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CIRA Welcomes New and Returning REIDS Scholars
 CIRA and the Yale School of Public Health welcome eight junior faculty from around the U.S. appointed to the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS). REIDS is successfully increasing the number and impact of racial and ethnic minority researchers dedicated to reducing HIV inequities in communities of color through education and training in cutting-edge biomedical and behavioral research. Scholars attend two consecutive four-week intensive summer institutes at Yale and monthly online professional development seminars.
Meet the new and returning REIDS Scholars
New Activist in Residence Program at Yale School of Public Health Targets Social Justice Issues
 The Yale School of Public Health's U.S. Health Justice Concentration launched its new Activist in Residence program in February. Ijeoma Opara, Ph.D., L.M.S.W., M.P.H., assistant professor of public health and one of the developers of the initiative, said the program aims to bring activists who are engaging in current and impactful social justice issues to Yale to advance their platform and provide students with the opportunity to work on social justice issues "with the best activists in the world."
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Publication Alert: Extending a lifeline to people with HIV and opioid use disorder during the war in Ukraine
 A timely position paper by CIRA affiliates, Dr. Frederick Altice and Dan Bromberg and others, about how to continue to serve those with HIV and substance use disorders during the war in Ukraine. Many personal stories were collected to guide the needed response. Published on March 28, 2022 by The Lancet Public Health.
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HIV/AIDS in Humanitarian Settings: An Interview with Kaveh Khoshnood
 Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH, an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health and a co-chair of the CIRA's HIV/AIDS in Humanitarian Crises program, recently talked with us about his research in humanitarian settings and his thoughts on the impact of armed conflict on public health.
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- Inaugural LGBTQ+ Health Equity Summit
Date: April 7 and 8, 2022
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- R3EDI Webinar Series: "Costing and Cost-Effectiveness"
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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- Integrating New Data From CROI 2022
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
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- Does Public Health Need a Reboot? Poynter Fellow Ed Yong leads a roundtable
Date: Friday, April 8, 2022, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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- YSPH Social and Behavioral Sciences/Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative Speaker Series: "From Gay Bars to Marriage Equality—Building a Research Career Focused on Sexual Minority Women's Health"
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: YSPH, 60 College St, New Haven, CT
Speaker: Tonda Hughes, School of Nursing at Columbia University
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- Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Conference
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
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- Developing a Competitive SAMHSA Grant Application
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2022, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
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- CIRA@Yale Panel: "Ethics of HIV/AIDS Research and Practice among Vulnerable Populations Impacted by Humanitarian Crises"
Date: Monday, April 18, 2022, 9:00 am-10:30 am
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- Beyond participatory-based research: Innovations in community driven drug policy research (Session #1)
Date: Monday, April 18, 2022, 4:30 pm-6:00 pm
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- YSPH SBS/LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative Speakers Series: "LGBTQ Healthcare in NYC"
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022, 1:00 pm-2:50 pm
Location: YSPH, 60 College St, New Haven, CT
Speaker: Dr. Asa Radix, MD, Ph.D., MPH, Callen-Lorde Community Health
RSVP: lgbtqmentalhealth@yale.edu
- CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "Lessons and New Directions for the HIV Oral Testing Infographic Experiment (HOTIE) Study"
Date: Friday, April 22, 2022, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Presenter: S. Raquel Ramos, Yale School of Nursing
Contact: Lauretta Grau (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
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- Environmental Impacts on Women's Health Disparities and Reproductive Health
Date: April 27-28, 2022
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- Dining Out for Life Connecticut
Date: April 28, 2022
Dine out, take out, or have a meal delivered from a participating DOFL restaurant partner to support APNH: A Place to Nourish your Health
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- Supporting the Implementation Support Practitioner: Identifying and Mitigating Role Related Challenges
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2022, 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Call for Applications
- CIRA@Yale Workshop: "Ethical Considerations for HIV/AIDS Research in Humanitarian Settings"
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Interested early-career researchers and graduate students are invited to submit an application by Friday, April 22, 2022, at 11:59 pm ET.
Call for Applications
- Postgraduate Associate, RENEW Study, Yale School of Public Health
The postgraduate associate will work on projects related to substance use, social networks, location-based social contexts, and context aware sampling.
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- Call for Applications: HIV & Aging Scholars Program
Application Due Date: April 17, 2022
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- Call for Papers: Social Media and Healthcare for Hawaii Conference
Manuscript Submission Deadline : June 15, 2022
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- Associate Dean for Research, UConn School of Social Work
Submission Due Date: Listed until February 15, 2023
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Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.
- Minority AIDS Initiative – Service Integration
Application Due Date: April 25, 2022
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- Minority AIDS Initiative: Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High Risk for HIV/AIDS
Application Due Date: April 29, 2022
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- Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention Navigator Program for Racial/Ethnic Minorities Cooperative Agreement
Application Due Date: Monday, May 2, 2022
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- Innovation Award: Minority Health and Health Equity (U01) Clinical Trials Optional
Application Due Date: June 6, 2022
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- Implementation Research to Reduce Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Burden in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and Tribal Nations During Critical Life Stages and Key Transition Periods (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: August 10, 2022
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- Enhancing Social Connectedness and Ameliorating Loneliness to Prevent and Treat SUD and Support Recovery
Application Due Date: August 15, 2022
- R21 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed
- R34 - Clinical Trial Optional
- Addressing Mental Health Disparities Research Gaps: Aggregating and Mining Existing Data Sets for Secondary Analyses (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Due Date: October 18, 2022
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- Understanding and Addressing Misinformation among Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01 - Clinical Trials Optional)
Application Due Dates: May 31, 2022, November 13, 2022
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- NIAID Research Education Program (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Dates: September 7, 2022; October 10, 2023; October 9, 2024
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- NIDA Research Center of Excellence Grant Program (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Dates: November 17, 2022; November 17, 2023; November 15, 2024
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- Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Among Men Who have Sex with Men Who Use Stimulants: A Qualitative Study
Adam Viera, Jacob J van den Berg, Collette D Sosnowy, Nikita A Mehta, E Jennifer Edelman, Trace Kershaw, Philip A Chan
AIDS and Behavior. 2022. Mar 18. doi: 10.1007/s10461-022-03633-5. Online ahead of print.
NOTE: This study was supported by CIRA through the Pilot Project Program.
- The Influence of Family Bonding, Support, Engagement in Healthcare, on PrEP Stigma among Young Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Path Analysis
Donte T Boyd, Gamji M'Rabiu Abubakari, DeAnne Turner, S Raquel Ramos, Mandy J Hill, LaRon E Nelson
Children. 2022. Mar 1;9(3):330. doi: 10.3390/children9030330.
- Preferences for Long-Acting and Alternative Modalities for PrEP among Military Men Who Have Sex with Men: Segmentation Results of an Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis Study
Jose I Gutierrez, David Vlahov, Alex Dubov, Frederick L Altice
Journal of Urban Health2022. Mar 22. doi: 10.1007/s11524-022-00615-9. Online ahead of print.
- Resources for an Evolving Crisis: Preventing Overdose from Combined Substances, Recovery Center of Excellence
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- Impact of COVID-19 hits hard as TB deaths among people living with HIV rise for the first time since 2006
On World Tuberculosis Day 2022, observed annually on March 24, UNAIDS is calling for urgency in diagnosing and treating TB as TB deaths among people living with HIV rise for the first time after years of progressive decline.
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- RECORDING: Dr. Sten Vermund - "Interventional Trials in Progress in the US through the HIV Prevention Trials Network" (Recorded March 17, 2022)
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NOTE: All times are expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2022 unless otherwise noted.
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CIRA@Yale Panel: "Ethics of HIV/AIDS Research and Practice among Vulnerable Populations Impacted by Humanitarian Crises"
Mon, April 18, 9:00 am-10:30 am
Join a panel of researchers and practitioners as they discuss real-word examples and practical considerations of ethical issues related to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and research.
CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)
Fri, April 22, Noon-1:30 pm
S. Raquel Ramos, Yale School of Nursing - "Lessons and New Directions for the HIV Oral Testing Infographic Experiment (HOTIE) Study"
CIRA@Yale Workshop: "Ethical Considerations for HIV/AIDS Research in Humanitarian Settings"
Thu, May 19, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Interested early-career researchers and graduate students are invited to submit an application by Friday, April 22, 2022, at 11:59 pm ET.
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.
Download a PDF
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?
 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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