Current/Recent Global ID Research Projects – opportunities for trainees:

National Institutes of Health:

• Matthews - PrEP uptake/adherence to reduce periconception HIV risk for South African women

• Matthews - Type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial to evaluate a population health combination intervention to meet HIV testing, linkage, and viral suppression goals in coastal Alabama

• Matthews - CAMELLIA Cohort: a longitudinal study to understand sexual health and prevention among women in Alabama

• Matthews - PrEP Pro: Adapting a multi-component intervention to train and support providers to promote PrEP for adolescent girls and young women in the Deep South

• Dionne-Odom - Reducing Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis B in Africa (REVERT-B trial)

• Vinikoor - Zambia Alabama HIV Alcohol Comorbidities Program (ZAMBAMA)

• Vinikoor - Mechanisms of HBV Functional Cure During Tenofovir-based ART in HIV/HBV Coinfection

• Vinikoor - Re-engagement at Discharge (Re-charge): Improving post-hospital outcomes for HIV-infected adults in Zambia

• Vinikoor - Feasibility of an integrated intervention to reduce advanced HIV disease mortality among hospitalized adults in Zambia

• Vinikoor and Bolton Moore - Evaluating implementation strategies to scale-up transdiagnostic evidence-based mental health care in Zambia

• Bolton Moore - Developing research training in Zambia to address the epidemic of cardiovascular disease and mental illness amongst HIV infected populations

• Bolton Moore - Application of implementation science approaches to assess the effectiveness of task-shifted WHO-PEN to address cardio metabolic complications in people living with HIV in Zambia

• Bolton Moore - Reaching 90 90 90 in Adolescents in Zambia: Using all our SKILLZ

• Wong - Quantification of patterns of multimorbidity to develop effective and efficient models of HIV, TB, and NCD co-care in rural South Africa

• Heffron - Mentoring and research to prepare oral PrEP delivery platforms for novel HIV prevention products

• Heffron - Implementation science research on PrEP delivery and costing within MAT and NSP services for PWUD in Uganda

• Heffron - Feasibility pilot of home-based STI testing and risk self-assessment among adolescent girls in South Africa to trigger PrEP re-start

• Heffron - Integrated PrEP and ART delivered Ugandan public health clinics to improve HIV and ART outcomes for HIV serodiscordant couples

Foundation-funded:

• Vinikoor - Accelerating the Hepatitis Response in Zambia, The Hepatitis Fund Bill and Melinda Gates

• Wong - Wellcome

• Wong - Burroughs Wellcome

Fellowship and Research Training Opportunities:

• Post-doctoral Clinical Infectious Diseases fellowship

• Post-doctoral fellowships for US and international trainees with PhD in public health or related field or non-medical health professional

• Gorgas Course in Tropical Medicine

Our Partners in Global Health:

• Africa Health Research Initiative

• Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

• Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine

• UAB Centre for AIDS Research

• William Crawford Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine

• Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University

• Mbarara University of Science and Technology

• Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services

• Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

• University of Witwatersrand Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI)

• The Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health