Grant #:N/A
Co-PIs: Jack Rusley, Shankar Levine
Primary Mentor: Jody Rich, MD
Role: Co-PI
Period: 6/1/06 to 5/31/0
Sponsor: Petersen Fund, Brown Medical School
Description: This was a grant from the Petersen Fund at Brown Medical School and the Area Health Education Council (AHEC) to fund a project that provided health education to women recovering from drug addiction at a residential rehabilitation program in Rhode Island called SSTAR Birth.
Grant #: N/A
PI: John Forrest
Primary Mentors: Krystn Wagner, MD, PhD; Warren Andiman, MD
Role: Clinical research fellow
Period: 7/1/08 to 60/30/09
Title: Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine
Sponsor: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Description: This program provides funding and mentoring for medical students to learn the fundamentals of medical research, statistics, and project development, and institutional leadership. I developed a national survey of pediatric HIV providers on transition for youth with HIV.
Grant #: T71MC08054
PI: Hoover Adger
Role: Fellow/trainee
Period: 7/1/12 to 6/30/17
Title: Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Training Grant
Sponsor: Health Resources & Services Administration, Maternal & Child Health Bureau
Description: The goal of the program is to provide training adolescent medicine to post-doctoral Adolescent Medicine physicians, nursing, social work, psychology, and nutrition fellows.
Grant #: 6631-257300
PI: Jack Rusley
Primary Mentors: Patrice Thibodeau, MD; Jonathan Fanburg, MD, MPH
Role: PI
Period: 1/9/13 to 8/4/14
Title: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) program
Description: This was a resident grant used to plan and implement a leadership/resilience training program for youth living with chronic illness called the Maine Adolescent Leadership Council (ACT Maine)
Grant #: T32HD052459-07
PI: Maria Trent
Role: Fellow/Trainee
Period: 5/1/13 to 4/30/16
Title: Adolescent Health Promotion Research Training Program
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health, Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Description: The goal of the program is to provide training in reproductive health research to post-doctoral Adolescent Medicine physicians.
Grant #: 120582
PI: Renata Arrington-Sanders
Role: Project manager
Period: 7/1/15 to 8/30/16
Title: Transitioning Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Sponsor: Maryland Consortium for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Community of Care (COC)/Parents Place of Maryland
Total direct cost: $10,000
Description: Funding to support quality improvement project in adolescent clinic with goal to improve process of transition to adult care using electronic health record (EHR)-integrated tools.
Grant #: L60 MD010022-01
Primary mentor: Renata Arrington-Sanders
Role: Fellow/Trainee
Period: 7/1/15 to 6/30/17
Title: Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (LRP)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Description: Conceptualized, planned mixed-methods study of youth living with HIV and transition using an interdisciplinary, interdepartmental study team. LRP award accepted for 2 years for $70,000.
Grant #: 1K23MH123335
Principal Investigator (PI): Jack Rusley
Role: PI
Period: 5/1/20 to 4/30/25
Title: A family-based intervention to improve HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake for adolescent sexual minority males (Prepping for The Talk/TheTalkStudy).
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Description: Career development award to provide training to become an independent researcher in HIV prevention science. Goal is to test a motivational interviewing intervention for youth and video-based education for parents to increase PrEP uptake among adolescent sexual minority and gender diverse males.
Role: PI
Grant #: none
Principal Investigator: Ezra Gashi
Role: Mentor
Period: 4/11/22-4/11/23
Title: Adapting an Intervention to Help Parents and Youth Talk About Sexual Health and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP): Youth Stakeholder Engagement Through Focus Groups and Theater Testing
Sponsor: Brown University School of Public Health, Nora Kahn Piore Award
Description: This award will support the pilot testing of the youth component of The Talk Study intervention, including focus groups and theater testing.
Grant #: 713933
Co-PIs: Jack Rusley, Nicholas Tarantino
Collaborators: Jennifer Salerno
Period: 7/1/2022-6/30/2023
Title: Creating a Digital Parenting Intervention to Improve Inclusive Sexual Health Communication and HIV Prevention Knowledge in Families with Sexual Minority and Gender Diverse Adolescents
Sponsor: Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Hasbro Children’s Hospital and Bradley Hospital
Description: This Hasbro Bradley Award will support the development and pilot testing of a prototype self-paced, interactive, MI-based, digital module for parents of ASM/GDM about sexual health and HIV prevention including PrEP to determine its feasibility and
Grant #: 1L40MH131162-01
PI: Jack Rusley
Mentors: Philip Chan, Renata Sanders, Kate Guthrie
Period: 7/1/22-6/30/2024
Title: Prepping for The Talk: Helping Parents and Youth Talk about Sexuality
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health, Loan Repayment Program (LRP), Extramural, Pediatric Section
Description: This LRP provides loan repayment, and supports the work of The Talk Study (1K23MH123335, described above)
Grant#: Pending
PI: Jack Rusley
Role: PI
Period: 8/1/23 – 7/31/2024
Title: Development of a primary care provider toolkit to improve HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) access for adolescents and young adults
Sponsor: Advance RI-CTR, Brown University (Pilot Program)
Total direct costs: $65,000
Description: Design and implement an “PrEP toolkit” for youth-serving PCPs to be implemented in health care settings throughout the U.S. to better address the current gap in PrEP care for this population.
