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RECRUITING: Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT) and the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS)
 Applications are still open for CIRA's two Fellowships programs - Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT) and the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS).
Application deadline for Y-APT is December 3, 2021 and for REIDS is February 4, 2022.
Further Information and Applications
World AIDS Day 2021 Events
 World AIDS Day, designated on December 1 every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. The theme for the 2021 observance is "Ending the HIV Epidemic: Equitable Access, Everyone's Voice" ("El tema de este año para WAD se confirma como: Poner fin a la epidemia de VIH: acceso equitativo, la voz de todos").
More from CIRA
REGISTER: CIRA Talk: "Recommending Physical Activity in the Context of HIV and Substance Use"
 Tuesday, December 14, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Zoom only
Join us on Zoom for a CIRA Talk focused on how physical activity can be recommended to elicit therapeutic benefits for persons with HIV and substance use. Presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the seminar audience.
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Former Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) Scholar Awarded the NIH Director's New Innovator Award
 Dr. Tiarney Ritchwood has been awarded the NIH Director's New Innovator Award for her study "Community-Academic Partnerships to Address COVID-19 Inequities within African American Communities". This novel project seeks to address individual and socio-structural barriers that lead to African Americans disproportionately bearing the burden of elevated rates of COVID-19- related morbidity and mortality by leveraging social innovation, community participatory methods, and multisectoral partnerships. Dr. Ritchwood is a former REIDS scholar and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Duke University School of Medicine.
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- Changes in Public Support for LGBTI People and Rights
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
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- Implementation Science Series: "Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial Designs"
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 10:00 am-11:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Sara Becker (Brown University School of Public Health)
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- Well-Being of Black and Other Transgender People of Color
Date:Wednesday, November 17, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
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- Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Intervention Programs: Dissemination of Tools and Resources to Support Survivors Webinar
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
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- NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival
Dates: Thursday, November 18 and Friday, November 19, 1:00 pm-4:30 pm
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- PrEP Coverage Check - A PrEP Verification Tool
Dates: Thursday, November 18, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
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- PrEParing for PrEP: From Policy to Implementation
Date: Friday, November 19, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
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- CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "The Development of a Digital Intervention Delivered in School-Based Health Centers to Prevent Suicide among Youth who Misuse Opioids"
Date: Friday, November 19, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Presenter: Claudia-Santi Ferrante Fernandes, Yale School of Medicine
Contact: Lauretta Grau (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
Further Details
- Advancing Economic Evaluation in Implementation Studies: Multi-stakeholder Perspectives on Assessing Costs and Value?
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
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- Preventing HIV with PrEP: New Opportunities and Stories from the Field
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
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- The Criminalization of Black Americans Living with HIV
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
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- Health Issues in Humanitarian Settings
Date: Thursday, December 2, 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
Speaker: Kaveh Khoshnood (Yale School of Public Health)
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- Ready4Change: Succession Planning & Leadership Transition for Harm Reduction Programs
Date: Monday, December 6, 3:00 pm
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- SEICHE Center for Health and Justice Seminar Series: Policing & Health - "Unemployment, Incarceration and Police Brutality: What I've Learned About Intersectionality and Structural Inequality from My HIV Prevention Research with U.S. Black Men."
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Lisa Bowleg (The George Washington University)
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- CIRA Talk: "Recommending Physical Activity in the Context of HIV and Substance Use"
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Speaker: Linda S. Pescatello, FACSM, FAHA, FNAK (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT)
Further Details
- Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Scholar Opportunity
This 1-2 year position will work on projects related to substance use disorders and related infectious diseases, including HIV and hepatitis C that disproportionately impact communities made vulnerable, including those who engage in sex work and people who use drugs. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Kathryn Lancaster (lancaster.111@osu.edu) with a CV, a brief statement of interest, two representative papers/publications, and references.
Applications Due: December 1, 2021
- Call for Applications: HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Scholars Program
Initial Drafts Proposal Due: December 10, 2021
Full Applications Due: February 4, 2022
Further Details
- Call for Abstracts: 2022 The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
Abstract Submission Due Date: January 11, 2022
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- Call for Abstracts: AIDS 2022
Online Abstract Submission Open Date: November 16, 2021
Abstract Submission Due Date: January 27, 2022
Abstract Mentor Program Dates: November 8, 2021-January 14, 2022
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- Call for Applications: Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials
Application Due Date: February 15, 2022
Program Dates: July 14–23, 2022
Further Details
Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Global Call-to-Action
Applications Open: November 8, 2021-January 13, 2022
Further Details
- Implementation Research on Telehealth Strategies to Support Retention in Care and Treatment among Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Patients and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Clients
Application Due Date: January 18, 2022
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- NOSI: AHRQ Announces Interest in Research on Digital Healthcare Safety
Release Date: October 28, 2021
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- RePORT International Coordinating Center (RICC) (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Date(s): March 17, 2022
Further Details
- HIV care using differentiated service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide cohort study in the US Department of Veterans Affairs
Kathleen A McGinnis, Melissa Skanderson, Amy C Justice, Kathleen M Akgün, Janet P Tate, Joseph T King Jr, Christopher T Rentsch, Vincent C Marconi, Evelyn Hsieh, Christopher Ruser, Farah Kidwai-Khan, Roozbeh Yousefzadeh2, Joseph Erdos, Lesley S Park
Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2021 Oct;24 Suppl 6(Suppl 6):e25810. doi: 10.1002/jia2.25810.
- Sexual and reproductive health needs of young people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review
Laura S Mkumba, Martha Nassali, Jasmine Benner, Tiarney D Ritchwood
Reproductive Health2021. Nov 5;18(1):219. doi: 10.1186/s12978-021-01269-7.
- The Effects of Workplace-Based HIV Self-testing on Uptake of Testing and Linkage to HIV Care or Prevention by Men in Uganda (WISe-Men): Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Trial
Patience A Muwanguzi, Tom Denis Ngabirano, Noah Kiwanuka, LaRon E Nelson, Esther M Nasuuna, Charles Peter Osingada, Racheal Nabunya, Damalie Nakanjako, Nelson K Sewankambo
JMIR Research Protocols2021. Nov 1;10(11):e25099. doi: 10.2196/25099.
- Journal of the International AIDS Society Symposium Recording and Special Issue: Global Mental Health and HIV Prevention and Care
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NOTE: All times are expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2021 unless otherwise noted.
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CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)
 Fri, November 19, Noon-1:30 pm
Claudia-Santi Ferrante Fernandes, Yale School of Medicine - The Development of a Digital Intervention Delivered in School-Based Health Centers to Prevent Suicide among Youth who Misuse Opioids
We are Recruiting for CIRA Fellowship Programs
 Applications are open for CIRA's two Fellowship programs - Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT) and the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS).
Further information and applications
CIRA Peer Review Program
 CIRA's Peer Review Program is designed to enhance the quality of grant proposals, manuscripts, and research presentations written by CIRA affiliates by sharing them with a multidisciplinary group of colleagues for their critique and feedback. The spirit of our program is one of collegiality and respect; it is constructive rather than evaluative in nature. We encourage peer review at any stage of development, from a 2-3 page concept sheet to a penultimate draft.
Please submit your request for Peer Review 4 weeks prior to requested review date. Review materials are due:
- Specific Aims: 5 days in advance of the review date
- Grant Sections (i.e. approach, significance etc): 7 days in advance of the review date
- Full Grant proposal: 14 days in advance of the review date
- Sections of a paper (i.e. methods, tables, discussion etc): 7 days in advance of the review date
- Full Manuscript: 10 days in advance of the review date
- Concept paper: 5 days in advance of the review date
- Conference Presentation: nothing due in advance
- Conference Poster: 5 days in advance of the review date
Sessions are held at CIRA's Offices (135 College Street, Suite 200, New Haven CT) on Zoom, or via email and last around one hour. Reviews are typically led by a primary reviewer; whose role is to provide oral and written feedback on each proposal. This is followed by the other reviewers’ feedback and then we hold a group discussion.
The peer review process has multiple benefits: Researchers gain from practical advice on products. Also, they offer a rare opportunity for a cross-section of the entire CIRA community – scientists, staff, community representatives and post-doctoral fellows – to keep abreast of and discuss the very latest research, to forge additional, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and to expand and build on professional networks.
To request a Peer Review, please click here. For further information or questions, please contact Katie Doucet (katie.doucet@yale.edu).
COVID-19 and HIV Resources
 CIRA has launched a webpage that provides a wide range of resources surrounding COVID-19 and HIV. The webpage will be updated regularly as new information and materials become available. The resources include COVID-19-related funding opportunities, call for papers, research tools and guidance, and many more. Contact Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu) for questions or comments about the web page.
Research Snapshot Series
 CIRA'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?
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