ONGOING PROJECTS
Microenterprise and behavioral economics for sexual and biomedical HIV prevention in vulnerable U.S. young adults (EMERGE)
Sponsor: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Grant: R01MD016815 (PI: Jennings Mayo-Wilson, UNC)
Role: Principal Investigator
Aim: To examine efficacy and mechanisms of change of an enhanced microenterprise intervention with behavioral economic text messages in reducing sexual risk behaviors and improving employment and HIV preventive practices (including uptake of PrEP) among young adults at-risk for HIV who have recently experienced homelessness and unemployment in Baltimore, MD.
Strengthening community responses to economic vulnerability and HIV inequities (SCORE)
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Grant: R34MH130207 (MPIs: Gamarel, University of Michigan & Jennings Mayo-Wilson, UNC)
Role: Multiple Principal Investigator
Aim: To adapt an existing microeconomic intervention that offers emergency assistance and support to obtain legal gender affirmation to Black, indigenous and other transgender women of color to increase employment acquisition and reduce economic determinants of HIV risk.
Creating access to resources and economic support (CARES)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant: R01MD016755 (PI: Poteat, UNC)
Role: Co-Investigator
Aim: To assess the efficacy of feasible, acceptable, community-derived interventions to reduce economic and psychological harms experienced by transgender people in the wake of COVID-19 using a three-arm randomized clinical trial design.
Kyaterekera Project: A combination intervention addressing sexual risk-taking behaviors among vulnerable women in Uganda
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Grant: R01MH116768 (PIs: Ssewamala & Witte, Washington University St. Louis)
Role: Co-Investigator
Aim: To examine the impact of a financial savings-led microfinance intervention using HIV risk reduction education with matched savings accounts and financial literacy education on HIV biological and behavioral outcomes in female sex workers in Uganda using an RCT design.
Microeconomic intervention to reduce HIV transmission in economically disadvantaged transgender women
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Grant: R34MH115775 (PIs: Benotsch & Zimmerman, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Role: Co-Investigator
Aim: To develop and test a set of microeconomic interventions to reduce the risk of HIV transmission among economically-disadvantaged male-to-female transgender women in Richmond, VA and St. Louis, MO using an RCT design.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Behavioral economics incentives to support HIV antiretroviral treatment adherence in Sub-Saharan Africa (BEST)
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Grant: R01MH110350 (PI: Linnemayr S, RAND)
Role: Co-Investigator
Aim: To investigate the role of small incentives based on principles from behavioral economics in improving HIV-related behaviors and biological outcomes in adult patients in an HIV clinic in Kampala, Uganda, using an RCT design.
Integrating microenterprise and behavioral economics for HIV prevention in African-American young adults
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Grant: K01MH107310 (PI: Jennings Mayo-Wilson, JHU)
Role: Principal Investigator
Aim: To test the feasibility of an enhanced microenterprise intervention with behavioral economic text messages in reducing risky sexual behaviors and improving employment and HIV preventive practices among homeless, out-of-school, and unemployed young adults in Baltimore, MD, using a randomized clinical trial (RCT) design.
Economic context and HIV vulnerability in adolescents and young adults living in urban slums in Kenya
Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (CFAR); Indiana University School of Public Health
Grant: P30AI094189 - 01A1 (PI: Chaisson), CFAR Scholar Grant for Faculty Development, IU Faculty Discretionary Funds
Role: Grantee, Principal Investigator
Aim: To examine efficacy of using peer-driven sampling methodologies to estimate prevalence and association of economic scarcity and sexual risk behaviors.
Evaluation of an entrepreneurship program among American-Indian youth
Sponsor: Native American Research Centers for Health
Grant: US261IHS0080A (PI: Barlow, JHU)
Role: Co-Investigator
Aim: To examine the effect of a business and social entrepreneurship model for reservation-based White Mountain Apache adolescents on psychosocial, drug abuse, mental health, and related economic outcomes using an RCT design.
Youth and adult microfinance to improve resilience outcomes in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Grant: R01HD071958 (PI: Glass, JHU)
Role: Ancillary Investigator
Aim: To examine the comparative effect of combined versus youth-led animal husbandry microfinance on adolescent, family, and community resilience using an RCT design.
Influence of household savings and expected future means on delivery with a skilled birth attendant: A longitudinal cohort analysis in Nigeria and Ghana (Family Health & Wealth Study)
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (JHU)
Grant: Faculty Development Award
Role: Grantee, Principal Investigator
Aim: To examine if women in households with greater savings and expectations of being financially better-off in the coming year are more likely to deliver with a skilled birth attendant as compared to women in families with fewer liquid assets or negative expected future means.
African-American homeless youth's perspectives on a mobile-based intervention for economic empowerment and HIV prevention
Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Grant: Faculty Discretionary Funds (Non-Competitive)
Role: Principal Investigator
Aim: To conduct formative research for the design of a mobile-based health and financial education intervention for homeless youth living in Baltimore, MD and Washington D.C.
HPTN 068: Effects of cash transfer and community mobilization in young South African women
Sponsor: NIH HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN)
Grant: UM1AI068619 (PI: El-Sadr, FHI360), R01MH087118 (PI: Pettifor, UNC)
Role: Scholar, Ancillary Study Principal Investigator
Aim: To examine the association of economic assets and control on young South African women’s HIV sexual risk, power, and intimate partner communication.
Suubi-Maki Project: A family-based economic empowerment model for orphaned children in Uganda
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Grant: R34MH081763 (PI: Ssewamala, Columbia University)
Role: Mentee, Supporting Investigator
Aim: To test use of family-level income-generating projects (microenterprises), matched savings, and mentorship on adolescent’s sexual risk taking, mental health, psychosocial development, family and care-giving relationships.
Mobile phone technology for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
Sponsor: World Health Organization (WHO) Grants Programme for Implementation Research Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
Grant: C6-TSA-024 HQHSR1003602 (PIs: Ong’ech & Jennings, EGPAF
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Aim: To examine the acceptability and effectiveness of SMS text communication on PMTCT completion up to six weeks postpartum among HIV-infected women in rural Kenya.
Evaluation of the role of job aids and task-shifting on quality of maternal and newborn care and counseling in Zou/Collines, Benin
Sponsor: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - Health Care Improvement (HCI) Project at University Research Council (URC)
Grant: Pre-Doctoral Research Grant (PI: Jennings, URC/PISAF)
Role: Principal Investigator
Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of a clinic-based quality improvement approach on perinatal counseling and behavioral outcomes in rural Benin using a group randomized clinical trial.
