Community Education Group Receives $3.5M CDC Award to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing in West Virginia |
Please join us in congratulating the Executive Director of Community Education Group (CEG) and DC CFAR Community Partnership Council Member Ms. A. Toni Young on CEG's recent receipt of a $3.5M CDC award to increase COVID-19 vaccination and testing in West Virginia. The initiative will also enable CEG to address the HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Substance Use Disorder syndemics in West Virginia. The mission of CEG is to "eliminate disparities in health outcomes and improve public health in disadvantaged populations and under-served communities".
For more information, click here.
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New Publication on "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts and Suicide Morbidity Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults in Colombia" |
DC CFAR Pilot Award Recipient Dr. Ana María del Río-González (GW) and SBS Core Co-Director Dr. Maria Cecilia Zea (GW) and colleagues published an article in LGBT Health July 2021 entitled " Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts and Suicide Morbidity Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults in Colombia". The authors examined the association between sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with lifetime suicide morbidity among different groups, and found that ever experiencing these change efforts was associated with increased suicide risk, providing evidence of the detrimental impact of the so-called "conversion therapy".
Click here to read the full article.
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Call for Abstracts: 12th Annual International Conference on Stigma |
Please join the upcoming 2021 International Conference on Stigma hosted by Howard University on November 15-19. The theme for the conference this year will be “Trauma, Recovery, and Healing.”
Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for a virtual poster session on studies that addresses HIV or other mental or physical health-related stigmas. Abstract submissions are due by October 1.
For more information, click here.
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Register Today - DC CFAR Basic Sciences Core Virtual Research Day |
Please register to join the DC CFAR Basic Sciences Core Virtual Research Day on Friday, August 20 from 2:00 -5:00 PM ET. This online event will bring together Basic Sciences Core service providers and other Basic Sciences HIV investigators to present their services and research to members of the DC CFAR community.
The Virtual Research Day will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. David Volsky, Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Volsky's talk will be followed by a series of presentations by DC CFAR Pilot and Transitioning Investigator award recipients and HIV researchers at different stages in their careers:
- Dr. Mark Burke, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University
- Dr. Rebecca Lynch, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Tropical Medicine, and Immunology, George Washington University
- Dr. Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Anatomy, Howard University
- Dr. Natalia Soriano-Sarabia, Department of Microbiology, Tropical Medicine, and Immunology, George Washington University
Click here to register today and here to view the event agenda.
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Recording Now Available: DC CFAR Developmental Core Pilot Awards Program 101 |
On August 6, 2021, the DC CFAR Developmental Core hosted a "Pilot Awards Program 101". The event provided an introduction to the DC CFAR and an orientation to the Pilot Awards Program, which aims to provide pilot funds on a competitive basis to HIV/AIDS investigators to assist them in the development of their NIH-funded research careers. Pilot Award recipient Dr. Sarah Calabrese (GW) also presented on her experience navigating the DC CFAR and its resources and the pilot awards process. The recording of the event and slides are now available on the DC CFAR website.
Click here for more information.
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Call for art! The upcoming International Conference on Stigma on November 15-19, 2021 is also hosting an art contest and welcomes your paintings, drawings, poetry, video, photos, essays, and any other art forms. For more information click here.
Do you have an event you would like to see included in the next edition of the Community Spotlight? We invite any news or updates from the DC CFAR community and encourage you to send information that may be of interest to CFARinDC@gmail.com. |
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DC CFAR partner institutions and community-based organizations have developed numerous excellent COVID-19 resources. We've included a collection of these here, along with a number of other opportunities for your reference. We will continue to update these resources in the days ahead and we encourage you to send information that may be of interest to our DC CFAR community to CFARinDC@gmail.com.
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August 20, 2021
September 7, 2021
September 21-22, 2021
September, 23-24, 2021
September 29- October 3, 2021
September 19-October 7, 2021
October 11-14, 2021
October 12-13, 2021
Abstracts are due August 24. For more information click here.
November 15-19, 2021
Washington, DC
Abstracts due October 1. For more information click here.
November 18-21, 2021
San Juan, PR
December 2-3, 2021
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FUNDING, TRAINING AND MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES
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The PREPARE Institute’s mission is to engage, support and foster scientific discovery and implementation within the San Diego community to predict, prevent and mitigate local, national, global and emerging infectious threats. For more information on this employment opportunity click here.
CAPS/PRC Town Hall, the CAPS Anti-Racism Working Group, and the CAPS VP Program hosted a webinar featuring DC CFAR SBS Core Director Dr. Lisa Bowleg on Getting Critical: Centering Racism in HIV & Other Health Equity Research.
The Inter-CFAR Implementation Science Working Group is accepting applications for an NIH-funded training opportunity in implementation science (IS) for early stage investigators (ESIs) engaging in HIV-related research. Interested applicants should apply online here by August 20.
Gilead announced two new funding opportunity announcements around two initiatives: Gilead HIV Age Positively which supports programs focused on improving the quality of life for those who are aging while living with or affected by HIV and Gilead TRANScend that provides direct grants and capacity-building assistance to trans and non-binary-led organizations.
The Vu is focusing on empowering new voices by offering three fellowship opportunities for researchers in viral hepatitis and HIV spaces. Each fellow will be awarded a personal stipend to conduct a research project related to HIV, Hepatitis C, or both, using data on AIDSVu and/or HepVu, along with other data sources. Applications are due August 31.
The Office of Minority Health (OMH) is seeking innovative and effective approaches to improve pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication and antiretroviral therapy (ART) utilization among racial and ethnical minority individuals who are at increased risk for HIV infection or are people with HIV (PWH). Register by September 24.
The Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) published a supplement on "Oral abstracts of the 11th IAS Conference on HIV Science, 18-21 July". The supplement includes all oral and late breaker abstracts from the conference.
NIH is requesting information from stakeholders on the utility and useability of sample language developed for use in informed consent documents for data and biospecimen sharing. Response to this Notice is voluntary. The deadline for responses is September 29, 2021.
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NIH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-AI-21-058
Posting Date: August 12, 2021
Closing Date: December 9, 2021
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DA-22-033
Posting Date: July 21, 2021
Closing Date: February 17, 2022
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-21-258
Posting Date: July 16, 2021
Closing Date: September 10, 2021
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DA-23-001
Posting Date: July 9, 2021
Closing Date: August 11, 2022
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-AI-21-041
Posting Date: July 7, 2021
Closing Date: December 6, 2021
Click here for additional funding opportunities available from the National Institutes of Health.
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The DC CFAR is an NIH funded program (P30AI117970), which is supported by the following NIH Co-Funding and Participating Institutes and Centers: NIAID, NCI, NICHD, NIDCR, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, NIA, NIDDK, NINR, NIMHD, FIC, and OAR. The content isthe responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. |
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