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Yale ACTION Study Enrolling Patients

A new clinical trial, the 'Addressing Risk Through Community Treatment for Infectious Disease and Opioid Use Disorder Now (ACTION)' initiative, is currently recruiting participants. The study is open to individuals who have had involvement with the justice system with pre-justice history of opioid use and/or stimulant use, who are at risk or living with HIV.

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Health & Veritas Podcast: An Inspiring Nonlinear Path to Impact

On the latest Health & Veritas podcast, Yale physician-professors Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz were joined by Gregg Gonsalves who discusses his work on HIV/AIDS, COVID, and monkeypox as well as stepping off the trodden path as a way to find success.

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Play2Prevent Gets a U.S. Surgeon General Designation

The Office of the U.S. Surgeon General has designated Play2Prevent, founded and directed by Lynn Fiellin, MD, professor of medicine and in the Yale Child Study Center, as a mental health resource for young people. Play2Prevent is a repository for evidence-based video game interventions and educational materials geared toward risk prevention, health and wellness promotion, and social intelligence in children, teens, and young adults.

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Fact Sheets and Resources on Monkeypox

The global tally of monkeypox cases has risen swiftly since May 13, when the first case was reported, to more than 1,450. At least 1,500 cases are still under investigation. The following list includes select fact sheets and resources literature on monkeypox collated by CIRA.

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Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Clinical Care
Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 1:30 pm-3:00 pm
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Public Health Monkeypox Response: JYNNEOS Vaccine
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2022, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
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NIH Digital Health Interventions from Wellness to Therapeutics: Development and Dissemination
Dates: Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 12:00 pm-5:30 pm and Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 1:00 pm-4:35 pm
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CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "Building the Next Generation of Qualitative Researchers: The NIH R15 & Beyond"
Date: Friday, July 15, 2022, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Presenter: Amy Smoyer, Southern Connecticut State University
Contact: Lauretta Grau (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
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HISTORI Workshop: WhatsApp and Text-Based Chatting in Qualitative Data Collection
Date: Friday, July 15, 2022, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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Introducing New HIV Prevention Products: The Dapivirine Ring and Injectable Cabotegravir for PrEP
Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 10:00 am-11:00 am
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Designing Stepped Wedge Trials with Continuous Recruitment
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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Training Mechanisms for Early Career Scientists in Global Mental Health Research at NIH
Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 9:30 am-11:00 am
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Creating AI That Improves Health
Date: Wednesday, August 3 , 2022, 1:00 pm
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2nd National Meeting for Research and Community Collaboration towards "Ending the HIV Epidemic in the US"
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022, 10:00 am-6:00 pm
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15th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 5:00 pm ET
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Call for Abstracts: Yale Conference for Alcohol Research and Education
Eligibility: Yale community
Submission Due Date: August 1, 2022
Conference Date: Saturday, September 10, 2022
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Call for Solutions: Novel Measurement for Primary Health Care Performance Improvement in LMIC Challenge
Submission Due Date: August 9, 2022, 8:00 pm
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Call for Abstracts: Addressing the Sexually Transmitted Infections Epidemic in the United States: A Sociomedical Perspective (Frontiers)
Abstract Submission Deadline: August 15, 2022
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Call for Papers: Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities (Prevention Science)
Submission Due Date: September 1, 2022
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Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.

AIDS United's People Organizing Positively
Application Due Date: July 7, 2022, 6:00 pm
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NOSI: Administrative Supplements to Support Collaborative HIV/AIDS Research at NIMHD-Funded Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI)
First Available Due Date: July 31, 2022
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NOSI: Administrative Supplements to NIMHD Awards for Research on HIV/AIDS in Populations that Experience Health Disparities (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
First Available Due Date: July 31, 2022
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Providence/Boston CFAR Developmental Grant Program
Eligibility: This award provides pilot research funds to Co-Principal Investigator teams consisting of one academic investigator and one community-based investigator. Academic investigator must have a full-time appointment at either Brown University or Boston University.
Application Due Date: August 4, 2022, 5:00 pm
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Coordinating Center for the HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Cohorts Program (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Date: August 10, 2022
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Molecular Dynamics of HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Due Date: December 7, 2022
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Practices, attitudes, and confidence related to tobacco treatment interventions in HIV clinics: a multisite cross-sectional survey
Krysten W Bold, Yanhong Deng, James Dziura, Elizabeth Porter, Keith M Sigel, Jessica E Yager, David M Ledgerwood, Steven L Bernstein, E Jennifer Edelman
Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2022. May 24;ibac022. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibac022. Online ahead of print.

Adaptive leadership in clinical encounters with women living with HIV
Schenita D Randolph, Ragan Johnson, Kara McGee, Adaora A Adimora, Catalina Ramirez, Donald E Bailey Jr, Lauren Holt, Amie Koch, Jacquelyn M McMillian-Bohler, Tiarney Ritchwood, Michael V Relf
BMC Womens Health. 2022. Jun 9;22(1):217. doi: 10.1186/s12905-022-01810-1.

Health-related quality of life among women aging with and without HIV in Peru
Diego M Cabrera, Meibin Chen, Mijahil P Cornejo, Yvett Pinedo, Patricia J Garcia, Evelyn Hsieh
PLoS One. 2022. Jun 9;17(6):e0269000. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269000. eCollection 2022.

Sociodemographic characteristics and HIV risk behaviors of native-born and displaced Syrian men and transgender women who have sex with men in Lebanon
Lilla V Orr, Forrest W Crawford, Kaveh Khoshnood, Danielle Khouri, Fouad M Fouad, David W Seal, Robert Heimer
AIDS and Behavior. 2022. Jun 7. doi: 10.1007/s10461-022-03726-1. Online ahead of print.

RECORDING AVAILABLE: CIRA Talk: "Reducing HIV Transmission Among People who Use Drugs: Bridge Clinic Implementation of Low-Barrier PrEP and MOUD"
Presenter: Dr. Jessica Taylor, Boston University School of Medicine
Recorded: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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RECORDING AVAILABLE: CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG) Series: "Best practices for teaching qualitative methods to (mostly quantitatively-trained) doctoral level public health practitioners"
Presenter: Yuka Asada, University of Illinois Chicago
Recorded: Wednesday, June 17, 2022
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HIV Testing Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, 2019–2020
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NOTE: All times are expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2022 unless otherwise noted.

Spotlight on CIRA

CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)

Fri, July 15, Noon-1:30 pm
Amy Smoyer, Southern Connecticut State University - "Building the Next Generation of Qualitative Researchers: The NIH R15 & Beyond"

Meeting Challenges & Taking Action: Highlights of CIRA Activities and Accomplishments

Collaborators past, present and future, we invite you to peruse this concise summary of "CIRA Highlights" from the past year, and welcome any comments/suggestions you may have for future representation of your engagement with CIRA.

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Did you know our eBulletin is Archived?

For your convenience, we have archived all issues of CIRA's eBulletin. No need to dig through your emails to find an old issue.
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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 Daniel Davidson (daniel.davidson@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.