SHINE Strong: Building the pipeline of HIV behavioral scientists with expertise in trans population health

SHINE Strong：建立具有跨性别人口健康专业知识的艾滋病毒行为科学家的管道

• 批准号: 10462709
• 负责人: Sean Arayasirikul
• 金额: $ 34.18万
• 依托单位: PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-17 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10462709
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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) is a pioneer in HIV research, a leader of HIV behavioral research and interventions with the transgender (hereafter “trans”) community and has been a training ground for HIV scientists since the beginning of the epidemic. Trans people are a key population most severely affected by HIV, but they are under-served in the epidemic response. Intervention trials do not adequately include trans people, and when they are included it is often with other populations without the sample size to power analyses that can determine the benefit of breakthroughs in HIV prevention and care. HIV behavioral research often misses the mark in asking the questions and gathering the right data needed to determine reasons for elevated risk and identify appropriate modalities for intervention. To move the epidemic to zero new infections, zero AIDS deaths, and zero stigma, scientists with expertise in trans population health must play a significant scientific role in the response to HIV, especially those from underrepresented populations in the US biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences research enterprise. There is a paucity of HIV behavioral scientists with expertise in trans population health to do this work, and to our knowledge, there are no known mentoring programs to train scholars in HIV behavioral science and trans population health. Our team has decades of HIV research training experience and we are also experts in HIV behavioral research with trans communities, having run studies for almost 20 years and with 8 HIV behavioral studies with the trans community currently in the field. Building on our research and mentoring experiences, we propose “SHINE Strong” – a mentoring program committed to the long-term development of HIV behavioral scientists with expertise in trans population health. Our specific aims are to: (1) Develop an HIV behavioral research training program for undergraduates from underrepresented populations in the US biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences research enterprise interested in trans population health that will include intensive summer research, year-long mentored projects, and life-long career advocacy and social support; (2) Work collaboratively with scholars to develop career plans, pathways to independence, support systems, and capacities for culturally and medically relevant trans health research; and (3) Create and sustain a network of mentors from diverse backgrounds to support scholars’ careers in trans population health research. The 5-year grant will recruit 4 cohorts of 3 scholars each. The program entails: (a) an intensive summer of interdisciplinary training, development of a career plan, design of an HIV-related study, and networking with the local research community; (b) completion of a 1-year mentored research project; (c) an online learning platform with scheduled, asynchronous peer-to-peer exchanges; and (d) a final Research Forum presentation for the local trans and scientific communities and the next cohort of scholars.

项目总结/摘要 弗朗西斯科公共卫生部（SFDPH）是艾滋病毒研究的先驱，也是艾滋病毒行为研究和跨性别（以下简称“跨性别”）社区干预措施的领导者，自艾滋病毒爆发以来一直是艾滋病毒科学家的培训基地。跨性别者是受艾滋病毒影响最严重的关键人群，但他们在流行病应对措施中得不到充分的服务。干预试验没有充分包括跨性别者，当他们被包括在内时，通常是与其他人群一起进行，而样本量不足以进行分析，以确定艾滋病毒预防和护理突破的好处。艾滋病毒行为研究往往在提出问题和收集确定风险升高的原因和确定适当的干预方式所需的正确数据方面失策。为了使艾滋病疫情达到零新感染、零艾滋病死亡和零耻辱，具有跨人群健康专业知识的科学家必须在应对艾滋病毒方面发挥重要的科学作用，特别是那些来自美国生物医学、临床、行为和社会科学研究企业中代表性不足的人群。有一个艾滋病毒行为科学家与跨人群健康的专业知识做这项工作的匮乏，据我们所知，有没有已知的辅导计划，以培训学者在艾滋病毒行为科学和跨人群健康。我们的团队拥有数十年的艾滋病毒研究培训经验，我们也是跨性别社区艾滋病毒行为研究的专家，已经进行了近20年的研究，目前在该领域进行了8项跨性别社区艾滋病毒行为研究。在我们的研究和指导经验的基础上，我们提出了“SHINE Strong”-一个致力于长期发展具有跨人群健康专业知识的艾滋病毒行为科学家的指导计划。我们的具体目标是：（1）为来自美国生物医学，临床，行为和社会科学研究企业中对跨人群健康感兴趣的代表性不足的人群的本科生制定艾滋病毒行为研究培训计划，其中包括密集的夏季研究，为期一年的指导项目，以及终身职业宣传和社会支持;（2）与学者合作，制定职业规划，独立途径，支持系统，以及文化和医学相关的跨健康研究的能力;以及（3）建立和维持一个由不同背景的导师组成的网络，以支持学者在跨人群健康研究方面的职业生涯。5年的补助金将招募4个队列，每个队列3名学者。该方案包括：（a）一个密集的夏季跨学科培训、制定职业计划、设计艾滋病毒相关研究以及与当地研究界建立联系;（B）完成为期1年的指导研究项目;（c）一个在线学习平台，具有定期、异步的点对点交流;以及（d）为当地跨科学界和下一批学者举行的最后研究论坛演讲。