COLLABORATIVE HIV PREVENTION IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES
Torsten Brian Neilands, Asst Adjunct Prof-gencomp-b
University Of California San Francisco, 3333 California St., Ste 315, San Francisco, Ca 94143-0962
Grant 5R25MH067127-07 from National Institute Of Mental Health
Abstract: This application seeks continuation of funding for The Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities program (CRMC). The CRMC addresses the urgent needs for culturally-competent HIV/AIDS prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities by offering research education and mentoring for HIV/AIDS-prevention scientists who have cultural expertise and are initiating innovative programs of research. The aims of this 5-year project are to 1) assist six visiting scientists per year in (a) translating innovative concepts into a feasible program of research and (b) conducting qualitative and quantitative research that serves as preliminary studies for larger research projects; 2) provide education, mentoring, and technical assistance to these visiting scientists in the writing, submission, revision, and resubmission of federal and other research grants, and 3) provide ongoing mentoring and technical assistance to scientists who conduct social and behavioral HIV/AIDS-prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities. Aims 1(a), 1(b), and 2 will be met through a six-week summer intensive program of seminars and one-on-one meetings held at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies as well as provision of funds to conduct a pilot research study. In the summer of 2009, four scientists from universities and research institutions will be in their second or third years of the program. These scientists will analyze and write up the data from studies they have been conducting as part of the program, as well as write grant applications. Two new scientists will be added in summers 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 to maintain a steady state of six scientists per program year. These scientists will design pilot studies, which they will conduct during the following academic year. The guidance provided by these collaborative research experiences and opportunities for networking will result in a substantial increase in high quality HIV prevention research by scientists studying minority populations in the U.S
Keywords: AIDS Virus; AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV; AIDS/HIV prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Virus; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Virus; Address; Affect; Applications Grants; Award; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; CDC; Cell Nucleus; Centers for Disease Control; Centers for Disease Control (U.S.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Color; Communities; Consultations; Data; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor of Public Health; Dr.P.H.; EXTMR; Education; Educational aspects; Environment; Epidemic; Ethics Committees, Research; Ethnic and Racial Minorities; Extramural; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Feedback; Funding; Funding Agency; Funding Source; Grant Proposals; Grants, Applications; HIV; HIV Prevention; HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS prevention; HIV/AIDS problem; HTLV-III; Human Immunodeficiency Viruses; Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type III; Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type III; Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type III; IRBs; Institution; Institutional Review Boards; LAV-HTLV-III; Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus; Manuscripts; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; NIH; National Institutes of Health; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); Nucleus; Peer Review; Ph.D.; PhD; Pilot Projects; Population; Position; Positioning Attribute; Prevention Research; Principal Investigator; Programs (PT); Programs [Publication Type]; Protocol; Protocols documentation; Publications; R01 Mechanism; R01 Program; RPG; Research; Research Ethics Committees; Research Grants; Research Project Grants; Research Projects; Research Projects, R-Series; Research Support; Scientific Publication; Scientist; Secure; System; System, LOINC Axis 4; Translating; Translatings; United States Centers for Disease Control; United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virus-HIV; Visit; Writing; base; catalyst; design; designing; experience; experiment; experimental research; experimental study; innovate; innovation; innovative; language translation; meetings; pilot study; programs; research study; skills; social; theories
Project start date: 2003-03-12
Project end date: 2013-08-31
Budget start date: 1-SEP-2009
Budget end date: 31-AUG-2010
PFA/PA: PAR-06-494
5R25MH067127-07 (2009): $267126
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COLLABORATIVE HIV PREVENTION IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES
Torsten Brian Neilands
University Of California San Francisco, 3333 California St., Ste 315, San Francisco, Ca 94143-0962
Grant 5R25MH067127-08 from National Institute Of Mental Health
Abstract: This application seeks continuation of funding for The Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities program (CRMC). The CRMC addresses the urgent needs for culturally-competent HIV/AIDS prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities by offering research education and mentoring for HIV/AIDS-prevention scientists who have cultural expertise and are initiating innovative programs of research. The aims of this 5-year project are to 1) assist six visiting scientists per year in (a) translating innovative concepts into a feasible program of research and (b) conducting qualitative and quantitative research that serves as preliminary studies for larger research projects; 2) provide education, mentoring, and technical assistance to these visiting scientists in the writing, submission, revision, and resubmission of federal and other research grants, and 3) provide ongoing mentoring and technical assistance to scientists who conduct social and behavioral HIV/AIDS-prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities. Aims 1(a), 1(b), and 2 will be met through a six-week summer intensive program of seminars and one-on-one meetings held at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies as well as provision of funds to conduct a pilot research study. In the summer of 2009, four scientists from universities and research institutions will be in their second or third years of the program. These scientists will analyze and write up the data from studies they have been conducting as part of the program, as well as write grant applications. Two new scientists will be added in summers 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 to maintain a steady state of six scientists per program year. These scientists will design pilot studies, which they will conduct during the following academic year. The guidance provided by these collaborative research experiences and opportunities for networking will result in a substantial increase in high quality HIV prevention research by scientists studying minority populations in the U.S
Keywords: AIDS Virus; AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV; AIDS/HIV prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Virus; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Virus; Address; Affect; Applications Grants; Area; Award; Behavior; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; CDC; Cell Nucleus; Centers for Disease Control; Centers for Disease Control (U.S.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Color; Communities; Consultations; Data; Development; Disease Progression; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor of Public Health; Dr.P.H.; EXTMR; Education; Educational aspects; Environment; Epidemic; Ethics Committees, Research; Ethnic and Racial Minorities; Evidence based intervention; Extramural; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Feedback; Funding; Funding Agency; Funding Source; Goals; Grant Proposals; Grants, Applications; HIV; HIV Prevention; HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS prevention; HIV/AIDS problem; HTLV-III; Health; Human; Human Immunodeficiency Viruses; Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type III; Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type III; Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type III; Human, General; IRBs; Infrastructure; Institution; Institutional Review Boards; LAV-HTLV-III; Leadership; Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus; Man (Taxonomy); Man, Modern; Manuscripts; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; NIH; National Institutes of Health; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); Nucleus; Peer Review; Ph.D.; PhD; Pilot Projects; Plant Embryos; Population; Position; Positioning Attribute; Prevention Research; Principal Investigator; Programs (PT); Programs [Publication Type]; Protocol; Protocols documentation; Publications; R01 Mechanism; R01 Program; RPG; Research; Research Ethics Committees; Research Grants; Research Infrastructure; Research Project Grants; Research Projects; Research Projects, R-Series; Research Support; Role; Scientific Publication; Scientist; Secure; Seeds; System; System, LOINC Axis 4; Translating; Translatings; United States Centers for Disease Control; United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virus-HIV; Visit; Writing; Zygotes, Plant; ing; base; catalyst; design; designing; disability; empowered; experience; experiment; experimental research; experimental study; health disparities; health disparity; improved; innovate; innovation; innovative; language translation; meetings; minority health; pilot study; programs; research study; residence; seed; skills; social; social role; stem; theories
Project start date: 2003-03-12
Project end date: 2013-08-31
Budget start date: 1-SEP-2010
Budget end date: 31-AUG-2011
PFA/PA: PAR-06-494
5R25MH067127-08 (2010): $266435
Grants awarded to Torsten Brian Neilands
MINORITY POPULATIONS PREVENTION RESEARCHER TRAINING
Torsten Brian Neilands, Asst Adjunct Prof-gencomp-b
University Of California San Francisco, 3333 California St., Ste 315, San Francisco, Ca 94143-0962
Grant 5R25HD045810-07 from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development
Abstract: This application seeks continuation of funding for the Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training (MPPRT) program. The MPPRT addresses the urgent needs for culturally-competent STI- prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities by offering research education and mentoring for social and behavioral prevention scientists who have cultural expertise and are initiating innovative programs of research. This five-year project will provide educational, mentoring and technical assistance to facilitate the development and continuation of innovative STI/HIV-prevention research in racial and ethnic minority populations by expanding the currently successful program to 1) Train MPPRT scientists in research methods (such as behavioral measurement, ethnography, GIS mapping, structural equation modeling, and social network analysis) to build scientists´ capacity to conduct interdisciplinary STI/HIV-prevention research of structural and individual factors affecting STI/HIV-risk behavior in racial and ethnic minority populations; 2) Provide funding for pilot research that will yield preliminary data for multi-year grant proposals; 3) Provide education and mentoring in the writing and submission of multi- year grant proposals; and 4) Provide ongoing technical assistance and mentoring to MPPRT scientists to continue their programs of research to prevent STI/HIV in racial and ethnic minority populations. Aims 1, 2, and 3 will be met through an intensive six-week summer program of seminars and one-on-one meetings to be held at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies as well as provision of funds to conduct a pilot research study. Beginning in the summer of 2009, two new scientists from U.S. universities and research institutions will be added to the program each summer in 2009, 2010, and 2011. These scientists will design pilot studies, which they will conduct during the following academic year, and return to CAPS for a second summer to analyze data from their pilot studies. In the third summer they will return to CAPS to write a larger grant proposal that will be submitted to a federal or non-federal agency. Aim 4 will be met by providing former scientists continued access to individualized advice and support from MPPRT mentors, including peer review and consultation regarding scientific questions related to the scientist´s research program. The guidance provided by these collaborative research experiences and opportunities for interdisciplinary networking will result in a substantial increase in high quality STI-prevention research by scientists studying minority populations in the U.S. Significance of the Proposed Program of Research Education Research to advance understanding of the development and progression of diseases and disabilities that contribute to minority health and other health disparities is a major goal of the National Institutes of Health´s strategic research plan to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. There are few areas that are more critical to improving the nation´s health than understanding the disparities in sexually- transmitted infections (STIs) in minority populations. Innovative, evidence-based interventions that rely on well-researched and culturally-specific theories of human behavior are urgently needed to stem the rising tide of HIV/AIDS and other sexually- transmitted infections in minority populations. HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted infections exert a disproportionate impact in adolescent and young adult populations. Racial and ethnic minority scientists are uniquely positioned to take a leadership role in addressing these issues and to make major contributions to STI-prevention and reproductive health research being conducted in minority communities most affected by these epidemics. The proposed education and mentoring program aims to address this research deficit through offering seed funding to promising social and behavioral prevention scientists to conduct pilot studies and a mentoring infrastructure to empower these scientists to successfully apply for and receive NIH, CDC and non-federal funding to conduct rigorous, multi-year research projects in the communities of color most affected by STI epidemics. The Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training program meets these goals via an innovative, intensive six-week summer in-residence program of seminars, one-on-one consultations with mentors, and peer reviews, reinforced by pilot study funding and ongoing support from mentors during the academic year
Keywords: AIDS Virus; AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV; AIDS/HIV prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Virus; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Virus; Address; Adolescent; Adolescent Youth; Affect; Analysis, Data; Application Context; Applications Grants; Area; Award; Behavior; Behavioral; CDC; Cell Nucleus; Centers for Disease Control; Centers for Disease Control (U.S.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Color; Communities; Community Networks; Consultations; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Disease Progression; Doctor of Philosophy; EXTMR; Education; Educational aspects; Environment; Epidemic; Equation; Ethics Committees, Research; Ethnic and Racial Minorities; Ethnography; Evidence based intervention; Extramural; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Family; Feedback; Friendships; Funding; Funding Agency; Funding Source; Goals; Grant; Grant Proposals; Grants, Applications; HIV; HIV Prevention; HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS prevention; HIV/AIDS problem; HTLV-III; Health; Human; Human Immunodeficiency Viruses; Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type III; Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type III; Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type III; Human, General; IRBs; Individual; Infection prevention; Infrastructure; Institution; Institutional Review Boards; Interdisciplinary Research; Interdisciplinary Study; Investigators; LAV-HTLV-III; Leadership; Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus; Man (Taxonomy); Man, Modern; Manuscripts; Maps; Measures; Medical Sociology; Mentors; Methodology, Research; Minority; Minority Groups; Modeling; Multidisciplinary Collaboration; Multidisciplinary Research; NIH; National Institutes of Health; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); Network Analysis; Nucleus; Pathway Analysis; Peer Review; Ph.D.; PhD; Pilot Projects; Plant Embryos; Population; Position; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Prevent infection; Prevention; Prevention Research; Principal Investigator; Programs (PT); Programs [Publication Type]; Protocol; Protocols documentation; Psychology; Publications; R01 Mechanism; R01 Program; RPG; Reproductive Health; Research; Research Ethics Committees; Research Grants; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Methods; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Projects; Research Projects, R-Series; Research Training; Researchers; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risky Behavior; Role; STD; Scientific Publication; Scientist; Secure; Seeds; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Sexually Transmitted Disorder; Sexually Transmitted Infection; Social Network; Sociology of Medicine; Sociology, Medical; Study, Interdisciplinary; System; System, LOINC Axis 4; Training; Training Programs; United States Centers for Disease Control; United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Venereal Diseases; Venereal Disorders; Venereal Infections; Virus-HIV; Visit; Writing; Zygotes, Plant; adult youth; at risk behavior; base; behavior measurement; behavioral measure; behavioral measurement; contextual factors; design; designing; disability; empowered; ethnic minority; ethnic minority population; ethnographic; experience; experiment; experimental research; experimental study; health disparities; health disparity; improved; innovate; innovation; innovative; juvenile; juvenile human; meetings; migration; minority health; pilot study; prevent; preventing; programs; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; racial/ethnic; racism; research study; residence; seed; skills; social; social role; stem; theories; trend; young adult
Relevance: Significance of the Proposed Program of Research Education Research to advance understanding of the development and progression of diseases and disabilities that contribute to minority health and other health disparities is a major goal of the National Institutes of Health´s strategic research plan to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. There are few areas that are more critical to improving the nation´s health than understanding the disparities in sexually- transmitted infections (STIs) in minority populations. Innovative, evidence-based interventions that rely on well-researched and culturally-specific theories of human behavior are urgently needed to stem the rising tide of HIV/AIDS and other sexually- transmitted infections in minority populations. HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted infections exert a disproportionate impact in adolescent and young adult populations. Racial and ethnic minority scientists are uniquely positioned to take a leadership role in addressing these issues and to make major contributions to STI-prevention and reproductive health research being conducted in minority communities most affected by these epidemics. The proposed education and mentoring program aims to address this research deficit through offering seed funding to promising social and behavioral prevention scientists to conduct pilot studies and a mentoring infrastructure to empower these scientists to successfully apply for and receive NIH, CDC and non-federal funding to conduct rigorous, multi-year research projects in the communities of color most affected by STI epidemics. The Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training program meets these goals via an innovative, intensive six-week summer in-residence program of seminars, one-on-one consultations with mentors, and peer reviews, reinforced by pilot study funding and ongoing support from mentors during the academic year
Project start date: 2003-08-01
Project end date: 2014-05-31
Budget start date: 1-JUN-2010
Budget end date: 31-MAY-2011
PFA/PA: PA-06-507
5R25HD045810-07 (2010): $284784
2R25HD045810-06 (2009): $253931
Collaborative HIV Prevention In Minority Communities
Torsten Brian Neilands, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Medicineuniversity Of California San Francisco
3333 California St., Ste 315
san Francisco, Ca 941430962
Grant 2R25MH067127-06 from National Institute Of Mental Health IRG: ZMH1
Abstract: This application seeks continuation of funding for The Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities program (CRMC). The CRMC addresses the urgent needs for culturally-competent HIV/AIDS prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities by offering research education and mentoring for HIV/AIDS-prevention scientists who have cultural expertise and are initiating innovative programs of research. The aims of this 5-year project are to 1) assist six visiting scientists per year in (a) translating innovative concepts into a feasible program of research and (b) conducting qualitative and quantitative research that serves as preliminary studies for larger research projects; 2) provide education, mentoring, and technical assistance to these visiting scientists in the writing, submission, revision, and resubmission of federal and other research grants, and 3) provide ongoing mentoring and technical assistance to scientists who conduct social and behavioral HIV/AIDS-prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities. Aims 1(a), 1(b), and 2 will be met through a six-week summer intensive program of seminars and one-on-one meetings held at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies as well as provision of funds to conduct a pilot research study. In the summer of 2009, four scientists from universities and research institutions will be in their second or third years of the program. These scientists will analyze and write up the data from studies they have been conducting as part of the program, as well as write grant applications. Two new scientists will be added in summers 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 to maintain a steady state of six scientists per program year. These scientists will design pilot studies, which they will conduct during the following academic year. The guidance provided by these collaborative research experiences and opportunities for networking will result in a substantial increase in high quality HIV prevention research by scientists studying minority populations in the U.S
Project start date: 2003-03-12
Project end date: 2013-08-31
2R25MH067127-06 (2008): $267838