Description
The two-day workshop is an intensive and interactive meeting designed to provide faculty in HIV research with the tools for more effective mentoring, especially of mentees of diversity (defined mainly as those from underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities). The workshops discusses barriers related to being an early career investigator of diversity (e.g. microaggressions, unconscious bias), and features didactic and interactive sessions on practical tips for mentoring, including sessions on intersectionality in mentoring, funding sources for mentoring efforts, time management, leadership styles, manuscript writing, grant writing, individual development plans, teaching work-life balance to mentees, alternative funding strategies, forming teams, etc. Descriptions and findings from the 1st workshop, the 2nd workshop and the 3rd workshop are found here.
Registration deadline: August 30, 2024.
Scholarships
We anticipate that we will award a number of travel and lodging scholarships to support airfare/hotel for selected applicants. Potential participants interested in applying for the travel scholarship must have involvement in HIV research. Scholarship priority will be given to the following groups:
- Mentors, particularly ESIs, from backgrounds underrepresented in the U.S. Biomedical, Clinical, Behavioral, and Social Sciences Research Enterprise as defined by NIH NOT-OD-20-031, especially members of the Inter-CFAR URM Working Group attending the 10/24-25 meeting
- Current CDEIPI or other HIV research pipeline program mentors
- Mentors who have no other ways of funding their attendanc
Please register for the scholarship by submitting a recent CV and a cover letter describing your interest in the workshop, your involvement in mentoring, and (if applicable), a statement of your need for the scholarship in light of other resources available to you (e.g., CFAR support, department/divisional funds, currently existing grant/discretionary/CE funding) with your Registration Form by August 21, 2024.
Inter-CFAR URM in HIV Research Meeting
We are also hosting the 3rd annual Inter-CFAR Meeting for CFAR-affiliated Underrepresented Minorities in HIV Research on the Thursday and Friday of that week (October 24th and 25th). This facilitated strategy meeting will work to build off findings from the first and second Inter-CFAR URM meetings held in 2022 and 2023 and help build new research collaborations in line with key HIV research needs and gaps. If you are in an URM group and working in HIV research either at a CFAR or close to a CFAR, please do consider joining our group. Prior attendees are encouraged to come as we the work will be iterative from prior workshops.
