Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Funding\Grant Opportunites


Federal Grants

$500k or more . . .  
  • HHS/National Institutes of Health: Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science for Research Relevant to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P50). View Full Announcement
$500k or less . . .  
  • HHS/Office of Women's Health: National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, 2013 (RFP). View Full Announcement [PDF | 163KB]
  • HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program, Supplemental Evaluation Projects (PHBPP-SEP) Grant. View Full Announcement
  • HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: HIV Early Intervention Services (EIS) Program Existing Geographic Service Areas (EISEGA) Grant. View Full Announcement

Non Federal Grants

$500k or less . . . 

Scholarships/Fellowships Opportunities


  • Harvard Medical School (HMS): The Mongan Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy (formerly The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, est. 1996). View Full Announcement Exit Disclaimer
  • The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU): HACU National Internship Program (HNIP). View Full Announcement Exit Disclaimer
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Health Policy Fellows program. View Full Announcement Exit Disclaimer
  • US Office of Personnel Management: Presidential Management Fellowship 2013. View Full Announcement

Behavioral Health Responders: Deployment Support


United States Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - A Life in the Community for Everyone: Behavioral Health is Essential to Health, Prevention Works, Treatment is Effective, People Recover
Available Now: Deployment Supports for Disaster Behavioral Health Responders
The goal of this 30-minute podcast is to prepare disaster behavioral health (DBH) responders and their family members for deployment by reviewing pre- and post-deployment guidelines and ways to prepare for the stress of deployment and reintegration into their regular work and family lives.
The podcast aims to accomplish the following:
  • Increase awareness of the unique issues DBH responders face, especially with numerous or long-term assignments.
  • Provide pre-deployment guidelines to assist DBH responders and their family members as they prepare for deployment.
  • Provide post-deployment guidelines and practices that enable reintegration with family members and routine employment.
The featured speaker is April Naturale, Ph.D., of the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC). Dr. Naturale is a traumatic stress specialist with 25 years of experience in health/mental health administration. She directed New York's disaster mental health response following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Dr. Naturale also spent several years in the Gulf Coast after large-scale hurricanes devastated the area.
SAMHSA DTAC encourages participation by behavioral health, public health, and other professionals involved in emergency management and disaster response.
You may download the slides and the transcript by visiting the SAMHSA DTAC Archived Webinar Page.
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Lori McGee at 240-515-8414 or lori.mcgee@icfi.com. We would appreciate your thoughts on this podcast or suggestions for future podcasts/webinars. Please send feedback to dtac@samhsa.hhs.gov.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

TRAC: The Global Standard for Baseline Due Diligence

TRAC is a new global online due diligence platform for supply and marketing chain compliance that captures, assesses and shares baseline due diligence information on organizations and individuals and issues universal ID numbers to approved applicants. It is designed to streamline compliance, procurement and contracting operations while ensuring that basic due diligence is met. TRAC is entirely free for companies to access – whether or not they are TRACE member companies.

To learn more about TRAC, view our 90 second video, or visit www.tracnumber.com.


TRACE International, Inc. is a non-profit membership association that pools resources to provide practical and cost-effective anti-bribery compliance solutions for multinational companies and their commercial intermediaries (sales agents and representatives, consultants, distributors, suppliers, etc.).
TRACE provides several core services and products, including: due diligence reports on commercial intermediaries; model compliance policies; an online Resource Center with foreign local law summaries, including guidelines on gifts and hospitality; in-person and online anti-bribery training; and research on corporate best practices.

For multinational companies, TRACE provides a practical and cost-effective alternative to increasingly expensive and time-consuming corporate compliance. For commercial intermediaries, TRACE offers a marketing advantage by creating a bridge between them and companies doing business internationally.

Companies cannot afford to ignore the realities of doing business in today's increasingly complex compliance environment. Over the past 15 years, an increasing number of countries have enacted anti-bribery laws to implement international anti-corruption conventions criminalizing the bribery of foreign public officials. The new laws typically state that a business will be liable for the corrupt acts and/or the improper payments made by an intermediary if management "knew or should have known" that a particular intermediary was likely to make an inappropriate payment. Thus, companies are required to conduct sufficient due diligence on prospective intermediaries to ensure that they are committed to transparent business practices regardless of business pressure, local law or custom. Anti-bribery laws, however, are deliberately vague on the issue of "sufficient due diligence."

TRACE was founded to achieve economies of scale and set a common standard for two shared elements of anti-bribery compliance: due diligence reviews and anti-bribery training for business intermediaries and company employees based around the world.

TRACE is a 501(c)(6) non-profit membership association, organized under the laws of the District of Columbia and, as such, does not pay tax on its net revenue. TRACE was founded in 2001.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit October 31 – November 2, 2012








2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit
October 31 – November 2, 2012


Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center
National Harbor, MD

The 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit promises to be a stimulating learning experience, and a chance to develop new partnerships with others committed to the quest to eliminate health disparities.  It will bring together national and international leaders in the field of health disparities representing multiple disciplines and sectors to share cutting-edge science, policy, practice, and various results-oriented approaches to address health disparities.  

Come and learn about the progress that communities across the United States and around the world are making to improve the health of underserved populations, the challenges they face, and opportunities to foster collaborative alliances to build a healthier global society.

Sessions are now open for registration http://www.nimhd.nih.gov/summit_site/programAgenda.html
 

To register for the sessions, you must first complete the general registration http://citfm.cit.nih.gov/registration/register.php and use the password you to receive to access the sessions registration page.

Hotel Reservations Deadline: Monday, October 1, 2012
If you have questions, please contact 2012summit@mail.nih.gov or call 240-395-0549.

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