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CIRA-Affiliated Faculty Receive MacMillan Award

Julia Rozanova, Associate Research Scientist, and Sheela Shenoi, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) from the Yale AIDS Program at the School of Medicine, in collaboration with Kaveh Khoshnood from the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health and Dini Harsono from CIRA, were awarded a Kempf Award from the MacMillan Center to host a series of events titled: "Managing Health during Humanitarian Crises: Resilience, Establishing Health Priorities, and impact on Health Care Workers". This proposal builds on collaborative NIH-supported research with colleagues from Ukraine focused on health outcomes among older adults with HIV.

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Luke Davis Awarded 2023 Hecht Award

Research led by Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor and faculty lead of CIRA's international research program, Luke Davis, has been selected to receive the 2023 Hecht Global Health Faculty Network Award. The project, Mind the Gap: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders among PLHIV on TB Preventive Therapy in South Africa, will investigate how mental health and substance use disorders affect TB preventative therapy adherence in South Africa.

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REGISTER: The New England HIV Implementation Science Network presents "Racial Equity and Anti-Racism in Public Health Data Collection and Implications for HIV"

Date: Monday, July 10, 2023, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Presenter: Amy Hawn Nelson, University of Pennsylvania
This session presents findings from a toolkit created through a collaborative deliberation process and includes site-based examples of work in action towards racial equity alongside examples of promising and problematic practice for administrative data

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July 21 is Zero HIV Stigma Day

Zero HIV Stigma Day is commemorated on July 21 to globally raise awareness about HIV stigma and help people learn about ways to stop it. This day also honors Prudence Mabele, the first Black South African woman to publicly share her HIV status. Visit these webpages for resources and toolkits for awareness activities: IAPAC, HIV.gov, CDC, and ZeroHIVStigmaDay.

CIRA eBulletin Editors' Note

We will take a summer publishing break in August. The next CIRA eBulletin will be published in the first week of September.

NASEM Unequal Treatment Revisited: A Workshop Series: Part 1
Date: July 12-13, 11:00 am-3:30 pm
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Lunch & Learn: Community-Based Participatory Research
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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The Role of Overdose Prevention Centers in Responding to the Overdose and Infectious Disease Crises in the United States
Date: Friday, July 14, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "TBD"
Date: Friday, July 21, 2023, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Speaker: Christine Preiser, University Hospital Tuebingen
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Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the US: How Do We Intervene to Meet Our Ambitious Goals?
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
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Research Synthesis for Evidence-Based Health Policy Workshop Series
Date: July 26 and August 23, 1:00 pm-2:15 pm
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Tales from Two Cities: HIV and STI Research Highlights from Brisbane and Chicago
Date: Thursday, August 3, 9:00 am–10:30 am
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Analyzing, Reporting, and Disseminating Qualitative Research
Date: Friday, August 11, 2023, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
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Hybrid Experimental Designs for Optimizing Behavioral Interventions
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Annual Meeting 2023
Date: October 4-5, 2023
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Call for Applications: Addiction Policy Forum’s Anti-Stigma Initiative
Eligibility: City, county, tribe, agency or organization in the US
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Call for Abstracts: AJPH Advancing Hispanic/Latino Health Research Pa'lante: The Past, Present and Future of Hispanic/Latino Health in the US
Submission Due Date: Friday, July 14, 2023
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Call for Applications: NIH Climate and Health Scholars Program
Application Due Date: Saturday, July 15, 2023
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Call for Abstracts: 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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Request for Proposals: Connecticut HIV Planning Consortium
Response Date: Friday August 11, 2023
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Request for Information: Inviting Comments and Suggestions on Updating the NIAID Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Research
Response Date: August 13, 2023
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Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.

Minority HIV/AIDS Fund: Integrated Behavioral Health and HIV Care for Unsheltered Populations Pilot Project
Application Due Date: July 24, 2023
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Evaluation of Linkage to Care Programs in Support of Hepatitis C Elimination
Application Due Date: August 2, 2023
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Gilead RESONATE 2023 Request for Proposals
Letter of Intent Due Date: August 15, 2023
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RWJF Health Data for Action (Data Access Award)
Application Due Date: August 18, 2023
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): HIV Cure-Related Research in Diverse Populations
First Available Due Date: September 7, 2023
Expiration Date: May 8, 2026
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NOSI: Implementation Science to Advance the United States HIV Prevention and Treatment Goals and the Global HIV Prevention and Treatment Targets
First Available Due Date: September 27, 2023
Expiration Date: September 8, 2026
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Precision HIV Health: Integrating Data and Implementation Science to Accelerate HIV Prevention and Treatment (R21/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Date(s): November 22, 2023
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NIAID New Innovators Awards (DP2 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Dates: October 13, 2023; October 11, 2024; October 10, 2025
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NOSI: Administrative Supplements for COVID-19 Impacted NIMH Research
Expiration Date: April 2, 2026
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NIAID Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Dates: September 13, 2023; January 16, 2024; May 13, 2024; September 13, 2024; January 16, 2025; May 13, 2025; September 13, 2025; January 16, 2026; May 13, 2026
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NOSI: Mental Health Comorbidities in HIV Prevention and Treatment
Expiration Date: September 8, 2026
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Substance Use/Substance Use Disorder Dissertation Research Award (R36 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
Application Due Dates: Standard AIDS Dates Apply (Expiration Date: September 8, 2026)
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CDC Foundation's Request for Proposals
Multiple RFP topics are available with varied application due dates
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Male and female Asians living with HIV: a text-mining analysis comparing their concerns
Wei-Ti Chen, Russell Barbour
Frontiers in Psychology. 2023. May 12;14:1114731. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1114731. eCollection 2023.

Frequency of HIV serodifferent couples within TB-affected households in a setting with a high burden of HIV-associated TB
Godwin Anguzu, Amanda J Gupta, Emmanuel Ochom, Ashley S Tseng, Meixin Zhang, Ruanne V Barnabas, Abraham D Flaxman, Achilles Katamba, J Lucian Davis, Jennifer M Ross
BMC Infectious Diseases. 2023. Jun 9;23(1):388. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08365-y.

A necessary conversation to develop chatbots for HIV studies: qualitative findings from research staff, community advisory board members, and study participants
W Scott Comulada, Roxana Rezai, Stephanie Sumstine, Dalmacio Dennis Flores, Tara Kerin, Manuel A Ocasio, Dallas Swendeman, M Isabel Fernández; Adolescent Trials Network (ATN) CARES Team
AIDS Care. 2023. May 30;1-9. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2023.2216926. Online ahead of print.

Assistant Director of Infectious Diseases
Organization: State of Connecticut, Department of Public Health
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Public Health Physician (40 Hour)
Organization: State of Connecticut, Department of Public Health
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AIDSVu PrEP Use Data and Maps by Race/Ethnicity 2022
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SAMHSA Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavioral Health: Results from the 2021 and 2022 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
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SAMHSA Mental and Substance Use Disorders Prevalence Study Findings Report
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Recording and Slides: Culturally Competent Gender-Related Communications Training
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Recording and Slides: Assessing Context in Implementation Research Using Qualitative Methods
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Recording: CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "Research with Results, or Alphabet Soup? Promises and pitfalls of a Community Based Participatory Action Transformative mixed methods...approach"
Recorded June 16, 2023
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NOTE: All times are expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2023 unless otherwise noted.

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CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)

Fri, July 21, Noon-1:00 pm
Christine Preiser, University Hospital Tuebingen: "TBD"
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Fact Sheets and Resources on Mpox

This webpage provides fact sheets, resources, recorded sessions and literature on Mpox collated by CIRA.

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COVID-19 and HIV Resources

This webpage provides a wide range of resources surrounding COVID-19 and HIV collated by CIRA, including funding opportunities, call for papers, and repositories of literature and research tools.

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).

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.

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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