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CIRA Affiliations: January-March '24

Since the start of 2024, CIRA has affiliated 4 individuals and 16 research projects. Click each link below to read more information. If you have interest in affiliating with CIRA, please contact Erin Nicholson (erin.nicholson@yale.edu).

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Virtual Panel: "The Ethics of Conducting Health Research in Humanitarian Settings: Principles, Practice, and Reflections from the Field"

Thursday, April 4, 2024, 10:00 am-11:00 am

The goal of this virtual panel is to facilitate a multidisciplinary discussion on the ethical complexities of conducting health research in humanitarian settings that can inform ongoing work and future collaborations in this topic.

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Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative/YSPH-SBS: Democratic Backsliding and LGBTI Acceptance: Why Anti-LGBTI Attacks Matter for Democracy
Date: Thursday, March 28, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
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Leaders in Public Health: Alex M. Azar II, 24th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Fireside Chat with Dean Megan Ranney
Date: Thursday, April 4, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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Yale General Internal Medicine Research in Progress Meeting: "Predict, Detect, Diagnose: Confronting Outbreaks of HIV and Other Infectious Diseases Among People Who Use Drugs"
Date: Thursday, April 4, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Speaker: Gregg Gonsalves, PhD
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Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative / YSPH-SBS: Do no harm: LGBTQ+ psychotherapy, policy, and politics
Date: Thursday, April 4, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
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The Last Gift Program: Lessons Learned From Altruistic Participants Enrolled in HIV Cure Research at the End of Life
Date: Thursday, April 5, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
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YSPH-SBS 526 Seminar Series: Dr. Jallicia Jolly, Amherst College: "Ill Erotics: Black Caribbean and Self-Making in the Time of HIV/AIDS"
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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What’s at Stake: The Future of LGBTQ Rights, Health, and Health Care
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 12:10 pm-1:00 pm
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Government Purchasing of Medicines for the Public Health: The Cases of HCV and PrEP
Date: Monday, April 15, 12:10 pm-1:30 pm
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Program for Humanities in Medicine Kenneth and Georgia Barwick Lecture: Linda Villarosa - Storytelling for Social Justice & Health Equity
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
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CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): Teresa O'Leary, Yale School of Public Health
Date: Friday, April 19, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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CMIPS/ R3EDI Hub Webinar: Prajakta Adsul, Debbie Humphries, and Jen Edelman
Date: Monday, April 22, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
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Preventing and Detecting Fraud in Online Surveys
Date: Thursday, April 25, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
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Call for Applications: Substance Use Disorder Systems Performance Scholars Program
Application Due Date: April 12, 2024
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Call for Applications: NIH Summer Institute for Randomized Trials of Behavioral Interventions
Application Due Date: April 20, 2024
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Call for Submissions: "Data as Art" Exhibition
Submissions Due Date: April 30, 2024
Eligibility: Yale faculty, staff, and students
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Call for Applications: The Dr. Dawn K. Smith HIV Prevention Clinical Fellowship
Submissions Due Date: May 15, 2024
Fellowship Dates: July 2024 to ⁠June 2025
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Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.

NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: August 19, 2024
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NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: September 3, 2024
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NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: September 6, 2024
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Predoctoral Training in Advanced Data Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) - Institutional Research Training Program [T32]
AIDS Application Due Date: September 6, 2024
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NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: September 9, 2024
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Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved Communities (U34 Clinical Trials Required)
Application Due Dates: June 18, 2024; October 18, 2024; February 19, 2025
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NOSI: Validation of Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Tools for Improved Assessment in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
First Available Due Date: April 5, 2024
Expiration Date: July 6, 2025
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Innovations for Healthy Living - Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R43/R44 - Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Dates: August 5, 2024; December 10, 2024; August 4, 2025; December 9, 2025; August 3, 2026; December 9, 2026
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Technologies for Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R41/R42- Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Dates: July 9, 2024; December 10, 2024; July 7, 2025; December 9, 2025; July 6, 2026; December 9, 2026
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Long-Term Effects of Disasters on Healthcare Systems in Populations with Health Disparities (R01- Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Dates: Standard Dates Apply (Expiration Date: May 8, 2027)
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NOSI: Developing and Testing Multi-level Physical Activity Interventions to Improve Health and Well-Being
First Available Due Date: June 5, 2024
Expiration Date: November 14, 2027
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Examining HIV Knowledge and Sexually Risky Behaviors among Female Sex Workers in Kampala, Uganda
Jude Ssenyonjo, Colleen Mistler, Tanya Adler, Roman Shrestha, Peter Kyambadde, Michael Copenhaver
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2024. Jan 31;21(2):163. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21020163.

A Manifesto for transformative action on HIV among Black communities in Canada
Maureen Owino, OmiSoore Dryden, David Este, Josephine Etowa, Winston Husbands, LaRon Nelson, Emmanuela Ojukwu, Eric Peters, Wangari Tharao
Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2024. Feb 22. doi: 10.17269/s41997-024-00856-y. Online ahead of print.

Psychometric Evaluation and Validation of the HIV Stigma Scale in Spanish among Men who have Sex with Men and Transgender Women
Yerina S Ranjit, Archana Krishnan, Valerie A Earnshaw, Damian Weikum, Enrico G Ferro, Jorge Sanchez, Frederick L Altice
Stigma and Health. 2024. Nov;8(4):437-444. doi: 10.1037/sah0000302. Epub 2021 Apr 1.

NIH OAR Data Hub: Showcasing the NIH HIV Research Portfolio
The NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) recently launched the NIH OAR Data Hub, an interactive resource that enables users to explore and learn about the NIH HIV research portfolio. Users can search and filter projects by research topic, funding opportunity, organization, and more.
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Postdoctoral Associate in Pharmacoepidemiology
Yale School of Medicine
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NOTE: All times are expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2024 unless otherwise noted.

Spotlight on CIRA

CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)

Fri, April 19, Noon-1:00 pm
Teresa O'Leary, Yale School of Public Health
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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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