Funding Opportunity: Research to Characterize and Reduce Stigma to Improve Health
National Institute of Health
This research grant encourages applications to characterize the role of stigma in health, life course development, and aging, both in the U.S. and globally, and to test interventions to prevent or reduce the impact of stigma at the individual, community, health care system, and policy levels.
Due September 7, 2016.
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North American Refugee Health Conference
Event: North American Refugee Health Conference 2014
June 19 – 21, 2014, Rochester NY. A three day event focusing on best practices in refugee health. Registration is now open.
Behavioral Interventions to Address Multiple Chronic Health Conditions in Primary Care
Funding Opportunity: Behavioral Interventions to Address Multiple Chronic Health Conditions in Primary Care
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Seeking applications that propose to use a common conceptual model to develop behavioral interventions to modify health behaviors and improve health outcomes in patients with co-morbid chronic diseases and health conditions in primary care settings.
Due May 7, 2017
Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities
Funding Opportunity: Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The purpose of this grant is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U. S. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention.
Due September 8, 2016.
Understanding and promoting health litearcy research grants
Funding Opportunity: Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy Research Grants
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The goal of this program announcement is to encourage empirical research on health literacy concepts, theory and interventions.
Due May 7, 2016.
ACIP Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older — United States, 2014
Resource: ACIP recommended immunization schedules for adults aged 19 years or olders – United States, 2014.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A brief summary of ACIP recommendations for the use of vaccines routinely recommended for adults in the form of two figures, footnotes for each vaccine, and a table that includes primary contraindications and precautions.
ACIP Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years — United States, 2014
Resource: ACIP recommended immunization schedules for persons aged 0 through 18 years – United States, 2014.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Approved recommended immunizations schedules for persons 0 – 18 years for 2014, which include several changes from the 2013 immunization schedule.
Health promotion among racial and ethnic minority males
Funding Opportunity: Health promotion among racial and ethnic minority males
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This grant seeks applications that expand research in the health of minority men to enhance understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and encourages applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older.
Due September 7, 2016.
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery
Funding Opportunity: The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This funding opportunity announcement seeks project grant applications that propose to 1) improve the measurement of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems; 2) enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery; and 3) reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic disparities through the development of interventions.
Due date May 8, 2014.
ECDC annual national conference
Event: ECDC’s Annual National Conference and National Resettlement Affiliate Network Training
African Refugees and Immigrants: Pathways to Security, Integration and Empowerment
April 30 – May 3, 2014, Arlington, Virginia