2012 NHSN 12th Annual International Conference: Bridging the Gap in Behavioral Health Services for Latinos The 2012 NHSN conference will be held from September 26-29, 2012 at The Westin, San Diego, California. Click here for the "Save the Date" flyer.  Click here for the "Call for Breakouts".  Click here for the "Call for Annual Award Nominations".  NHSN Members:  Visit this link to update your information.

Dr. Nora Volkow interviewed on 60 Minutes!

Follow this link to see the segment.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship at SIRC

Opportunity in health disparities research. Further information at this link.

Columbia Openings for Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellows

Needed for new NIDA-funded training program. Click here for more information.

NCI Journal supplement: Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Health.

Visit this link to access the full text of the articles.

U.S. Counties along the Mexico Border Initiative's Fourth Annual Meeting 

This year's meeting is entitled "U.S.-Mexico Border Drug Issues" and will take place Tuesday, May 22 and Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in El Paso, Texas at the University of Texas at El Paso, Tomás Rivera Conference Center.

For more information, visit this link.

U.S. Office of Minority Health has announced 5 competitive announcements

Application deadlines: June 8, 2012.

For the American Indian/Alaska Native Health Disparities Program, click this link.

For the Peer-to-Peer Outreach Model to Curb HIV/AIDS Transmission Among High Risk Minority Youth and Adolescents (CHAT) Program, click this link.

For the HIV/AIDS Health Improvement for the Re-entry Population Demonstration Program (HIRE) Program, click this link.

For the Youth Empowerment Program (YEP), click this link.

For the Eliminating Lupus Health Disparities Initiative (ELHDI), click this link.  

2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities

Abstracts for program sessions are now being accepted. Deadline: June 15, 2012 at 5 pm EST. Click this link for more information.

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Request for Application

Click this link for more information. Application deadline: June 27, 2012.

12th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Health Equity, June 27-July 1, 2012, Houston, Texas

Click here for further information.

UCLA CALDAR Summer Institute, August 13-15, 2012, Los Angeles, CA

More information at this link.

NLPA Biennial Conference, October 11-13, 2012, New Jersey

The conference will explore issues of diversity inclusion in Latina/o psychology. Click here for the website.

Digital PCR Conference, October 15-16 2012, San Diego, California.

To register, visit the website. Early bird registration deadline: July 27.

Click here for jobs & further professional development opportunities

 

NHSN Steering Member Margarita Alegria, Ph.D. served as a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Measuring and Analyzing Health Care Disparities by the journal Health Services Research.

To access the issue online, click here.

NHSN Steering Member Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D. recognized for her contributions

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