This $1,500,000 Project Grant awarded by the NIH Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund a longitudinal mixed methods social network study to examine the associations between social connectedness, loneliness, and health among aging Black sexual minority men (BSMM). The study aims to: (1) test how trajectories of social disconnectedness relate to mental/physical health, healthcare engagement, and chronic conditions including HIV; (2) examine...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361), provides $398,744 in funding to the University of South Carolina to study racial and ethnic disparities in HIV care outcomes in the Southern United States. The project aims to identify spatiotemporal patterns and contributing factors for disparities along the HIV care continuum, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research will leverage existing...
This $783,348 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under CFDA 93.361 "Nursing Research" aims to implement an HIV status-neutral, nurse-led intervention to increase equity in clinical outcomes for male HIV self-testers in Tanzania. The primary goals are to tailor the "STEP+CBNIMART" intervention for heterosexual male self-testers, test the intervention's effectiveness in increasing ART or PrEP initiation and retention, and evaluate...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $221,635 to the University of Chicago to conduct community-engaged modeling and implementation science to develop re-linkage interventions for Black sexual minority men with HIV. The project aims to characterize individual, clinical, and structural-level barriers to engagement and retention in HIV care, identify relevant implementation levers,...
This Project Grant award of $855,233 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) supports research to understand the relationship between individual, social, and structural determinants of health, mobility, and HIV outcomes among adolescents and young adults living with HIV in Tennessee. The awardee, The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital), will assemble a...
This $1,402,408 project grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will characterize the geospatial distribution of intersectional stigma and its impact on substance use and HIV risk among Black and Latino bisexual men. The 5-year project has three main components: 1) generating geospatial stigma scores through a household survey of the general population in Cook County, IL and Palm Beach County, FL; 2)...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,648,072.00 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports a longitudinal mixed-methods study to examine sleep health inequities among Black sexual minority men (SMM). The study aims to investigate how intersectional stigma and discrimination impact sleep health and mediate health consequences for this population. It will collect quantitative and qualitative data over...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under CFDA Program 93.361 Nursing Research, provides $806,431 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation evaluation of a city-level transitional housing program for people with HIV experiencing housing instability in Philadelphia. The project aims to rigorously assess the long-term impacts of the "Arms Around You" program, which...
This $183,331 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to examine the influence of migration-driven social support network dynamics on HIV testing and treatment engagement among African American women migrants. The 5-year study, to be conducted at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will develop, implement, and evaluate a social network-based intervention to enhance HIV service...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,364,940 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial investigating methods to measure and reduce HIV stigma in healthcare settings. The key products and services to be delivered include: Baseline standardized patient visits to healthcare clinics to assess enacted HIV, sexual, and intersectional...