ONGOING PROJECTS

Expanding PrEP services with tele-counseling, HIV self-testing, and home delivery

The general objective of the proposed research project is to evaluate the potential of remote PrEP services to optimize PrEP implementation among MSM and TW in Mexico.

Funding Agency:
CFAR


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Pilot study to conduct chemical home assessments in the PROGRESS cohort

In this pilot study, it propose a new methodology called chemical home assessments to know the individual profile of exposure to toxic chemicals in a way that does not come from a default set of toxins.

Agencia financiadora:
ISMMS


SUMMARY

Developing a culturally appropriate social media outreach campaign to improve awareness and engagement in comprehensive HIV prevention services among Mexican adolescents and young men who have sex with men.

To design and implement a tailored outreach campaign for Mexican adolescents and young MSM (AYMSM), to improve awareness, linkage, and enrollment in HIV prevention services, including PrEP.

Funding Agency:
ViivHealthcare


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The health and socioeconomics impacts of lead exposure in Mexico.

In this project we will update estimates with ENSANUT data on the prevalence of lead poisoning in children aged 1-4 years in Mexico, with a focus on differences by region, rural/urban setting, sex, socioeconomic level and vulnerable groups.

Funding Agency:
Pure Earth


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Ensayo en fase II de Regímenes Abreviados de Tratamiento Conteniendo Clofazimina y Rifapentina en Tuberculosis Susceptible a los Medicamentos: El Estudio CLOFAST.

Early bacteriologic efficacy, early relapse, safety, and tolerability of the 3-month experimental arm will be assessed against standard of care. A 65-week composite efficacy outcome, including treatment failure, relapse, and death, will be a key secondary outcome.

Funding Agency:
UCSF/UCLA/NIH


SUMMARY

Consultant for Equitable Financing and Country Impact.

In the LAC region, new infections increased by 21% in Latin America but decreased by 29% in the Caribbean during 2010-2019. Key populations are most affected, while funding for key populations continues to be insufficient and predominantly through international financing.

Funding Agency:
UNAIDS


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Decision Modeling to Inform Cancer Control Policies.

Quantitative methods application services to Stanford University, for which he will lead a team that will calibrate and validate a recently developed bladder cancer model, run simulations, and perform comparative probabilistic models to assess the cost-effectiveness of detection strategies. colorectal cancer (CRC) currently recommended from the CISNET CRC models.

Funding Agency:
Stanford University


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Resistencia a fármacos específica del subtipo VIH-1 en pacientes con falla en regímenes de primera, segunda o tercera línea basados en dolutegravir: estudio multiregional.

Cross-sectional, observational, multicenter study to assess resistance to dolutegravir in patients with HIV.

Funding Agency:
Universidad de Bern


SUMMARY

Organic-metal mixtures and neurodevelopment (Mezclas de metales orgánicos y neurodesarrollo).

This proposal is the continuation of a previous project, in which we developed a new dental biomarker to study the neurocognitive impacts of time-varying perinatal exposures to a mixture of five metals.

Funding Agency:
Y Labs/USAID


SUMMARY

Efecto de la exposición perinatal a metales sobre las trayectorias de la función pulmonar y la heteroplasmia del ADN Mitocondrial desde la niñez hasta la adolescencia.

This is a study of risk factors that predict lung development.

Funding Agency:
ISMMS


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Engaging doctors as agents of change to improve access tosafe abortion in Mexico: an innovative network linkingsupportive physicians with acompañantes.

The project aims to have the active participation of 40-60 physicians over the project period (ideally 1-2 physicians per state), including physicians who are not yet engaged in abortion-related activities but are interested in doing so.

Funding Agency:
Grand Challenges Canada


SUMMARY

Estudio diagnóstico regional sobre las condiciones de salud en migrantes en siete países de América Latina.

This proposal describes the design of a study whose objective is to deepen the evidence on the health conditions of migrants in the different stages of the route or path to the destination country, the knowledge and level of access to services, their needs, and how these are related to possible risks and vulnerabilities, mainly those related to sexual and reproductive health and other infections, with an emphasis on HIV/STIs and COVID-19. Additionally, this study will seek to document the factors associated with migrants’ access to health services.

Funding Agency:
PASMO


SUMMARY

Cost-Effectiveness analysis of the Cyber Rwanda Program

CyberRwanda is a digital platform that aims to improve the health and livelihoods of urban and peri-urban adolescents (12-19 years) in Rwanda.

Funding Agency:
Y Labs/USAID


SUMMARY

Comparative Modeling of Effective Policies for Colorectal Control

The objective is to run simulations with the SimCRC model, perform a probabilistic comparative model with the other CISNET CRC models, and evaluate the cost effectiveness of the currently recommended CCR detection strategies.

Funding Agency:
University of Minnesota/NIH


SUMMARY

Dos décadas de expansión de la atención primaria de salud en América Latina: un estudio de evaluación y pronóstico multipaís para los ODS relacionados con la salud.

The objective of this project is to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of Primary Health Care (PHC) in the widest possible range of morbidity and mortality outcomes in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.

Funding agency:
MRC/CEPSC BRASIL


SUMMARY

Formar parte de un sitio CRS como uno de los AIDS Clinical Trial (ACTG) a través del CTU Emoy-CDC

The Emory-CDC CTU is comprised of priority areas with well-established programs and histories of conducting NIH-funded clinical research.

Funding agency:
EMORY/NIH


SUMMARY

¡SALE!: Social determinants of health and Adolescent pregnancy in Latinas

We propose an evaluation of adolescent girls’ sexual behaviors and their results that compares Mexican immigrants to their Mexican-American counterparts.

Funding Agency:
OHSU


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Estudio de eficacia, multicéntrico, aleatorizado, doble ciego de un régimen heterólogo de para prevenir la infección por VIH-1 entre hombres cis e individuos trans que tienen sexo con hombres cis y/o individuos trans

The objective of this study is to demonstrate the efficacy of a primary and booster vaccination regimen for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection.

Funding agency:
HVTN NIH


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Module of physical activity and sleep in adult women in the E3Gen study

This project is a module of the E3Gen study (Multigenerational effects of toxic exposures on life-cycle health and neurocognitive outcomes in ELEMENT birth cohorts).

Funding Agency:
University of Michigan


SUMMARY

Early Detection of Cervical Cancer in hard-to-reach populations of women through portable and point-of-care HPV testing – ELEVATE

Identify women who do not attend cervical cancer screening services (hard to access population) in Belgium, Brazil, Ecuador and Portugal and define a strategy to increase their participation.

Funding Agency:
CONACyT


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