The University of Washington/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is pleased to announce the 2020 New Investigator Award recipients.  The purpose of this award program is to encourage junior investigators (at a senior stage of training or recently independent) to conduct independent research, acquire preliminary data to use for exogenous grant submissions, publish, receive mentorship, and write one or more grants to obtain funding to continue their HIV/AIDS research careers. Recipients are awarded $45,000/year (direct costs) for non-interdisciplinary projects or up to $55,000/year (direct costs) for interdisciplinary projects. 

The following people are DGH-affiliated recipients of the 2020 New Investigator Awards.

Kelli O’Laughlin, MD, MPH, FACEP

Assistant Professor, Global Health and Emergency Medicine

University of Washington

Assisted partner notification for HIV in refugee settlements in West Nile Uganda: assessing the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance using the RE-AIM framework

Mentors: Connie Celum, University of Washington; Andrew Kambugu, Infectious Diseases Institute/Makerere University; Bryan Weiner, University of Washington

Jennifer Ross, MD, MPH

Acting Assistant Professor, Global Health and Medicine

University of Washington

Advancing joint HIV-TB prevention in households in high-burden countries

Mentor: Ruanne Barnabas, University of Washington

Monisha Sharma, PhD, ScM

Acting Assistant Professor, Global Health

University of Washington

Designing a combination intervention strategy to improve pediatric viral suppression in Kenya

Mentors: Grace John-Stewart, University of Washington

Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH

Senior Fellow, Global Health

University of Washington

Developing a novel tablet PrEP adherence intervention for young women in South Africa

Mentors: Connie Celum, University of Washington; Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Witswatersrand Reproductive Health & HIV Institute