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PARTNRS Receives NIH grant to Help Understand Men's Health Care Behaviors

We are pleased to announce that the PARTNRS project has been awarded a NIH Research Supplement Grant to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, increasing Dr. Derrick Gordon's role on our project. Dr. Gordon currently directs the Research, Policy & Program on Male Development area at The Consultation Center, Division of Prevention and Community Research, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Gordon's work will complement the main project by helping to answer crucial questions about how men access health care and health promotion programs, the barriers to accessing care, and the possible role racial and masculine socialization may play in health care and promotion utilization. This information will be vital to developing effective behavioral interventions that include men.

 

PARTNRS Presenting at XVII International AIDS Conference in August 2008

The PARTNRS team will be presenting a poster titled, "Presence and Perception of HIV Risk Factors Among Young Expectant Couples" at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Mexico in August, 2008. The aim of this preliminary analysis was to compare young expectant couples' self-reported HIV risk and perception of their partner's risks, with the hypothesis that inaccurate risk perceptions may reduce safe sex practice among couples. Trace Kershaw, Ph.D. and Anna Arnold, M.P.H. will present this poster in Mexico City in August.

 

Ayebi-Awuah Receives Peer Mentor of the Year Award

Storrs, Conn. - Kwaku Ayebi-Awuah, a recent graduate of University of Connecticut and current Research Assistant with PARTNRS, received the Student Support Services (SSS) Peer Mentor of the Year Award from his alma mater. This award recognizes the peer advisor who has excelled in his/her role in assisting high-potential freshmen who come from underrepresented ethnic or economic backgrounds and/or are first-generation college students in their transition to university life.

Read more, September 10, 2007

 

Kershaw Published in September Issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

New Haven, Conn. - The September issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health will include an article published by Trace Kershaw, PARTNRS Principle Investigator, titled "Using Clinical Classification Trees to Identify Individuals at Risk of STDs During Pregnancy." The research team used a classification tree analysis to produce empirically driven decision tools that identify risk factors for STDs during pregnancy that are not captured by traditional risk screenings.

Read more, September, 2007

 

HIV/STI Risk Among Young Expectant Fathers Focus of $2.5 Million NIH Grant

New Haven, Conn. - A $2.5 million five-year National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant to Yale School of Medicine researchers will be used to study the role male partners play in the health and sexual decisions of young couples.

"HIV/STI Risk Among Young Expectant Fathers: Relationship Attachment & Transition," will examine the HIV/sexually transmitted infection risk behavior, relationship quality and parenting functioning for expectant fathers and their pregnant adolescent partners from pregnancy to parenthood. The research team will be led by Principal Investigator Trace Kershaw, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at the Yale School of Medicine.

Read more from Yale University's Office of Public Affairs, October 24, 2006