Along with genetic predisposition, environmental exposures, cultural influences, diet, and substance use, the lack of access to medical information and services has also contributed to the high AI/AN cancer mortality rates. However, researchers, nonprofits, tribal healthcare facilities, and cancer centers are stepping up to address these factors and create solutions. Across the nation, models for cancer research dissemination, prevention, and treatment are emerging to engage Native populations in cancer care.

This new resource presents legal strategies and best practices to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities improve health outcomes. The Blueprint outlines ways to leverage the unique power and efficacy of local policy solutions, incorporate health in all policies, and engage diverse community members in the policy process. At its core, the Blueprint focuses on comprehensive strategies to address the fundamental drivers of health inequities.

This research brief describes the health impacts that arise from housing insecurity, followed by evidence-based solutions that can address health-related housing needs.

Federal funding can help states improve housing, employment, and other life conditions for their vulnerable residents. This table highlights new programs, including public-private investment opportunities from the US Treasury, integrated care models from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, and recent federal initiatives to combat the opioid crisis. It also features key longstanding sources, such as tax-exempt hospitals’ community benefits dollars, Medicaid investments, and health promotion funds from the CDC.

Addressing the social determinants of health begins with identifying a patient’s needs and measuring their impact. Factsheet highlights CMS tools that can help in the identification process.

A growing body of research indicates that early child care and education may lead to improvements in short- and long-term health-related outcomes for children.

Home visiting programs, which provide new and expectant parents with information, support, and referrals to community resources and services, promote good maternal and child health, home safety, food security, and positive parenting.

In April 2019, the topic-specific PubMed Special Query, Health Disparities, was updated to include terms and resources on gender and sexual minorities. As of this update, the search retrieves over 230,000 citations.

The VA and the Indian Health Service (IHS) established a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to improve the health status of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) veterans through coordination and resource sharing among VA, IHS, and tribes. This report examines (1) VA and IHS oversight of MOU implementation since 2014, (2) the use of reimbursement agreements to pay for AI/AN veterans' care since 2014, and (3) key issues identified by selected VA, IHS, and tribal health program facilities related to coordinating AI/AN veterans' care.

Based on the national and international call to more fully integrate the social determinants of health into health professions education, nurse educators, teaching in both graduate and undergraduate programs, are faced with the urgent need to design curricula that provide a better understanding of the root causes that contribute to an individual’s health, the reasons health disparities exist, and how health equity is achieved by all people regardless of socioeconomic status.

This brief is one in a series of six on key early childhood issues for state policymakers and highlights ways to promote financial stability for families, thereby allowing for access to safe housing, healthy food and other necessities.

Creating health equity through public policies is the focus of this new report, which recommends a comprehensive series of actions that will help to close health gaps, broaden opportunity, and ensure that everyone in New Jersey—no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make—can live the healthiest life possible.

Burden of disease is often defined by using epidemiologic measures. However, there may be latent aspects of disease burden that are not factored into these types of estimates. This study quantified environmental burden of disease by using population health indicators and exploratory factor analysis at the county level across the United States.

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Commentary states that American medicine has largely ignored the implications of the education-health relationship. Proposed steps to be taken by both the medical establishment and individual providers aim for a realistic target for improvements in educational achievement and health, but also a path out of poverty, a stronger workforce and a more stable economy.

At least 12 states are developing accountable health models to improve health and control costs by addressing health-related community needs, such as transportation, recreation, and housing. Their goals include building healthy communities and improving health equity through cross-sector partnerships, and their organizational and governance structures are evolving to reach these goals.

UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced a new collaboration that will better identify and address social determinants of health (SDOH) to improve access to care and patient outcomes. Building on work initiated by UnitedHealthcare, the two organizations are working together to standardize how data is collected, processed and integrated regarding critical social and environmental factors that contribute to patient well-being.

Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles.

In this report, researchers distilled the findings from a voluminous literature to draw conclusions from the existing research base about the causal relationship between employment and health. The review focused on surfacing evidence on whether a change in employment is responsible for a change in health or vice versa.

Research report in collaboration with Missouri Faith Voices on the health impacts of predatory lending and how the industry unfairly targets vulnerable communities in Missouri.

This brief outlines the Paid Family Leave (PFL) policy landscape in the United States and the ways in which PFL may affect population health. It discusses empirical research on the effects of PFL on child and parental health, both in the United States and in other countries. It concludes by exploring the policy implications of this research and commenting on additional research that is needed to better understand the health effects of PFL.

Signs of improvement shine through among the dozens of data points in a U.S. News analysis of the nation’s Healthiest Communities.

As part of its observance of National Minority Health Month in April, the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at HHS just launched the Active & Healthy Challenge. The purpose of the challenge is to encourage individuals, especially racial and ethnic minorities, to work physical activity into their daily and weekly schedules.

Blog post explores a series of case studies and tools developed after a national scan of promising HC/CBO partnerships that examine the operational, financial, and strategic components of successful partnerships.

By providing accessible city-level data on health and its determinants, the City Health Dashboard complements local surveillance efforts and supports urban population health improvement on a national scale.

This Notice encourages research that describes the biological, clinical, behavioral, and social processes that affect the health and development of SGM populations and individuals and their families, and that leads to the development of acceptable and appropriate health interventions and health service delivery methods that will enhance health and development of these populations.

Report explores governmental public health’s role in advancing health equity with racial equity as a major priority and community engagement as a central strategy. Through literature reviews, key informant interviews and focus groups with health officials, public health experts and community leaders across the country, the report identifies a variety of opportunities for governmental public health to advance equity within health departments, in partnership with other departments and communities, and through national networks of leaders within and outside of public health.

States are implementing a number of strategies to address SDOH and to integrate such efforts into the delivery of health care. New state officials will want to consider assessing current state policy to determine if these strategies are being or should be pursued, recognizing that ensuring access to physical and behavioral health care services is most essential, but that a whole person approach to health care delivery may well include addressing social issues through evidence-based interventions.

Study highlights analytic methods and designs, multilevel approaches, complex systems modeling techniques, and qualitative methods that should be more broadly employed and adapted to advance health disparities research and identify approaches to mitigate them.

Study examined diabetes prevalence by age and race/ethnicity and assessed how socioeconomic status and lifestyle behaviors affected prevalence among Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, NHOPI, and white populations in Hawai‘i.

CHLA and HIMSS are partnering on a global tech challenge inviting entrants to design solutions for the healthcare impact on Latinx youth in three key areas: mental well-being, access to healthcare, and access to social services. The challenge runs March 4 – April 26, 2019 with three winners receiving funding prizes over $20,000 total to bring their ideas to life.

To investigate the association between casino ownership and health-related community resources among Native Americans, researchers surveyed 81 of California’s 110 federally recognized tribes about casino ownership and health-related community resources during 2015 and 2016.

This brief examines changes in health coverage by race and ethnicity between 2013 and 2017, providing insight into how coverage has changed since implementation of the ACA.

Open access article published in Health Services Research examines the relationship between food swamps and hospitalization rates among adults with diabetes.

Open access study in Health Services Research) assesses the relationship between a composite measure of neighborhood disadvantage, the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), and control of blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol in the Medicare Advantage (MA) population.

Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) invites authors to submit manuscripts describing innovative and effective work to link public health and pharmacy in ways that improve population health. PCD seeks manuscripts that provide timely information on effective ways the disciplines of public health and pharmacy can collaborate to improve the nation’s health and/or improve population health globally. Submissions are due by October 31, 2019.

Study examines chronic disease by housing and food insecurity among whites, Asians, and Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islanders (NHOPIs) in Hawaiʻi.

The purpose of this Notice is to promote the expansion of the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program’s efforts to accelerate clinical and translational research to address health disparities and the significant burden of conditions that disproportionately affect rural, minority, and other underserved populations.

A set of powerpoint slides which outlines Hispanic-American health issues in relation to other ethnic groups.

Report examines the links between mass incarceration and health equity. Through pairing data with examples of successful approaches, this report shows how mass incarceration negatively impacts everyone’s health and well-being and also suggests solutions for reducing both incarceration and crime rates and increasing opportunities for all.

Article provides a brief history of hospitals’ role in desegregation during America’s Civil Rights era as inspiration for an integrated approach to the opioid epidemic, wherein hospitals use Medicaid expansion to advance health equity and racial healing.

Using IHS data, the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) team found significant decreases in hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes in the AI/AN population receiving treatment at IHS facilities. However, the declines are not as pronounced in younger age groups.

Issue brief identifies emerging trends in the care delivery models that state Medicaid programs use for former inmates.

This blog post discusses efforts to identify and address health disparities among Hispanic populations..

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will participate in PAR-19-093, “Leveraging Health Information Technology (Health IT) to Address Minority and Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)"

During 2013–2015, total drug and opioid-involved overdose mortality rates for AI/AN were 2.7 times higher than those of whites in Washington. Misclassification of AI/AN race in death certificates underestimated Washington AI/AN overdose mortality by approximately 40%.

Rural Americans are more likely than people in urban and suburban areas to say access to good doctors and hospitals is a major problem in their community. Nearly a quarter (23%) of Americans in rural areas say this, compared with 18% of urbanites and 9% of suburbanites, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted earlier this year.

CDC, HUD, and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) brought together public, private, and nonprofit leaders on Nov. 29-30, 2016 to explore how they could work together to improve health and housing outcomes. This convening identified existing partnership, financing, and data-sharing approaches for cross-sector partnerships among healthcare, housing providers, and other sectors that improve health and housing outcomes. This resource guide synthesizes the lessons learned from the 2016 convening and provides public health leaders with strategies to build effective partnerships.

Interactive presentation on the definitions of rural and urban, rural health indicators, geography and health outcomes, the social determinants of health, rural behavioral health, and identifying needs of the entire community rather than just priority populations. (New Mexico Public Health Institute)

The Elder Index provides a measure of how much it costs seniors to live in California.

Analysis of 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from Arizona found significantly higher prevalences of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, being overweight or having obesity, diabetes, hypertension, fair or poor health status, and leisure-time physical inactivity and a lower prevalence of having a personal doctor among AI/AN compared to whites.

The complications of obesity and diet-related diseases challenge the traditional model of health care delivery, in which care primarily rests with physicians, nurses, and other health professionals. These conditions instead require health systems to restructure care delivery to consider underlying drivers, which have traditionally fallen to professionals outside of the health care delivery system. Key among these underlying drivers are the social determinants of health.

This report summarizes findings and recommendations from SPRC’s exploration of suicide surveillance among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities across the country. Each section describes challenges and provides strategies and resources to help AI/AN communities gather data on suicide to inform and evaluate their prevention efforts.

The results of a June 2018 workshop which looked at the availability of genetic services to all communities.

This brief examines health care coverage rates and sources of coverage among nonelderly (under age 65) Californians based on the 2017 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), with 2013 and 2016 CHIS data used for comparisons before and after expansion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Study examines the relationship between patients’ perceptions of equity-oriented health care and selected patient-reported health outcomes by testing a theoretical model informed by current theory and evidence.

This volume is the second in RWJF's Culture of Health series, spanning a broad range of topics related to current public discourse, including the role of place, race, opportunity, and class in health and well-being; mass incarceration; health and climate change; new methods and approaches for research and dissemination of evidence; and a deep dive on health and well-being in Kentucky. Users can request a free hardcover copy.

This policy brief examines differences in health care access, health behaviors, and health outcomes by sexual orientation among California adults.

Post highlights work and research from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to reduce health disparities among Latino Americans.

The focus of this synthesis report is twofold: to demonstrate how HIS is strengthened by addressing gender, and to show that addressing gender in HIS improves gender equity and health outcomes.

This issue of Transforming Care offers examples of health systems that are making efforts to identify implicit bias and structural racism in their organizations, and developing customized approaches to engaging and supporting patients to ameliorate their effects.

Study profiles health plans and clinics that have created custom models for people with different types of disabilities: physical, intellectual and developmental, and those related to serious mental illnesses.

This brief summarizes findings from the implementation of the first design for the American Indian and Alaska Native Early Childhood Needs Assessment, which used existing data to create a national picture of the AI/AN population of young children and their families, and their access to and participation in early childhood services using the 2010–2014 American Community Survey.

The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA) demonstrating how public health leaders, artists and criminal justice reformers can work together to assess how parental incarceration harms children’s health. Post outlines their project and results.

The goal of this Research Report is to summarize the development and initial validation of a Disability Index that reflects the presence and severity of different types of disability measured by the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). This Disability Index represents a single summary measure of disability that uses publicly available and widely used national health survey data.

Report investigates whether a community that experiences challenges—for instance, high unemployment, community violence, segregation, or high opioid use—could develop community allostatic load, which, in turn, could affect how it responds to future traumatic events.

The more local the data, the more useful it is for pinpointing disparities and driving action. The first universal measure of health at a neighborhood level, USALEEP, reveals gaps that may previously have gone unnoticed.

This report outlines key steps toward building healthier and more equitable communities and features specific policies and programs that can improve social and economic opportunities and health for all. Policies and programs that are likely to reduce unfair differences in health outcomes are emphasized.

CDC announces the opening of a docket to obtain comment on an upcoming Surgeon General's document/Call to Action with a working title “Community Health and Prosperity”. The goal of the Call to Action is to: Clearly demonstrate that investments in community health have the potential to improve the health and prosperity of communities and issue a call to action to the private sector and local policy makers for investment in communities, unilaterally or as part of multi-sector or other consortium, to improve community health.

More black and African-American Coloradans gained health insurance after key parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect in 2014, and a greater share reported good health. But certain barriers to health care remain more common for these Coloradans.

The results of a November 2017 workshop that explores the link between immigration and health disparities.

This chart compares the social determinants each state targeted, and how states monitored outcomes and funded these efforts.

GAO reviewed the actions NIH has taken to support (1) investigators beginning their biomedical careers; and (2) investigators from underrepresented groups and women. GAO analyzed NIH data from fiscal years 2013 through 2017 on grant funding for investigators by career phase and demographic status. GAO also reviewed relevant laws and NIH policies, programs, and initiatives, and interviewed NIH officials and stakeholders from the scientific research community.

The goal of this paper is to create a resource that health equity and health system transformation leaders can use to assist in policy development and prioritization that best serves their communities and constituencies.

Video from ISPOR 2018 on social determinants of health.

This report provides methodological information on how to obtain estimates of behavioral health outcomes for populations living on and off tribal lands and provides some initial estimates.

The roadmap, aimed at providers and payers was designed to help reduce health disparities through performance measurement. Selected conditions (cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, infant mortality/low birthweight, and mental illness) are used as case studies.

This calculator is designed to assist community-based organizations and their medical partners in creating mutually advantageous financial arrangements for funding the delivery of social services to high-need, high-cost (HNHC) populations, by calculating the return on investment (ROI) from integrating social services with medical care.

This document was developed to help train front-line health care employees to provide affirming services to transgender and gender non-conforming patients at their organization.

This document provides suggestions for health care providers to assist LGBT patients in enrolling for health insurance.

A new toolkit is designed to assist Omega Psi Phi Fraternity chapters and partners in educating the community on depression and stress in African American men.

Sponsored by the NHLBI. Provides educational materials, resources, and strategies tailored to minority groups and health disparate populations, with a focus on preventing and reducing the incidence of heart disease and increasing overall health.

A toolkit designed to help minority organizations and communities start a conversation about the importance of diversity in clinical trials.

Toolkits to help institutions engage their academic and local communities in dialogue to identify actions individuals or institutions can take to move communities toward health and health care equity.

This document provides recommendations regarding the preparations that health centers can make for providing appropriate services to the LGBT community during disaster situations.

This independent study course discusses aspects of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender-related health disparities and how they impact clients. Participants will practice skills for assessing and treating gender-diverse clients who may be at risk for HIV or who have HIV.

A glossary of health terminology relevant to the LGBT community.

Provides guidance on how to create policy, systems, and environmental changes that will reduce obesity disparities and achieve health equity.

This map is a free, open resource for those interested in sharing IHI's mission of improving health care. This includes access to various "How To Guides," for example, prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia; prevent surgical site infection; prevent adverse drug events, etc.

This interactive tool was designed to identify areas of disparities between subgroups of Medicare beneficiaries in outcomes, utilizations and spending. Search limits include year, county or state, age, condition, and gender.

The LAP contains information, in multiple languages, for six disease areas where major health disparities have been identified in non-English speaking populations. Disease areas currently include cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and more.

Asynchronous course is designed to teach public health professionals and librarians to use MedlinePlus, PubMed, and HSRProj to find reliable health information and data related to population health and Healthy People 2020.

This document includes terminology, data, case scenarios, and expert practices. It suggests ways in which staff member within health care organizations can implement changes to improve the experiences of patients with non-binary gender identities.

This guide has been developed to help health care staff provide an affirmative, inclusive, and respectful environment for all clients, with a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

To help clinicians address social determinants of health (SDoH) within a framework that maximizes their skills while helping organizations systemically approach these challenges, the AHA Physician Alliance has created a virtual expedition consisting of five modules.

Examples of CDC-sponsored initiatives that address health disparities with the goal of advancing health equity.

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) called on artists of all kinds to illustrate what health equity looks, sounds, and feels like to them. By sharing insights directly from people in diverse communities around the United States, the goal of this community art project is to get more people thinking and talking about health equity and the social determinants of health.

In this interactive learning tool, the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health Framework is explained in a practical way for multiple audiences. The tool can be used by both individuals and groups to better understand and use the framework in their practice to advance health equity.

The AHRQ Visualization Resources of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health Challenge seeks tools that support visualizing such data clusters to enhance the research and analysis of community-level health services. Challenge participants must develop visualization tools that can augment the insights drawn from the analysis of medical expenditure and health care utilization data at the community level.

The two-year fellowships at ARG provide research training in the study of alcohol and drug use and problems, and are oriented toward the pursuit of basic and applied socio-behavioral and epidemiological research. Research is focused on the study of the prevalence, distribution, etiology, and treatment of alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, alcohol-related problems, drug use, and drug-related problems. Health disparities are a central theme of both the training program and ARG broadly.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites research projects to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases in the United States and reducing/eliminating health disparities.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support and accelerate innovative exploratory and developmental research to develop and test feasibility of effective interventions to address health disparities among U.S. immigrant populations.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support and accelerate innovative exploratory and developmental research to develop and test feasibility of effective interventions to address health disparities among U.S. immigrant populations.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative research to develop and implement effective interventions to address health disparities among U.S. immigrant populations.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative research to develop and implement effective interventions to address health disparities among U.S. immigrant populations.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to support investigative and collaborative research focused on determining the mechanisms for the variation in the prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), and understanding and reducing disparities in opioid care in minority health and health disparity populations in the U.S.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative research to understand uniquely associated factors (biological, behavioral, sociocultural, and environmental) that contribute to health disparities or health advantages among U.S. immigrant populations.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative exploratory and developmental research to understand uniquely associated factors (biological, behavioral, sociocultural, and environmental) that contribute to health disparities or health advantages among U.S. immigrant populations.

Community Health Programs provide charitable grants to financially support innovative partnerships of physician-led community-based agencies, including free clinics, focused on the prevention and management of chronic diseases, particularly Type 2 diabetes and hypertension among vulnerable populations.

Describes National Cancer Institute training and career development opportunities available to diverse populations interested in pursuing cancer research careers in basic, clinical, prevention and population control sciences.

Funding to support US-Caribbean collaborative research to develop or extend cohort or surveillance studies on chronic disease in the Caribbean region that are aligned with existing publicly available US datasets. The intent is for these cohorts or datasets to be used for ongoing comparative research to better understand the health of Caribbean immigrant populations in the US.

The purpose of this initiative is to support collaborative research between Tribal Epidemiology Centers and extramural investigators on topics related to minority health and health disparities in American Indian / Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations.

The purpose of this initiative is to support collaborative research between Tribal Epidemiology Centers and extramural investigators on topics related to minority health and health disparities in American Indian / Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations.

Program aims to achieve a stronger national cancer program and address challenges in cancer and cancer disparities research, education and outreach, as well as their impact on underserved populations, by developing and maintaining partnerships between institutions serving underserved health disparity population and underrepresented students and NCI-designated Cancer Centers.

Culture of Health Leaders is a three-year leadership development opportunity for people working in every field and profession who want to use their influence to advance health and equity.

Funding to support healthy housing and neighborhoods, healthy food systems that benefit low-income communities, and equitable transportation and land use.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement invites applications for projects that propose to test T4 implementation research strategies for delivering proven-effective, evidence-based community-level interventions for reducing or eliminating cardiovascular and/or pulmonary health disparities, and that promote and improve population health in high-burden communities.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute invites applications for a Research Coordinating Center (RCC) to support projects from RFA-HL-20-003 Disparities Elimination through Coordinated Interventions to Prevent and Control Heart and Lung Disease Risk (DECIPHeR), which will test late-stage (T4) implementation research strategies for optimally and sustainably delivering proven-effective, evidence-based multi-level interventions to reduce or eliminate cardiovascular and/or pulmonary health disparities, and that promote and improve population health in high-burden communities (see RFA-HL-20-003).

The Disparities Leadership Program (DLP) is a year-long, hands-on executive education program focused exclusively on helping health care leaders achieve equity in quality. The program is designed to help participants translate the latest understanding disparities into realistic solutions that can be adopted within your organization. (The Disparities Solutions Center)

Funding to encourage interdisciplinary research aimed at promoting health, preventing and limiting symptoms and disease, and reducing health disparities across the lifespan for those living or spending time in non-traditional settings (i.e. playgrounds and nursing homes). These settings result in exposure to environmental pollutants and toxins that result in health risks, symptoms, and other health conditions/diseases.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support action-oriented research that advances health equity, builds the knowledge base, and informs policymaking on income supports for low-income families.

This funding opportunity announcement encourages collaborative teams to target gaps in methods and outcomes regarding research participant recruitment and retention. The primary outcome will be the development of a population of diverse community members ready to engage in NIA funded clinical research studies.

Funding to encourage developmental and exploratory research focused on understanding and addressing disparities in surgical care and outcomes, in minority and health disparity populations.

The NIH invites qualified health professionals to engage in contracts to participate research aimed at reducing health disparities for two years or more, to apply for participation in the extramural LRP.

The Office of Minority Health provides support to agencies and organizations in the public and private sectors to eliminate health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations.

Grants to fund research to improve the health of lesbians and other sexual minority women, including a focus on health care inequalities, societal and domestic violence, reproductive health, and interventions for mental and physical health.

The NOFO combines evidence-informed (1) policy, systems, and environmental changes (obesity, tobacco), and (2) clinical-community linkages (diabetes, heart disease and stroke prevention) strategies which may be culturally-adapted to meet the needs of the American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

As a core area of the Center for the Study of Asian American Health, HDRTP provides training, outreach, and research opportunities for students and health professionals to gain knowledge and skills to address Asian American health disparities.

A leadership development opportunity for second-year full-time doctoral students from underrepresented populations and/or disadvantaged backgrounds, those who want to apply their research to advance health and equity, and their innovation to help build a Culture of Health.

This initiative seeks applications that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males across the life cycle, and 2) encourage 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 age 18 and older.

This initiative seeks applications that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men.

Funding for research to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males across the life cycle, and 2) encourage 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 age 18 and older.

This initiative seeks applications that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men.

Comprising six bureaus and 12 offices, HRSA provides leadership and financial support to health care providers in every state and U.S. territory. HRSA grantees provide health care to uninsured people, people living with HIV/AIDS, and pregnant women, mothers and children. They train health professionals and improve systems of care in rural communities.

The purpose of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hispanic Grant Program is to implement Hispanic American health services research activities to meet the needs of diverse CMS beneficiary populations.

Funding to improve the health outcomes for individuals with deafness and other communication disorders through effectiveness and health services research in the NIDCD mission areas of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language.

Funding to improve the health outcomes for individuals with deafness and other communication disorders through effectiveness and health services research in the NIDCD mission areas of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language.

A three-year leadership development opportunity for teams of researchers and community partners to use the power of applied research-informing and supporting critical work being done in communities-to accelerate that work and advance health and equity.

Funding to encourage exploratory developmental research to improve Native American (NA) health. Such research can include: conducting secondary analysis of existing data (such as databases that the Tribal Epidemiology Centers have collected); merge various sources of data to answer critical research questions; conduct pilot and feasibility studies; and/or assess and validate measures that are being developed and/or adapted for use in NA communities.

The Foundation provides grant support in areas that include education for the care of underserved populations.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to support research that examines how health information technology adoption impacts minority health and health disparity populations in access to care, quality of care, patient engagement, and health outcomes.

CMS' Office of Minority Health (OMH) is announcing the availability of funds under the Minority Research Grant Program to test promising solutions that achieve health equity. The purpose of the Grant Program is to support researchers investigating health processes, practices, behaviors, and burdens or issues that influence health equity and, in particular, address the social determinants of health.

Scholarships to assist health center staff to pursue their educational goals in health care and to contribute to the development of the Community Health Center workforce. Selection of recipients is based on demonstrated commitment to working in the agricultural worker community, choice of career path, and personal experience, with special recognition to those who have a family history as agricultural workers.

NIHB Health Policy Fellows are a diverse group of talented Native youth who are dedicated to making a difference in their communities. Fellows work directly with their Tribal leadership to identify one priority health issue. Then, with the support of program mentors, Fellows learn how to analyze policy in their issue area, create informed recommendations, and advocate for change.

This Notice of Special Interest calls for research that will enrich scientific understanding of how sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or being born with DSD/Intersex conditions relate to health and health risks, perceptions and expectations about health, health behaviors, and barriers and access to health-related services.

The purpose of this IHS grant announcement is to award funding to Urban Indian Organizations to ensure the highest possible health status for Urban Indians. Funding will be used to support the 4-in-1 health program objectives. Specifically, the four health programs are: (1) health promotion and disease prevention (HP/DP) services, (2) immunization services, (3) alcohol and substance abuse related services, and (4) mental health services.

Funding from the Health Impact Project (a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts) to partner with grassroots community organizing groups on rapid-response health impacts research in support of an active issue campaign.

The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support multilevel, transdisciplinary population health interventions that target underlying social, economic, and environmental conditions in an effort to improve health outcomes.

The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support multilevel, transdisciplinary population health interventions that target underlying social, economic, and environmental conditions in an effort to improve health outcomes.

To improve health and reduce the burden of disease, scientific research needs to be implemented at the population level in addition to the biological and clinical levels. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support multilevel, transdisciplinary population health interventions that target underlying social, economic, and environmental conditions in an effort to improve health outcomes.

A program that provides training at the postdoctoral level in interdisciplinary research that addresses disparities in health status and health outcomes among minority populations with an emphasis on maternal/child, adolescent and family health.

The Promise Neighborhoods program is a competitive grant program that strives to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of children and youth in our most distressed communities, and to transform those communities.

Funding for research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. Specific targeted areas of research include bio-behavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known health condition and/or disability; and studies that test, evaluate, translate, and disseminate health promotion prevention and interventions conducted in traditional and non -traditional settings.

This initiative encourages research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. Specific targeted areas of research include bio-behavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological, lifestyle factors, environmental, social, economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known health condition and/or disability; and studies that test, evaluate, translate, and disseminate health promotion prevention and interventions conducted in traditional and non -traditional settings.

Funding for research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. Specific targeted areas of research include bio-behavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known health condition and/or disability; and studies that test, evaluate, translate, and disseminate health promotion prevention and interventions conducted in traditional and non -traditional settings.

This initiative encourages research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children.

Funding for research on the health of transgender and gender nonconforming people of all ages, including both youth and adults who are questioning their gender identity and those individuals who are making or who have made a transition from being identified as one gender to the other.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) calls for research on the health of transgender and gender nonconforming people of all ages, including both youth and adults who are questioning their gender identity and those individuals who are making or who have made a transition from being identified as one gender to the other.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) calls for research on the health of transgender and gender nonconforming people of all ages, including both youth and adults who are questioning their gender identity and those individuals who are making or who have made a transition from being identified as one gender to the other.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) calls for research on the health of transgender and gender nonconforming people of all ages, including both youth and adults who are questioning their gender identity and those individuals who are making or who have made a transition from being identified as one gender to the other.

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) calls for research on the health of transgender and gender nonconforming people of all ages, including both youth and adults who are questioning their gender identity and those individuals who are making or who have made a transition from being identified as one gender to the other.

Funding to encourage exploratory developmental research to improve Native American (NA) health. Such research can include: conducting secondary analysis of existing data (such as databases that the Tribal Epidemiology Centers have collected); merge various sources of data to answer critical research questions; conduct pilot and feasibility studies; and/or assess and validate measures that are being developed and/or adapted for use in NA communities.

Funding to support Administrative Supplements to active NIMH grants to foster research across the NIMH Strategic Objectives that target the reduction and elimination of mental health disparities by race and ethnicity, geography, and socioeconomic status in the United States.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Healthy Communities theme is interested in identifying and funding a Rural Learning and Coordinating Center (Center) (final name TBD) to work alongside RWJF, rural communities, and others in the field committed to improving rural health equity and well-being in our nation. The Center will provide systematic learning and coordination across those working nationally and regionally to advance social and economic conditions in rural communities, which ultimately lead to better health and well-being.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigative and collaborative research focused on developing and evaluating simulation modeling and systems science to understand and address minority health and health disparities.

Funding to provide support for New Investigators from backgrounds nationally underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Funding 1) to improve the lives of families and individuals in need; 2) to redirect funds away from programs that, based on objective data, are ineffective, and into programs that achieve demonstrable, measurable results; 3) to ensure federal funds are used effectively on social services to produce positive outcomes for both service recipients and taxpayers; 4) to establish the use of social impact partnerships to address some of the Nation’s most pressing problems; 5) to facilitate the creation of public-private partnerships that bundle philanthropic or other private resources with existing public spending to scale up effective social interventions already being implemented; 6) to bring pay for performance to the social sector, allowing the United States to improve the impact and effectiveness of vital social services programs while redirecting inefficient or duplicative spending; and 7) to incorporate outcomes measurement and randomized controlled trials or other rigorous methodologies for assessing program impact.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage research that will improve and increase the use of evidence-based interventions in end-of-life and palliative care (EOLPC) for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals with advanced illness and their families and communities.

Funding to support investigative and collaborative research focused on understanding and addressing disparities in surgical care and outcomes, in minority and health disparity populations.

This funding opportunity would investigate disparities in surgical care and outcomes, in minority and health disparity populations.

This Fellowship is designed to prepare for physicians for leadership roles in formulating and promoting health policies and practices that improve the access to high quality care at the national, state, and/or local levels for the minority, disadvantaged, and most vulnerable populations.

A program designed for scientists and investigators who have not yet obtained R01 funding from the NIH or equivalent funding from another agency to conduct theory-driven, culturally specific social and behavioral HIV prevention research with diverse, underserved health disparate communities.

Funding to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing cancer health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco control policies.

Funding to support observational or intervention research focused on reducing health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco control policies.

This program provides services and education for Urban Indian Organizations that include the following Five Core Projects: (1) public policy; (2) research and data; (3) training and technical assistance; (4) education, public relations, and marketing; and (5) payment system reform/monitoring regulations.

Funding to promote health equity and improve the health of individuals and populations at risk for suboptimal health outcomes through the use of primary care and community interventions that address chronic conditions, including prevention and management of multiple chronic conditions. This is to be accomplished by developing data resources, applying health services research methodologies and presenting data analytics to primary care providers, health care delivery systems, public health departments, and/or community organizations to help them address social determinants of health (SDOH) and contribute to the delivery of whole person, 360-degree care that meets physical, behavioral, and oral health, as well as social services, needs.

YHEMOP provides Health Equity Fellowships to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students interested in a career in health. These fellowships provide hands on, "in the field" learning opportunities through short-term placements in diverse organizations or institutions that promote health equity and/or addresses health disparities.

This roadmap offers guidance to anyone who is inspired by a vision of a healthier, more equitable community for all. It focuses on using policy to build and institutionalize the public sector's ability to collaborate across departments, agencies, and offices.

Provides a comprehensive, annual perspective on national health issues, state by state. The rankings feature an interactive map to explore health statistics and compare states side-by-side.

The BLOCK Project examines how housing policies and practices exacerbate health inequities, and identifies promising solutions.

Issue brief focuses on the broad factors that influence health and describes efforts to address them, including initiatives within Medicaid.

The City Health Dashboard is an interactive visualization tool to help cities understand, compare and take action to improve health status and health risks in their municipalities. Twenty-six measures related to health are represented across five domains: Health Outcomes, Health Behaviors, Clinical Care, Social and Economic Factors, and the Physical Environment. Dashboard currently includes four cities as part of its pilot.

Brief provides an overview of a set of prioritized determinants of health that unmask the systemic causes that have created the community conditions that undermine health and analyzes the complex web of laws, policies, practices, and procedures-both current and historic-that have led to health inequities. The analysis also provides policy recommendations, community examples, and actionable solutions for creating an equitable Culture of Health.

A program that will evaluate environmental exposures (physical, chemical, biological, social, behavioral, natural and built environments) on child health and development.

This summary presents eight common measures that connect park and trail planning to public health goals. The data collected using these measures can be employed to evaluate, plan, and promote public parks and trails at the national, state, regional, and local levels.

Archived webinar from Dec 2016 which examined the challenges of aligning or combining funding sources to achieve better health outcomes, how analysts can prove value in such ventures, and the role of health care professionals in caring for patients who have both medical and non-medical needs.

The Moving to Access Initiative looks at innovative policies, tools, and techniques that can help ensure that all people-regardless of income or demography-get where they need to go.

Resources, publications, and definitions for health equity and social determinants of health.

An interactive resource allows users to explore key CHRR Rankings physical environment factors that impact health, including air and water quality, housing, and transportation. In addition to detailing differences in health by community type, by putting in a zip code, users can see how their community is doing on these range of factors.

This report summarizes findings from a study of eight communities that implemented a transportation equity policy in providing "Complete Streets" with safe access for all users, pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders.

This training plan provides an overview of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). In general, SDOH refer to the different aspects of a person’s social and physical environment that contribute to his or her health.

Policy brief provides recommendations on how HHS can best address the social determinants of health in rural communities.

A work in progress, this series of resources can help hospitals address the social determinants of health in their communities. Resources include reports, case studies, webinars, and videos on food, housing, education, transportation, violence, social support, health behaviors, and employment.

This website provides CDC resources for SDOH data, tools for action, programs, and policy. They may be used by people in public health, community organizations, and health care systems to assess SDOH and improve community well-being.

Study uses data from the 2015 American Housing Survey to better explore variations in asthma prevalence and asthma-related ER use among school-age children (ages 5 to 17) by a wide array of housing and household characteristics.

A guide to assist health centers with assessing the scope of the problem and finding solutions to missed medical appointments due to transportation barriers. The toolkit guides the user through the two key phases of the quality improvement process: Needs Assessment and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, a continuous quality improvement process.

This final rule implements Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Section 1557). Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs and activities.

This legislation prohibits discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance.

An overview and multi-year database from NCSL of state-level legislation regarding health disparities.

The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs or activities.

This legislation prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs and activities conducted by HUD or that receive financial assistance from HUD.

Outlines the prohibitions against discrimination, in facilities including health care establishments.

This legislation prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.

This special open access supplement of the American Journal of Public Health focuses on defining, standardizing, and measuring minority health and health disparities research.

Systematic evidence review (SER) summarizes the state of the evidence on achieving health equity in preventive services by identifying the effects of impediments and barriers that can create disparities in prevention services, and the effectiveness of strategies and interventions to reduce health disparities in preventive services.

Report examines 40 Medicaid managed care contracts and 25 approved § 1115 demonstrations across the country to identify common themes in state approaches to incentivizing and requiring SDOH-related activities.

Resources to help health organizations develop a vision for the future and collect information on current community health focused programs, including redundancy and opportunities.

The second report (from 2013) by CDC to examine disparities across a wide range of diseases, behavioral risk factors, environmental exposures, social determinants, and health-care access.

Provides access to several definitions and a link to NCI health disparities research.

Framework provides a common core of knowledge for clinical health professions about individual and population‐oriented prevention and health promotion efforts. The Framework can support inter-professional prevention education and practice and consists of four (4) components and 23 domains, with each domain including topic areas and illustrative examples.

This Issue Brief highlights the challenges the healthcare system faces as a result of disparities in care and summarizes initiatives at the national, regional, and local levels.

This document discusses the importance of collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data in EHRs.

This report identifies the major elements of effective solutions to local or community level aimed at advancing health equity and the key levers, policies, stakeholders, and other elements needed to be successful.

The "Discrimination in America" report series focuses on personal experiences with discrimination across more than a dozen areas of daily life. This series is based on a survey among a nationally representative sample of 3,453 adults ages 18 or older, including African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Whites, LGBTQ adults, men and women.

A compilation of Kaiser Family Foundation reports and Web links on various aspects of minority health.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement has been focused on the subject of dependable resources for population health since its inception in 2013. On December 7, 2017, the roundtable convened a workshop to explore tax policy as it relates to advancing population health, health equity, and economic prosperity. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

This search tool allows access to journal article summaries, from 11 systematic reviews of the published health disparities literature.

This October 2017 open access supplement in Women's Health Issues is on policy achievements from "Coalition for a Healthier Community" (CHC), a unique community-based participatory research initiative addressing the role of gender in health disparities. The supplement articles showcase both specific local solutions to problems that disproportionately affect women and girls, and a framework other communities and programs can use to improve public health.

A set of guidelines created to assist health care professionals in creating a bias free environment for the LGBT community.

The HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities outlines goals and actions the Department of Health and Human Services will take to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.

Web-based training series for public health practitioners and advocates interested in policy advocacy, community change, and multi-sector engagement to achieve health equity.

Open access issue of Health Services Research is focused on identifying groups of people who do not benefit equally from our health system and identifying root causes of these differences.

The Healthy People 2010 Final Review presents a quantitative end-of-decade assessment of progress in achieving the Healthy People 2010 objectives and goals over the course of the decade.

Report provides a snapshot of objective progress toward meeting targets halfway through the 10-year initiative, providing a roadmap for the second half of the decade. This 820-page report provides detailed progress and health disparities data, as available, for over 1,200 objectives.

This series of documents present data on the uninsured, which reveal racial and ethnic disparities in health coverage.

This report presents the results of an assessment of research needs related to human services for LGBT people, and looks to determine what is known about low- income and at-risk LGBT people and their interactions with human services.

This issue brief compares EU and US health policy decisions regarding health disparities.

Documents on the health status of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Focuses exclusively on contemporary health care issues of low-income, under-represented, and other medically underserved communities. JHCPU is the official journal of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved. May require a subscription to view content.

An open-access, refereed online journal that explores the dimensions of health disparities globally. The Journal invites submission of original manuscripts from researchers, public health, behavioral health, clinical and social science experts and practitioner that seek to continue the discussion of health disparities in order to eradicate them.

Held November 14, 2012, this workshop examined the health inequalities affecting Native American, Alaska Native, First Nation, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander populations, and the ways in which culture could help reduce those disparities.

This report presents a plan designed to reduce health disparities through the use of the electronic health record.

This report review the methodology used for the Healthy People 2020 Midcourse review.

Report provides data for all 194 WHO member states on 19 indicators, including health policies, tobacco demand reduction, measures to reduce use of alcohol, unhealthy diets, promotion of physical activity, and strengthening health systems through primary health care and universal health coverage.

Catalog provides access to the nation's largest repository of information dedicated to the health of minority populations within the US and its territories. The collection includes over 60,000 documents, books, journal articles, reports, and media related to the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations. In addition, users can access consumer health materials in more than 40 languages.

Report outlines a CDC-funded effort to implement, evaluate, and disseminate evidence- and practice-based community health activities that promote health equity, leading to a 5% reduction in the rate of death and disability due to tobacco use, a 3% reduction in the prevalence of obesity, and a 3% reduction in the rates of death and disability due to diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

For hospitals, health care systems, public health, foundations, and others, this resource outlines the community development sector's potential role in addressing the social determinants and improving population health, and provides a tool to start the internal conversation with leadership about potential cross-sector collaboration.

This NAM Special Publication, an edited volume of discussion papers, provides author's recommendations to advance the agenda to promote health equity for all. Organized by research approaches and policy implications, systems that perpetuate or ameliorate health disparities, and specific examples of ways in which health disparities manifest in communities of color, this special publication provides a stark look at how health and well-being are nurtured, protected, and preserved where people live, learn, work, and play.

Publications and projects on the social determinants of health and population health from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Policy Lab. (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Policy Lab)

Report provides an primer on community health centers, designed to serve as primary care providers in low-income, high minority, under-insured areas.

A glossary of key terms in the fields of health care quality, disparities reduction and quality improvement.

This toolkit is designed to work within the Building a Culture of Health program, and is aimed at the creation of messaging strategies that will encourage healthful behavior in young men of color.

This case study development project focuses on the Healthy People 2020 Social Determinants of Health Topic Area, and a new perspective calling for an expansion of public health practice to emphasize cross-sectoral, environmental, policy, and systems-level actions that directly affect the social determinants of health (SDOH) and advance health equity.

A work in progress, this series of resources can help hospitals address the social determinants of health in their communities. Resources include reports, case studies, webinars, and videos on food, housing, education, transportation, violence, social support, health behaviors, and employment.

This study describes key population health concepts and examines major empirical trends in US health and healthcare inequalities from 1935 to 2016 according to important social determinants such as race/ethnicity, education, income, poverty, area deprivation, unemployment, housing, rural-urban residence, and geographic location. (International Journal of MCH and AIDS)

Guide provides a quick, general reference and introduction to national resource organizations and examples of state work, focusing on four of the social determinants of health: housing, transportation, education, and food insecurity.

This report explores the ways in which Medicaid policy might evolve to more actively foster a Culture of Health through both its direct role as a funder of health care and its broader role in helping support services and programs aimed at promoting prevention and population health.

This report presents a state-of-the-science overview of research examining stress as a driver of disparities in health.

The second in a series of five reports to ASPE, this document examines performance among providers erving socially at-risk populations and identifies methods to account for social risk factors in Medicare payment programs.

The results of a workshop held in June of 2014 to develop recommendations aiemd at increasing workforce diversity and inclusion in HSR.

This set of protocols assist healthcare workers in assisting transgender individuals with their health care, including issues such as hormonal treatment and surgery.

This special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law is devoted to understanding the many roads that lead toward achieving health equity. The eleven articles in the issue portray an America that is struggling with the clash between its historical ideal of pursuing equality for all and its ambivalence toward achieving equity in all social domains, especially health.

The results of an October 2014, which looked at community use of digital health technologies to improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority populations, and models that have resulted in strategies to reduce disparities.

A report from IOM investigates the possible causes for the lower life and health expectancy of U.S. citizens in relation to peer countries.

Study looks at 10 major health conditions that impact the overall health of the commercially insured population as measured by the BCBS Health Index.

Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may contribute to inequities in care; and recommend policies and practices to eliminate these inequities. This is the resulting report from the IOM study.

Aimed at health care organizations, this brief recommends strategies that can be used to effectively organize and interpret race, ethnicity, and language data to improve equity for their patients.

The collection includes the Women of Color Health Data Book (2015), as well as discrete statistical reports on Breast Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiovascular Disease with data on race/ethnicity and disease.

A collaboration from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to create health, wellbeing, and equity. Focus is on community health, multi-disciplinary collaboration, policy changes, peer-to-peer support, culture change, and creating environments good at both health and care.

The 500 Cities Project provides city and census data on 27 chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the 500 largest U.S. cities as a means to provide benchmarks for population health. The 500 Cities data is available for download, report creation, and customizable visualizations.

Links to AHRQ's minority health programs, reports, workshops, etc.

An HSR&D Center of Excellence whose mission is to reduce disparities and promote equity in health and health care among vulnerable groups of veterans and other populations.

Center for Health Equity and Wellness was created to raise community awareness about local health disparities, improve capacity to deliver population-based care, and develop solutions to eliminate local disparities in health care.

CityHealth, an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation, provides leaders with a package of evidence-based policy solutions that will help millions of people live longer, better lives in vibrant, prosperous communities.

This program plans, stimulates, disseminates, and supports research on the complex factors that influence disparities in mental health services, particularly across special population groups such as racial and ethnic groups, as well as women and children, and persons living in rural and frontier areas.

Priority areas, information, resources, outreach, and challenges to promote environmental justice and better health outcomes for vulnerable communities.

Features AAMC health equity initiatives and resources, including a Community Engagement Toolkit to promote Native American participation in All of Us, health equity programming, community health needs assessment resources, and presentations from a February 2017 workshop.

Management research to provide operational advice on improving quality, reducing costs and eliminating disparities. Link to toolkits, resources, and reports.

Links to current projects, events, and reports concerning minority health as well as information about the work IOM has done in the area of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.

The mission of the National Collaborative for Health Equity is to promote health equity by harnessing evidence, developing leaders, and catalyzing partnerships across the many different sectors that share responsibility for creating a more equitable and just society.

The mission of the National Partnership for Action is to mobilize and connect individuals and organizations across the country to create a Nation free of health disparities, with quality health outcomes for all people.

The mission of the National Partnership for Action is to mobilize and connect individuals and organizations across the country to create a Nation free of health disparities, with quality health outcomes for all people. The campaign, launched by the Office of Minority Health (OMH) focuses on health status and health outcomes among racial and ethnic minority populations.

An organization established by a federal grant from HHS, the Center provides training, technical assistance, and educational resources to and for the aging LGBT commmunity and organizations.

NYAM has been advancing the health of people in cities since 1847. An independent organization, NYAM addresses the health challenges facing the world's urban populations through interdisciplinary approaches to innovative research, education, community engagement and policy leadership. Drawing on the expertise of diverse partners worldwide and more than 2,000 elected Fellows from across the professions, our current priorities are to create environments in cities that support healthy aging; to strengthen systems that prevent disease and promote the public's health; and to implement interventions that eliminate health disparities. Provides New York City and New York State health and community data resources.

The Office of Behavioral Health Equity works to reduce mental health and substance use disparities and improve access to quality care.

The Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) coordinates CDC activities for White House and Departmental Initiatives aimed at improving the ability of educational institutions to serve racial and ethnic minorities and addressing the health and human service concerns of racial and ethnic minorities.

The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. Detailed information on cultural competency can be found on this site.

Initiative logs the lessons learned from a grant-funded community health project that improved the health of more than 20 million people in 94 communities across the United States over the last three years. Site includes a comprehensive report, toolkits, online training course, and other resources.

A new forum designed to connect investigators and clinicians on issues related to research aimed at minimizing health disparities.

The Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) coordinates sexual and gender minority (SGM)--related research and activities by working directly with the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices.

This website provides information on the Annual Symposium on the Social Determinants of Health.

An interdisciplinary center for research, training, education, and policy development, focusing on national and international health issues. Their mission is to ensure access to quality, culturally competent medical and mental health care for traditionally underserved communities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and those affected by HIV/AIDS.

The goals of the program are to improve the overall quality of health care delivered to low-income and minority Americans, and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. The program builds on efforts to improve quality of care overall in the United States, focusing on safety-net hospitals and ambulatory care providers serving large numbers of low-income and minority patients.

May 8, 2019 12:00-1:00pm ET.

May 10, 2019 1:00pm ET; Boston, MA. (Asian Women for Health)

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Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 09:00 am to 05:00 pm EDT. Webinar is open to public viewing. Registration is required.

May 16, 2019 1:00-2:30pm ET.

May 20-23, 2019; Atlanta, GA.

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June 19-22, 2019; Oakland, CA.

June 19-20, 2019; Bethesda, MD or via webcast.

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September 11-14, 2019, New Orleans LA.

September 20-23, 2019; San Francisco CA

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October 1, 2019 9:30am-5:00pm PT.

October 10, 2019; Phoenix, AZ.

October 28-29, 2019; Washington, DC or via webcast.

The May 2017 Public Health Ethics Forum, "Optimal Health for Her Whole Life," focused on a range of health issues and actions to improve the health of women and girls in the United States. Transcript, agenda, and more information can be found here.

Recording from a June 2017 panel on how organizations can work to advance health equality in a changing policy environment.

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research annual meeting brings together the academic community to address changes, challenges, and opportunities in population and public health education. Attendees will explore innovations and strategies for teaching population health.

A series of webinars which examine cultural competence issues for the LGBT community.

Web seminars on disparities interventions, findings from important disparities research, and health policy updates regarding disparities reduction efforts.

This podcast from May 1, 2015 examines the effects of the ACA on ethnic and racial minorities, and their ability to obtain health insurance.

A series of lectures aimed at discussing how innovations in genomics research and technology can impact health disparities.

The April 25, 2011 program addressed the contents of the strategy and its timeline for implementation as well as its implications for providers. The panelists also discussed how the new strategy relates to other recently released HHS strategies including the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy, the Healthy People 2020 initiative and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. Panelists also consider what the strategy's role as it relates to health reform implementation.

This series of recordings, both recent and archived, reflect on issues covered in the journal

A listing of minority health and health disparity conferences, webinars, and trainings.

Archived cultural competence webinar series provides an overview of the health concerns and healthcare of LGBT people, to better create comprehensive systems of care that support positive outcomes and experiences for LGBT people. (GLMA)

An online training course for the public health workforce focused on different aspects of social justice as it relates to public health.

This publication presents the results of a workshop, held December 5, 2013 held by the IOM Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities.

May 30th, 2019, Atlanta GA