# MENTORING AND RESEARCH IN HIV SCREENING IMPLEMENTATION

> **NIH NIH K24** · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · 2022 · $148,013

## Abstract

Project Summary
 This Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) allows Dr. Merchant to increase
significantly his mentoring activities commensurate with his areas of experience and expertise: HIV/AIDS
and other infectious diseases, emergency medicine, and drug and other substance abuse. The award serves
three vital purposes: (1) provides “protected time” from academic, clinical and research duties so he can offer
dedicated, high-quality, and consistent mentorship to further the research efforts and career development of
junior faculty and other investigators in training; (2) enables him to undergo training on how to become and
practice being a better mentor; and (3) permits him to receive training in dissemination and implementation
science methodology, and subsequently apply these new skills to further his own research and those of his
mentees, as well as mentor junior investigators in this important field. Throughout the K24 award period, he
will recruit new mentees locally and nationally and provide mentorship and resources to his current and new
mentees to empower their transition to independent clinician-scientists. During the first two years of the K24
award, he will attend two training programs conducted by the University of New Mexico and Brandeis
University to increase his mentoring skills. During these two years he also will complete two certificate
programs through the University of California, San Francisco, and Trinity College, University of Dublin, to
obtain new skills in dissemination and implementation science methodology. Afterwards, he will be able to
offer these new dissemination and implementation science methodology skills to his mentees. The sequence of
this training is purposely arranged so that he can apply the skills obtained to the latter years of his K24 award-
supported new developmental research project. This new research project facilitates the expansion and scope
of his HIV screening with HIV/AIDS and HIV testing health literacy training research to new locations
(community and correctional settings) and to populations potentially at higher risk for HIV acquisition (drug
and other substance users, immigrants, and incarcerated persons). The four-phase, intentionally iterative
project begins with the cultural and linguistic adaptation of his current HIV/AIDS and HIV testing video and
pictorial brochure for Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese speakers. It progresses to developing and testing
learning guides to assist English-, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese and Spanish-speakers in comprehending
and applying the materials' key concepts. The project concludes with a pilot study on implementing HIV
screening with HIV/AIDS and HIV testing health literacy using these materials in community and correctional
settings in southern New England (drug and other substance treatment centers, community-based immigrant
assistance centers, and jails/prisons) to support the submission of an R01 proposal on this t...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10469671
- **Project number:** 5K24DA044858-05
- **Recipient organization:** ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
- **Principal Investigator:** Roland C Merchant
- **Activity code:** K24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $148,013
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-02-01 → 2024-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10469671

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10469671, MENTORING AND RESEARCH IN HIV SCREENING IMPLEMENTATION (5K24DA044858-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10469671. Licensed CC0.

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