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CIRA International Visiting Fellow Program 2025

CIRA is pleased to announce that the center will host the next cohort of international visiting fellows between April 21st and May 2nd, 2025. Meet the Fellows.

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2025 CIRA-YIGH Joint Pilot Project Awardees

CIRA, in collaboration with the Yale Institute for Global Health, has selected Dr. Sunil Parikh, Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine; Dr. Jennifer Sherr, Yale School of Medicine; and Dr. Roman Ivasiy, Yale School of Medicine, as 2025 CIRA-YIGH Joint Pilot...

Improving HIV Care for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

In a new Yale-led study, published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, researchers showed that treatment with methadone in patients with HIV and opioid use disorder before they are released from prison resulted in substantially better HIV outcomes during...

Individuals and Research Projects Affiliated with CIRA in 2024

CIRA's current affiliation guidelines promote broad participation of scientists, trainees, HIV service providers, community members, and other institutional partners while maintaining scientific rigor and disciplinary diversity within CIRA's research portfolio....

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Funding Opportunities

Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Selected opportunities are listed below.

Understanding the Intersection of Social Inequities to Optimize Health and Reduce Health Disparities: The Axes Initiative (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: March 10, 2025

Street Medicine Interventions for People with HIV who are Unsheltered – Capacity Builder Provider
Application Due Date: March 11, 2025

Street Medicine Interventions for People with HIV who are Unsheltered – Evaluation Provider
Application Due Date: March 11, 2025

Addressing Stigma to End the HIV Epidemic in the U.S.
Application Due Date: March 18, 2025

Local Data for Equitable Communities
Application Due Date: March 18, 2025

Multimodal Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate HIV Clinical Care (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date: March 27, 2025

Advancing HIV/AIDS Research within the Mission of the NIDCD
AIDS Application Due Date(s): May 7, 2025; Sept 7, 2025
- R21
- R01

Development & Testing of Novel Interventions to Improve HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Program Implementation for People Who Use Substances (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
AIDS Application Due Date(s): May 7, 2025; Sept 7, 2025

Innovations to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes
AIDS Application Due Date(s): May 9, 2025; Sept 9, 2025
- R21
- R01

High Priority HIV and Substance Use Research (RM1 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date(s): Aug 15, 2025; Feb 11, 2026; Aug 14, 2026; Feb 11, 2027

Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Dates: Standard AIDS Dates Apply (Expiration Date: January 8, 2026)

Interventions on Health and Healthcare Disparities on Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Latin America: Improving Health Outcomes Across the Hemisphere (R01 - Clinical Trial Required)
AIDS Application Due Dates: Standard AIDS Dates Apply

Recent Publications by CIRA Affiliates

Trauma-informed HIV prevention for forcibly displaced adolescents and young adults
Catherine L Chantre, Trace Kershaw, Sarah R Lowe, J L Davis, Antonio Suleman, Sten H Vermund, Jennifer J Mootz.
Lancet HIV. 2025. Jan 27:S2352-3018(24)00313-8. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00313-8. Online ahead of print.

Differentiated HIV Service Delivery vs Conventional Care: Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy Outcomes for People Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ann Johnson, Lucy Chimoyi, Salome Charalambous, Nicole Kawaza, Chris J Hoffmann, J Lucian Davis, Violet Chihota.
medRxiv. 2025. Jan 15:2025.01.15.25320590. doi: 10.1101/2025.01.15.25320590.

Drug interactions in people with HIV treated with antivirals for other viral illnesses
Adaora Okoli, Onyema Ogbuagu
Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology. 2025. Jan 23:1-15. doi: 10.1080/17425255.2025.2455401. Online ahead of print.

Examining the Role of Posttraumatic Stress and Depressive Symptoms in HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Motivation Among Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Karlye A Phillips, Trace Kernshaw, Kamila A Alexander, Laurel Sharpless, Marina Katague, Tiara C Willie
AIDS and Behavior. 2024. Nov 25. doi: 10.1007/s10461-024-04531-8. Online ahead of print.

PrEP initiation and adherence among Black cisgender women in Mississippi: The role of HIV and PrEP stigma and social support
Deja Knight, Mauda Monger, Karlye Phillips, Amina Antar, Stefan Baral, Jamila K Stockman, Amy Nunn, Philip Chan, Kenneth Mayer, Leandro Mena, Trace Kershaw, Tiara C Willie.
Women's Health. 2024. Jan-Dec:20:17455057241296905. doi: 10.1177/17455057241296905.

HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections in Rhode Island: Trends, Disparities, and Health Equity
Lila Bhattarai, Caroline Gummo, Thomas Bertrand, Emma Creegan, Lauren Tosi, Erin Brown, Meghan MacAskill, Philip A Chan, Suzanne Bornschein
Rhode Island Medical Journal. 2024. Dec 2;107(12):9-12.

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