New R21 Awarded to DC CFAR Social and Behavioral Sciences Core Director, Lisa Bowleg, PhD


August 1, 2019

Dr. Lisa Bowleg Photo IP
We are pleased to announce that DC CFAR investigator,  Lisa Bowleg, PhD, along with DC CFAR co-investigators Shawnika Hull, PhDTamara Taggart, PhD, MPH, and Ana Maria del Rio Gonzalez, PhD, MA, DC CFAR CAB member Ron Simmons, PhD as a consultant and collaborators from the University of Mississippi have recently been awarded an R21 from the National Institute Of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) entitled, "Developing and Validating New Measures of Multilevel Intersectional Stigma to Improve the HIV Prevention Continuum for Young Black Gay Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men (GBMSM) in the South".
 
This project seeks to examine critical empirical gaps on how multilevel intersectional stigma interconnect to hinder HIV testing and PrEP use for young Black GBMSM in the South,  with a particular focus on the lack of validated measures of this stigma available for HIV prevention research. The study aims to develop new self-report and non-self-report measures of multilevel intersectional stigma to guide future research on Black GBMSM engagement in the HIV prevention continuum in the South. The researchers hope to develop new measures that reflect the "specific and particular" multilevel intersectional stigma experienced by young Black GBMSM in order to inform future HIV prevention research and interventions.