# Ujima Mentoring Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2021 · $1,695,809

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
Ujima – a Swahili word meaning “collective work and responsibility” to build and maintain community, solving
problems together – exemplifies the primary mission of the proposed research training program. The proposed
NIMH AIDS Research Centers (ARC) Ujima Mentoring Program (Ujima Program) will develop and support
early career investigators who focus their programs of research on high priority areas that address HIV/AIDS
treatment, prevention, and care in Black/African American (hereafter Black) communities. While accounting for
13% of the US population in 2018, Black people represented 42% of the new HIV diagnoses among
adolescent and adults in the US and territories. Furthermore, Black scientists face specific challenges in
obtaining research funding, securing appropriate mentoring, sustaining their programs of research, and
continuing in the research pipeline. Thus, the Ujima Program has a primary focus on reducing HIV-related
health disparities in Black communities and the development of early career investigators, particularly those at
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), who can competently establish mutually beneficial
partnerships with Black communities to conduct high-impact HIV/AIDS research. To accomplish this goal,
Ujima Program leadership will conduct outreach to faculty and administrators of HBCUs and other NIMH-
funded ARCs to promote the program, recruit HBCU and ARC scientists to serve on the steering committee
and will identify and link program participants to potential ARC mentors. Program participants will form a Ujima
research team to support their research to address HIV/AIDS in Black communities. The teams will consist of
the program participant (scholar), a senior faculty mentor affiliated with a NIMH-funded ARCs (ARC mentor),
and a mentor from the scholar’s home or similar institution (local mentor). The program will provide ongoing
support to Ujima research teams through quarterly webinars, monthly check-in calls, annual workshops, and
research funding. Through these activities, the Ujima Program will provide critical multidisciplinary mentoring
and research training for early-stage scientists, particularly those at HBCUs, who are best equipped to
undertake high-impact research to address HIV-related health inequities in Black communities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10469804
- **Project number:** 3P30MH062246-21S4
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Jae M. Sevelius
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $1,695,809
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2001-09-01 → 2026-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10469804

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10469804, Ujima Mentoring Program (3P30MH062246-21S4). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10469804. Licensed CC0.

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