Wednesday, January 29, 2020
2:00 pm — 3:00 pm
Dr. Jonathan Purtle of the Drexel School of Public Health

The Penn Injury Science Center (PISC) is now recruiting a post-doctoral research fellow to work on the SPARRow Study (Studying the Philadelphia Resilience Project as a Response to Overdose), as well as a suite of additional research to accelerate scientific discovery to combat the opioid overdose epidemic. SPARRow is led by CHERISH Investigator Zachary Meisel and Eugenia South as part of CDC’s “Overdose to Action” 3-year cooperative agreement that began in September 2019. SPARRow will focus on evaluating key components of the Philadelphia Resilience Project, a neighborhood-based program created to stem Philadelphia’s opioid overdose epidemic.

The purpose of this Notice is to inform potential applicants that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is participating in PAR 20-036 "Getting To Zero: Understanding HIV Viral Suppression and Transmission in the United States (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)".

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications to enhance screening and treatment for mental and substance use disorders in HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funded sites through implementation research, to advance the goals of the National "End the Epidemic" (EHE) initiative. This FOA is intended to support applications seeking to conduct definitive studies on implementation approaches to enhance screening and treatment of substance use or mental health disorders in the HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Applications seeking to conduct pilot or feasibility implementation studies should consider the companion R34 FOA at RFA-MH20-521.