Michael E. Newcomb, PhDAssociate Professor of Medical Social SciencesNorthwestern University Third Coast CFAR member Michael Newcomb, PhD, has been awarded a $9 million U01 from NIAID to lead a national-scale expansion of 2GETHER, his evidence-based relationship education and HIV prevention intervention for young MSM. The hybrid trial will enroll 5,000 HIV-negative young MSM and is designed to [...]
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has released its annual HIV/STI Surveillance Report, which shows declines in new diagnoses for all genders, all age groups, and among Black, white, Latinx, and Asian populations. The report also highlights how the local HIV epidemic is impacting transgender persons. Dr. Irina Tabidze, director of Program Operations in [...]
The NIH Common Fund has released a Request for Applications (RFA) for the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The program supports scientists with outstanding records of creativity, proposing pioneering approaches to significant challenges in any area of science relevant to the broad mission of NIH. Applications from women and members of [...]
The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) is seeking a full-time, non-tenure eligible Research Assistant Professor in the area of implementation science in HIV research. The candidate will be a highly motivated and collaborative researcher with expertise in applying implementation research methods to HIV content areas, such as using implementation science [...]
The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow in Implementation Science and HIV. The postdoc will provide implementation science support to existing projects seeking to identify barriers and facilitators of implementing HIV prevention and care interventions in health department and HIV service organization settings; operationalize [...]
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) has announced the release of the NIH-Wide Minority Health and Health Disparities Strategic Plan 2021-2025: Taking the Next Steps. The plan’s goals for advancing minority health and health disparities research and promoting health equity are in three categories: Scientific Research, such as advancing the understanding [...]
The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) at Northwestern has announced the opening of the Center for Translational Health Research and Interventions Advancing Equity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (THRIVE). Third Coast CFAR members, Michael Newcomb, PhD and Kathryn Macapagal, PhD will serve as director and co-director. Read the full [...]
Jenny Trinitapoli, PhDAssociate Professor Department of SociologyThe University of Chicago Effective May 2021, Jenny Trinitapoli, PhD will begin her term as director of the Third Coast CFAR Developmental Core. Dr. Trinitapoli is an NICHD-funded social demographer and associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. Her elevation to the Developmental Core director role was planned [...]
The Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is inviting applications for the newly established Magic City LGBTQ Endowed Professorship. This is a full-time faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, tenured or tenure earning. Rank and tenure status will be commensurate with qualifications and [...]
The Third Coast CFAR is pleased to announce the formation of a new Inter-CFAR Working Group: The Inter-CFAR Substance Use Research Community (I-SURC). The I-SURC’s mission is to identify and bring together CFAR substance use researchers who can complement expertise and perspectives, share resources, increase efficiencies, and share cutting-edge technologies across the nation. The I-SURC provides the [...]