Jasmine Manalel, PhD, senior research associate at Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, has been awarded a prestigious career development award from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, to study caregiving among older women with HIV. The grant is valued at more than $662,000 and will be distributed over five years to support Dr. Manalel’s research and training in the field of HIV and aging.
This highly competitive career development award, known as a K01, is designed to provide resources, protected time, and training experiences to help early career researchers build an independent research program. Dr. Manalel will work with a team of mentors, including Mark Brennan-Ing, director of research and evaluation at Brookdale; Tracey Wilson, Distinguished Service Professor of the Department of Community Health Sciences at SUNY Downstate; and Sabina Haberlen, associate scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to receive training and conduct research on the informal caregiving networks of older women with HIV.
Prior to joining Brookdale, Dr. Manalel’s research focused on close relationships and health across the lifespan and rare disease caregiving. Through this K01 award, Dr. Manalel intends to establish herself as an expert in HIV caregiving. The broader goal of her research program is to promote healthy aging among people with HIV and their families.
Read more about her project here.
