks from Dr. Levine and OMHHE staff as well as special appearances from Sen. Rosalyn Dance and Del. Betsy Carr.
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| Gov. Terry McAuliffe poses with Health Equity Specialist, Augustine Doe. |
Gov. McAuliffe discussed the importance of initiatives like Million Hearts in creating a healthy and robust workforce as the state continues to develop the new Virginia economy. The event's special guests included members of the 124 congregations that have joined Virginia's Congregations for Million Hearts. The celebration featured exhibitions from program partners, cooking demonstrations, fitness activities and art activities.
The event also kicked off #Footsteps4Faith, a walking challenge for the month of September for Virginia's Congregations for Million Hearts. Attendees of the event were given pedometers to take back to other members of their congregations. They were challenged to walk together during the month of September and post photos of their step counts to social media using the hashtag #Footsteps4Faith. The challenge hopes to build on the already strong sense of community within the congregations.
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| Dr. Marissa Levine, State Health Commissioner, talks about the important role that faith based organizations play in health. |
"Preventing cardiovascular disease and stroke should be an all-hands approach," said Augustine Doe, OMHHE Health Equity Specialist. "It is important for communities to support one another to take the important steps to e
healthy. Enlisting faith based organizations into initiatives like Virginia's Congregations for Million Hearts allows public health to reach a broader audience and have a bigger impact in eliminating health disparities."
As its name implies, Virginia's Congregations for Million Hearts is a faith-based program designed to help guide congregations' members toward a heart-healthy lifestyle. It enlists the support of faith-based organizations to help raise awareness and prevention of cardiovascular disease, and focus on hypertension control. These efforts align with the goal of Virginia becoming the healthiest state in the nation.
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US Surgeon General launches campaign with National Call to Action on Walking
HHS, September 9, 2015
The United States Surgeon General today issued a call to action to address major public health challenges such as heart disease and diabetes. Step It Up! The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities articulates the health benefits of walking while addressing the fact that many communities unacceptably lack safe and convenient places for individuals to walk or wheelchair roll.
CMS Releases First Ever Plan to Address Health Equity in Medicare
CMS, September 8, 2015
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH), unveiled the first CMS plan to address health equity in Medicare. The CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare (CMS Equity Plan for Medicare) is an action-oriented plan that focuses on six priority areas and aims to reduce health disparities in four years.
The plan was released at a conference entitled: Medicare & Medicaid at 50: Their Past, Present, and Future Impact on Health Equity, which was held in commemoration of the 50
th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid and the 30th anniversary of the 1985 Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health, also known as the Heckler Report.
New Guidelines Call for Kids, Health Care Workers to Get Flu Shots
NIH, September 7, 2015
All eligible children and health care workers should get flu shots, according to new policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
"Parents must consider flu vaccine an essential vaccine for their children," Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, an AAP spokeswoman, said in a news release from the pediatric group.
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Indiana University-Perdue University Columbus, September 3, 2015
Dr. Bethany A. Murray, RN to BSN Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor for the Indiana School of Nursing at IUPUC recently authored an article for the Journal of Nursing Education, September 2015 supplement. The title and topic of study is "Nursing Students' Experiences of Health Care in Swaziland: Transformational Processes in Developing Cultural Understanding."
Murray explains the intention of the study was an examination of the experiences of six nursing students following a service-learning experience in Swaziland, Africa. Students provided hands-on care in both hospital and community settings.
Bolivian Pair Brings Valuable Public Health Experience
Henrietta Post, September 2, 2015
A dynamic husband-wife pair will visit Rochester as the guests of honor for the AAVia Foundation for the Health of Bolivian Children's Annual Gala, on Friday, September 11, at Casa Larga Vineyards in Fairport.
Luciana Laruta Salazar and Dr. Stanley Blanco are the directors of the Manos Limpias Escuelas Saludables (Clean Hands, Healthy Schools) program in Bolivia, funded by the AAVia Foundation for the Health of Bolivian Children, a non-profit based in Fairport. The program teaches hand and dental hygiene to over 500 children in elementary schools spread across a rural, impoverished region of Bolivia.
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NPR, September 1, 2015
In her third year of medical school, Karen Duong found herself on the other side of Texas. She had driven 12 hours north from where she grew up on the Gulf Coast to a panhandle town called Hereford.
"Hereford is known for being the beef capital of the world," she says, laughing. "There's definitely more cows than people out there."
Rural Health Care Shortage Pervasive in Alabama
The Gadsen Times, September 8, 2015
Fifty-four of Alabama's 67 counties are defined as rural by the Alabama Rural Health Association, with significant rural areas even in the 13 urban counties as defined by census statistics.
Sixty-two Alabama counties are officially designated as completely or partially "Health Professional Shortage Areas," according to Linda Jackson, communications specialist with the University of Alabama's Rural Health Leaders Pipeline.
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