FYIs

Congratulations to Boyang Fan for depositing his dissertation and accepting a postdoctoral position at the UC Davis MIND Institute.

Congratulations to Natalia Macrynikola, who has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School.  

Congrats to Thomas Whitfield who has been awarded an F31 Fellowship from NIMH to investigate familiarity with, intentions to begin, and barriers to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake overtime among HIV at-risk young gay and bisexual men!

Congratulations to doctoral student Laurel Weaver, who has been awarded a two-year NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health (F31-MH124509) entitled, "Examining a biopsychosocial model of neurocognitive health for HIV-positive sexual minority men"

Congratulations to HPCS alum Katie Darabos, who has accepted a position in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy in the School of Public Health at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Congratulations to HPCS doctoral student Joseph Carter, who is featured in the news! Check out the article exploring how incarceration impacts HIV risk among black sexual minority men. 

Congratulations to Dr. Danielle Berke, who has received a four-year SCORE award from the National Institutes of Health (SC3-GM136580), which will examine trajectories and markers of risk and resilience among transgender trauma survivors using a multimethod longitudinal approach to inform PTSD prevention and intervention efforts.

Congratulations Jorge Cienfuegos Szalay, who has been awarded an NIH F31 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for his dissertation research: The role of intersectional stigma and social anxiety in substance use and HIV risk for young Black and Latino sexual minority men: A daily diary study.

Congratulations Sugandha Gupta, who has been awarded an F31 grant from the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD/NIH), aka the Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship, for her dissertation, Social and cultural processes that impact physical activity among South Asian Americans managing hypertension: A mixed methods study.

Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Carmichael, who has received a 5-year NSF career award titled, Modeling Responsive Relationship Behavior: Channels of Communication, Social Benefits, and Mechanisms of Action