Scholarship Award
Recipients of a Community Scholarship award will receive complementary access to the conference.
Please note, this year only registered attendees will have access to the meeting content during and after the conference. vCROI 2021 will have live interactive and engaging sessions in a variety of formats, networking, rich program of on-demand content that will be released each day, and other conference materials. Additionally, registered attendees will be eligible to claim CME credit, ABIM MOC points, and a Certificate of Participation, and will have enduring access to the on-demand materials after the conference.
Community Scholarship awardees will have exclusive access to live and on-demand sessions and networking opportunities tailored toward Community Scholarship awardees, including the Community Breakfast Program.
Unlike previous years, access to on-demand presentations and materials will not be available to the public until 6 months after the conference. Additional details will be available after the conference ends.
Scholarship Criteria
CROI Community Scholarship awards are limited and highly competitive. Applicants must be actively involved in HIV or COVID-19 in their communities. Only candidates affiliated with organizations that provide communications, advocacy, and/or educational services in support of HIV or COVID-19 prevention, treatment, and/or cure research will be considered (limit of 2 applications per organization).
Applicants will be assessed on motivation, creativity, competency, literacy, and their demonstrable ability to understand and disseminate HIV or COVID-19 research. Scoring will include the overall quality of the application as well as the applicant’s letter of recommendation. The selection committee will consider the following: 1) experience and aptitude in understanding and disseminating conference-acquired information, 2) application quality, 3) work setting, 4) literacy level in science and evidence of strong command of English, and 5) applicant’s degree of financial need.
Preference is given to individuals who:
- Have demonstrated the capacity and commitment to deliver science- and research-based HIV or COVID-19 information directly related to affected communities.
- Engage in community communication and/or education efforts beyond those related to direct-to-client prevention services (including biomedical-focused services) and/or recruiting HIV or COVID-19 clinical trial participants.
Medical professionals, administrators, researchers, and media professionals are not eligible to apply for the CROI Community Scholarship.
All CROI Community Scholarship awardees are required to attend the full conference, including the Program Committee Workshop for New Investigators and Trainees. At the close of the Conference, scholarship awardees must have completed the daily and overall conference evaluations.
Scholarship awardees who cannot attend must decline the award. The awarded scholarship is not transferable.
Please note: Preference may be given to those that have not received the Community Scholarship in the past. Due to the transition of CROI 2020 from an in-person to a virtual conference, scholarships received that year will not be included in the consideration of the number of scholarships the applicant has received.