Registration closes, TODAY, January 29, 2024 at 11:59pm. 

Applications for the Spring '24 MLE Cohort can be found HERE. 

The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) is a collaboration between Campus Life and Initiatives for Identity Inclusion & Belonging (i3B), that seeks to: 

Engage participants in a multicultural development and leadership learning program; 
Enhance participants' understanding of their social identities, leader identity, as well as their capacity to lead; 
And enable participants' development through authenticity, self-awareness, relationships, and capitalizing on difference. 

Please consider joining Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine faculty this spring to learn more about ongoing research and hot topics in a wide variety of public health disciplines in their ongoing virtual seminar series.  The seminar website will be updated as new programming is added. Each seminar will be recorded and shared with registrants afterwards.

January 25, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Beyond the Plate: Public Health Nutrition in Action Dr. Keelia O' Malley, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Social Behavioral and Population Sciences January 30, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Implementing Proven Effective Interventions to Improve Blood Pressure Control and Reduce Health Disparities Dr. Katherine Mills, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology February 7, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Some Like it Hot: Protecting Health 7,000 feet Underground Dr. Rustin Reed, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences February 21, 2024 - 1 pm | Register here Language Access in Health Care Settings Dr. Eva Silvestre, Associate Professor, Department of International Health and Sustainable Development March 4, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Thirty-five years analyzing health related data: experiences of an applied biostatistician Dr. John Lefante, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Data Sciences March 11, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Community Health Workers and Latinx Immigrant Health Access in the US Dr. David Washburn, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management March 19, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Living with Water - Mosquito-borne Disease Risk in New Orleans Dr. Sarah Michaels, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease April 3, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Spill the Tea: Rumors, Myths, and Misinformation in Public Health Dr. Jeni Stolow, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Behavioral and Population Sciences April 15, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here The Association Between Perceived and Objective Measures of Neighborhood Disorder Dr. Jeanette Gustat, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology April 24, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being: Implications for the Healthcare Workforce Emily Harris, Clinical Instructor, Department of Health Policy and Management April 30, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Navigating Vulnerability, Building Resilience: Food and Water Insecurity Challenges and Solutions Dr. Shallene Collins, Assistant Professor, Department of International Health and Sustainable Development May 8, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here An Unconventional Path Dr. Susan Cheng, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, Department of Social Behavioral and Population Sciences May 13, 2024 - 12 pm | Register here Parasites, People and Populations Dr. Ronald Blanton, Chair, Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

Guidance on Salary Limitation for Grants and Cooperative Agreements FY 2024

Notice Number: NOT-OD-24-057

Purpose

This Notice provides information regarding the salary limitation for NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards and extramural research and development contract awards.

Since 1990, Congress has legislatively mandated a limitation on direct salary for individuals under NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards (referred to here as a grant). The mandate appears in the annual appropriation act that provides authority for NIH to incur obligations for a given Fiscal Year (FY). At this time, NIH has not received an FY 2024 appropriation and is operating under a Continuing Resolution, the "Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-22)”, that applies the terms and conditions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level II of the Federal Executive pay scale. The Office of Personnel Management recently released new salary levels for the Executive Pay Scale. Effective January 1, 2024, the salary limitation for Executive Level II is $221,900.

For active awards, including awards that have been issued in FY 2024 (continuation and new) that were restricted to Executive Level II, if adequate funds are available, and if the salary cap increase is consistent with the institutional base salary, recipients may rebudget funds to accommodate the current Executive Level II salary level.

Once the Department of Health and Human Services Appropriation for FY 2024 is enacted, NIH will publish the annual Notice of legislative mandates to provide information on any statutory provisions that limit the use of NIH grant funds in FY 2024.

Please refer to the full announcement linked below for more details.