Cooperative Agreement SP020216

This federal Project Grant award of $703,457, awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will fund a longitudinal study to investigate the relationship between adolescent social media use and substance use. The primary goals are to: 1) Determine longitudinal associations and sensitive developmental windows linking social media use with substance use, 2) Identify mechanisms connecting social media use and substance use,...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,422,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is supporting the development and pilot testing of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention to reduce substance use and HIV risk among young adult women affected by sex trafficking. The project aims to adapt an existing mHealth intervention for this population, using qualitative and ecological momentary assessment methods to understand...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) provides $426,036 to Tulane University to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual reality-based mindfulness intervention called "TRIPP" for supporting people with HIV and substance use disorders. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: 1) collaborate with community partners to create an orientation video to address potential...

This Project Grant award of $1,607,146.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) supports the development of a technology-based intervention to encourage drug checking, distribution of harm reduction supplies, and linkage to services for people who use drugs. The project, titled "Together Against Overdose: Community Developed Technology to Encourage Drug Checking, Distribution of Harm Reduction Supplies, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $973,442 to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to study the effectiveness of the FOSTRSPACE digital substance use prevention intervention and the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) implementation strategy for delivering the intervention to foster youth. The study aims to assess FOSTRSPACE's reach and...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under its Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), awarded a $640,010 Project Grant to Vanderbilt University to conduct a 5-year study on the perceived norms around alcohol use and HIV/STI prevention among adolescents and young adults in rural Uganda. The study aims to: 1) use qualitative methods to explore perceived norms around alcohol, HIV/STI transmission risk, and HIV/STI prevention; 2) estimate the causal effects of...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded a $610,092 Project Grant to National Health Promotion Associates, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation based in White Plains, NY. The grant will fund the development and testing of a hybrid substance use prevention program for upper elementary school students. The program will utilize both online e-learning modules and traditional classroom sessions to teach students...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded a $460,432 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop and pilot a comprehensive telehealth program at syringe service programs (SSPs) to engage people who inject drugs (PWID) into the HIV care continuum. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting formative research to understand determinants of HIV and addiction among...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to increase HIV and substance use prevention and treatment among adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors of sexual violence. The $1,344,412 award will fund a 3-year project to: 1) tailor existing Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) services with same-day HIV prophylaxis and substance use prevention, 2) optimize study mechanisms and outcome...

This $5.37 million project grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse will fund the development of a context-aware digital adherence intervention called SMARTSTEPS to improve pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence among men who have sex with men with substance use disorder. The grant will support two phases. Phase I will inform the specification of an algorithm that utilizes digital phenotyping data from a smartphone app to anticipate non-adherence based...