Research Community Development Grant: Collaborative Research: Knowledge of HIV/AIDS: Expertise, Participation, and the Archive in the Long Pandemic

研究社区发展补助金：合作研究：艾滋病毒/艾滋病知识：长期大流行中的专业知识、参与和档案

• 批准号: 2240637
• 负责人: Stephen Molldrem
• 金额: $ 6.24万
• 依托单位: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2240637&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Community; Development; Grant; Collaborative

This Research Community Development (RCD) project brings together social scientific and humanistic scholars of HIV/AIDS situated within the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The core goal is to support community formation, the exchange of ideas, and to foster novel cutting edge research to synthesize knowledge of this long pandemic. Activities will be organized to bridge past findings of social studies of HIV/AIDS with contemporary trajectories in the field focused around three core themes: the archive, expertise, and participation. Social and humanistic scholarship on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in North America has distinct phases. The period prior to 1996, before effective treatments for HIV, was marked by a wide array of scholarship on the pandemic. However, public attention to HIV/AIDS experienced a decline and fragmentation after more effective treatments became available – sometimes with the mistaken rationale that the pandemic was over (or at least well-managed) and coupled to a “second silence” in public attention to AIDS. Biomedical innovation has resulted in treatments that can enable a person living with HIV to live a lifespan comparable to that of an HIV-negative person. However, antiretroviral therapies are not cures, they come with side effects, require access to resources and stability to remain in care (from health insurance to housing), are dependent on the pharmaceutical industry, and overall, have not ended the pandemic locally or globally. Four decades into the pandemic, even as many countries proclaim that they will end their HIV/AIDS epidemics by 2030, there is no actual end in sight. HIV has become a long pandemic, one that is both exceptional while also overlapping with many ongoing human rights, economic and public health crises. This RCD project aims to overcome the intellectual fragmentation that accompanied the second silence on HIV/AIDS in STS and its constituent disciplines by creating infrastructure to support a scholarly community around these topics. This project will assemble a productive research community via a series of three annual workshops; by developing an online forum for coordination; by supporting new research collaborations with small grants; and by creating a robust mentorship program that will pair early career scholars with more established scholars. The project will support the next generation of scholars focused on social studies of illness and will seek to develop general insight for both long-standing and emerging pandemics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个研究社区发展（RCD）项目汇集了科学和技术研究（STS）跨学科领域内的艾滋病毒/艾滋病的社会科学和人文学者。核心目标是支持社区的形成，思想的交流，并促进新的前沿研究，以综合这一长期流行病的知识。将组织各种活动，将过去艾滋病毒/艾滋病社会研究的结果与该领域的当代轨迹联系起来，重点围绕三个核心主题：档案、专门知识和参与。关于北美艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病的社会和人文学研究有不同的阶段。1996年之前，在艾滋病毒得到有效治疗之前，人们对这一流行病进行了广泛的研究。然而，在出现更有效的治疗方法后，公众对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的关注出现了下降和分散-有时错误地认为这一流行病已经结束（或至少得到了良好的管理），加上公众对艾滋病的关注出现了“第二次沉默”。生物医学创新带来的治疗方法可以使艾滋病毒感染者的寿命与艾滋病毒阴性者相当。然而，抗逆转录病毒疗法并不能治愈疾病，它们有副作用，需要获得资源和稳定的护理（从医疗保险到住房），依赖制药业，总体而言，并没有在当地或全球结束这一流行病。艾滋病毒/艾滋病大流行已有四十年，尽管许多国家宣布将在2030年之前结束艾滋病毒/艾滋病的流行，但实际上还看不到结束的迹象。艾滋病毒已成为一种长期流行病，这种流行病既特殊，又与许多正在发生的人权、经济和公共卫生危机重叠。该RCD项目旨在通过创建基础设施来支持围绕这些主题的学术界，从而克服STS及其组成学科对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的第二次沉默所伴随的知识碎片化。该项目将通过一系列的三个年度研讨会来组建一个富有成效的研究社区;通过开发一个在线协调论坛;通过小额赠款支持新的研究合作;并通过创建一个强大的导师计划，将早期职业学者与更多的学者配对。该项目将支持下一代学者专注于疾病的社会研究，并将寻求发展对长期存在和新出现的流行病的一般见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。