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_SFGH Implementation Sciences Working Group
Meets monthly.   Join the listserv
Lead by Elvin Geng and Adithya Cattamanchi in the UCSF Division of HIV/AIDS

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February 27 3:30- 5pm

_Dr. Katerina Christopoulos, MD from UCSF HIV/AIDS Division will present her project Connect4Care. This is a study on the use of text messaging to promote retention in care and virologic suppression at Ward 86. She is looking for feedback on study design (eligibility criteria, sample size, outcomes, analyses), and the use of implementation science frameworks to guide evaluation of the intervention.

January 16th 2013

_Dr. Thomas Odeny, MBChB, MPH, a Kenyan medical doctor & epidemiologist with an interest in implementation sciences for HIV prevention, care, and treatment. A Fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in the Dept of Global Health at U Washington. As a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow he evaluated the use of mobile phone technologies to support HIV prevention interventions. He was PI of “Improving uptake of early infant diagnosis of HIV for PMTCT: a randomized trial of a text messaging intervention.”, and conducted a 1,200-person randomized trial on texts to improve outcomes after adult male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya - nominated for the Top 11 in 2011 mHealth Innovators Challenge by mHealth Alliance & Rockefeller Fndn.

_October 30 2012

_ Harm Reduction Services for People who Inject Drugs in Tanzania: Using Implementation Science to Guide Program Delivery. Barrot Lambdin is Director of Implementation Science at Pangaea Global AIDS Fdn & Professor of Global Health at U Washington.  His work has focused on identifying bottlenecks and implementation of proven interventions for HIV prevention and treatment. He has been involved in initiatives looking at the impact of integrating HIV services into primary health care, health workforce shortages, mapping patient flow through facilities and strengthening management to support health system integration in Mozambique. Barrot leads efforts to design and implement  research activities for Pangaea and is currently leading initiatives with several programs, including methadone and risk reduction services for people who inject drugs in Tanzania.

_Sept 19, 2012

_Dr. George Rutherford and Sarah Royce, from UCSF Global Health, describe the process of evidence synthesis at the World Health Organization and conducting Cochrane Reviews. They highlight a recent review on TB/HIV service integration. The discussion illustrated for the group the process by which primary scientific evidence is systematically summarized for policy makers.

_Aug 14, 2012

_Dr. Mead Over, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC, was in town to discuss the use of cost “functions” instead of “identities” as a novel approach to modeling the costs of implementation in the global response to HIV/AIDS.

_July 18 2012

_Dr. Lawrence W. Green, considered by many to be one of the founders of the field of implementation science, discussed the idea of practice-based evidence in his talk “Designing for Dissemination and Implementation: Making Research More Relevant & Actionable for Translation to Other Populations and Settings

Suggested reading

_Employment & education outcomes in households of HIV-infected adults with high CD4 counts: a community health campaign in Uganda.
Assessment of Population-Based HIV RNA Levels in a Rural East African Setting Using a Fingerprick-Based Blood Collection Method.
Effect of "Universal ART" Recommendation on HIV RNA Levels among HIV-Infected Patients with CD4 Count >500/µl in a Public Health Setting
Leveraging rapid community-based HIV testing campaigns for non-communicable diseases in rural Uganda
Perceptions of barriers and facilitators to combination ART adherence among people living with HIV/AIDS in Gujarat, India: A qualitative study.
Leveraging rapid community-based HIV testing campaigns for non-communicable diseases in rural Uganda.
Evolving strategies, opportunistic implementation: HIV risk reduction in Tanzania in the context of an incentive-based HIV prevention intervention.

_Sanjiv Baxi

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Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project, to quantify malarial disease in E Africa & impact of  interventions

_Ingrid Bernheimer

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_Hope Biswas

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_Postdoc UC Berk.  Developing algorithms to predict dengue virus infection and severe dengue disease in children.

Joelle Brown

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Adithya Cattamanchi

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Immuno- diagnostic assays & biomarkers of TB. Phone based microscopy.  Clinician adherence to TBl guides: Uganda & Vietnam

Gabriel Chamie

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TB transmission & ventilation: Uganda 

_Katerina Christopoulos

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Linkage & retention in care for newly diagnosed HIV-infected patients

Madhavi Dandu

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Global health ed, curriculum & evaluation. Training in the US & abroad; human rights education

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_HIV health and treatment outcomes in homeless and marginally housed urban poor: adherence to antiretroviral therapy, mental health, drug use, and health insurance

Luke Davis

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Diagnosis & treatment of TB in low-resource setting. TB biomarker,  validate diagnostics; systematic reviews for policy & impact assessment

_ Monica Gandhi

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_The natural history, clinical and laboratory findings of HIV in women

Elvin Geng

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Early Mortality in HIV Infected Patients Starting ART in Africa (IEDEA database)

Judy Hahn

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Alcohol use & effect on HIV progression & care: Uganda

Margaret Handley

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Knowledge, attitudes & risk for poor  outcomes in patients with TB & diabetes in Mexico

Brad Hare

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_HIV /HCV co-infection, epidemiology, natural history and treatment of acute hepatitis C infection, novel agents in treatment of HIV-HCV co-infection, and models of HCV treatment in primary care settings.

Diane Havlir

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 Through Makerere-UCSF research collaboration and ACTG ; Treatment strategies for HIV, TB, & new TB agents. Reduce HIV & malaria burden. Early intervention HIV treatments.

_Matt Hickey

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Improving care for orphans and other vulnerable children, along with improvement of health care delivery and public health infrastructure

Vivek Jain

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HIV drug resistant mutations, antiretroviral therapy

____ Mi-Suk Kang-Dufour

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Senior Statistician at UCSF

Jeremy Keenan

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Infectious keratitis in Ethiopia & Vietnam. CMV retinitis-Thailand. Trachoma & Corneal Transplants in Ethiopia.
Keratitis in India.

Gail Kennedy

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_ HIV capacity building, research and technical assistance, data interpretation and use, data triangulation, monitoring & evaluation, surveillance in key populations

Garrot Lambdin

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_Delivery of health programs in resource-limited settings. Integrating HIV services into primary health care, workforce shortages, mapping patient flow & strengthening management

Paula Lum

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__Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of HIV and hepatitis in high-risk drug users

_Sandi McCoy

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Prevent HIV & STI's. Women's economic empowerment. Impact evaluation & implementation science

__Juan Carlos Montoy

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_ ER resident- Health Policy and economics

Laurel Packel

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Transactional sex in female agricultural workers & market vendors in Zambia & Cote d'Ivoire; evaluations of HIV care and treatment patient monitoring systems in Uganda & _Mozambique

_Nancy Padian

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Female-controlled methods of disease prevention. Fostering economic independence, reducing susceptibility to HIV, STIs, & unwanted pregnancies.

_Maya Liv Petersen

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Bio-statistician, Berkeley

_Lauren Ralph

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Reducing Latina Teen Childbearing in California

_Sarah Royce

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_Chas Salmen

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 AMPATH (Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS),

_Laura Schmidt

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_Social determinants of health, understanding how lifestyle risk factors, such as alcohol and poor diet, influence chronic disease and health inequality

_Aggrey Semeere

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Fogarty/NIH International Clinical Research Scholar

Sriram Shamasunder

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Manages fellowship in Global Health Hospital Medicine. Clinical implementation, health delivery, making NGO's more effective. Burundi, Rwanda, Liberia, Haiti, India

_Harsha Thirumurthy

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Health economist at UNC-Chapel Hill

Robin Tittle

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Resident

_Jacqueline Tulsky

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_Tara Vijayan

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_Process measurements for integrating HIV-TB care, TB and cryptococcal point of care diagnostics and time to initiation of antiretroviral therapy. Kenya

_Laura Packel on conditional cash transfers (at 27:30)

International Treatment as Prevention- Padian

Nancy Padian female empowerment and HIV prevention