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Yale Study Urges Life-saving Drug Treatment to Combat Ukraine's HIV Epidemic  A new study led by Yale University researchers finds that scaling up use of methadone and buprenorphine - medications for treating opioid use disorder known as opioid agonist therapies (OATs) - could greatly reduce HIV transmission rates and prevent deaths in Ukraine, where the disease is epidemic among people who inject drugs. The study was published in The Lancet.
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Recruitment for CIRA's Highly Successful Fellowship Program is Still Underway  The Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) is accepting applications until Monday, February 3, 2020. Through this CIRA-supported fellowship program, new scientists who are underrepresented in the field of HIV research 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.
For more information on REIDS, please contact Katie Doucet ([email protected]) or visit the REIDS website.
Update: NIH HIV/AIDS Research Priorities and Guidelines for Determining HIV/AIDS Funding  The Notice informs the scientific community about the NIH HIV/AIDS research priorities and guidelines for allocation of HIV funding for fiscal years (FY) 2021-2025. The notice provides examples of research ALIGNED or NOT ALIGNED with the priority areas (previously classified as high-, medium-, or low-priority).
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- Yale School of Nursing Office of Research Seminar Series: "Sex Talks at the Dinner Table with LGBTQ Adolescents: Parent/Child Sex Communication for HIV/STI Prevention"
Date: Thursday, January 16, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Yale School of Nursing, Yale West Campus, Room 11706, 400 West Campus Drive, Orange, CT
Presenter: Dalmacio Dennis Flores, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Topic: "Sex Talks at the Dinner Table with LGBTQ Adolescents: Parent/Child Sex Communication for HIV/STI Prevention"
Contact: Lorena Fonte, ([email protected])
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- CIRA's Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Qualitative Research Discussion Group: "Parents' Perspective on Sexuality-Focused Sex Communication with Gay, Bisexual and Queer Adolescent Sons: Implications for HIV/STI Prevention"
Date: Friday, January 17, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
Presenter: Dalmacio Dennis Flores, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Topic: "Parents' Perspective on Sexuality-Focused Sex Communication with Gay, Bisexual and Queer Adolescent Sons: Implications for HIV/STI Prevention"
Contact: Lauretta Grau, ([email protected])
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- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Correctional Settings Conference
Date: January 28-30
Location: Omni Providence Hotel, Providence, RI
The SAMHSA-funded Opioid Response Network (ORN) is hosting a gathering of states and local municipalities interested in implementing Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) into their correctional facilities. This 2.5-day meeting will highlight the Rhode Island Department of Corrections' model (one of the first to incorporate MAT system-wide), as well as other evidence-based delivery models from correctional systems around the country.
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- Yale School of Medicine's Program for Humanities in Medicine presents: "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality"
Date: Thursday, January 30, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Location: Yale School of Medicine, Nieson Irving Harris Building, Cohen Auditorium, E, 230 South Frontage Road, New Haven, CT
Presenter: Celeste Watkins-Hayes, PhD, Author
Topic: "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality"
Contact: Karen P Kolb, ([email protected])
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- CIRA Cross-Core Seminar: "Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation vs. National Standard of Care in Eswatini: Results from the MaxART Cluster Randomized Stepped Wedge Trial"
Date: Thursday, February 27, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
Presenter: Ariel Chao, MPH Candidate, Yale School of Public Health
Topic: "Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation vs. National Standard of Care in Eswatini: Results from the MaxART Cluster Randomized Stepped Wedge Trial"
Contact: Russell Barbour ([email protected])
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- CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series: Timothy Mah
Date: Friday, March 6, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
Presenter: Timothy Mah, DSc, Acting Deputy Division Chief, Priority Populations, Integration, and Rights, Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID
Topic: "TBA"
Contact: Dini Harsono ([email protected])
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- CIRA Cross-Core Seminar: "When Things Go Wrong: Statistical Approaches to Problem Data in Randomized Clinical Trials"
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
Presenter: Russell "Skip" Barbour, PhD, CIRA
Topic: "When Things Go Wrong: Statistical Approaches to Problem Data in Randomized Clinical Trials"
Contact: Russell Barbour ([email protected])
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- CIRA Cross-Core Seminar: "Overall, direct, disseminated, and composite effects of HIV testing and counseling on HIV risk behaviors and HIV incidence in the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in rural South Africa"
Date: Thursday, May 21, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: CIRA, Suite 200, Room 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
Presenter: Raul Hernandez Ramirez, PhD, Yale School of Public Health
Topic: "Overall, direct, disseminated, and composite effects of HIV testing and counseling on HIV risk behaviors and HIV incidence in the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in rural South Africa"
Contact: Russell Barbour ([email protected])
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- Adherence 2020
Early Bird Registration: Friday, January 17
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, January 24
Actual Conference Dates: June 7-10
Location: Orlando, FL
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- PHI/CDC Global Health Fellowship Program
Application Due Date: January 22, 2020 at Noon PST
- Application Portal
- Further Details
- Request for Information (RFI) on the Development of the Fiscal Year 2021-2025 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Sexual & Gender Minority Health Research
Submission Due Date: January 24, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET
The NIH welcomes feedback on the future directions in sexual and gender minority (SGM) health and research to optimize NIH's research investments.
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- NIDA Diversity Scholars Network (NDSN)
Application Due Date: January 31, 2020
The NDSN is a competitive, rigorous, and comprehensive program aimed at enhancing the funding success of outstanding underrepresented early-stage investigators conducting drug abuse research.
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- 2020 Stigma Research Training Institute
Application Due Date: February 10, 2020
CRDF Global is accepting applications on behalf of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center for a four-day Stigma Research Training Institute at the NIH main campus in Bethesda, Maryland on June 8-11, 2020.
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- Learning from the Transfer of HIV Interventions from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to the United States: Informing the Plan for America to End the HIV Epidemic
Response Requested By: February 15, 2020
The NIH is soliciting examples of interventions in HIV prevention, care or treatment that were developed in LMICs and have been transferred and attempted to be implemented in the U.S. They are also interested in interventions that have not yet been transferred from LMICs to the U.S. but could potentially be transferred to help curb the HIV epidemic.
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Download a PDF compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below. Yale Opportunities:
- Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) Scholar Awards
Letters of Intent Deadline (not required but strongly encouraged): January 13, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Full Application Due Date: March 2, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: July 1, 2020
Eligibility: Current Yale junior faculty members
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HIV-Related Opportunities:
- Scaling Up High-Impact HIV Prevention, Testing and Treatment Models in Central America under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Application Due Date: February 19, 2020
Further Details
- Strategic Use of Surveillance and Epidemiology to Support HIV Epidemic Control in Kenya under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Application Due Date: February 19, 2020
Further Details
- Technical Assistance for Accelerating the Coverage and Quality of Effective HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care Activities Among Key Populations and People Living with HIV in Thailand under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Application Due Date: March 6, 2020
Further Details
- Accelerating and Sustaining HIV Epidemic Control and Related Diseases in Western and West-Nile Regions in the Republic of Uganda under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Application Due Date: March 8, 2020
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- Novel Imaging Approaches for detection of Persistent HIV and Neuroimmune dysfunction associated with HIV In the Central Nervous System (CNS)
AIDS Application Due Date(s): March 11, 2020
- R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed
- R01 Clinical Trial Optional
- Enhancing Engagement of People with HIV through Organizational Capacity Development and Leadership Training (E2tDLT)
Application Due Date: March 18, 2020
Technical assistance webinar: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 1:00-2:00 pm ET
Further Details
- Digital, Limited Interaction Trials and Epidemiology (D-LITE): Targeting HIV Incidence in the United States (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
AIDS Application Due Date: March 20, 2020
Further Details
- Quality Improvement Solutions for Sustained Epidemic Control Project (QISSEC)
Application Due Date: March 27, 2020
Technical assistance webinar: Friday, January 17, 2020 at 2:00-3:30 pm ET
Further Details
Other Opportunities:
- Broad PCORI Funding Announcements -- Cycle 1 2020 (for Addressing Disparities, Assessment of Options, Communication and Dissemination Research, Improving Healthcare Systems)
Letter of Inquiry (LOI) Deadline: February 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET
Application Deadline: May 5, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET
Further Details
- PCORI Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research -- Cycle 1 2020
Letter of Inquiry (LOI) Deadline: February 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET
Application Deadline: May 5, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET
Further Details
- Improving Management of Opioids and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in Older Adults (R18)
Application Due Date: February 20, 2020
Further Details
- SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships for Success
Application Due Date: March 6, 2020
Further Details
- Methods and Measurement in Research with Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations (R21- Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Date: March 13, 2020
Further Details
Notice of Special Interest:
- Administrative Supplement for Research on Bioethical Issues (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
Key dates: January 24, 2020 – March 20, 2020
Further Details
- Modeling Social Contagion of Substance Use Epidemics
Key dates: February 5, 2020 – January 8, 2023
Further Details
- Cattamanchi, A., Berger, C.A., Shete, P.B., Turyahabwe, S., Joloba, M., Moore, D.A., Davis, L.J., Katamba, A., (2019) 'Implementation science to improve the quality of tuberculosis diagnostic services in Uganda.', Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and other Mycobacterial Diseases, Dec 2;18:100136. doi: 10.1016/j.jctube.2019.100136. eCollection 2020 Feb.
- Meanley, S.P., Plankey, M.W., Matthews, D.D., Hawk, M.E., Egan, J.E., Teplin, L.A., Shoptaw, S.J., Surkan, P.J., Stall, R.D., (2019) 'Lifetime Prevalence and Sociodemographic Correlates of Multifactorial Discrimination Among Middle-Aged and Older Adult Men Who Have Sex with Men.', Journal of Homosexuality, Dec 20:1-18. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1702353. [Epub ahead of print]
- Haider, M.R., Brown, M.J., Harrison, S., Yang, X., Ingram, L., Bhochhibhoya, A., Hamilton, A., Olatosi, B., Li, X., (2019) 'Sociodemographic factors affecting viral load suppression among people living with HIV in South Carolina.', AIDS Care, Dec 19:1-9. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2019.1703892. [Epub ahead of print]
- Sopeyin, A., Zhou, L., Li, M., Barakat, L., Paintsil, E., (2019) 'Dysregulation of sterol regulatory element-binding protein 2 gene in HIV treatment-experienced individuals.', PLOS One, Dec 17;14(12):e0226573. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226573. eCollection 2019.
- SAMHSA Substance Misuse Prevention for Young Adults
This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent substance misuse among young adults. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
- More information from SAMHSA
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CIRA Cross-Core Seminars All meetings will be held at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).
- Thu, February 27, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm: Ariel Chao, MPH Candidate, Yale School of Public Health - "Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation vs. National Standard of Care in Eswatini: Results from the MaxART Cluster Randomized Stepped Wedge Trial"
Contact: Russell Barbour ([email protected])
- Wed, April 22, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm: Russell "Skip" Barbour, PhD, CIRA - "When Things Go Wrong: Statistical Approaches to Problem Data in Randomized Clinical Trials"
Contact: Russell Barbour ([email protected])
- Thu, May 21, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm: Raul Hernandez Ramirez, PhD, Yale School of Public Health - "Overall, direct, disseminated, and composite effects of HIV testing and counseling on HIV risk behaviors and HIV incidence in the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in rural South Africa"
Contact: Russell Barbour ([email protected])
CIRA International HIV Research Seminar Series All meetings will be held at 135 College Street New Haven, CT (Suite 200, Room 202).
- Fri, March 6, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm: Timothy Mah, DSc, Acting Deputy Division Chief, Priority Populations, Integration, and Rights, Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID - "Topic TBA"
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, January 17: Dalmacio Dennis Flores, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing - "Parents' Perspective on Sexuality-Focused Sex Communication with Gay, Bisexual and Queer Adolescent Sons: Implications for HIV/STI Prevention"
- Fri, February 21: Marie Brault, Yale School of Public Health - Topic TBA
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Recruitment for CIRA's highly successful fellowship programs is underway  The 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  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 ([email protected]) 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, [email protected].
Did you know our eBulletin is Archvied?  For your convenience, we have archived all 2019 issues of CIRA's eBulletin. No need to dig through your emails to find an old issue.
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