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Yale Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Smoking Treatment in People With HIV

Profile person smokingDrs. E. Jennifer Edelman and Steven L. Bernstein received a grant award to address tobacco smoking addiction among people with HIV. The National Cancer Institute grant, totaling more than $3 million, supports a five-year research project. Smoking is a major threat to the health and wellbeing of people with HIV, yet research on the effectiveness of long-term treatment solutions to this relapsing condition is scant. Bernstein and Edelman will investigate a new clinical trial approach called SMART or Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial.

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Recruitment for CIRA's Highly Successful Fellowship Programs is Underway

Fellowships at YaleThe Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program and the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) are now accepting applications. Through these CIRA-supported fellowship programs, new scientists are equipped with the skills to advance prevention research and to address future challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fellows will benefit from mentorship from top HIV researchers conducting innovative and cutting-edge research to eliminate HIV disparities, integration with the CIRA community, and a network of over 100 past HIV Fellows from around the world, who have gone on to top-tier universities and have received numerous federally funded research grants. Our two training programs have generated over 1200 peer-reviewed publications and over 200 funded grants since 2008.

For more information and application, visit CIRA Training.

Mental Health Outcomes Improve for Transgender Individuals After Surgery, Study Finds

Transgender symbolTransgender individuals who undergo gender-affirming surgery are significantly less likely to seek mental health treatment for depression and anxiety disorders or attempt suicide in the years following the procedure, new research led by the Yale School of Public Health finds. Published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the study reviewed 10 years of medical data for the entire population of Sweden and is believed to be the first analysis of the long-term effect of hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery on transgender individuals' mental health based on a country's population.

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Events

  • CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: "Circuit Parties as 'Risk Environment': Preliminary Findings from Thailand"
    Date: Thursday, October 10, 10:00 am-11:30 am
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street New Haven, CT
    Speaker: Thomas Guadamuz, PhD, MHS, Mahidol University, Thailand
    Title: "Circuit Parties as 'Risk Environment': Preliminary Findings from Thailand"
    Contact: Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • Yale School of Medicine Addiction Medicine Rounds: "Bettering our Communities by Providing Culturally Informed Treatment for Substance Use Disorders"
    Date: Thursday, October 10, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street New Haven, CT
    Speaker: Ayana Jordan, MD,PhD, Yale School of Medicine
    Contact: Elizabeth Porter (elizabeth.porter@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • Yale School of Public Health: Public Health Modeling Unit Special Seminar
    Date: Friday, October 11, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location: Public Health Modeling Unit Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 350 George Street, New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Alexander Breskin, PhD, Senior Epidemiologist, NoviSci, Inc
    Topic: "Exposures, Interventions, and Assumptions: Maximizing the Impact of Epidemiologic Research"
    Contact: Email Forrest Crawford (forrest.crawford@yale.edu) to schedule a meeting with Dr. Breskin.
  • Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) and Yale Center for Implementation Science (YCIS) Seminar: Delivette Castor, PhD
    Date: Wednesday, October 16, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
    Location: Yale School of Public Health, Room 103, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT
    Speaker: Delivette Castor, PhD, Columbia University
    Title: TBA
    Contact: Ericka Saracho (ericka.saracho@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • New England Alliance for Gay and Bisexual Men's Health 2019 Annual Meeting and Conference
    Date: October 17-18
    Location: Provincetown Inn, Provinceton, MA
    Contact: Robert Reardon (RReardon@tapestryhealth.org)
    Further Details and Registration
  • CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: "Performance of a Prevention, Care and Treatment Program in Tanzania: 2016-2019"
    Date: Monday, October 21, 10:00 am-11:30 am
    Location: Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street New Haven, CT
    Speaker: Marina Njelekela, MD, MPH, PhD, USAID Boresha Afya Program Deloitte Consulting Limited, Tanzania
    Title: "Performance of a Prevention, Care and Treatment Program in Tanzania: 2016-2019"
    Contact: Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: "Exploring Multidimensional Aspects of Aging in HIV"
    Date: Thursday, October 24, 10:00 am-11:30 am
    Location: Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street New Haven, CT
    Speaker: Reena Rajasuriar, PhD, University of Malaya, Malaysia
    Title: "Exploring Multidimensional Aspects of Aging in HIV"
    Contact: Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu)
    Further Details
  • CIRA Cross-Core Meeting
    Date: Wednesday, October 30, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
    Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street New Haven, CT
    Presenter: Peg Weeks, PhD, Institute for Community Research
    Topic: "System Dynamics Modeling of the HIV Care Continuum to Inform Community Strategic Planning to Eliminate the HIV Epidemic"
    Contact: Daniel Davidson (daniel.davidson@yale.edu)
    To connect remotely:
    - Join by computer or mobile device: https://yale.zoom.us/j/919928350
    - Join by telephone: 203-432-9666 | Meeting ID: 919928350

Call for Submissions

  • Inspiring Change: Creating Impact with Evidence-based Implementation
    The center for Implementation offers a free mini course on applying implementation science. Free enrolment starts on October 7, 2019.
    Further Details
  • Training Opportunity: Inter-CFAR Implementation Science Fellowship for Early Stage Investigators
    Applications due date: October 15, 2019
    - More information
    - Online application
  • CDC Seeks Comments on Updating HIV Testing Guidelines
    Deadline for comments: October 28, 2019.
    The purpose of this process is to solicit feedback on the best approaches for HIV screening in clinical settings and prompt linkage to treatment and care.
    Futher Details
  • NIH Office of Disease Prevention’s Early Stage Investigator Lecture: Call for Nominations
    Nominations accepted through November 1, 2019.
    The Early-Stage Investigator Lecture recognizes early-career prevention scientists who have not successfully competed for a substantial NIH-supported research project, but who have already made outstanding research contributions to their respective fields and are poised to become future leaders in prevention research.
    Further Details
  • Call for Papers: Ethnicity and Disease
    Abstracts due: January 6, 2020
    Call for manuscript for an upcoming issue: Supporting Early Stage Investigators: Innovative Research Conducted by Early Stage Researchers
    Further Details
  • Call for Abstracts: Peace, Global Health And Sustainability (Pegasus 2020)
    Abstract submission deadline: October 25, 2019
    Conference dates: April 24-26, 2020
    Further Details

Funding Opportunities

Download a PDF compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.

  • Heart, Lung, and Blood Co-morbiditieS Implementation Models in People Living with HIV (HLB-SIMPLe) Research Coordinating Center (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    AIDS Application Due Date(s): December 10, 2019
    Further Details
  • Single Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV (SCORCH) Program: Data Coordination, Analysis, and Scientific Outreach (UM1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    AIDS Application Due Date(s): January 15, 2020
    Further Details
  • Consortium on the Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking in Adulthood (NADIA) Research Projects (Collaborative U01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Application Due Date: November 18, 2019
    Further Details
  • The Intersection of Sex and Gender Influences on Health and Disease (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
    AIDS Application Due Date(s): November 25, 2019; November 25, 2020, November 26, 2021
    Further Details
  • Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program (K12) (Clinical Trial Optional)
    AIDS Application Due Date: November 29, 2019
    Further Details
  • HEAL Initiative: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management
    Application Due Date(s): January 8, 2020, April 7, 2020, September 9, 2020, January 6, 2021, April 6, 2021, September 8, 2021, January 6, 2022, April 6, 2022, and September 8, 2022
    - R41/R42 Clinical Trial Required
    - R41/R42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed
    - R43/R44 Clinical Trial Required
    - R43/R44 Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Fellowship Opportunities

  • Inter CFAR Implementation Science Fellowship for Early Stage Investigators
    Application Deadline: October 15, 2019
    This is a new training opportunity in Implementation Science (IS) for early stage investigators (ESIs) engaging in HIV-related research. Implementation Science Fellows will be selected from across the CFAR network to participate in an eight-month mentorship program.
    Further Details

Publications

Resources

  • SHARE: Synthesized HIV/AIDS Research Evidence
    SHARE is an easy-to-search, real-time repository of HIV-related systematic reviews and provides a ‘one-stop shop’ for HIV-related information that has been published through a systematic review. SHARE has been developed through partnership with Ontario HIV Treatment Network, McMaster University and McMaster Health Forum.
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NOTE: All times expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2019 unless otherwise noted.

 

Spotlight on CIRA

CIRA Cross-Core Meeting

All meetings will be held at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).

CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series

All meetings will be held from 10:00 am to 11:30 am at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).

  • Thu, October 10: Thomas Guadamuz, PhD, MHS, Mahidol University, Thailand - "Circuit Parties as 'Risk Environment': Preliminary Findings from Thailand"
  • Mon, October 21: Marina Njelekela, MD, MPH, PhD, USAID Boresha Afya Program Deloitte Consulting Limited, Tanzania - "Performance of a Prevention, Care and Treatment Program in Tanzania: 2016-2019"
  • Thu, October 24: Reena Rajasuriar, PhD, University of Malaya, Malaysia - "Exploring Multidimensional Aspects of Aging in HIV"

IRM Core Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)

All meetings will be held from Noon to 1:30 pm at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).

  • Fri, October 18: Leslie Rickey, MPH, MD - Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Research Consortium Focus Group Study of Habits, Attitudes, Realities, and Experiences of Bladder Health in Women and Girls
  • November 15: TBA
  • December 20: Adam Viera, PhD Candidate, Yale School of Public Health - PrEP

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Recruitment for CIRA's highly successful fellowship programs is underway

Fellowship Opportunities at YaleThe Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program and the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) are now accepting applications. Through these CIRA-supported fellowship programs, new scientists are equipped with the skills to advance prevention research and to address future challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fellows will benefit from mentorship from top HIV researchers conducting innovative and cutting-edge research to eliminate HIV disparities, integration with the CIRA community, and a network of over 100 past HIV Fellows from around the world, who have gone on to top-tier universities and have received numerous federally funded research grants. Our two training programs have generated over 1200 peer-reviewed publications and over 200 funded grants since 2008.

For more information and application, visit CIRA Training.

CIRA Peer Review Program

Peer ReviewAre 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

Research Snapshot iconCIRA'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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CIRA is supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant No. P30MH062294.
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
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