Shine Research Program

Just got back from one of our Five Point Initiative events and I couldn’t be more thankful and proud of everyone involved @researchshine. The humility, energy, and wholesome community engagement strategies on display was beautiful 😍

Join me in congratulating my mentee Naysha Shahid in matching at her #1 pick ( UPenn Psychiatry) for psychology internship. Way to slay Naysha and do it a whole year in advance of schedule ❤️😀🎉 We’re Shining 👏🏾 #SHINE @researchshine

Join me in celebrating my mentee Rachelle Reid who matched to her #1 pick (Yale Psychiatry) for psychology internship ❤️🎉😀 This comes 1 day after being selected for induction into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society for 2024 🎉❤️ We are Shining 👏🏾 #SHINE @researchshine

That was a blast 😀 I told so many stories throughout that I showed 2/3 of my slides 😂 Folks were so engaged during the Q&A portion that we ran out of time 😀 @researchshine

Highlight of my week was a surprise visit from a forever mentee (she’s doing her thing in a PhD program in another state)♥️☺️ I asked why so many flowers and she said it’s Happy Belated Birthday, New Year, and I miss you wrapped in one. Colors were chosen to match @researchshine

SHINE is made up of awesome human beings and I am thankful for all they do ♥️ @researchshine

Exciting new opportunity to join our SHINE team!

It was awesome and humbling to highlight our Five Point Initiative EHE today as one of 3 selected EHE projects to present at the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. - Collaborative Team Meeting (across U.S. gov and institutional leaders). @researchshine

Congratulations to Naysha Shahid who successfully defended her dissertation proposal today on “Examining the Impact of Adverse Life Events and Mental Health on Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Black Woman Living with HIV” that will leverage data from MMAGIC R01. @researchshine

Exciting new opportunities to join our team!

My cup runneth over for Dr. Chika Chuku who successfully defended an outstanding dissertation today ♥️👏🏾🎉 that leveraged data across STEP-AD (from SHINE), PULSE (UCLA), and MWCCS. @researchshine #mentorship #payingforward

My heart is full with joy for Dr. Devina Jyotiprakash Boga who defended an impressive and thoughtful dissertation today on data from SHINE’s STEP-AD, FPI, and MMAGIC studies 👏🏾♥️😀 @researchshine

Dr. Boga’s dissertation was titled “Using Latent Class and Network Analysis to Examine Facilitators and Barriers to HIV Prevention and Treatment and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Black Individuals Living with and Placed at Risk for HIV” ♥️🎉👏🏾 @researchshine

Rain or Shine! Amazing outreach event this weekend with community partners👏🏽👏🏽 instagram.com/p/CtJ-hMcu0sT/…

Just Wow, couldn’t be more ecstatic for my mentees!!! Congratulations to Devina Boga and Chika Chuku ♥️👏🏾🎉 Looking forward to the beautiful impact they will have throughout their careers with their PhDs in Public Health👏🏾@researchshine

Giving this invited keynote and meeting new colleagues at UT Health San Antonio School of Medicine has been wonderful ♥️ This is one of the best experiences (from the first email to the end) I’ve had surrounding a talk. @researchshine

Congratulations to Peyton Willie who graduates with her Masters in Community Psychology from @FAMU_1887 🎉♥️👏🏾 It’s been a joy mentoring her and I look forward to continuing to be a part of her journey @researchshine

Addressing HIV health inequities in minority communities. - Check out this article featuring our awesome CHANGE T32 Scholars 👏🏾♥️⁦@charmcentermia⁩ ⁦@researchshine⁩ ⁦@univmiami⁩ news.miami.edu/as/stories/202…

The end of a two day meeting @charmcentermia and my belief that every research conversation and initiative that intentionally centers the voices of communities with lived expertise is substantially better is once again affirmed ♥️

Dr. Gina Wingood is a foremother & inspiration to many Black women centering Black women’s health & empowerment❤️ Prior phone convos & emails did not lessen the joy I felt meeting her. I proceeded to point her out to every Black woman here & even called one on the phone.