May 2, 2022 NIMHD Events Digest This digest provides information on upcoming and recent events that relate to the mission of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Upcoming NIMHD Events Technical assistance webinar for RFA-OD-22-01, Emergency Award: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Tribal Data Repository (RADx TDR) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) May 2, 2022 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | ZoomGov
NIMHD will host a pre-application technical assistance webinar for prospective applicants who plan to submit applications to RFA-OD-22-011, Emergency Award: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Tribal Data Repository (RADx TDR) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). NIH program and review staff will provide an overview of the RFA—including objectives, application instructions, and review criteria—and will be available to answer questions. NIMHD Director's Seminar Series with Dr. Mark D. Hayward: "Early Life Factors Underlying the Dementia Epidemic Among Older Black Americans"  May 4, 2022 | 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. ET | NIH Videocast
Join NIMHD for this upcoming Director's Seminar Series webinar with Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hayward is a health demographer and population health scientist. In this webinar, he will share insights from his work, focusing on the issue of early life developmental origins of cognitive aging in the older population. | Technical assistance webinar for RFA-MD-22-008, Understanding and Addressing Misinformation Among Populations That Experience Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trials Optional) May 6, 2022 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET | ZoomGov
NIMHD will host a pre-application technical assistance webinar for prospective applicants who plan to submit applications to RFA-MD-22-008, Understanding and Addressing Misinformation Among Populations That Experience Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trials Optional). NIH program and review staff will provide an overview of the RFA—including objectives, application instructions, and review criteria—and will be available to answer questions. A Virtual Conversation with Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: Addressing systemic racism, mental health stigma, and community resilience to achieve health equity May 11, 2022 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET | NIH Videocast  Join NIMHD and the NIH Federal Asian Pacific American Council for this lecture in celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. This is the second in a series of fireside chats and lectures in honor of Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A., who is the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States. The goal of the series is to recognize a public health leader whose enduring efforts have made a significant impact on advancing public health. At this meeting, Dr. Murthy will recognize Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston, for her leadership in addressing racism and mental health stigma among AANHPI communities. NIMHD Director Eliseo Pérez-Stable, M.D., will provide introductory remarks, and NIMHD Deputy Director Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D., will moderate the conversation between Dr. Murthy and Mayor Wu. Please send your questions for the speakers by April 29 or requests for reasonable accommodations to Dr. Christina Liu at liuch2@mail.nih.gov. | Upcoming NIH Events Implementing Radical Healing Strategies to Promote Health Equity May 3, 2022 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET | Zoom
Join the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for its next Director's Innovation Speaker Series lecture featuring Helen A. Neville, Ph.D., on radical healing. Radical healing incorporates individual and collective aspects of health and wellness within the context of racial and other forms of oppression. Dr. Neville will also discuss evidence for each of the five tenets of the model, emphasizing conceptual and empirical research on radical hope. She will conclude her talk by presenting five public policy implications to promote (mental) health equity, particularly among Black American communities. Inaugural Annual NIH AA and NHPI Health Research Conference May 4:00 – 5:00, 2022 | Webinar
The NIH Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Scientific Interest Group (NIH AANHPI-HSIG) will host this two-day event to celebrate AANHPI heritage month, highlight AANHPI research achievements, and assess research needs. The main theme of the 2022 conference is "Mechanism and Translational Research to Improve Health and Therapeutic Outcomes for AA and NHPI Populations." NIMHD Director Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., will provide opening remarks. CURE Distinguished Scholars Seminar: "Tobacco Control in a Pediatric Healthcare Setting" May 5, 2022 | 1:00 p.m. ET | Webinar  The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) invites you to join the upcoming Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) Distinguished Scholars Seminar with E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. This seminar will focus on the biomarkers and clinical effects of secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke exposure in children, how tobacco control interventions can be incorporated into pediatric healthcare visits, and counseling and biofeedback techniques that can be integrated into parental tobacco cessation interventions. The CURE Program supports individuals from underrepresented groups across the academic continuum—beginning with middle school students and continuing through independent cancer researchers—through a pipeline of research funding opportunities. | A Precision Health Approach for Actionable Climate Change and Health Research May 13, 2022 | 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. ET | ZoomGov
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) will host Aaron Bernstein, M.D., for the next climate change and health webinar. Dr. Bernstein's presentation will explain how climate and health research has emphasized population-level associations over individual risks. Dr. Bernstein will explain how this has limited our ability to adapt to climate shocks, especially for populations that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This presentation will also highlight examples where a precision health approach to investigating climate actions can catalyze health-promoting climate mitigation and adaptation.  NIH Virtual Meeting on the Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Structural Racism May 17-19, 2022 | 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. each day | Zoom
This three-day meeting will include in-depth discussions about the roots of structural racism and its impacts on psychology, neuroscience and psychiatry. The objective of this meeting is to provide cognitive neuroscience researchers with knowledge and awareness about the impacts of structural racism on the study of the human brain, and how to be anti-racist as a neuroscientist.
The NIMHD Events Digest includes a selection of upcoming and recent events either hosted by NIMHD, our federal partners, collaborators, and grantee institutions. |
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