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Yale School of Public Health Partners With University of Puerto Rico to Address HIV

Map of Puerto RicoResearchers at the Yale School of Public Health are teaming up with colleagues at the University of Puerto Rico to improve access to testing, treatment and care for people living with HIV in the capital city, San Juan. With support from the National Institutes of Health, CIRA and the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) are launching two projects designed to address Puerto Rico's urgent HIV problem as part of the federal government's Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. The new grants are supported by an NIH program that aims to facilitate HIV implementation research in high-burden areas in the United States.

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Fiellin, play2PREVENT Lab Awarded Grant Through NIH HEAL Initiative

Play2Prevent logoLynn E. Fiellin, MD, associate professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and the Child Study Center; founder/director, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale and the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games; and a longstanding CIRA affiliate, was recently awarded a grant through The Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or the NIH HEAL Initiative.

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Events

  • Yale Clinical & Community Research (YCCR) Research-in-Progress Seminar
    Date: Tuesday October 22, 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
    Location: Yale School of Public Health, LEPH Room 216, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenters:
    - 12:00 pm: Merceditas Villanueva, M.D. presents "Project ConnQuER: Progress in Eliminating Hep C in Person with HIV and Hep C in Connecticut"
    - 1:00 pm: Dan Bromberg, MSc, Predoctoral Fellow, CIRA, and Mary Tate, BA-BS, student, Yale College, present "HIV-Positive Tajik Migrants to the Russian Federation: Barriers and Facilitators to Treatment"
    NOTE: You can attend in person or remotely via GoTo Meeting - https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/477264261 or you can dial in using your phone: United States: +1 646-749-3122 (Access Code: 477-264-261)
    Contact: Lunch will be provided. RSVP with your attendance to Paula Dellamura (203-737-2883, paula.dellamura@yale.edu)
  • CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: "Exploring Multidimensional Aspects of Aging in HIV"
    Date: Thursday, October 24, 10:00 am-11:30 am
    Location: Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street New Haven, CT
    Speaker: Reena Rajasuriar, PhD, University of Malaya, Malaysia
    Title: "Exploring Multidimensional Aspects of Aging in HIV"
    Contact: Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA Cross-Core Meeting
    Date: Wednesday, October 30, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Peg Weeks, PhD, Institute for Community Research
    Topic: "System Dynamics Modeling of the HIV Care Continuum to Inform Community Strategic Planning to Eliminate the HIV Epidemic"
    Contact: Daniel Davidson (daniel.davidson@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • The Community Research Alliance Presents A Fall Mixer: Community Based Research Partnerships Networking Event
    Date: Wednesday, October 30, 4:30 pm-6:00 pm
    Location: Louise E. Loomis Children's Wellness Center, 57 Charter Oak Ave, Hartford, CT
    Description: During this event, attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the Community Research Alliance, discuss past and present research oriented community projects from Steering Committee organizations, and network with organizations and researchers interested in community collaborations.
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  • Innovation to Impact at Yale: Entrepreneurship Training Program for Substance Use Researchers
    Application Deadline Date: November 1, 2019
    Actual Program Date: March 30-April 3, 2020
    Location: Yale West Campus, Conference Center, 100 West Campus Dr, Orange, CT
    Further Details
  • WEBINAR: Amplifying the Impact of Partnerships: A Framework for Researchers
    Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2:30 pm-3:30 pm
    Description: Join a free Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) webinar to hear from experts on best practices for engaging payers and providers as research partners to help ensure your work reaches and influences the people who can drive the needed change.
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  • Yale Center for Implementation Science (YCIS) and Center for Methods of Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) Grand Rounds Series: "Economic Evaluation in Implementation Science"
    Date: Tuesday, November 12, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
    Location: Yale School of Public Health, Rm 106A, 47 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Speaker: Heather T. Gold, PhD, NYU School of Medicine; NYU Langone Health
    Title: "Economic Evaluation in Implementation Science"
    Contacts: June-Marie Weiss (junemarie.weiss@yale.edu) and Ann Criscuolo (ann.criscuolo@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA's Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Qualitative Research Discussion Group
    Date: Friday, November 15, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Alana Rosenberg, PhD, Project Manager, Yale School of Public Health
    Topic: "The Ethics of Consent and Confidentiality for Qualitative Research in the New Age of Storytelling"
    Contact: Lauretta Grau, (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • YSPH Global Health Seminar: "Challenges to Implementation of UN 90-90-90 Goals"
    Date: Tuesday, December 3, 4:30 pm-5:45 pm
    Location: Yale School of Public Health, Rm 106B, 47 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD, Dean and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
    Topic: "Challenges to Implementation of UN 90-90-90 Goals"
    Contact: Anjuli Bodyk (anjuli.bodyk@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • YSPH Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Seminar Series - World AIDS Day
    Date: Thursday, December 5, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
    Location: Yale School of Public Health, Rm 106B, 47 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Jacob Bor, SD, Assistant Professor, Global Health, Boston University
    Contact: Kimberly Rogers (kimberly.rogers@yale.edu)
    Further Details

Funding Opportunities

Download a PDF compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.

  • Strengthening Implementation and Use of Effective Health Information Systems through Improved Governance, Design, Planning, Capacity Development, and Technical Implementation under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
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  • Sustained Release of Antivirals for Treatment or Prevention of HIV (SRATP) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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  • HIV-associated Non-Communicable Diseases Research at Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
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  • Integrative Research on Polysubstance Abuse and Disorder (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional)
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  • U.S. and Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) HIV-Associated Malignancy Research Centers (U54 Clinical Trials Optional)
    Further Details
  • Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) 2020 (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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  • Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and to Reduce Disparities in Rural Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
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Publications

Resources

  • WEBINAR (Previously Recorded): Advocates’ Debrief on the Science of Daily F/TAF vs. TDF/FTC as PrEP
    This webinar was the first in a two-part series, responding to advocates' desire to better understand the research to date on F/TAF as PrEP, especially as it relates to its safety profile [compared to TDF/FTC] and the lack of robust data in cisgender women.
    More from AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention

NOTE: All times expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2019 unless otherwise noted.

 

Spotlight on CIRA

CIRA Cross-Core Meeting

All meetings will be held at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).

CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series

All meetings will be held at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).

IRM Core Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)

All meetings will be held from Noon to 1:30 pm at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).

  • Fri, November 15: Alana Rosenberg, PhD, Project Manager, Yale School of Public Health - "The Ethics of Consent and Confidentiality for Qualitative Research in the New Age of Storytelling"
  • Fri, December 20: Adam Viera, PhD Candidate, Yale School of Public Health - PrEP

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Recruitment for CIRA's highly successful fellowship programs is underway

Fellowship Opportunities at YaleThe Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program and the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) are now accepting applications. Through these CIRA-supported fellowship programs, new scientists are equipped with the skills to advance prevention research and to address future challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fellows will benefit from mentorship from top HIV researchers conducting innovative and cutting-edge research to eliminate HIV disparities, integration with the CIRA community, and a network of over 100 past HIV Fellows from around the world, who have gone on to top-tier universities and have received numerous federally funded research grants. Our two training programs have generated over 1200 peer-reviewed publications and over 200 funded grants since 2008.

For more information and application, visit CIRA Training.

CIRA Peer Review Program

Peer ReviewAre you planning to submit a grant application? Do you have a manuscript in progress? Are you working on a presentation for a conference? Increase your chances for success by having your work peer-reviewed!

Why CIRA peer review? What are the benefits?

  • The spirit of our program is one of collegiality and respect; it is constructive rather than evaluative in nature
  • The investigator or author receives constructive feedback from a multidisciplinary group of colleagues with relevant expertise
  • It facilitates a discussion on how to communicate the content more clearly and effectively
  • The process allows the investigator or author to practice how to respond to reviewer feedback
  • The review sessions connect the investigator or author to a useful network for expanding knowledge and exploring potential collaborations across disciplines
  • It provides input on the relevancy of the proposal/manuscript/presentation to the funding agencies/mechanisms, journals, and audience

Email Katie Doucet (katie.doucet@yale.edu) for questions or to schedule a Peer Review session. Requests for peer review must be submitted 4 weeks prior to the requested review date.

Research Snapshot Series

Research Snapshot iconCIRA's Research Snapshot series features one page summaries of completed, peer reviewed and published studies conducted by our affiliated scientists. The summaries describe the reason for the study, the key findings, and implications for practice and policy, presented in plain language. Each of the briefs also include a link to a published article in a peer reviewed journal that derives from the featured study.

If you are a CIRA Affiliate and interested in submitting a brief for publication or just want to discuss the process, contact Pete Donohue, pete.donohue@yale.edu.

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Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University
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CIRA is supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant No. P30MH062294.
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
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