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Meeting Challenges & Taking Actions
 Each year CIRA prepares an in-depth progress report to share our activities and accomplishments with NIMH. We invite you to peruse a concise summary of "CIRA Highlights" from the past year, and welcome any comments or suggestions you may have for future representation of your engagement with CIRA.
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InvestiDate: A Video Game Empowering Black Teens to Prioritize Their Health
 "InvestiDate," a game designed by Yale researchers with input from Black female adolescents, aims to help teens navigate the challenges of modern dating as they learn valuable information and behaviors to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted infection.
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Dr. Cindy Crusto Appointed Associate Dean for Gender Equity and Director of the Office for Women in Medicine and Science
 Professor of Psychiatry Cindy Crusto, PhD, has been appointed to the role of associate dean for gender equity and director of the Office for Women in Medicine and Science beginning in January 2022. The position will help to fulfill goals outlined in the YSM Diversity Strategic Plan.
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- Yale School of Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences Seminar Series: "A Different Perspective: Supporting the Sexual and Reproductive Health of African American Youth and Young Adults"
Date: January 11, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Speaker: Olivia N. Kachingwe, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- Intersectionality Research Salons
Date: January 12, February 9, March 9, April 13, May 11
Hosted by the Intersectionality Training Institute, the Salons are free to attend and hosted via Zoom on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
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- Challenging Structural Racism in Medicine, an Introduction to Key Concepts of Critical Race Theory
Date: Friday, January 14, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
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- Environmental Justice and Women's Reproductive Health
Date: Friday, January 14, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
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- New York City 2020 Overdose Mortality Data
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 4:30 pm
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- Evidence-Based Public Health Training Course
Date: Thursday, January 20, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm (and repeated on Thursdays through March 24, 2022)
This course takes a "hands-on" approach using presentations, practice, exercises, and case examples to build skills that busy practitioners can utilize in their daily work in any program area.
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- When is the Stepped Wedge Study a Good Study Design Choice?
Date: Friday, January 21, 10:00 am-11:00 am
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- CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "Using qualitative data to adapt an intervention: Notes from a virtual diabetes prevention program"
Date: Friday, January 21, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Presenter: Meredith Campbell Britton, Yale School of Medicine
Contact: Lauretta Grau (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
- Transgender Introductory Primer
Date: Friday, January 21, 12:00 pm-2:30 pm
The Transgender Introductory Primer is ideal for a variety of professionals in the helping and health professions, particularly mental health, social service and medical providers.
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- Beyond Surveys: Including People with Lived Experience in Anonymized Big Data and Drug Checking Research
Date: Thursday, January 27, 4:30 pm
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- Yale MacMillan Center Council on Middle East Studies: Viral Subjects: Stigma, Civil Society Activism, and the Making of HIV/AIDS in Lebanon
Date: Thursday, February 24, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Lizzy Berk, Yale University
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- Call for Applications: HIV Prevention Learning Collaborative
Application Submission Due Date: Friday January 21, 2022
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- Call for Applications: CHERISH Pilot Grant Funding 2022-2023
Letter of Intent Submission Due Date: January 28, 2022
Application Submission Due Date: February 25, 2022
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- Call for Applications: Intersectionality Research, Policy, & Practice Summer Intensive
Application Submission Due Date: February 1, 5:00 pm
Program Dates: July 11-15, 2022
Registration fees are applicable if application is accepted
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- Call for Abstracts: Telehealth & Remote Care in a Post-Pandemic World
Organizer: UConn Center for MHealth and Social Media 6th Annual Conference
Abstract Submission Due Date: March 14, 2022 at 8:00 am
Conference Dates: May 19-20, 2022
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- Call for Proposals: Infectious Diseases (including Antimicrobial Resistance) and Cancer
Organizer: e-ASIA Joint Research Program (the e-ASIA JRP)
Application Due Date: March 30, 2022
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Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.
- AIDS United's "Conexiones Positivas" Positive Connections
Application Due Date: February 4, 2022
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- Harm Reduction Grant Program
Application Due Date: February 7, 2022
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- Transgender Status-Neutral Community-to-Clinic Models to End the HIV Epidemic
Application Due Date: February 25, 2022
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- Rigorous Evaluation of Strategies to Prevent Overdose through Linking People with Illicit Substance Use Disorders to Recovery Support Services
Application Due Date: March 15, 2022
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- NOSI: Administrative Supplement for Research and Capacity Building Efforts Related to Bioethical Issues (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
First Available Due Date: January 17, 2022
Expiration Date: March 17, 2022
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- NOSI: Administrative Supplements for Research on Sex and/or Gender Influences (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
First Available Due Date: January 26, 2022
Expiration Date: January 27, 2023
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- NOSI: Research on the Health of Women of Understudied, Underrepresented and Underreported (U3) Populations (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
First Available Due Date: January 31, 2022
Expiration Date: February 01, 2023
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- NOSI: Administrative Supplements for Research on Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
First Available Due Date: January 31, 2022
Expiration Date: February 01, 2024
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- HEAL Initiative: Harm Reduction Policies, Practices, and Modes of Delivery for Persons with Substance Use Disorders (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Due Date(s): March 10, 2022
Expiration Date: March 11, 2022
- R01
- R24
- HEAL Initiative: HEAL Data2Action Research Adoption Support Center (U2C Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Due Date(s): March 25, 2022
Expiration Date: March 26, 2022
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- Technology Development to Reduce Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Dates; May 02, 2022; May 02, 2023; May 02, 2024
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- Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Dates: standard AIDS dates apply (expiration date: May 08, 2025)
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- Advancing communication strategies to support future HIV vaccine use
AIDS Application Due Date(s): May 10, 2022
Expiration Date: May 11, 2022
- R21
- R01
- Privacy and Confidentiality Concerns Related to the Use of mHealth Apps for HIV Prevention Efforts Among Malaysian Men Who Have Sex With Men: Cross-sectional Survey Study
Roman Shrestha, Celia Fisher, Jeffrey A Wickersham, Antoine Khati, Rayne Kim, Iskandar Azwa, Colleen Mistler, Lloyd Goldsamt
JMIR Formative Research. 2021 Dec 16;5(12):e28311. doi: 10.2196/28311.
- Exploring Awareness, Perceptions, and Willingness to Use HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: A Qualitative Study of Ghanaian Immigrants in the United States
Gloria Aidoo-Frimpong, Heather Orom, Kafuli Agbemenu, R Lorraine Collins, Gene D Morse, LaRon E Nelson
AIDS Patient Care and STDs2022. Jan;36(1):8-16. doi: 10.1089/apc.2021.0156. Epub 2021 Dec 15.
- 'Why aren't you on PrEP? You're a gay man': reification of HIV 'risk' influences perception and behaviour of young sexual minority men and medical providers
Kevin Hascher, Jessica Jaiswal, Julianna Lorenzo, Caleb LoSchiavo, Wanda Burton, Amanda Cox, Kandyce Dunlap, Benjamin Grin, Marybec Griffin, Perry N Halkitis
Culture, Health & Sexuality2021. Dec 30;1-15. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2021.2018501. Online ahead of print.
- Recording and Slides: CIRA Talk "Recommending Physical Activity in the Context of HIV and Substance Use"
Recorded December 14, 2021
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- AIDSVu's Data and Interactive Maps
In December 2021, AIDSVu released interactive maps and data visualizing the HIV epidemic at the state and county level for 2019, illustrating how the HIV epidemic impacts cities and neighborhoods. These maps are a snapshot of the state of HIV in the year before the COVID-19 epidemic, which has had a profound impact on allocation of resources, testing, new diagnoses, and data collection over the last two years.
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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, January 21, Noon-1:30 pm
Meredith Campbell Britton, Yale School of Medicine - Using qualitative data to adapt an intervention: Notes from a virtual diabetes prevention program
RECRUITING: Applications are open for the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) program
 REIDS is a two-year R25 educational program for racial and ethnic minority researchers, particularly early career faculty and postdoctoral researchers, dedicated to reducing HIV inequities in communities of color. REIDS provides research training, professional development and team mentoring in four-week immersive institutes over two summers and monthly meetings throughout the year. Participants receive a stipend* and $10,000 is available for each scholar for professional development and training activities over the course of the program.
Application deadline is February 4, 2022.
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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.
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