Gabriel Edwards, MD, MPH
Gabriel Edwards, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Project Scientist at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. His work centers around studying mobile peer-based service navigation interventions to reduce risk of HIV, STIs, and recidivism among the recently incarcerated. He leads efforts by the Policy Impact Core to disseminate CHIPTS investigators’ research findings to policymakers and policy advocates. Prior to his position at UCLA, he completed a post-doc year at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he focused on mental health care transitions for people with serious medical illness leaving the hospital. He earned his BA at University California, Berkeley, MD at Oregon Health & Science University, and most recently his MPH at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS:
1. Edwards, G. G., Miyashita-Ochoa, A., Castillo, E. G., Goodman-Meza, D., Kalofonos, I., Landovitz, R. J., Leibowitz, A. A., Pulsipher, C., El Sayed, E., Shoptaw, S., Shover, C. L., Tabajonda, M., Yang, Y. S., & Harawa, N. T. (2023). Long-Acting Injectable Therapy for People with HIV: Looking Ahead with Lessons from Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. AIDS and behavior, 27(1), 10–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03817-z
2. Mukherjee, S., Edwards, G. G., & Harawa, N. (2022). Developing Android, iOS Apps for Mobile-Enhanced Prevention Support (MEPS) for Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Women (TW) Leaving Jail in South Los Angeles in the USA. Studies in health technology and informatics, 290, 1104–1105. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220289
3. Edwards, G. G., Reback, C. J., Cunningham, W. E., Hilliard, C. L., McWells, C., Mukherjee, S., Weiss, R. E., & Harawa, N. T. (2020). Mobile-Enhanced Prevention Support Study for Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women Leaving Jail: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols, 9(9), e18106. https://doi.org/10.2196/18106