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Drs. Tiara Willie and Jaimie Meyer Awarded Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health
 Drs. Tiara Willie and Jaimie Meyer, both former CIRA fellows, are the latest affiliates to successfully turn their CIRA pilot project into a full-scale HIV prevention research project. Willie, an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Meyer, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing at Yale School of Nursing, received the award from the National Institute of Mental Health for their project Development and Evaluation of a PrEP Decision Aid for Women Seeking Domestic Violence Services in Baltimore. The R34 grant aims to adapt, implement and evaluate self- and advocate-administered versions of a PrEP decision aid in a domestic violence agency in Baltimore in order to increase PrEP uptake among Black women in an Ending the HIV Epidemic priority area, address trauma as a barrier to PrEP uptake, and ultimately combat racial disparities in women's HIV cases. REIDS scholar Dr. Kamila Alexander and Dr. Stefan Baral, both faculty at Johns Hopkins University, are Co-Investigators.
A key priority for CIRA is to stimulate and support the development of new and emerging research ideas. Since 2014, CIRA has funded twenty pilot projects, resulting in 29 grant applications, with 10 of these securing funding from the NIH and others. These pilots have also generated 30 scholarly manuscripts and 44 conference presentations.
Congratulations to Drs. Tiara Willie and Jaimie Meyer!
- Yale School of Medicine Addiction Medicine Rounds & 5th Annual Schottenfeld Lecture: "Canary in the Coal Mine - A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People"
Date: Thurssday, September 9, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
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- Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) Seminar Series: "Opportunities and Challenges of Implementation Research to Prevent and Control Noncommunicable Disease in LMICs: The Nepal Experience"
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 10:00 am-11:00 am
Presenter: Archana Shrestha, PhD
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- YSPH Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Seminar Series: "Contact Tracing for TB and COVID-19: From There to Here and Back Again"
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Presenter: Luke Davis, MD
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- National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day Event: Remembering the Past, Reflecting on the Present, Envisioning the Future
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
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- Global Health Seminar: Strategy and Policy in Global Health
Date: Thursday, September 16, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Presenters: Robert Hecht, PhD & Shan Soe-Lin
Audience: Yale community only
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- Complementary and integrative approaches to improve health for adults living with HIV
Date: Thursday, September 16, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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- CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "The Emergencies Threatening HIV Service Provision for Key Populations in the EECA Region: The Preliminary Study Results"
Date: Friday, September 17, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Presenter: Olga Levina, PhD
Contact: Lauretta Grau (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
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- Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative’s Speaker Series: Tania Israel, University of California Santa Barbara: "Praxis Makes Perfect: A Quarter Century of LGBTQ Psychology Research"
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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- Effectiveness of Social Media to Strengthen Engagement in HIV Services
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Presenter: Tamara Taggart, PhD, MPH
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- Joining Forces: Engagement Science and Implementation Science to Advance Health Equity
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm
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- 2021 Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science (CCIS)
Date: Thursday, October 6-7
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- Global Health Seminar: Reducing Community Spread of TB
Date: Thursday, October 7, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Presenter: Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH
Audience: Yale community only
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- 5th Annual State of Sexual and Gender Minority Health Symposium: Collective Liberation
Date: Monday, October 18, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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- Call for Applications: 2021-2022 Vu Fellowship
Submission Due Date: extended to September 30, 2021 at 5:00 pm
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- Call for Participation: CHIPTS 2022 HIV Next Generation Conference
Pre-submission abstract deadline: September 20
Abstract submission deadline: October 25
Conference date: January 28, 2022
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Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.
- American Women: Assessing Risk Epidemiologically (AWARE) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: December 9, 2021
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- Brazil Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT) (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Date: December 8, 2021
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- Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries (R21/R33 - Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: December 9, 2021/2022
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- NOSI: International Research Collaboration on Drug Abuse and Addiction Research
First Available Due Date: October 05, 2021
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- NOSI: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Underserved and Vulnerable Populations
First Available Due Date: October 05, 2021
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- Implementation Science for Cancer Control in People Living with HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Expiration Date: December 16, 2021
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- HIV Prevention and Alcohol
AIDS Application Due Date(s): December 16., 2021
- R34
- R01
- Post-incarceration outcomes for individuals who continued methadone treatment while in Connecticut jails, 2014-2018
Alissa Haas, Adam Viera, Molly Doernberg, Russell Barbour, Guangyu Tong, Lauretta E Grau, Robert Heimer
Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2021 Jul 28;227:108937. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108937. Online ahead of print.
- Well-Being of Health Care Professionals Treating Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a National Survey
Derek Blevins, Brandy F Henry, Minhee Sung, E Jennifer Edelman, Anne C Black, Michael Dawes, Todd Molfenter, Holly Hagle, Karen Drexler, Kathryn Cates-Wessel, Frances R Levin
Psychiatric Services. 2021 Aug 9;appips202100080. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202100080. Online ahead of print.
- Mental Health Stigma Among Black Immigrant Women in An Urban Setting
Aderonke Bamgbose Pederson, Valerie Earnshaw, Crystal T Clark, Katelyn Zumpf, Inger Burnett-Zeigler
Journal of Mental Health & Clinical Psychology. 2021;5(2):1-7.
- The 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Data Set
The 2020 BRFSS data set is now available. Despite challenges occurring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey collected information on health risk behaviors, clinical preventive health practices, and health care access in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
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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, September 17, Noon-1:30 pm
Olga Levina "The Emergencies Threatening HIV Service Provision for Key Populations in the EECA Region: The Preliminary Study Results"
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.
CIRA Peer Review Program
 Are you planning to submit a grant application? Do you have a manuscript in progress? Are you working on a presentation for a conference? Increase your chances for success by having your work peer-reviewed!
Why CIRA peer review? What are the benefits?
- The spirit of our program is one of collegiality and respect; it is constructive rather than evaluative in nature
- The investigator or author receives constructive feedback from a multidisciplinary group of colleagues with relevant expertise
- It facilitates a discussion on how to communicate the content more clearly and effectively
- The process allows the investigator or author to practice how to respond to reviewer feedback
- The review sessions connect the investigator or author to a useful network for expanding knowledge and exploring potential collaborations across disciplines
- It provides input on the relevancy of the proposal/manuscript/presentation to the funding agencies/mechanisms, journals, and audience
Email Katie Doucet (katie.doucet@yale.edu) for questions or to schedule a Peer Review session. Requests for peer review must be submitted 4 weeks prior to the requested review date.
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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