This evaluation focuses on Medical Care Coordination (MCC) effectiveness in improving health outcomes, such as retention in care and viral suppression, using a quasi-experimental pre-and-post study design comparing health outcomes in 12 months before and after MCC enrollment from January 1, 2013, through December 31, 2022. Significant improvements
were observed in retention in care and viral suppression after 12 months of enrollment in MCC across all socio-demographic groups of MCC patients.
This presentation reviews current evidence on patient and provider attitudes, feasibility, acceptability, and implementation barriers related to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery in emergency departments (EDs), which serve as key access points for populations at increased HIV risk, including unhoused people and people who use drugs (PWUD). The presentation highlights findings demonstrating that ED-based PrEP is feasible and acceptable when paired with patient-centered education, navigation, and care coordination, particularly through dedicated navigator or same-day initiation models. It concludes by discussing priorities for future research, including stigma reduction, low-barrier and equity-oriented strategies for implementation, and the impact of ED-initiated PrEP on adherence, retention, and HIV incidence.
This HIV Grand Rounds session featured Dr. Ellen F. Eaton who highlighted addiction medicine as integral to comprehensive medical care. Attendees were able to understand stigma as a barrier to health equity and strategies to create an inclusive HIV treatment environment. Attendees were able to identify opportunities to integrate substance use and infection prevention and treatment in both acute and community settings.
Hosted by our Equitable Injectable PrEP in LA County Initiative, this workshop featured a panel presentation from staff at the Division of HIV and STD Programs on current and future plans to expand PrEP use in Los Angeles County.
This presentation described “LA CAB” goals which includes providing input on proposals and study materials as well as promoting CFAR activities and research studies. This presentation also describes “LA CAB” accomplishment in contributing input to RFAs and providing letters of support.
This presentation provides an overview of structure & ongoing studies, highlighting the potential for NISH multi-site research to support EHE goals & advance implementation science. This presentation explores generalizability vs. context, power in numbers, and developing and testing implementation strategies to advance effectiveness & equity.
This presentation by LeRoy Blea, MPH was part of the moving research to practice panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). This presentation described the California Department of Public Health’s efforts to document successes of interventions linked to priority populations, continue community engagement and collaboration linked directly to improving interventions, and share best practices across regions.
This presentation by Mario Perez, MPH was part of the moving research to practice panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). This presentation described the importance of transforming healthcare delivery systems, starting a 10-year national MH/SW/SUD specialist workforce training program, and changing the way we share data with frontline providers.
This presentation by Reva Datar, PhD, MPH was part of the moving research to practice panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). This presentation described successes and challenges in community engaged research among academic- and community-based partners engaged in EHE activities to improve opportunities for future collaborations.
This presentation by Raphael Landovitz, MD, MSc, and Wendy Garland, MPH was part of strategy #3 panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). This presentation highlighted how PrEP use remains suboptimal in populations that could benefit greatly and explores what a conditional cash transfer intervention for HIV prevention should look like for high-need populations in South LA.