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Two trailblazing Florida State University researchers have been selected for membership in the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida.  

Sylvie Naar, a distinguished endowed professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, and Thomas Joiner, the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, will be formally inducted into the academy in November.  

We would like to extend a huge congratulations to Dr. Naar for being recently awarded NIH funding to further research in early-stage behavioral interventions to prevent premature deaths. Dr. Naar, as the Principal Investigator, will be leading the project titled, "Methods for Early Phase Translation of Basic Science into Behavioral Treatments to Improve Health" and will be working alongside Tamera Bertrand-Jones, PhD as the Program Evaluator and Sara Green, MSW as the Project Director to ensure the success of this study. 

Through a grant from the National Science Foundation, a multidisciplinary team of Florida State University researchers will collaborate with public librarians and community members in Calhoun County, Florida, to establish a transferable design and assessment process that will enable rural public libraries to be Resiliency Hubs. Read more

Though new HIV cases increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, the overall  number has been slashed by half over the past 20 years with the exception of one age group — young adults ages 24-29. That group has not seen a decrease in cases in a decade. 

Led by FSU Endowed Distinguished Professor of Behavioral Sciences Sylvie Naar, researchers will examine a broader age group of “emerging adults” ages 18-29 to see whether effective intervention can change the numbers. Members of this demographic experience significant changes in social roles, expectations and responsibilities that can leave them vulnerable to increased alcohol use and poor self-management of HIV infections. 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A team of Florida State University researchers has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Award worth $3.1 million to investigate racial inequities in the nation’s health-care system.

The award is the first of its kind to be administered by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the NIH.

CTBScience would like to extend our congratulations to one of our affiliated faculty members, Dr. Laura Reid-Marks, on being one of six Florida State University faculty members to be awarded the prestigious McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship! 

Dr. Sheffler has been awarded a mentored career award through the University of Florida - Florida State University Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) for her research project titled "Pragmatic trial of an MI-CBT Adherence Program for Lifestyle Interventions in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)".

The Florida HIV Community, Providers, and Researchers (CPR) Conference focuses on bridging the gap between HIV research and practice. The Scale It Up Florida team's program description abstract titled, "Ending the Youth HIV Epidemic in Florida through Community – Academic Partnerships and Data Driven Implementation Science - Introducing Scale It Up Florida: A Youth Learning Health Community" was accepted for the conference and will introduce the Scale It Up Florida team and the program's youth focused goals & initiatives to a statewide consortium of HIV care providers, researchers, and community members.

We would like to spotlight CTBScience Research Faculty member and Scale It Up Florida program co-director Dr. Meardith Pooler-Burgess for her research talk on HPV and cervical cancer prevention among minorities presented at the 2021 Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual meeting.