Recording now available: A Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Jenks

On December 13th, Dr. Jeffrey Jenks, Medical Director of the Durham County Department of Public Health, presented to the Duke community to provide an understanding of the context of HIV in Durham and implications and opportunities for us at the Duke CFAR. The conversation was recorded and requires a Duke NetID to view.

News from the CFAR

Ending the HIV Epidemic Administrative Supplements now published - Duke CFAR Info Session TODAY!

The FY2023 administrative supplements to support the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative is now published through a Notice of Special Interest. Please carefully review the application instructions.

Initial Selection Process:

Each CFAR is limited to three applications, there will be an internal review and selection process.

EHE Scientific Priorities for FY23:

• Syndemic Approaches to HIV Prevention, Treatment or Care

Objective: Using syndemic theory and approaches to (a) increase focus on intersecting diseases and social conditions that exacerbate health inequities, and (b) enhance the evidence base for effective successful approaches to assess, monitor, and intervene with respect to these intersections for optimal outcomes in HIV prevention or treatment.

• Leveraging Pharmacies to Advance HIV Testing, Prevention, and Care

Objective: This topic will support research projects designed to further capacitate, field, and scale the routine delivery of HIV testing, prevention, and care services through pharmacists and pharmacy settings in the U.S.

• Strategies to Improve Linkage to HIV Care and Services Post-Incarceration

Objective: Improving linkage and connection to mental health, substance use, social services, housing, job services, HIV care, and any other community resources post-incarceration. The goals are to optimize timely linkage to HIV care, retention, and viral suppression among people living with HIV (PLWH) re-entering their communities.

• Cluster Detection and Response Strategies

Objective: Using cluster detection and response strategies to address identified service gaps, reduce HIV-related health disparities, and contain outbreaks.

To participate in this process please send a one-page summary of your proposal with the following:

1. The problem under study
2. Specific approach
3. Does it address one or more of the 4 projects outlined in the NOSI
4. Does it target one or more of 50 priority jurisdictions or the 7 states with a substantial rural HIV burden
5. Future plans for follow up funding.

Submission deadline: Monday January 25^th, 5pm EST to Mary Oris at mary.oris@duke.edu

PLEASE NOTE: We anticipate that the annual CFAR administrative supplements will be announced shortly. If your project does not fit with the above criteria, please consider this alternative funding pathway.

CFAR will sponsor an information session on Wednesday, January 18^th at 12:00pm. 

Zoom details for information session: 

https://duke.zoom.us/j/99473654449?pwd=QjhZMUljZmZnV2U2Si9kOE9EY2s1dz09

Meeting ID: 994 7365 4449 

Passcode: 003219

Dial by your location: +1 646 931 3860 US

Why you should consider applying:

Benefits— 

• EHE supplements are less competitive than standard NIH funding
• You can receive up to $300,000 to build partner relationships and gather preliminary data ($150,000 per year [direct costs] for up to 2 years)
• You will have numerous, easy opportunities to receive group training and personalized guidance on implementation science by experts

Previous EHE supplement awards at Duke have led to—

• Subsequent R34 funding
• Publication in a JAIDS supplement on implementation science
• New community-academic partnerships and new investigator partnerships within and outside of Duke

CFAR is here to help:

• Contact Sadie Wilson (sarah.wilson@duke.edu) or Amy Corneli (amy.corneli@duke.edu), recipients of previous EHE supplement funding, to ask about the submission process/benefits of EHE funding
• Contact the SBS core (cfar-sbs-core-request@duke.edu) or Keith Reeves (keith.reeves@duke.edu) with the Developmental Core for a Think Tank/Brainstorming session on your idea 
• Contact the SBS or Developmental Core (cfar-dev-core@duke.edu) to provide a peer review of your application prior to submission

Duke University Libraries announces publishing partnership with PLOS for Duke authors - no publication fees

Duke University Libraries, in collaboration with the Duke Medical Center Library, is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Open Access publisher PLOS (formerly known as the Public Library of Science), a non-profit scientific publisher that has led the way in establishing high quality journals that anyone can read without a subscription. Duke University Libraries has been a leader in advancing access to scholarship and supporting the University’s commitment to knowledge in the service of society, and has been working with innovative publishers like PLOS to develop models that provide equitable access to both readers and authors. While typically authors publishing with PLOS are expected to pay a fee in order to make their articles openly available, through this new agreement, Duke authors will be able to publish in all twelve PLOS journals at no cost to themselves.

Learn more about the partnership.

CFAR-wide webinar: Tools to Support PrEP Decision Making

Monday, January 23rd, 2023 | 3:30-4:30pm ET | Zoom

Please join us for the first CFAR-wide webinar for 2023 titled "Tools to Support PrEP Decision Making." Sessions will be moderated by Audrey Pettifor and Lauren Hillhear.

Speakers

• Connie Celum/Jen Velloza (UW/UCSF)
• Elmari Briedenhann (Wits RHI)
• Lauren Hill (UNC)

Register for the webinar.

Inter-CFAR HIV & Aging Working Group Virtual Seminar feat. Harold Phillips

Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 | 12-1pm ET | Zoom

On behalf of the Inter-CFAR HIV & Aging Working Group led by the Emory and Miami CFARs, you are invited to attend a virtual seminar on Wednesday, January 25th at 12 PM EST. We are thrilled to welcome Harold J. Phillips, MRP — Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) — who will join us to discuss HIV and Aging: The Opportunities and Challenges for the United States.  If you have questions regarding working group membership, please contact Rosie Plog.

Register for the webinar.

Webinar - Acceptability assessment in HIV intervention and service delivery programs: A summary of existing evidence and recommendations for better practice

Thursday, February 16th, 2023 | 2-3pm ET | Zoom

The NIAID-NIMH Behavioral and Social Sciences Project Team (BSSPT) Presents:

We have often grappled with how to assess “acceptability” of HIV prevention interventions in our own studies. The HIV literature offers varied approaches to conceptualize and measure acceptability, with many studies considering constructs like “intervention retention” or “product uptake” as sole acceptability indicators. However, acceptability is multi-faceted and separate from these behavioral outcomes. This presentation will describe findings from our recent systematic review, in which we inventory acceptability measurement in the HIV treatment and prevention literature (including biomedical, behavioral, and combination prevention approaches) and offer suggested rankings of these measures based on theoretical underpinnings and data collection approaches. We will conclude by sharing our recommendations for best practices in acceptability research, which are timely and critical in this era of informed choice and novel HIV prevention and treatment options.

Zoom information

Meeting URL: https://nih.zoomgov.com/j/1600789141?pwd=QytyZUtYUjI2S3cwK0M2ZldWcVZwZz09

Meeting ID: 160 078 9141

Passcode: 815863

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