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CIRA and Yale Institute for Global Health Announce 2026 Pilot Project Award Recipients

CIRA and Yale Institute of Global Health have announced two 2026 HIV research pilot projects in Kazakhstan and Peru, focusing on prevention, aging, and health equity.

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New NIH Highlighted Topics

Before you write your next NIH grant application, consider reviewing NIH's centralized list of highlighted topics that represent research priority areas within one or more NIH Institutes, Centers, or Offices. Recently released highlighted topics include:Advancing...

REGISTER - CIRA Talk: "Highlights from AIDS 2026"

Join us in a virtual CIRA Talk featuring AIDS 2026 abstracts presented by CIRA affiliates and selected sessions on innovative research covered at the 26th International AIDS Conference.Wednesday, September 16, 202610:00 am-11:00 am ETFurther Details and...

REGISTER - CIRA Early Career Scientists Webinar: "Scholarly Articles and Where to Find Them"

Join us in a virtual panel event on exploring free bibliographic databases beyond PubMed and Google Scholar to find peer-reviewed abstracts and citations in global health literature. Yale health librarians will present on an overview of Lens, OpenAlex, Scielo,...

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Upcoming CIRA Events

CIRA Talk: "Highlights from the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026)"

Wed, Sep 16, 10:00 am-11:00 am ET
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CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group presents "Explaining Complex Outcomes Using Qualitative Data: Pairing Qualitative Analysis and Coincidence Analysis in Implementation Science and Health Services Research"

Fri, Sep 18, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm ET
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CIRA Early-Career Scientists Webinar: "Scholarly Articles and Where to Find Them"

Thu, Oct 1, 10:00 am-11:00 am ET
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Funding Opportunities

Connecting Champions for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the Health Professions
Application due date: September 24, 2026, 3:00 pm ET

CIPHER Research Grant Programme 2026/2027
Letters of intent due date: September 30, 2026, 6:00 pm CEST

Yale and the World Partnership Fund
Eligibility: Yale faculty and staff
Application due date: October 21, 2026

Recent Publications by CIRA Affiliates

HIV prevention service disruption among transgender adults in the context of 2025 federal executive orders in the United States: a cross-sectional multi-state study
Arjee Javellana Restar, Adedotun Ogunbajo, Simon Sandh, Renata Arrington-Sanders, José Bauermeister, Aaron Breslow, Taylor Rae Swensen, Aleks Martin, Alex Jay Lore, Trace Kershaw, Don Operario, Kristi E Gamarel, Teresa DeAtley
Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 2026 Aug 11:63:101591. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2026.101591. eCollection 2026 Nov.

Strategies to Promote HIV Self-Testing and Long-Acting Injectable PrEP Among Ghanaian Youth: Results from the Y-FIT GH National Crowdsourcing Open Call
Gloria Aidoo-Frimpong, Abass Tando Abubakar, Yaa Adutwumwaa Obeng, Winfred Kofi Mensa, Daniel Selase Anyidoho, Ernest Ortsin, Stephen Ayisi Addo, Anthony Affum-Adjei Awuah, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Naa Ashiley Vanderpuye, Paul Sowah, Temitope Ojo, Juliet Iwelunmor, Zhao Ni; YFIT GH Study Team
AIDS and Behavior. 2026 Sep 5. doi: 10.1007/s10461-026-05295-z. Online ahead of print.

War-related displacement, conflict intensity, and treatment delivery factors in opioid agonist maintenance treatment discontinuation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine: a national cohort study
Roman Ivasiy, Lynn M Madden, Anna Meteliuk, Daniel J Bromberg, Eteri Machavariani, Bachar Ahmad, Tetiana Fomenko, Myroslava Filippovych, Iryna Kharandiuk, Scott O Farnum, Zahedul Islam, Frederick L Altice
The Lancet Regional Health Europe. 2026 Aug 26:69:101831. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101831. eCollection 2026 Oct.

Long-acting Injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Preference for Persons Who Use Drugs and are Involved with the Criminal Legal System
Sandra A Springer, Angela Di Paola, Irene Kuo, Kevin Knight, Ank E Nijhawa
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2026 Sep 2. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003931. Online ahead of print.

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