A5077253897- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Social Media and Politics
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Social Media in Health Education
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Sex work and related issues
- Enzyme Structure and Function
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Media Studies and Communication
University of Pennsylvania
2017-2025
Research for Action
2022
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2022
George Washington University
2022
Milken Institute
2022
Western University
2022
University of Southern California
2022
Johns Hopkins University
2022
Cornell University
2022
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
2022
Disruptions in sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to impact STI service delivery for adolescents. Within a large pediatric primary care network, we compared encounters between period and an analogous prepandemic period. The test counts decreased positivity increased
Researchers are increasingly recognizing the importance of studying and addressing intersectional stigma within field HIV. Yet, researchers have, arguably, struggled to operationalize stigma. To ensure that future research methodological innovation is guided by frameworks from which this area inquiry has arisen, we propose a series core elements for HIV-related research. These include multidimensional, multilevel, multidirectional, action-oriented methods sharpen focus on, aim transform,...
Web-based surveys increase access to study participation and improve opportunities reach diverse populations. However, web-based are vulnerable data quality threats, including fraudulent entries from automated bots duplicative submissions. Widely used proprietary tools identify fraud offer little transparency about the methods used, effectiveness, or representativeness of resulting sets. Robust, reproducible, context-specific accurately detecting responses needed ensure integrity maximize...
Background Increasing HIV testing among priority populations is a primary strategy of the Ending Epidemic initiative. In October 2019, Philadelphia Department Public Health (PDPH) established program to distribute publicly-funded self-testing (HIVST) kits County residents aged 16 years and older. Methods Through community-academic partnership, we used cross-sectional sequential transformative mixed-methods design examine perceived organizational factors, opportunities, challenges HIVST...
HIV testing is essential to achieving the 95-95-95 targets, yet lifetime rates in United States fall below established guidelines. Building on similar healthcare contexts where stigma hinders access and trust mitigates its negative effect, this exploratory study examined relationship between HIV-related (HRS) behavior, focusing role of providers (HCPs). We used data from 2022 General Social Survey, a nationally representative sample general population. HRS was evaluated across three domains:...
Background: Supplements were awarded under the National Institutes of Health, ending HIV epidemic (EHE) initiative to foster implementation science through community-engaged research. The objective this study was synthesize lessons learned, identify areas research sufficiently studied, and present an agenda for future on health workforce development from a collaboration across 9 EHE projects in 11 jurisdictions United States. Methods: supplement recipients completed semistructured...
Background: Health care providers are critical for successful implementation of HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), but barriers to PrEP provision persist. Researchers must engage with understand how optimize delivery across settings. Yet researcher–provider collaborations can be challenging. To offer guidance on engaging in research, we synthesized the experiences researchers working different types studies related that were funded as part US Ending Epidemic (EHE) initiative. Setting:...
Background: Pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) usage has slowly increased in the United States, but significant disparities persist across race, ethnicity, sex, gender, age, and geography. Determinants of PrEP inequities include stigma medical mistrust, lack patient-centered services, access to clinical care, organizational resistance change—within a health care system that neglects these barriers. Methods: We describe 5 implementation strategies providing nontraditional settings underserved...
People with substance use disorder (SUD) are at increased risk of HIV infection. testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) evidence-based practices to prevent infection, yet these approaches not regularly provided in SUD treatment programs. To address this evidence-to-practice gap, study aimed identify facilitators barriers implementing PrEP services programs from the perspective non-medical staff administrators.
Background Adolescents and young adults in the age range of 13-24 years are at highest risk developing HIV infections. As social media platforms extremely popular among youths, researchers can utilize these to curb epidemic by investigating associations between discourses on infections epidemiological data Objective The goal this study was examine how Twitter activity men is related incidence infection population. Methods We used integrated human-computer techniques characterize HIV-related...
Little is known about users' intervention engagement and use patterns within eHealth interventions. We describe these among young men who have sex with (YMSM) participated in a brief designed to increase HIV testing. merged pilot trial participants’ survey data (N = 86) their paradata (e.g., system recorded during interaction the intervention). created (time spent on components) (interaction features) metrics, explored whether they differed by participant characteristics. Racial/ethnic...
The Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) campaign was launched in 2016 to simultaneously reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) stigma and raise awareness about treatment as prevention. This research note assesses HIV-negative young men who have sex with men's U=U perceived accuracy inform this population's combination HIV prevention strategies.
Abstract Background Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective HIV prevention method and a key component of Philadelphia’s Community Plan to End the Epidemic (EHE). However, significant barriers accessing PrEP exist among people at risk for HIV. Low-threshold models services that minimize entry service engagement could help bolster access through community-based clinics. This study aimed describe initial implementation low-threshold in three sexual health clinics funded by Philadelphia...
Abstract Background Over half of the youth population in United States, aged 6 months to 17 years, have not received Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine. Given parents’ central role vaccinating their children, we examined associations between trust federal oversight COVID-19 vaccine safety and willingness vaccinate children against COVID-19. Methods This cross-sectional study included 975 parents minor residing Philadelphia who completed online survey September 2021 February 2022....
Communities of color had higher rates Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and lower COVID-19 vaccination during the pandemic. Parental concern about safety necessity pediatric vaccines contribute to low childhood vaccination. Enlisting parents caregivers as trusted messengers is an evidence-based approach mitigate this challenge. VaxUpPhillyFamilies was formed engage vaccine ambassadors increase in children color. This study aimed understand key benefits, challenges, lessons learned from...
Background Public health guidance recommended that children who are 6 months or older be vaccinated against COVID-19 in June of 2022. In the U.S., 56% under 17 had not received vaccination 2023. We examine parents’ willingness to vaccinate their using theory planned behavior order design effective strategies promote vaccine uptake. Methods The Philadelphia Community Engagement Alliance is part an NIH community-engaged consortium focused on addressing disparities across U.S. surveyed 1,008...
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic precipitated an urgent need for clinical trials to discover safe and efficacious treatments. We examined how COVID-19 experiences, trial awareness, trust in the vaccine safety process were associated with willingness participate trials. objective was investigate relationship between federal oversight of treatment across four distinct time points over 18-month period during pandemic. used waves data collected from September 2021 March 2023...