On Saturday, February 29th, 2020, the San Diego Center for AIDS Research (SDCFAR) held the Ending the HIV Epidemic Community Summit. Community engagement has been fundamental in the fight against HIV, and it is now more important than ever as we look towards ending the HIV epidemic. The San Diego Ending the HIV Epidemic Community Summit was designed to provide an overview of this initiative as well as serve as a listening session forum to ensure that the communities most affected by our HIV epidemic have a voice in the planning of and implementation of our local response. This summit was the first of several community events and strategies that we hope will help frame San Diego’s collective response rooted in the meaningful engagement of affected community members. Community members from across San Diego were able to join for presentations by Dr. Jamila K. Stockman of the iStrive Research Lab and SDCFAR, Dr. Susan Little of the SDCAR, San Diego HIV Planning Group Chair Joe Burke, and others, as well as conversations on advancing HIV care and research in the San Diego community. Learn more about Ending the HIV Epidemic!
The San Diego Center for AIDS Research (SDCFAR) has been awarded $1.2 million in planning grants from the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative (EtHE). The EtHE initiative directs new funding to communities significantly impacted by HIV in a series of phases with the goal of reducing new HIV infections in the United States by 90 percent by 2030. CFAR will support the implementation of research addressing the initiative’s four pillars: diagnose, treat, prevent and respond. On September 5, 2019, UC San Diego Health announced the awards, which are one-year awards to support pilot and formative studies to prepare for more extensive implementation science research projects in 2020. “As a world leader in HIV research, the San Diego CFAR is ready to support innovative science to eradicate this disease in collaboration with our community partners,” said Davey Smith, MD, Co-Director of San Diego CFAR and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Dr. Jamila K. Stockman was featured in the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education in the article entitled, “Diversity Is Central to This Research Program. How Does Yours Compare?” as a former scholar in the NIH-funded program HIV Intervention Science Training Program for Underrepresented New Investigators (HISTP) at Columbia University.
Dr. Kiyomi Tsuyuki was selected as junior faculty for the 2019-2020 National Center for Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM), UC San Diego Health Sciences.
Dr. Kiyomi Tsuyuki was selected as a faculty scholar for the Hispanic Center of Excellence (HCOE) Faculty Scholars Program, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Dr. Kiyomi Tsuyuki was selected as Co-Chair, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (CSW), UC San Diego for 2018-2020.
Drs. Jamila K. Stockman and Kiyomi Tsuyuki’s research is featured in “Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s 16 Days of Activism (2018).”
Dr. Jamila K. Stockman named Vice Chief of Global Public Health in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Drs. Jamila K. Stockman and Kiyomi Tsuyuki’s research is highlighted by the World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative in the “Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (2017).”
Drs. Jamila K. Stockman and Kiyomi Tsuyuki received an award from the World Bank and Sexual Violence Research Initiative for Innovations to Prevent Gender-based Violence.
Dr. Kiyomi Tsuyuki was selected for the 2016-2017 HPTN Scholars Program, a prestigious and competitive early-career investigator scholarship from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).
“The Underreported Epidemic of HIV Among U.S. Women,” Healthline News, features Jamila Stockman, PhD, MPH
Dr. Jamila K. Stockman participated as one of the panelists in a discussion about how intimate partner violence and HIV research neglect women who use drugs, sex workers, transgender women, and girls. Click on the following video link to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPc1xuT1iA
iSTRIVE team members Danielle Campbell and Wanda London conduct recruitment and outreach for the LinkPositively Study at the Community Health & Resource Fair at the Jackie Robinson YMCA in San Diego.
The San Diego Center for AIDS Research is honored to host the 24th Annual National CFAR and National CFAR CAB Coalition Meetings virtually from November 2-6, 2020.
The AIDS 2020 Virtual Conference was held on July 6-10, 2o2o, showcasing the latest developments in HIV research as well as present brand-new data on the COVID-19 pandemic and HIV. Dr. Jamila K. Stockman presented in the Hands Across the Bay: Collaborations in HIV Science session, in which she discussed community as the foundation for collaborations and ways in which to strengthen academic community partnerships.
The San Diego Center for AIDS Research (SDCFAR) is holding the Ending the HIV Epidemic Community Summit on February 29, 2020 Community engagement has been fundamental in the fight against HIV. It is now more important than ever as we look towards ending the HIV epidemic. The San Diego Ending the HIV Epidemic Community Summit is designed to provide an overview of this initiative as well as serve as a listening session forum to ensure that the communities most effected by our HIV epidemic have a voice in the planning of and implementation of our local response. This will be the first of several community events and strategies that we hope will help frame San Diego’s collective response rooted in the meaningful engagement of affected community members. Dr. Jamila K. Stockman will be presenting.
The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma is hosting their First Binational Multidisciplinary Conference on Migration and Human Trafficking on Friday, March 8, 2019. The conference seeks to focus on research pertaining to traumatic effects on individual mental/physical health and border communities and will be available in both English and Spanish. Students, advocates, and professionals in mental health/ healthcare, social work, or law are welcome to attend, as well as political and community leaders.
Dr. Argentina Servin will be a panelist at the conference and present on the PiMSA project and human trafficking at the US-Mexican border!
The Southeast San Diego Local Faith Community and the UC San Diego Center for AIDS Research Disparities Core cordially invites you to attend San Diego’s first Faith Community HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which is taking place this weekend in conjunction with the National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
While prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS has improved in the United States, there are still many health disparities, particularly affecting our minority communities. The Jacobs Center has been a beacon of hope in Southeast San Diego, where many members of the community are in the highest at-risk group for HIV. The California HIV/AIDS Research program (CHRP), along with the University of California San Diego, and other organizations have been seeking ways to positively impact these at-risk populations. This awareness event will be led by several denominations of our local faith community and we invite the entire community.
The San Diego Faith Community HIV/AIDS Awareness Day will feature local community faith leaders, health organizations, HIV testing conducted by the UC San Diego AVRC Early Test Program, and periodic public service announcements (PSA’s) regarding HIV/AIDS, health statistics, facts, and health tips. Additionally, there will be a DJ, local gospel groups, musical talent, and food vendors!
We look forward to having you and your family join us for this community event.
The 2017 UC San Diego CFAR HIV Research Day was held on December 6 in the spectacular Great Hall of the International House on the UC San Diego campus. More than 100 persons from UC San Diego and local clinical and service organizations heard a dozen presentations on local, national, and international research to combat disparities in HIV prevention, treatment, and care.
Dr. Jamila K. Stockman provided the opening address on the disparities within HIV prevention, treatment, and care.
Our keynote speaker was Dr. Nabila El-Bassel who is the Willma and Albert Musher Professor of Social Work at Columbia University, Director of the Global Health Research Center of Central Asia, and Director of the Social Intervention Group (SIG). Dr. El-Bassel has designed and tested a number of multi-level HIV, intervention, and prevention models for women, men, and couples in different settings such drug treatment and harm reduction programs, primary care, and criminal justice settings.
We are grateful to the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (HD15-SD-059) and the UC San Diego HIV Institute (formerly the AIDS Research Institute) for financial support that allowed us to support our speakers’ travel and hold our symposium.
Congratulations to Danielle Campbell for receiving the Sharon Maxwell Community Impact Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Kiyomi Tsuyuki for receiving the Executive Vice Chancellor and Vice Chancellor Health Sciences Recipient of the Inclusive Excellence Award! The annual Inclusive Excellence Award honors staff, faculty, students, departments, and organizational groups that make outstanding contributions to areas of inclusion, equity, and diversity at UC San Diego.
Dr. Tsuyuki was nominated by Health Sciences for her exemplary work in research on HIV/STI prevention and care, alcohol/substance use, and violence in underrepresented minorities on an international scale, including her work in Brazil, Thailand, and Zambia.
Congratulations to Dr. Tsuyuki for this deserving award!
Congratulations to Argentina E. Servin for receiving the RETI, a competitive training grant /award sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (#1R25DA031608, PI: Fisher). The RETI provides early career investigators in the social, behavioral, medical and public health fields with an opportunity to gain research ethics training. A major function of the RETI is also to conduct institute-funded research on ethical issues in HIV and drug use research. Through their funded Mentored Research Project (MRP), RETI fellows generate empirical data, publish their findings in a variety of high-impact academic journals, and are trained to apply for increasing grant opportunities.
Dr. Servin successfully completed the summer training at Fordham University in New York City and wishes to highlight her co-mentors pictured – Dr. Celia Fisher, Director of the Fordham HIV Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute and Dr. Ruth Macklin, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a notable founder of the field of bioethics.
Congratulations to Jamila K. Stockman, PhD, MPH who was honored at the YWCA of San Diego County’s 20th Annual In the Company of Women benefit luncheon featuring the distinguished Tribute to Women & Industry Awards (TWIN) on Friday, May 4, 2018 in celebration of the strength, courage, and spirit of women and their extraordinary achievements.
Dr. Stockman was nominated and selected as UC San Diego’s 2018 TWIN AWARD Honoree, as the Vice Chief and Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, and the Director of the Disparities Core, San Diego Center for AIDS Research. The TWIN Award Honors Dr. Stockman’s leadership and research career, which is dedicated towards improving the lives of women who have experienced intimate partner and sexual violence. An epidemiologist by training, her research focuses on the intersecting epidemics of intimate partner violence and sexual violence, HIV acquisition and transmission, and substance abuse among marginalized populations. She is working to advance understanding of the underlying immunological and physiological mechanisms linking these epidemics and to develop interventions that provide maximal reductions in HIV, substance abuse, and violence against women. In addition to her research, Dr. Stockman actively collaborates with local public health departments and community-based organizations to ensure ethical and cultural appropriateness of her research among members of the community. She also serves on various domestic-violence prevention steering committees and community-based organizations working to address the deleterious effects of violence and HIV in families and relationships.
Congratulations again to Dr. Stockman on this notable and deserving award!
Congratulations to Jamila K. Stockman, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, for receiving the Linda E. Saltzman New Investigator Award! This national award is presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation and Futures Without Violence, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence to ending violence against women and children.
The Linda E. Saltzman New Investigator Award, the most respected scholarly award in this field of study, recognizes Dr. Stockman’s exceptional leadership as a new investigator working in the field of domestic violence, violence against women, or dating violence. An infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr. Stockman focuses her work on social and environmental factors contributing to intimate partner violence, particularly among low-income ethnic minority and substance abusing women. In addition, she seeks to create new and improved violence intervention methods.
Dr. Stockman received the award during the National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence on March 19-21 in Washington, DC.
