Expanding Access to Evidence-Based Suicide Risk Assessment and Intervention in a Crisis Stabilization Setting

PI: Rani Elwy, PhD

Sponsor: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Dates: 2025 - 2027

Project REACH (A direct-to-consumer dissemination campaign about exposure to increase treatment access) 

PI: Hannah Frank, PhD

Sponsor: Advance-CTR

Dates: 2025 - 2026

This study aims to improve access to exposure therapy for youth with anxiety by equipping family caregivers with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to seek evidence-based treatment. 

Project FISCAL (Financing Implementation for Sustainable Care, Access, and Localization)

PI: Margaret Crane, PhD

Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health

Dates: 2025 - 2030

Project FISCAL is a K08 career development award. It will create a financial planning tool (the adapted Fiscal Mapping Process) to improve implementation and mental health organizational financial sustainability while promoting access to evidence-based interventions.

Towards a harm reduction approach to perinatal cannabis use

PI: Ariana Albanese, PhD

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Dates: 2024 - 2026

In partnership with key informants, use implementation science methodology to create a toolkit that enables US provider adoption of a harm reduction approach to the discussion of perinatal cannabis use

An Acceptance Based PrEP Intervention to Engage Young Black MSM in the South

PI: Trisha Arnold, PhD

Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health

Dates: 2021 - 2026

The purpose of this K23 career development award study is to develop and evaluate an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based intervention to improve PrEP use among young Black men who have sex with men living in Mississippi.

Developing a Video Health Campaign Utilizing the Community-Based Human-Centered Design to Improve PrEP Use among Black Women Living in Mississippi

PI: Trisha Arnold, PhD

Sponsor: National Institute of Health

Dates: 2024 - 2025

The purpose of this CFAR developmental grant award is to develop a health campaign to increase PrEP use among Black women living in Mississippi.

Providence/Boston CFAR Implementation Science/HIV Scientific Working Group

PI: Trisha Arnold, PhD

Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health

Dates: 2024 - 2027

The purpose of this SWG is to advance the number and quality of implementation science projects undertaken by faculty of the Providence/Boston CFAR for the purpose of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.

Advancing mHealth-supported Adoption and Sustainment of an Evidence-based Mental Health Intervention for Youth in a School-based Delivery Setting in Sierra Leone

PI: Alethea Desrosiers, PhD

Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health

Dates: 2022 - 2027

The major goals of this study are to investigate implementation-effectiveness of an evidence-based mental health intervention delivered in Sierra Leone’s schools by teachers who receive either standard in-person supervision or mobile phone-based supervision.

Harnessing Culturally-Appropriate, Technology-Assisted Methods to Advance Suicide Prevention among youth in Colombian School Settings

PI: Alethea Desrosiers, PhD

Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health

Dates: 2024 - 2027

The major goals of this study are to: (a) explore barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of a digital platform to reduce SIB among youth in Colombian schools; (b) apply user-centered design methods to refine the digital platform and incorporate end-user feedback; and (c) conduct a pilot hybrid type 1 implementation-effectiveness stepped wedge trial to assess the feasibility, acceptability, usability and preliminary effects of the digital platform implemented within 3 schools in reducing SIB and improving mood (e.g., anxiety/depression) among Colombian youth aged 14-19.

A. Rani Elwy, PhD

• A multidisciplinary approach to integrate HIV prevention services into clinical care settings for people with opioid use disorder 
• Learning Health System Rehabilitation Research Network (LeaRRn)
• Addressing Alcohol Misuse in HIV Prevention and Care: The Brown University Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH)
• Puerto Rico Asthma Integrated Response Program
• Effectiveness of a Multi-Component mHealth Intervention to Improve Post-Hospital Transitions of Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness
• Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
• Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows Program
• Skills to Enhance Positivity (STEP) for Adolescents at Risk for Suicide

Hannah Frank, PhD

• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: An Implementation Science-Informed Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• From Court to the Community: Improving Access to Evidence-Based Treatment for Underserved Justice-Involved Youth At-Risk for Suicide
• Assessment of Implementation Methods in Sepsis and Respiratory Failure
• A Sleep Hygiene Intervention to Improve Sleep Health in Urban, Latino Middle School Children
• Testing Delivery Modalities of Team-Based Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) for Pediatric Anxiety in Community Health Settings: Developing Pathways to Health Equity
• Implementing Low-Threshold Hepatitis C Treatment in a Jail Setting
• Randomized Controlled Trial of Lifestyle Interventions for the Prevention of Diabetes in US Home Visiting Programs

Ruben Martinez, PhD

• Using Virtual Reality to Help Develop Discrepancy and Elicit Change Talk in Brief Motivational Interventions for Heavy Drinking Young Adults
• A Multidisciplinary Approach to Integrate HIV Prevention Services into Clinical Care Settings for People with Opioid Use Disorder
• Puerto Rico Asthma Integrated Response Program
• Effectiveness of a Multi-Component mHealth Intervention to Improve Post-Hospital Transitions of Care for Patients with SMI
• Optimizing Evidence-Based Practice Implementation for Clinical Impact – Administrative core
• Advance Clinical and Translational Research
• Addressing Alcohol Misuse in HIV Prevention and Care: The Brown University Alcohol Research Center on HIV
• Providence Boston Center for AIDS Research

Alethea Desrosiers, PhD

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Therapy for SMI Implemented in a Community Mental Health Setting

Ariana Albanese, PhD

• Evidence, Policy, and Implementation Center (EPIC) QUERI
• Rhode Island Hospital Injury Control Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE)
• Community-Partnered Bilingual Doula Support for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Trisha Arnold, PhD

• A Multisite Randomized Trial of Viral Combat: A Mobile Gaming App to Improve Adherence to PrEP. National Institute of Mental Health