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Mission
Our mission is to identify health inequities and their root causes and promote equitable opportunities to be healthy.
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Hot Topic
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the 2016 Naloxone App Competition, a public contest focused on developing innovative technologies to combat the rising epidemic of opioid overdose.
A panel of judges from the FDA, NIDA, and SAMHSA will evaluate submissions and the highest-scoring entrant will receive an award of $40,000. Following the competition, entrants also may apply for NIDA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants, subject to eligibility requirements set forth in the SBIR funding opportunity announcement, to further develop their concepts and to develop data to evaluate their real-world impact.
The Naloxone App Competition was developed under the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (COMPETES) Reauthorization Act of 2010, which grants all federal agencies broad authority to conduct prize competitions to spur innovation, solve tough problems and advance their core missions.
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Sign up for one of over 60 projects with nonprofit, school, community, and government agencies across Richmond in this 9th annual day of service.
Give a Day, Love RVA.
Saturday October 15th
Various locations city-wide;
9am - 1pm
Includes projects with Richmond Public Schools, Tricycle Gardens, Sacred Heart Center, Maymont, Heart Havens, Richmond Wildlife Center, and many, many more.
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Veterans Choice Program Education for Community Providers
The Veterans Choice Program was established so that eligible Veterans who are enrolled in the VA health system can receive care in their communities.
Health care providers interested in participating in the Veterans Choice Program must establish either a Patient Centered Community Care (PC3) contract or a Choice Provider agreement with one of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-approved contractors, Health Net Federal, or TriWest Healthcare Alliance. Both offer educational resources to help providers better understand the process.
TriWest offers free live, interactive webinars for providers that cover the appointing and authorization process, secondary authorization requests, overall health care management process, billing and claims procedures, other health insurance, and medical documentation requirements. A live demo also explains how to use the secure Provider Portal to complete administrative tasks, such as uploading medical documentation and checking claims status. To register for a TriWest webinar, click
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o view the webinar schedule. Choose the webinar date and time which works best for you, and follow the registration instructions on Page Two. Please note: all webinars are scheduled in Mountain Standard Time or Arizona Time.
Similarly, Health Net's provider orientation webinar covers an overview of Patient-Centered Community Care (PCCC) and the Veterans Choice Program, including covered regions, how to become a provider, and Veteran eligibility. Also, a presentation familiarizes providers with Health Net's PCCC program, regions and attributes. The application promotes awareness of the Veteran experience: where they live; unique needs and challenges such as Veteran Integrated Service Network locations, socio-economic and health challenges; and VA resources.
To access Health Net's provider resources,
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Gearing Up for Health Literacy Month!
It's not too late to get ready for Health Literacy Month in October. Start planning your activities now. One resource is the
Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates. This handbook will help you create, plan, run, and evaluate Health Literacy Month events.
Get this free resource and more information by visiting the "
Share & Interact" section of the CDC Health Literacy
website.
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Funding Opportunities
HHS/NIH, Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund): NIH Director's Transformative Research Awards (R01) Research Project Grant.
HHS/NIH: Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Enhancing Diversity in Biomedical Data Science (R25) Education Project. Supports educational activities that enhance the
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iversity of the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce.
Deadline for LOI is October 14, 2016.
Learn more
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National Science Foundation (NSF): Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP). Assists universities and colleges in their efforts to increase the numbers of students matriculating into and completing degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in order to diversify the STEM workforce.
Deadline is October 14, 2016.
Learn more.
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Save the Date
Southeastern Health Equity Council Training on Cultural Competency in working with Hispanic/Latino population
Date: October 13, 2016
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Paul Farmer, Founder of Partners in Health Speaking on the Intersection of Health Care, Faith and Society
Date: September 28, 2016
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Where: Modlin Center - Jepson Theater
HandsOn Day 2016
Date: October 13, 2016
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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