CDEIPI Monthly Newsletter

September 2022

Remembering Dr. Enrique Mesri from the Miami CDEIPI Program

It is with the deepest sadness that we inform you of the passing of Dr. Enrique Mesri, the Evaluation Lead for the Miami CFAR CDEIPI program. Dr. Mesri was a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Miami, Director of the AIDS Malignancies Scientific Interest Group, and Co-Director of the mentoring program at the Miami CFAR. Please see this website from the University of Miami and this announcement from the Miami CFAR honoring Dr. Mesri's work.

Each month, the CDEIPI newsletter will spotlight one of the CDEIPI programs.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Evidence2Practice: Leveraging implementation science to recruit HBCU/MSI students into careers in HIV research

The Duke CFAR CDEIPI program Evidence2Practice (E2P): Leveraging implementation science to recruit HBCU/MSI students into careers in HIV research, is led by Nwora Lance Okeke, MD, MPH, and colleagues in collaboration with Benedict College, South University, Claflin University, Voorhees College and Morris College. Amy Corneli, PhD, MPH, leads the evaluation of E2P.

Evidence2Practice is an intensive on-campus 3-day workshops with interactive and student-centered lectures focused on HIV prevention and implementation science. The goal of this program is to increase undergraduate and graduate student's interest in careers in HIV sciences. This program builds from the Bringing PrEP to Campus program in 2018 which aimed to increase HIV prevention awareness at HBCUs. Following the workshops, students created a 1-page action plan for each campus on HIV prevention including enhancing awareness and uptake of PrEP. Currently, E2P has conducted workshops at three campuses (South University, Benedict College, Voorhees) and plans to host three more in the fall semester (Claflin University, South Carolina State, Morris College). The program is evaluated using pre- and post-program surveys with all participants and in-depth interviews with a random sample of participants.

For more information on Duke's Evidence2Practice Program, click here.

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE UPDATES

The Coordinating Center is requesting project teams to spend down their CDEIPI 1 budgets before November 30, 2022 and encouraging institutions to invoice regularly for CDEIPI-related expenditures, including new expenditures that were not budgeted for but are within the scope of your projects. In addition, 6 months NCEs will only be awarded to sites that are actively invoicing.

On August 12, Alan Greenberg and Lorena Segarra circulated the revised draft overview manuscript of the CDEIPI program. They are awaiting review and approval from several co-authors and plans to submit the draft in early September. The Coordinating Center also plans to submit a proposal to JAIDS for a supplement in which each site will have the opportunity to contribute a manuscript about their own program with early results. Further information will be forthcoming.

Contact: Brandi Robinson at bnrobin@gwu.edu with any questions or concerns.

PROGRAM CORE UPDATES

On August 25, the Program Core held its monthly meeting with the program leads from each of the CDEIPI sites. The August call included presentations by Dr. Nwora Lance Okeke (Duke) and Dr. Jen Balkus (UW/Fred Hutch) who provided an update on the progress of their programs. In addition, both shared future plans and lessons learned.

For more information, please see the meeting slides and recording.

Next Meeting: Thursday, September 22 from 3-4 PM ET

Contact: Brandi Robinson at bnrobin@gwu.edu for more information.

EVALUATION CORE UPDATES

On August 25, the Evaluation Core held its monthly meeting of the evaluation leads from each of the CDEIPI sites. The August call featured a presentation of the 2nd quarter evaluation progress to date. In addition, the group discussed the individual-level surveys, including the instructions and the use of the PTIDs as permitted by our IRB exempt status. So far, the evaluation core has received 22 completed surveys and 4 sites have successfully entered data from participants.

For more information, please see the meeting slides and recording.

Next Meeting: Thursday, September 22 from 1-2 PM ET

Contact: Lorena Segarra at lsegarra@gwu.edu for more information.

We look forward to sharing updates and resources with you in this newsletter and on our website. Please let us know if there are other ways the CDEIPI Coordinating Center can support your important work.

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CDEIPI is a supplement to the DC CFAR, an NIH-funded program (P30AI117970), which is supported by the following NIH Co-Funding and Participating Institutes and Centers: NIAID, NCI, NICHD, NIDCR, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, NIA, NIDDK, NINR, NIMHD, FIC, and OAR. The content is the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.