ANNOUNCEMENT: One-year NHMA membership

now included with conference registration!*

We are excited to announce for the first time ever, NHMA Annual Conference registrants will receive a FREE one-year membership to NHMA included with their registration (*available to new members only).

Already a member? You'll automatically receive a discounted registration rate when you sign in with your member credentials. To ensure accessibility to students, conference registration is $25 for members and $50 for non-members, and now includes the gala. All can benefit from early bird registration discounts by February 24!

We also invite those interested in sponsoring our 26th Annual Conference to review our sponsorship options and complete the Sponsorship Interest Form, and a member of our team will be in contact with you shortly. Exhibitor opportunities are available here!

NHMA Leadership Fellowship

The NHMA Leadership Fellowship is a training program for U.S.-licensed physicians at least 5 years out of training with significant leadership experience who are committed to the work of improving public health. Fellows will participate in weekly virtual training with expert speakers from May through July 2023, as well as a 5-day Washington, D.C. Institute in September. Fellows will also present policy papers at NHMA’s Annual Conference in 2024.The application deadline is February 17, 2023.

Upcoming Events

Mark your calendars: NHMA is hosting a number of exceptional upcoming

events with subject matter experts and esteemed leaders

in Hispanic health care, check them out below!

• February 28 — Research It! Women's and Girls HIV/AIDS Care in the Gulf Coast Webinar
• Learn More and Register

• March 10 — HIV in Hispanic Female Communities: Strategies to Address Barriers and Increase Uptake Twitter Chat
• Join us on Twitter

• March 21 — COVID-19 Virtual Briefing Series Session #21
• Register Early

• March 23 — NY Life Financial Planning Southern California Chapter Dinner
• April 13 — NY Life Financial Planning Washington DC Chapter Dinner
• Space limited, open to residents or practicing doctors. Contact ygreen@nhmamd.org to express interest.

• April 27-30 — NHMA 26th Annual Conference, "From Awareness to Action and Outcomes: Finding Solutions through Innovative Approaches." Hosted at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
• Early bird registration through February 24

• May 11 — NY Life Financial Planning Albuquerque (New Mexico) Chapter Dinner
• June 1 — NY Life Financial Planning Texas Chapter Dinner
• Space limited, open to residents or practicing doctors. Contact ygreen@nhmamd.org to express interest.



The Vituity Social Justice Scholarship is awarded to medical students or residents from historically underrepresented communities and helps further our mission to increase representation in medicine.

Vituity will award four (4) $7,500 scholarships to help further the education of medical students or residents who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to social justice and healthcare inequities.

We Can Do This has new communications materials available to help you educate your patients about who is at increased risk for severe illness from COVID, the availability of COVID treatments, and the importance of getting treated early. 

Check them out today!

As the Medicaid continuous coverage requirements ends as of March 31, 2023, here are some resources to help preserve Medicaid coverage for all who are eligible.

• NHeLP PHE Unwinding Resource webpage – keep checking back for updates and additional publications
• Unwinding Medicaid Continuous Coverage: Checklist for Redeterminations (Feb. 2023)
• PHE and Continuous Coverage Unwinding Resources – a comprehensive list of PHE and continuous coverage unwinding guidance and resources (updated Jan. 2023)
• 10 Issues for Advocates to Monitor During the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding (Feb. 2023)
• Medicaid During and “After” the Pandemic: Changes that Should Become Permanent Policies (June 2021)

In partnership with Amgen, NHMA is proud to share a curated list of resources for both our Asthma and Cardiovascular Disease campaigns.

Asthma:

• HispanicHealth.info portal
• Asthma disparities

Cardiovascular Disease:

• HispanicHealth.info portal
• Talk to your patients about the ABCS
• #CloseToMyHeart campaign

We are also seeking physicians and healthcare providers that treat Hispanic/Latinx patients with cardiovascular diseases to create a short (1-2 minute) video on who you are, your organization, the importance of being heart healthy, how you treat your minority patients with CVD, and the importance of treatment adherence.

The Health Equity Coalition for Chronic Disease is excited to announce that its Spanish-language website is now live! Learn more about the nationwide coalition of advocacy leaders working together to advance health equity and eliminate barriers to care and treatment for obesity and other chronic diseases.

NHMA's Vaccinate For All campaign, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, encourages health professionals to learn about and implement reminder/recall systems as a strategy to increase routine adult vaccination and adherence to treatment.

Legislative Update

NHMA is proud to have supported several advocacy activities at the state and federal levels over the past month to improve the wellbeing of Hispanic healthcare professionals and patients across the country.

• On January 26, 2023, the NHMA Texas Chapter and our partner Texas Doctors for Social Responsibility (TDSR) hosted their fifth annual public health policy forum, ‘Gun Violence: A Preventable Public Health Epidemic.’ NHMA applauds NHMA Board Member and Texas Chapter Co-Chair Dr. Bert Johansson as well as Texas Chapter Co-Chair and TDSR President and Board Chair Dr. Jaime Estrada for convening health experts, public officials, and community leaders for a powerful discussion on advancing collective action. Read our full statement on gun violence here. ...

• Watch: A Vitals "Check-Up" event on health outcomes and care options for seniors – Axios Events, January 24, 2023
• Group of Texas doctors calling for stricter gun control laws – CBS Austin, January 26, 2023