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 of Mental Health (NIMH), authorized under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is for $692,070 to adapt and pilot test a digital health HIV prevention intervention for Black heterosexual couples in New York State. The primary objectives are to: 1) Adapt an existing digital health intervention to meet the specific needs of this target population; and 2) Conduct a 6-month pilot randomized controlled trial with 60 couples to...
This Project Grant award of $364,832 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support a mentored career development project entitled "Using Implementation Science to Enhance HIV Prevention for Young Men Who Have Sex with Men." The project aims to deliver and evaluate an enhanced care intervention called "HIV Prevention Plus Care (HP+ Care)" at two clinics, which will include motivational...
This $452,376 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research to develop a predictive model for identifying HIV patients at risk of disengaging from medical care. The University of Chicago is conducting this 2-year project, which has two key objectives: Determine the performance of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model for predicting loss to follow-up (LTFU) from HIV care across...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a cluster randomized controlled trial to test the impact of a long-term, dynamic choice intervention on 12-month viral suppression among HIV clients experiencing treatment interruption in Malawi. The $653,677 award will be used to implement this research initiative over a project period from April 1, 2025 to January 31, 2030. The goal is to...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $745,822.00 and provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports research to investigate the role of the PERK kinase in HIV-induced neuroinflammation and neurocognitive impairment (NCI) in people with HIV (PWH). The University of Pennsylvania, as the primary grantee, will use biochemical, cellular, and pharmacologic approaches to assess PERK's potential as a predictive...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support research to assess whether sexual network clustering impacts the effectiveness of HIV test-and-treat interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. The $186,095 award to Pennsylvania State University will leverage existing data from studies in Uganda, Malawi, and Nigeria to: 1) characterize the sexual network position of people engaged in HIV...
The federal Project Grant award of $1,272,602.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support the "Integrating U=U into HIV Counseling: A Cluster-Randomized Efficacy Trial (INTUIT 2.0)" research project. The study aims to (1) refine an educational "Undetectable & You" mobile app intervention designed to disseminate information on the prevention benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,330,652 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Washington to conduct a hybrid type-1 effectiveness-implementation trial of the "Motivation Matters!" (MM!) mHealth intervention. The goal is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of MM!, a theory-based mobile health intervention, for achieving undetectable viral load in HIV-positive African women engaged in sex work who...
This federal Project Grant award of $700,708.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support research to understand the bidirectional relationship between adolescents' online engagement and their mental and behavioral health. The project, titled "Online and Offline Multiverse Spillover: Mapping the Ecology of Youth Mental Health," will recruit 450 adolescents aged 13-15, including an overrepresentation of...