Events, Funding, and More

Events and Conferences

• 18th Open Forum for Quality Improvement (QI) and Innovation.  National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) seeks abstracts on performance improvement and public health innovation from public health practitioners willing to share highlights, challenges, and lessons learned. March 26-27, 2020 -Kansas City, Missouri.
• American College of Rheumatology State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium.  March 27-29, 2020 – New Orleans, Louisiana
• 2020 NAHRO Washington Conference.  March 29-31, 2020 – Washington, DC
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Call for abstracts for the NACCHO 360: Raising the Reach of Public Health conference. March 29 – April 1, 2020 – Denver, Colorado
• National Council for Behavioral Health:  NATCON 20 Kaleidoscope.  April 5-7, 2020 – Austin, TX
• Public Health Conference 2020:  Reclaiming Healthy Narratives in Indian Country.  April 14-16, 2020 – Durant, Oklahoma.
• Southern Plains Tribal Health Board and the 7th Generation Conference:  Reclaiming Healthy Narratives in Indian Country.  April 14-16, 2020 – Durant, Oklahoma.
• British Society for Rheumatology Annual Conference 2020. April 20-22, 2020 – Glasgow, UK
• NIH Regional Seminar 2020 on Program Funding & Grants Administration. April 20-22, 2020 – Baltimore, Maryland
• Training Seminar:  Comprehensive Management of the Neuropathic Foot.  April 22-24, 200 – Baton, Rouge, Louisiana
• National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Annual Conference.  April 30- May 3, 2020 – Washington D.C.
• OARSI 2020 World Congress. April 30 – 3 May 2020 – Vienna, Austria
• American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) 2020.  May 14-17, 2020 – Denver, Colorado
• 15th Annual Joint American Homeopathic Conference:  Homeopathy in Pain Management.  May 15-17, 2020 – Orlando, Florida
• National Rural Health Association (NRHA): Call for research posters for the NRHA Health Equity Conference. May 19, 2020, in San Diego, California. Deadline for submissions is February 23, 2020.
• National Network of Public Health Institutes: 20th Annual Conference. May 19-21, 2020 – New Orleans, Louisiana
• National Rural Health Association (NHRA): Annual Health Conference. May 19-22, 2020 – San Diego, California
• National Rural Health Association (NHRA): Rural Hospital Innovation Summit. May 19-22, 2020 – San Diego, California
• ACSM’s 67th Annual Meeting.  May 26-30, 2020 – San Francisco, California
• National Network of Public Health Institutes: Call for abstracts for the 20th Annual Health Improvement Training (PHIT), Optimizing Your Resources through Performance Improvements. June 2-3, 2020. – San Antonio, Texas
• European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR). June 3-6, 2020 – Frankfurt, Germany
• National Council on Aging (NCOA) Age+Action Conference. June 8-10, 2020 – Dallas, Texas. Deadlines for proposals on January 10, 2020.
• European Federation of National Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) Annual Scientific Congress.   June 10-12, 2020 – Vienna, Austria
• 28th Annual Congress for New Urbanism. June 10-13, 2020. Minneapolis, Minnesota
• HRSA Healthy Grants Workshop.  June 17-18, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Conference:   Raising the Reach of Public Health Conference. July 7-9, 2020 – Denver,  Colorado
• National Medical Association calls for abstracts for NMA 2020 Annual Convention. August 1-5, 2020 – Atlanta, Ga.  Deadline Submission April 15, 2020
• Association of Clinicians for Underserved (ACU). Call for abstracts for the 2020 ACU Annual Conference, Connecting Advocacy, Leadership, and Service. August 2-5, 2020 – Washington, DC.
• The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD):  Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI).  August 3-7, 2020 – Bethesda, Maryland
• 2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment.  August 11-14, 2020 – Washington, DC
• National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA):  2020 American Indian Elders Conference, Resilience for Tomorrow…Together.  August 17-20, 2020 – Reno, Nevada.
• EcoAmerica: 9th Annual American Climate Leadership summit, Ambition – Restoration – Justice. August 26-27, 2020 – Washington, DC
• American Society for Bone Mineral Research (ASBMR) Annual Meeting. September 11-14, 2020 – Seattle
• 9th Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) Congress.  September 24-26, 2020 – Toronto, Canada

Funding Opportunities

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Integrated HIV Programs for Health Departments to Support Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States.  Deadline March 25, 2020
• American Psychological Foundation (APF): APF Visionary Grants.  Deadline April 1, 2020
• RWJF: National Civic League Health Equity Award.  Deadline April 3, 2020
• USDA: Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program.  Deadline April 10, 2020
• HRSA:  National Organizations of State and Local Officials:  Health Legislation and Governance,  Deadline April 10, 202
• HRSA:  National Organizations of State and Local Officials: Public Health Capacity. Deadline April 10, 2020
• HRSA:  Telehealth Network Grant Program. Deadline April 13, 2020
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): NIMHS Supports the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program. Deadline April 14, 2020
• HHS/NIH: Research grant. Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (RO1 Clinical Trial Optional.  Deadline for LOI April 14, 2020
• WJF:  Identifying the Next Phase of Leadership and Management for the RWJF Culture of Health Prize.  Deadline April 15, 2020
• NIH Emotional Well-Being:  High Priority Research Networks (US24, Clinical Trial Optional).  An invitation for researchers to submit applications that focus on developing resources by refining and testing key concepts that will advance and further support the study of emotional well-being.  Deadline April 22, 2020
• NIH:  Notice of Special Interest:  Administrative Supplements for Minor Alterations or Advance Ongoing HIV/AIDS Research Projects Funded by the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program.  Deadline April 27, 2020
• RWJF:  Policies for Action:  Research on Housing Policies That Promote Equity.  Deadline April 29, 2020, at 3pm ET
• HPDP:  2020 Planning Grants.  Deadline April 30, 2020, at 5pm ET
• HRSA:  Telehealth Focused Rural Health Research Center Program.  Deadline May 1, 2020
• NIMHD:   Supports Research on Building Population Health Capacity in the USAPI Open Date (Earliest Submission Dae): June 15, 2020. Application Deadline July 15, 2020, 5pm ET
• RWJF:  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sports Award.  Deadline April 6, 2020
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:  Minority Research Grant Program.  Deadline June 2, 2020
• NIMHD:  Administrative Supplements to Support Resource Hubs to Promote Multi-Sectoral Rural Health Disparities Research.  Expiration Date June 16, 2020
• NIMHD:  Building Population Health Research Capacity in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands   Open Date (Earliest Submission Date: July 15, 2020). 
• The Donaghue Foundation:  Another Look 2020:  Research to Improve Health for Older Adults in Long Term Care Facilities.  Letter of Intent Deadline March 25, 2020, Application Deadline June 24, 2020
• Evidence for Action:  Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health. 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.  Deadline OPEN
• NIH:  Mechanisms Mediating Osteoarthritis in Aging (R21). Also available as an R01 –Exploratory/Developmental applications to accelerate the characterization of new paradigms to test hypotheses that will lead to an improved understanding of the mechanisms of initiation and progression of osteoarthritis and the role of aging in the process. Standard dates apply.
• NIH:  Research Grants Using the Resources from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) (R21). Also available as an R01 – Applications for research awards that are focused on the use of the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) database, clinical data, and images. Applications submitted to this FOA should be exploratory and novel and are not required to be hypothesis-driven in nature. Standard dates apply.
• Grants.gov-Funding Opportunities for Osteoarthritis
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding opportunities 

Webinars

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• HRSA Webcast:  Aging Adults with HIV – March 26, 2020, at 3pm ET
• RWJF Webinar:  Culture of Health Prize – March 26, 2020, at 1pm ET
• RWJF Webinar:  Policies for Action:  Policy an Law Research to Build a Culture f Health– March 30, 2020 at 2pm ET 
• OAAA and the Arthritis Foundation present: A National Public Health Agenda for Osteoarthritis: 2020 Update– April 15, 2020, at 12pm ET
• America Walks Webinar:  Unusual bedfellows:  Expanding and Developing New and Different Partners. April 15, 2020, at 2pm ET
• ACE Webinar:  Building Your Personal Fitness Brand.  April. 22, 2020, at 2pm ET
• Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators.  Musculoskeletal Webinar Series- Osteoarthritis, Knees, and Hips.  April 22, 2020, at 5pm ET
•  America Walks Webinar:  Defining Space:  Land -Use and Zoning to Promote Walkable Communities.  May 13, 2020, at 2pm ET
• ACE Webinar:  Training Fascia:  Applications in Program Design – May 20, 2020, at 11am
• America Walks:  Enhancing Walkable Spaces through Public Art.  June 10, 2020, at 2pm ET

Announcements 

• March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
• March is National Athletic Training Month.
• NCOA: Updated Blog Coronavirus:  What Older Adults Need to Know
• National Public Health Week (NPHW). Working together, to build healthier communities and eventually, a healthier nation April 6-12, 2020
• OAAA Provider Education Toolkit– Learn more about OACareTools, a free, online toolkit for primary care providers. The Toolkit includes educational information about OA for providers and patient-facing handouts and resources.