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CIRA Affiliations in 2019

New Affiliates - Chawarski, Kumar, Nelson, WatsonIn 2019, CIRA affiliated four new individuals and twelve research projects. Among the services available to CIRA affiliates are peer review of grant applications and manuscripts, research-in-progress and methods consultations, identifying research collaborators, and solicitation of community input.

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The Institute for Community Research Begins Search for New Executive Director

REIDS LogoThe Institute for Community Research (ICR), an independent non-profit organization located in Hartford, CT, is seeking a new Executive Director and Senior Scientist who will carry the Institute forward, based on ICR's principles of collaborative research in partnership with communities, and shape its future directions, programs, and areas of focus.

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Events

  • CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: "Malaysia's Evolving Strategies to Address Interrelated Substance Use Problems and HIV/AIDS"
    Date: Wednesday, February 12, 10:00 am-11:30 am
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Marek Chawarski, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Emergency Medicine, Yale University
    Topic: "Malaysia's Evolving Strategies to Address Interrelated Substance Use Problems and HIV/AIDS"
    Contact: Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • Data and Privacy: Day of Data Series Panel Discussion
    Date: Thursday, February 13, 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
    Location: Sterling Hall of Medicine 115 (inside Cushing/Whitney Medical Library), 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
    Description: Speakers include Jennifer Miller, Theodore Holford, Gregg Gonsalves, Joshua Wallach, and Donna Spiegelman.
    Further Details and Registration
  • Yale Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaker Series 2019/20 presents: Greg Mitchell, Princeton
    Date: Thursday, February 13, 4:00 pm
    Location: Yale, William L. Harkness Hall, Rm 309, 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Gregory Mitchell, Burkhardt Fellow, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
    Topic: "The Cruising Project: Conjuring Historical Glimpses of Street Husting in Rio de Janeiro"
    Further Details
  • Harm Reduction Workshop
    Date: Wednesday, February 19, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
    Location: Connecticut Mental Health Center, 2nd Fl, Rm W212, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Mark Jenkins, Founder of Greater Hartford Harm Reduction Coalition
    Contact: Space is limited and RSVP is required by February 14. To register, contact James Adu (james.adu@ct.gov).
  • CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group: Marie Brault
    Date: Friday, February 21, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: TBA
    Topic: "TBA"
    Contact: Lauretta Grau, (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
  • CIRA Interdisciplinary HIV Research Seminar: "Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation vs. National Standard of Care in Eswatini: Results from the MaxART Cluster Randomized Stepped Wedge Trial"
    Date: Thursday, February 27, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Ariel Chao, MPH Candidate, Yale School of Public Health
    Topic: "Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation vs. National Standard of Care in Eswatini: Results from the MaxART Cluster Randomized Stepped Wedge Trial"
    Contact: Russell Barbour (russell.barbour@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA Interdisciplinary HIV Research Seminar: "Crowdsourcing PrEP: Integrating Participatory Action Research and Technology to Engage Young People in HIV Prevention"
    Date: Thursday, March 5, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Tamara Taggart, MPH, PhD, George Washington University
    Topic: "Crowdsourcing PrEP: Integrating Participatory Action Research and Technology to Engage Young People in HIV Prevention"
    Contact: Katie Doucet (katie.doucet@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: Timothy Mah
    Date: Friday, March 6, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Timothy Mah, DSc, Deputy Division Chief, Priority Populations, Integration, and Rights, Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID
    Topic: "Developing and Implementing Data-Informed HIV Programming at Scale"
    Contact: Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA Interdisciplinary HIV Research Seminar: "When Things Go Wrong: Statistical Approaches to Problem Data in Randomized Clinical Trials"
    Date: Wednesday, April 22, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Russell "Skip" Barbour, PhD, CIRA
    Topic: "When Things Go Wrong: Statistical Approaches to Problem Data in Randomized Clinical Trials"
    Contact: Liz Cappello (elizabeth.cappello@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: Robert Hecht, PhD
    Date: Friday, April 24, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Robert Hecht, PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
    Topic: "TBA"
    Contact: Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • SAVE THE DATE: Bristol Mayor's Task Force on HIV/AIDS Annual HIV Education Forum
    Date: Wednesday April 29, 8:45 am-4:00 pm
    Location: Bristol Public Library, 5 High St, Bristol, CT
    Presenters: Among the presenters is Daniel Davidson, Assistant Director of CIRA's Community Research and Implementation Core.
    Theme: "Getting to Zero"
    Contact: Valerie Ingram (Vingram@hranbct.org)
  • CIRA Interdisciplinary HIV Research Seminar: "Overall, direct, disseminated, and composite effects of HIV testing and counseling on HIV risk behaviors and HIV incidence in the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in rural South Africa"
    Date: Thursday, May 21, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Raul Hernandez Ramirez, PhD, Yale School of Public Health
    Topic: "Overall, direct, disseminated, and composite effects of HIV testing and counseling on HIV risk behaviors and HIV incidence in the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in rural South Africa"
    Contact: Liz Cappello (elizabeth.cappello@yale.edu)
    Further Details

Call for Submissions

  • Call for Applications: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Health Disparities Research Institute
    Submission deadline: March 9 at 5:00 pm
    Program dates: August 3-7, 2020
    Further Details

Funding Opportunities

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

Yale Opportunities:

  • Yale Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses Faculty Grant
    Application due date: May 1, 2020. Applicants will be notified of final selections via email by May 15, 2020.
    Eligibility: current Yale faculty members.
    Further Details

HIV-Related Opportunities:

  • Learning from the Transfer of HIV Interventions from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to the United States: Informing the Plan for America to End the HIV Epidemic
    Response date has been extended to March 1, 2020
    The NIH is soliciting examples of interventions in HIV prevention, care or treatment that were developed in LMICs and have been transferred and attempted to be implemented in the U.S. They are also interested in interventions that have not yet been transferred from LMICs to the U.S. but could potentially be transferred to help curb the HIV epidemic.
    Further Details
  • Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Strengthening the Impact of Community Health Workers on the HIV Care Continuum in the US (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
    Estimated Publication Date of Funding Opportunity Announcement: February 20, 2020
    First Estimated Application Due Date: April 23, 2020
    Earliest Estimated Award Date: September 01, 2020
    Further Details
  • Evaluation of New HIV Testing Technologies in Clinical Settings with High HIV Incidence
    Application Due Date: April 14, 2020
    Further Details
  • Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Drug-drug interactions among substances of abuse, medications to treat HIV infection, and pharmacotherapies to treat substance use disorders
    Release Date: February 6, 2020
    First Available Due Date: May 7, 2020
    Expiration Date: May 8, 2022
    Further Details
  • International Research in Infectious Diseases (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    AIDS Application Due Date(s): August 19, 2020; August 19, 2021; August 19, 2022
    Further Details

Other Opportunities:

  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP)
    The program offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians, dentists, and nurses from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.
    Application Due Date: March 18, 2020
    Further Details
  • PCORI Engagement Awards
    Letter of Inquiry (LOI) Deadline: April 1, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET
    Application Town Hall Session: February 13, 2020 at 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • Development of Medications to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorders and Overdose (UG3/UH3) (Clinical Trial Optional)
    AIDS Application Due Date(s): Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, beginning on February 24, 2020 (expiration date: September 2, 2022)
    Further Details

Training Opportunities

  • 2020 Summer Institute: "Building Effective Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions Using Micro-Randomized Trial Designs"
    Application Due Date: Monday, March 2, 5:00 pm ET
    Workshop Date: July 23-24, 2020
    Location: Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, MD
    Presenters: Susan Murphy and Daniel Almirall
    Host Institutuions: The Methodology Center at Penn State and the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago
    Further Details

Publications

Resources

  • National Dataset on LGBTQ Youth Health and Well-being Available for Secondary Data Analyses
    The LGBTQ National Teen survey is a non-probability sample collected in 2017 including 17,112 SGM youth aged 13-17 from across the United States. More than 100 items were included in the survey-measures include validated scales of depression and self-esteem, stress, physical activity, weight-related victimization and behaviors, YRBS-mirrored items on alcohol, pot, and cigarette smoking (binge, lifetime, onset for each), academic achievement, bullying, GSAs, bathroom and name/pronoun experiences for trans youth, teacher support, parent support, LGBTQ-specific family acceptance/rejection, LGBTQ people of color microagressions, and much more. About 10,000 youth responded to every item asked. All teens were asked items assessing their sexual behavior, attraction, and identity. The sample is 33% trans/non-binary (n = ~ 5600), and includes 38% youth of color (n = ~ 6500). There are larger than typical cell sizes for youth identifying as pansexual, asexual, non-binary, and queer. Though there are documented limitations with non-probability sampling, there is strong opportunity for continued use of the data given researchers have been funded by NIH to do secondary data analyses using the dataset, and more than a dozen papers have been published, some in Pediatrics, AJPM, Health Psychology, and more.
    Contact: To become involved and request the codebook, contact Dr. Ryan Watson, the study PI, at ryanwatson@uconn.edu.
  • HIV Testing Outcomes Among Blacks or African Americans, 2017
    In 2017, blacks accounted for >40% of those tested and new diagnoses in Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) jurisdictions. Compared with whites, more blacks in EHE jurisdictions received a new diagnosis or were identified as a person with previously diagnosed HIV infection.
    Further Information
  • CDC National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Resources, February 7
    This digital toolkit offers key resources including suggested social media posts, graphics, and links to other materials from the Let's Stop HIV Together campaign. Accompanying webinar slides are available from
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/hn4ovaxpv2uikmu/NBHAAD-Partner_Webinar.pdf
  • CDC World TB Day Resources, March 24
    This year's World TB Day theme is "It's Time!" CDC's World TB Day website is a one-stop-shop for resources including key messages, a digital media toolkit, and how to participate in the World TB Day activities.
    Further Details

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

Spotlight on CIRA

CIRA Interdisciplinary HIV Research Seminars

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).

  • Wed, February 12, 10:00 am-11:30 am: Marek Chawarski, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Emergency Medicine, Yale University - "Malaysia's Evolving Strategies to Address Interrelated Substance Use Problems and HIV/AIDS"
  • Fri, March 6, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm: Timothy Mah, DSc, Deputy Division Chief, Priority Populations, Integration, and Rights, Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID - "Developing and Implementing Data-Informed HIV Programming at Scale"
  • Fri, April 24, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm: Robert Hecht, PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health - "Topic TBA"

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, February 21: Speaker and Topic TBA

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.

Did you know our eBulletin is Archived?

Did you know? graphicFor your convenience, we have archived all 2019 issues of CIRA's eBulletin. No need to dig through your emails to find an old issue.
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