This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,029,739.00 and awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a research project titled "Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Adapted Group-Based and Online HIV Prevention Intervention for Immigrant Sexual Minority Men in the US." The primary objectives of the project are to adapt and pilot-test an existing intervention called ESTEEM,...
This $198,531 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop and pilot test an integrated intervention that addresses mental health and HIV medication adherence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in South Africa. The proposed "WECARE" intervention will be based on principles of problem-solving therapy, minority stress theory, and a status-neutral approach to target both mental...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research) to George Washington University provides $1,352,914 to identify multilevel facilitators of care outcomes among "positive deviants" - a small subset of Black sexual minority men living with HIV who have successfully achieved durable viral suppression despite substantial adversity. The award will fund a 3-phase qualitative study to discover the strategies and contextual factors...
This $2,648,072 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will fund a 3-year longitudinal mixed-methods study to examine sleep health inequities affecting Black sexual minority men. The study aims to: 1) investigate the associations between intersectional stigma/discrimination and poor sleep health, and the role of coping mechanisms; 2) examine sleep health as a mediating...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $4,219,628 to Yale University to conduct a study titled "Theoretically Informed Behavioral Intervention to Enhance QOL and Prevent HIV-Related Comorbidities in Ethnic and Racial Sexual Minority Men". The study aims to: 1) utilize formative research to modify an existing intervention to address social determinants of...
This federal Project Grant award of $338,544 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will support the development and pilot testing of a novel mHealth + peer support intervention called "BOUNCE" to promote PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) uptake among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). The primary aims are to: 1) examine pathways between prejudice-motivated...
This $221,635 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support a community-engaged modeling and implementation science project to develop re-linkage interventions for Black sexual minority men with HIV. The project aims to use agent-based modeling, qualitative data, and implementation science methods to characterize barriers to HIV care engagement and identify strategies to improve re-linkage,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, will fund a 4-year, $1,625,892 research project led by Drexel University. The goal is to develop, validate, and apply measures of state-level structural stigmatization and discrimination (SSD) for Latino/a/e ("Latine") and sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, specifically men and transgender...
This $128,247 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program is funding a mixed-methods social network study to examine the acceptability and potential reach of game-based and social network strategies for improving PrEP and HIV self-testing uptake among Latinx sexual minority men living in Miami-Dade County, Florida - an Ending the HIV Epidemic priority jurisdiction. The study, led by a predoctoral...
This $436,586 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, will fund a 60-day daily diary study examining the impact of sexual minority stress on alcohol-related intimate partner violence (IPV) among bisexual and other multigender-attracted (Bi+) young adult couples. The study aims to identify modifiable intervention targets by examining how one's own and one's partner's...