# Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training Program

> **NIH NIH T32** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $587,404

## Abstract

Abstract
This Renewal Application for NRSA T32 MH20031 seeks to continue a highly successful Pre- and Post-
Doctoral Fellowship Training Program (established in 1999) in HIV prevention research at Yale University's
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). Over the past 24 years we have successfully trained
Post-Doctoral and Pre-Doctoral Fellows on HIV-related content knowledge, research skills, and professional
growth and networking, and they have demonstrated tremendous productivity. The Yale AIDS Prevention
Training Program (Y-APT) is housed at CIRA and within the Yale School of Public Health at Yale University.
The integration with CIRA and Yale provides an exceptional training environment that continues to keep step
with the changing HIV/AIDS pandemic. Our training program is unique in providing the following combination of
perspectives: a focus on the latest in HIV prevention content knowledge including the four pillars of the Ending
the Epidemic initiative (diagnose, treat, prevent, respond), mechanisms across the ecological model related to
HIV equity (e.g., structural determinants, social and cultural determinants, neighborhoods,
stigma/discrimination), and marginalized identities that have been linked to increased burden for HIV. Y-APT
provides a strong foundation of training that emphasizes methodological skills and rigor in both quantitative
and qualitatative analyses; opportunities to conduct ethically sound, community based health equity research;
the latest in digital health research; and implementation science skills and methods to support the design and
evaluation of interventions that are tailored to local contexts and study populations. We are requesting support
for 4 Pre-Doctoral and 5 Post-Doctoral slots per year. The focus of both the Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowship
is “hands on” conduct of research, analysis, paper and grant writing using a tiered mentoring approach. All of
our fellows are required to participate in a weekly seminar series. In additon, the Pre-Doctoral training also
includes: formal course work, research preceptorship, seminars, outside courses and meetings, qualifying
examinations, and dissertation research. Our approach to training future scientists for careers in HIV
prevention research will emphasize flexibility and individual tailoring of Fellows' research preceptorships, while
recognizing the importance of core training in HIV content, research skills, and professional networking. Over
the past 24 years we have successfully trained, and continue to train, 95 Fellows from a variety of disciplines.
Fellows are both exposed to, and actively collaborate in, a wide array of studies and career trajectories, with an
unprecedented opportunity to publish their own research. We are, therefore, confident in our ability to prepare
both Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellows with the strongest foundation of knowledge, skills, and experience to
achieve and sustain careers as scientific investigators, contribu...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10924412
- **Project number:** 2T32MH020031-26
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Trace S Kershaw
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $587,404
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1999-07-01 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10924412

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10924412, Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training Program (2T32MH020031-26). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10924412. Licensed CC0.

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