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2024 Publication Award to Dr. Emily Paine

On June 6th, the HIV Center proudly announced the recipient of the 2024 Publication Award to Dr. Emily Paine for the manuscript “Latent Constructs of Economic Marginality Associated with Sexual Behavior, Healthcare Access and HIV Outcomes Among Transgender and Nonbinary People in Three U.S. Cities” published in AIDS & Behavior.

The HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies (P30-MH43520) at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, directed by Robert H. Remien, PhD, along with Co-Directors Claude Ann Mellins, PhD and Gina Wingood, ScD, MPH,  is one of the oldest and most productive continuously funded AIDS research centers in the United States, coordinating U.S.-based research and continuing to have an international footprint with research projects in many countries.

With its renewal in 2023, the HIV Center is guided by the theme, Reducing HIV and Mental Health Disparities to End the HIV Epidemic, and is guided by the following aims:

• Advancing our understanding of individual, social, and systemic drivers of the HIV epidemic including mental health and social determinants of health and the development of intervention and implementation science research to achieve local and global EHE goals.

• Promoting translation of clinical and research findings to prevention and care settings for maximum equitable public health impact.

• Expanding the cadre of HIV researchers by engaging an inclusive pipeline of emerging investigators – particularly those from groups underrepresented in research – through leadership, content, design, and methodological capacity-building.

The HIV Center is a global leader in HIV prevention and the fight to reduce HIV-related health and social disparities that burden the most vulnerable – e.g., women, youth, racial/ethnic and sexual minority populations, those living with mental illness and substance misuse. We work to meet EHE goals by synergizing institutional and intellectual resources; invigorating our multidisciplinary community of scientists, clinicians, and policy-makers; rigorously training a new generation of scientists; supporting research partnerships with public health policy and practice sectors and translating transformative NIH-supported HIV/AIDS research into real-world practice and policy.