![]() Mike Mugavero, MD, MHScIS Hub Co-DirectorProfessor, UAB Heersink School of MedicineUAB CFAR Co-Director COERE Center Director Co-Director, Center for Clinical & Translational Sciences |
![]() Robin Lanzi, PhD, MPHIS Hub Co-DirectorProfessor, Health BehaviorNational Director of Community Engagement & Translational Sciences National Center on Health, Education, & Physical Activity |
![]() Larry Hearld, PhDAssociate Professor, Health Services, SHPAssociate Director, Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education |
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![]() Aadia Rana, MDAssociate Professor, UAB Heersink School of MedicineUAB CFAR Ending HIV in Alabama SWG Co-Director |
![]() Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPHAssistant Dean of Diversity & InclusionMedical Education Associate Professor, UAB Infectious Diseases and UAB Heersink School of Medicine UAB CFAR Clinical Core Director |
![]() Bertha Hidalgo, PhD, MPHAssociate Professor, Epidemiology, UAB School of Public HealthDirector, Clinical and Translational Science Training Program |
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![]() Samantha Hill, MD, MPHAssitant Professor, UAB Heersink School of MedicineDirector of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion for Graduate Medical Education |
![]() Allyson Varley, PhD, MPHBirmingham VA Medical Center |
![]() Dustin Long, PhDAssociate Professor, Biostatistics, UAB School of Public HealthUAB CFAR Clinical Core Co-Director: BIostatistics |
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![]() Kaylee Burgan, MAProgram Evaluation |

2021 Projects
Institution |
Project Name |
Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY CFAR | Testing Two Service Models of PrEP Delivery in OBGYN Clinics |
Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY CFAR | Directly-observed-therapy Enhanced Peer-support to Promote Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Criminal Justice-Involved Individuals: The DEPART-CJI study |
Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY CFAR | Low-threshold, Community-based Strategies to Scale-up PrEP for Latino MSM |
UCSF-Gladstone CFAR | Developing a Status Neutral, Mobile Health Clinic Model in Alameda County |
UPenn CFAR | Team Implementation Research: Evaluation and Optimization of the Philadelphia MCM Model |
U of Miami DARC/CHARM | Tools to Visualize and Summarize HIV Resources, Disease Burden and EHE Interventions in Miami-Dade County |
U of Miami DARC/CHARM | The Juntos Referral Network: Planning an Implementation Strategy to Enhance the Reach of HIV Prevention and Treatment Services to Latino MSM and Address Intersectional Insecurities |
Miami CFAR | PrEP-GAT: Development of a Social Network Intervention to Promote PrEP Bundled with Gender Affirming Therapy in Black and Latina Transgender Women in South Florida |
Tennessee CFAR | Multi-Method to Inform the Implementation of Trauma-Informed Care for Youth Living with HIV in Memphis, TN |
Tennessee CFAR | Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Testing and Prevention Services Among Black Young Adults Attending LeMoyne-Owen College - A Historically Black College in Memphis Tennessee |
UCLA CHIPTS ARC | Implementation of an Emergency Department HIV/SUD Screening and Treatment Referral mHealth Tool for Latino Patients |
UCLA CHIPTS ARC | Developing Implementation Strategies to Optimize PrEP Delivery to Immigrant Latino MSM in Los Angeles County |
Harvard CFAR | Improving Routine Opt-out HIV Screening in the Emergency Department in Miami, Florida |
DC CFAR | Implementing Brain Health Assessment into the HIV Care Continuum in Washington, DC |
DC CFAR | Addressing Intersectional and Social-Structural Barriers to Ending the HIV Epidemic in Black Sexual Minority Men and Black Heterosexual Women |
DC CFAR | An Intersectionality-based Policy Analysis of Social Determinants of HIV in Puerto Rico |
SD CFAR | Implementing Integrated Delivery of Injectable Antiretroviral Treatment and Injectable Medication-Assisted Treatment for People with HIV and Comorbid Substance Use Disorders (iART+iMAT) |
SD CFAR | Addressing Interrelated Substance Use and HIV Prevention Needs among Reservation-based American Indians using an Intersectionality Approach |
SD CFAR | LEAPS: Leveraging resources to EHE Among People of Color in San Diego |
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies (ARC) | Designing Differentiated PrEP Service Delivery Models for Implementation in New York City Emergency Departments through a Community Collaborative |
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies (ARC) | Ending the HIV Epidemic through stigma-reduction: Applying “Getting-To-Outcomes’ in a Ryan White Healthcare Site |
UCSF CAPS ARC | Improving HIV Prevention and Care for Transgender Latinas in Oakland, CA |
UCSF CAPS ARC | Addressing Facilitators and Barriers to PrEP Initiation among Heterosexual Black Women in the South |
UNC CFAR | Developing Strategies to Improve Engagement in HIV Services among People Who Use Drugs in the Charlotte Transitional Grant Area |
UNC CFAR | Enhancing Strategies to Engage Providers in Efforts to Eliminate HIV: Project EnSTEP |
Duke CFAR | Preparing for Implementation of Strategies to Promote Uptake of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Black Same Gender Loving Men at Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
JHU CFAR | Improving HIV Outcomes among People Experiencing Housing Instability and Other SDOH |
JHU CFAR | Trauma-Informed HIV Prevention for Black Women in Baltimore |
Emory CFAR | Bringing the Clinic to the Community: A Pilot Feasibility Study of Two Community-based HIV Care Models Designed to Engage and Retain Out-of-care People with HIV |
UW-Fred Hutch CFAR | Integrating Social and HIV Services to Enhance HIV Prevention |
UAB CFAR | Implementation of HIV Testing and Linkage to PrEP at an HBCU in Alabama |
Third Coast CFAR | Identifying Critical Components of Linkage and Retention Strategies for HIV Care |
Third Coast CFAR | FAHST-ITAP: Food and Housing Support to Improve HIV Treatment and Prevention |
Third Coast CFAR | A Pilot Intervention to Increase PrEP Awareness and Uptake among Latinx MSM and Transgender Women |
Yale CIRA (ARC) | St. Louis Enhancing Engagement and Retention in HIV/AIDS Care (STEER) |
Texas D-CFAR | Using Project ECHO for the Implementation of Rapid Antiretroviral Therapy Across Five Ryan White Part A Clinics in Houston/Harris County |
2020 Projects
Institution
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Project Name |
UPenn CFAR | System -level intervention to optimize HIV testing & PrEP delivery among young sexual and gender minorities in Philadelphia |
U of Miami DARC/CHARM | Five Point Initiative-Reaching Miami’s Black Communities to End the HIV Epidemic |
Miami CFAR | Adaptation of the Mobile PrEP Implementation Strategy for Equitable Scale-Out (AMP-IT-OUT) |
UAB CFAR | PrOTEC: PrEP Optimization through Enhanced Continuum Tracking |
UAB CFAR | Mobile testing to increase HIV-testing uptake in rural Alabama: a pilot implementation project (MOBILISE) |
UCSF CAPS | Connecting Resources for Rural and Urban Sexual Health: CRRUSH-Sacramento |
UCSF CAPS | Texas PrEP Implementation Study (TPIS) |
Havard CFAR | Clinical Decision Support for PrEP |
PMHARC CFAR | Adapting and expanding a high-impact social media-delivered sexual health promotion intervention (Project iMMPACS) to African American youth in Philadelphia County |
Einstein CFAR | Patient-Focused PrEP Management to Increase Coverage for Highest Priority Patients in Primary Care in a High Prevalence Jurisdiction |
Prov/Boston CFAR | Integrating Community Health Workers as part of the HIV Care team in rural and urban settings to improve viral suppression in Shelby County TN |
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies | Evaluating Implementation Strategies of Behavioral Health Integration into HIV Prevention and Care including Telehealth |
UAB IS HUB 2021 Seminar Series
Implementation Science Theories, Frameworks, and Models by Dr. Larry Hearld |
Clinical Strategies and Considerations for Implementation Science by Dr. Samantha Hill |
De-Implementation Science by Dr. Allyson Varley |
Practical Application and Strengths of Mixed Methods Approaches, Designs, and Data Integration by Dr. Janet Turan |
Implementation Science Outcomes Crosswalk by Drs. Robin Lanzi and Larry Hearld |
IS Theories, Models, & Frameworks: A Primer by Dr. Larry HearldRecording coming soon |