Project Grant R43MD009558

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $404,616 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to evaluate a mobile health intervention called "CHAMPION" for improving PrEP adherence among methamphetamine-using, HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM). The CHAMPION intervention combines two mobile health technologies - a PrEP adherence app and virtual cognitive...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) provides $132,854 to Hanoi Medical University in Vietnam to adapt and evaluate a mobile health intervention for improving HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among young men who have sex with men. The project aims to: (1) adapt the evidence-based "HealthMindr" app to the Vietnamese context; (2) examine the...

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...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $262,627 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Colorado-Denver to design and test a peer navigator mHealth intervention to increase uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and modern contraception among high-risk female university students in Zambia. The project aims to 1) adapt an existing mobile app using human-centered design and qualitative methods, 2) test the app and peer navigator...

This K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) will fund a research project by Dr. Andrew Barnett at the Children's Research Institute. The project aims to use implementation science methods to deliver and evaluate an enhanced care intervention, HIV Prevention Plus Care (HP+ Care), for young men who have sex with men (YMSM) starting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in two clinic...

This federal Project Grant award of $664,382 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop and pilot a mobile health (mHealth) intervention to overcome stigma and promote the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among Thai young transgender women (TGW), a high-risk population for HIV infection. The primary objective is to adapt and beta test two intervention components - the Healthy Choices (HC) mHealth...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, provides $1,861,650 to the University of Houston System to conduct a national test of a culturally tailored mobile health (mHealth) integrated smoking cessation and mental health intervention for Black adults with HIV. The award aims to evaluate the efficacy of the MASP+ intervention, which targets smoking...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, provides $338,544 to The Johns Hopkins University to develop a trauma-informed mHealth and peer support intervention called "BOUNCE" to promote PrEP uptake among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). The project aims to: 1) examine the pathways between prejudice-motivated...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $325,000 to Kairos Research LLC, a small disadvantaged business in Dayton, OH, to develop a mobile application to help Latino adolescents manage type 1 diabetes. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year award include optimizing the app design through end user research and internal testing (Aim 1), as well as...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $692,070 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Rochester to adapt and pilot-test a digital health HIV prevention intervention for Black heterosexual couples in New York State. The 3-year study aims to: 1) Adapt the existing evidence-based digital health intervention using human-centered design, 2) Conduct a 6-month pilot randomized controlled trial with 60 couples to assess feasibility,...