Month December 2017

Month December 2017

Tribal EpiCenters
12/22/2017

Tribal Practices for Wellness in Indian Country

Grant Opportunities

This 3-year funding opportunity from the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion supports tribal practices that connect individuals and community to culture with the long-term goals of building resiliency; reducing morbidity and mortality due to heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes; and reducing risk factors for all chronic disease among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Recipients will include up to 14 American Indian Tribes, Alaska Native villages, or American Indian or Alaska Native tribally-designated organizations 2 of 49 serving a specific tribe, reservation or native village. Up to 14 Urban Indian Organizations will also be funded to address the same strategies for that portion of their patient populations that is American Indian and Alaska Native. Recipients will address the following strategies:

  • Connect cultural teachings to health and wellness
  • Seasonal cultural practices that support health and wellness
  • Social and cultural activities that promote community wellness
  • Collaborations that strengthen wellbeing
  • Intergenerational learning that supports wellbeing and resilience
  • Promote traditional healthy foods
  • Promote traditional and contemporary physical activities

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    Deadline to apply: Feb. 20, 2018

    Funding Amount: $100,000-$150,000

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Tribal EpiCenters
12/18/2017

Advancing Health Equity in Tribal Communities through Public Health Accreditation

Training

Speakers:
Karrie Joseph, MPH, CHES, Public Health Programs Manager, NIHB
Carrie Sampson (Umatilla, WallaWalla, Cayuse), Assistant Administrator, Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center

Description:
Tribal communities bear a disproportionate burden of social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage relative to other racially or ethnically defined population groups. Therefore, ensuring that all American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) achieve the highest level of health possible will require broad-spectrum action that goes beyond addressing individual determinants and disease management to include action to address such disadvantages.

The changing landscape of public health, with a multi-disciplinary approach focused on the social determinants of health, is a true opportunity to advance the well-being of AI/AN communities. The National Indian Health Board (NIHB), in partnership with the NPA, has taken a proactive and strategic approach to building the public health capacity of tribal health departments through information gathering and dissemination, capacity building, and awareness raising.

This webinar will highlight the work that has been done at the national level as well as within a tribal community to advance health equity and improve health outcomes for AI/ANs.

Presenters will:
• Provide a background on the landscape of public health in Indian Country;
• Discuss the findings of an environmental scan on the state of public health accreditation and health equity within tribal communities; and
• Share one tribe’s approach to using public health accreditation activities to achieve health equity within its community.

Tribal EpiCenters
12/18/2017

Support for Tribal Accreditation Readiness and Success in Public Health

Grant Opportunities

Seven Directions is pleased to announce a call for proposals for Support for Tribal Accreditation Readiness and Success in Public Health. Up to six Tribal Health Departments will be awarded grants to support public health accreditation readiness and will receive targeted capacity building assistance from Seven Directions. The Support for Tribal Accreditation Readiness and Success in Public Health aims to increase accreditation readiness among Tribal Health Departments by providing: a network of support, capacity building activities, training opportunities, and technical assistance.

INFORMATION & APPLICATION

Any questions can be emailed to Keisha Musonda.

Deadline to apply: January 5, 2018 at 5:00 pm PST

Tribal EpiCenters
12/15/2017

Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING)

Training
The Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Workshop is a one-week workshop aimed at discussing the uses, misuses and limitations of genomics as a tool for indigenous peoples’ communities. The workshop will also assist in training indigenous peoples in the concepts and methods currently used in genomics.

The next workshop will be held July 22-28, 2018 at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Deadline to apply: 1/31/18

Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics
Tribal EpiCenters
12/07/2017

Understanding Vaccination Coverage in Rural Areas

Grant Opportunities

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks to get a better understanding of the factors that contribute to disparities in vaccination rates between rural and urban adolescents and make an effort to improve vaccination coverage in rural areas. State, local and tribal governments, public and private colleges and universities and non-profit organizations are among those eligible to apply for funding of up to $350,000 per year for a three-year project with a special emphasis on the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.

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Deadline to apply: Feb 13, 2018
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET.